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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general."
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Though that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography."
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Mein Covfefe
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name…."
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Holy shit. It's perfect.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe"
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Was the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect."
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The Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office.
Somebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?"
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Who was running the Pentagon during his presidency?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who."
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Esper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?"
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Yeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point."
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Not calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here."
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I hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose."
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So which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised?
I mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace."
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They're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.
Edit: typos.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile."
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I know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos."
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The gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.
All the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…
Conservative politics:
Anti-law: not new
Anti-military: not new
Anti-government: not new
Also it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.
This is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally."
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Esper: We would have shot that down immediately!
Pentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down
Esper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”
Pentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence."
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This is one of those "as per my last email" moments
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…"
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I'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments"
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i have an awareness gap the size of the pacific
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans."
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I feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific"
] |
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Translation: Incompetence
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator."
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the next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap”
the next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap”
the next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap”
how many of these do you think i’ll get away with??
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence"
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The toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??"
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Well, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?"
] |
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Hard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?"
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We spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust"
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Was that "awareness gap" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?"
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Hrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?"
] |
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Wait until they find out about the kites….
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?"
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I guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites…."
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I call bullshit
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap."
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Well…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit"
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How much funding do they get again?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!"
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Gen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.
THEY KNEW.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?"
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Honest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW."
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“Awareness gap”
Trump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?"
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I believe you meant "Awareness. Gap."
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences."
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A roughly 4 year awareness gap.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\""
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A gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap."
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are they calling "shit" awareness gap now?
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it.."
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Lol...
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?"
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Awareness gap lmao shots fired
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol..."
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Trump is an awareness gap
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired"
] |
>
Yea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap"
] |
>
I’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in."
] |
>
And those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs"
] |
>
Every hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?"
] |
>
T + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?"
] |
>
they were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass"
] |
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BS ass-covering.
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time."
] |
>
Didn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office?
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[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.",
">\n\nBS ass-covering."
] |
>
Awesome, so government doublespeak hasn't gone away since "alternative facts" then.
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.",
">\n\nBS ass-covering.",
">\n\nDidn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office?"
] |
>
Perhaps they had their hands full with a nutjob that wanted to nuke hurricanes instead of being able to do their jobs properly?
|
[
"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.",
">\n\nBS ass-covering.",
">\n\nDidn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office?",
">\n\nAwesome, so government doublespeak hasn't gone away since \"alternative facts\" then."
] |
>
That's a huge load of bullshit! They are just trying to save face or concealing the truth about what happened during Shitlers term!
There are already multiple articles from reputable news sources that contradict the Pentagon's claims. They always do this, obfuscate and allow confusion to take care of things, so we cannot get to the bottom of these matters!
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.",
">\n\nBS ass-covering.",
">\n\nDidn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office?",
">\n\nAwesome, so government doublespeak hasn't gone away since \"alternative facts\" then.",
">\n\nPerhaps they had their hands full with a nutjob that wanted to nuke hurricanes instead of being able to do their jobs properly?"
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>
If they weren’t aware, how did they know it happened three times before?
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.",
">\n\nBS ass-covering.",
">\n\nDidn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office?",
">\n\nAwesome, so government doublespeak hasn't gone away since \"alternative facts\" then.",
">\n\nPerhaps they had their hands full with a nutjob that wanted to nuke hurricanes instead of being able to do their jobs properly?",
">\n\nThat's a huge load of bullshit! They are just trying to save face or concealing the truth about what happened during Shitlers term!\nThere are already multiple articles from reputable news sources that contradict the Pentagon's claims. They always do this, obfuscate and allow confusion to take care of things, so we cannot get to the bottom of these matters!"
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Yeah, the awareness gap had a name: Donald Trump.
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.",
">\n\nBS ass-covering.",
">\n\nDidn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office?",
">\n\nAwesome, so government doublespeak hasn't gone away since \"alternative facts\" then.",
">\n\nPerhaps they had their hands full with a nutjob that wanted to nuke hurricanes instead of being able to do their jobs properly?",
">\n\nThat's a huge load of bullshit! They are just trying to save face or concealing the truth about what happened during Shitlers term!\nThere are already multiple articles from reputable news sources that contradict the Pentagon's claims. They always do this, obfuscate and allow confusion to take care of things, so we cannot get to the bottom of these matters!",
">\n\nIf they weren’t aware, how did they know it happened three times before?"
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"(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.\n“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.\n“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”\nVanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”\nA senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.\nTrump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.\nAfter the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.\n“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.\nFormer President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”\nThe latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.\n“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.”",
">\n\nFake disinformation? So actually truthful information?",
">\n\nHe has the best words.",
">\n\nAn \"awareness gap\" is a good description of Trump in general.",
">\n\nThat would be a great name for his biography.",
">\n\nThough that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name….",
">\n\nMein Covfefe",
">\n\nHoly shit. It's perfect.",
">\n\nWas the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron?",
">\n\nThe Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. \nSomebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who.",
">\n\nWho was running the Pentagon during his presidency?",
">\n\nEsper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point.",
">\n\nYeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here.",
">\n\nNot calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose.",
">\n\nI hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace.",
">\n\nSo which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot? Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests? Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised? \nI mean by all means investigate. Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.",
">\n\nThey're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.\nEdit: typos.",
">\n\nI know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip. Especially considering that's their base generally.",
">\n\nThe gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.\nAll the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…\nConservative politics:\n\n\nAnti-law: not new\n\n\nAnti-military: not new\n\n\nAnti-government: not new\n\n\nAlso it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.\nThis is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence.",
">\n\nEsper: We would have shot that down immediately!\nPentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down\nEsper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”\nPentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job…",
">\n\nThis is one of those \"as per my last email\" moments",
">\n\nI'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans.",
">\n\ni have an awareness gap the size of the pacific",
">\n\nI feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator.",
">\n\nTranslation: Incompetence",
">\n\nthe next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nthe next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” \nhow many of these do you think i’ll get away with??",
">\n\nThe toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it?",
">\n\nWell, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again?",
">\n\nHard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust",
">\n\nWe spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us?",
">\n\nWas that \"awareness gap\" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit?",
">\n\nHrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump?",
">\n\nWait until they find out about the kites….",
">\n\nI guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap.",
">\n\nI call bullshit",
">\n\nWell…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon!",
">\n\nHow much funding do they get again?",
">\n\nGen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.\nTHEY KNEW.",
">\n\nHonest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34?",
">\n\n“Awareness gap” \nTrump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences.",
">\n\nI believe you meant \"Awareness. Gap.\"",
">\n\nA roughly 4 year awareness gap.",
">\n\nA gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it..",
">\n\nare they calling \"shit\" awareness gap now?",
">\n\nLol...",
">\n\nAwareness gap lmao shots fired",
">\n\nTrump is an awareness gap",
">\n\nYea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in.",
">\n\nI’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs",
">\n\nAnd those three were also blown off course in an accident… right?",
">\n\nEvery hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care?",
">\n\nT + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass",
">\n\nthey were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time.",
">\n\nBS ass-covering.",
">\n\nDidn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office?",
">\n\nAwesome, so government doublespeak hasn't gone away since \"alternative facts\" then.",
">\n\nPerhaps they had their hands full with a nutjob that wanted to nuke hurricanes instead of being able to do their jobs properly?",
">\n\nThat's a huge load of bullshit! They are just trying to save face or concealing the truth about what happened during Shitlers term!\nThere are already multiple articles from reputable news sources that contradict the Pentagon's claims. They always do this, obfuscate and allow confusion to take care of things, so we cannot get to the bottom of these matters!",
">\n\nIf they weren’t aware, how did they know it happened three times before?",
">\n\nYeah, the awareness gap had a name: Donald Trump."
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Mispelled murder there at the end of that title
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The media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title"
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The media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge."
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In contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident.
That's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying."
] |
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Who is left that isn't facing discipline?
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often."
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Probably all of the higher ups
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?"
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It’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups"
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Some of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez."
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I do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!"
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So, I'm not defending the police here.
But people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.
And when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs."
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And those that don’t get with the program quick enough either leave or are pushed out.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.",
">\n\nSo, I'm not defending the police here.\nBut people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.\nAnd when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective."
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Beating? They mean murder.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.",
">\n\nSo, I'm not defending the police here.\nBut people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.\nAnd when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective.",
">\n\nAnd those that don’t get with the program quick enough either leave or are pushed out."
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Man, I am so tired of this police chief, Cerelyn Davis. Fire her, she's part of the problem. Announce an audit of every arrest made by the so called "scorpion" unit. That level of brutality does not exist in a vacuum.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.",
">\n\nSo, I'm not defending the police here.\nBut people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.\nAnd when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective.",
">\n\nAnd those that don’t get with the program quick enough either leave or are pushed out.",
">\n\nBeating? They mean murder."
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If it was anyone besides cops, everyone there would be charged with felony murder and under RICO.
Every cop there should be charged with felony murder as well, and face the stipulations of RICO. Anything less shows that the entire purpose of the justice system is to protect it’s own thugs.
Note: Felony murder is a legal doctrine applied in U.S. courts that says that during the commission of a felony that results in a killing, every person that had a role in that crime, no matter how small, can be charged with murder.
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.",
">\n\nSo, I'm not defending the police here.\nBut people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.\nAnd when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective.",
">\n\nAnd those that don’t get with the program quick enough either leave or are pushed out.",
">\n\nBeating? They mean murder.",
">\n\nMan, I am so tired of this police chief, Cerelyn Davis. Fire her, she's part of the problem. Announce an audit of every arrest made by the so called \"scorpion\" unit. That level of brutality does not exist in a vacuum."
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How many officers have to be called out before they just say "Y'know, maybe we should just dump everyone and start the Memphis City Police department from scratch."
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.",
">\n\nSo, I'm not defending the police here.\nBut people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.\nAnd when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective.",
">\n\nAnd those that don’t get with the program quick enough either leave or are pushed out.",
">\n\nBeating? They mean murder.",
">\n\nMan, I am so tired of this police chief, Cerelyn Davis. Fire her, she's part of the problem. Announce an audit of every arrest made by the so called \"scorpion\" unit. That level of brutality does not exist in a vacuum.",
">\n\nIf it was anyone besides cops, everyone there would be charged with felony murder and under RICO.\nEvery cop there should be charged with felony murder as well, and face the stipulations of RICO. Anything less shows that the entire purpose of the justice system is to protect it’s own thugs.\nNote: Felony murder is a legal doctrine applied in U.S. courts that says that during the commission of a felony that results in a killing, every person that had a role in that crime, no matter how small, can be charged with murder."
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Euphemism won't even take away the fact Tyre was MURDERED in cold blood. Nice shot man ..... pffffft
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"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.",
">\n\nSo, I'm not defending the police here.\nBut people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.\nAnd when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective.",
">\n\nAnd those that don’t get with the program quick enough either leave or are pushed out.",
">\n\nBeating? They mean murder.",
">\n\nMan, I am so tired of this police chief, Cerelyn Davis. Fire her, she's part of the problem. Announce an audit of every arrest made by the so called \"scorpion\" unit. That level of brutality does not exist in a vacuum.",
">\n\nIf it was anyone besides cops, everyone there would be charged with felony murder and under RICO.\nEvery cop there should be charged with felony murder as well, and face the stipulations of RICO. Anything less shows that the entire purpose of the justice system is to protect it’s own thugs.\nNote: Felony murder is a legal doctrine applied in U.S. courts that says that during the commission of a felony that results in a killing, every person that had a role in that crime, no matter how small, can be charged with murder.",
">\n\nHow many officers have to be called out before they just say \"Y'know, maybe we should just dump everyone and start the Memphis City Police department from scratch.\""
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[
"Mispelled murder there at the end of that title",
">\n\nThe media always uses language that downplays police violence and makes suspects appear guilty before they've even seen a judge.",
">\n\nThe media never uses the word “murder” until someone is charged with murder, you’re opening yourself up for a huge lawsuit by using that language if they aren’t found guilty. However, they definitely could have said death or killing instead of beating, as using beating is definitely downplaying.",
">\n\n\nIn contrast, Davis, the police chief, told the council that training was not an issue for officers in this case. Instead, she blamed “egos” and a “wolf pack mentality” for the fatal incident. \n\nThat's news, in the sense that you don't hear that from police chiefs often.",
">\n\nWho is left that isn't facing discipline?",
">\n\nProbably all of the higher ups",
">\n\nIt’s “training?” Really? Maybe it’s also hiring people who are willing to beat a fellow human to death? Jeez.",
">\n\nSome of it is the training, yes. There's a guy who goes around giving seminars to police wherein he states that you'll have the best sex of your life the night you kill a person. It's called Killology and is paid for by the departments!",
">\n\nI do understand that there are evil training methods out there and they cause/create the militaristic, us versus them mentality. But I think could sit through a lot of those trainings without changing my core beliefs about the value of my fellow man. I think the wrong types of people are hired for these jobs.",
">\n\nSo, I'm not defending the police here.\nBut people are people. People act in predictable ways. When you surround someone with an echo chamber constantly reinforcing certain beliefs, those beliefs are going to rub off on them. When you're told day in and day out that you are the wall between lawless chaos and order, when you are told over and over and over again that you're risking your life because the world is full of monsters just looking to kill you for protecting the weak, you will begin to believe that on some level.\nAnd when you specifically choose to hire people who are susceptible to that kind of belief, it's all the more effective.",
">\n\nAnd those that don’t get with the program quick enough either leave or are pushed out.",
">\n\nBeating? They mean murder.",
">\n\nMan, I am so tired of this police chief, Cerelyn Davis. Fire her, she's part of the problem. Announce an audit of every arrest made by the so called \"scorpion\" unit. That level of brutality does not exist in a vacuum.",
">\n\nIf it was anyone besides cops, everyone there would be charged with felony murder and under RICO.\nEvery cop there should be charged with felony murder as well, and face the stipulations of RICO. Anything less shows that the entire purpose of the justice system is to protect it’s own thugs.\nNote: Felony murder is a legal doctrine applied in U.S. courts that says that during the commission of a felony that results in a killing, every person that had a role in that crime, no matter how small, can be charged with murder.",
">\n\nHow many officers have to be called out before they just say \"Y'know, maybe we should just dump everyone and start the Memphis City Police department from scratch.\"",
">\n\nEuphemism won't even take away the fact Tyre was MURDERED in cold blood. Nice shot man ..... pffffft"
] |
Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.
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Why? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.
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"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩."
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Such wind; much proжimity
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s"
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Russia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.
And this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity"
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Putin's playing with nuclear fire.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster."
] |
>
At some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire."
] |
>
If NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK.
We weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now).
So let's hope it doesn't come to that.
|
[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face."
] |
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I understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.
Even a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.
(Massive edit 8 hours later)
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that."
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i live in a capital, wont notice a thing.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)"
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A year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing."
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Even a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them."
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stop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area."
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"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!"
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army."
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These barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\""
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They can also be used to keep our food warm!
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!"
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What a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!"
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"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!"
-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place."
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Pretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window"
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Nah. They are just "deporting" them into a new country.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?"
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Which is specifically also a war crime.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?",
">\n\nNah. They are just \"deporting\" them into a new country."
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War crimes really don't matter to Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, Turkey, or India apparently.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?",
">\n\nNah. They are just \"deporting\" them into a new country.",
">\n\nWhich is specifically also a war crime."
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Lol it looks like that because the war crimes done by US is 2-3 times of all the above list combined.
Also coz US Army is outside the jurisdiction of ICJ court. They literally threatened to attack them if they put any case on a US soldier.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?",
">\n\nNah. They are just \"deporting\" them into a new country.",
">\n\nWhich is specifically also a war crime.",
">\n\nWar crimes really don't matter to Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, Turkey, or India apparently."
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I don't think many pay attention to international politics and the destruction of other countries laid out by the United States, there is very little coverage of American-perpetrated war crimes (outside WikiLeaks). Iraq and Syria come specifically to mind (not even Canada has clean hands here).
|
[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?",
">\n\nNah. They are just \"deporting\" them into a new country.",
">\n\nWhich is specifically also a war crime.",
">\n\nWar crimes really don't matter to Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, Turkey, or India apparently.",
">\n\nLol it looks like that because the war crimes done by US is 2-3 times of all the above list combined.\nAlso coz US Army is outside the jurisdiction of ICJ court. They literally threatened to attack them if they put any case on a US soldier."
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Yes, it is clear from the downvotes here that many of them are US users.
Either they're oblivious to US Army's/CIA/Intelligence agencies activities or are willfully sweeping this opinion under the rug just like they do to their war crimes.
I'm still waiting for them to dispute my statements factually, instead of upvoting you and downvoting me.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?",
">\n\nNah. They are just \"deporting\" them into a new country.",
">\n\nWhich is specifically also a war crime.",
">\n\nWar crimes really don't matter to Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, Turkey, or India apparently.",
">\n\nLol it looks like that because the war crimes done by US is 2-3 times of all the above list combined.\nAlso coz US Army is outside the jurisdiction of ICJ court. They literally threatened to attack them if they put any case on a US soldier.",
">\n\nI don't think many pay attention to international politics and the destruction of other countries laid out by the United States, there is very little coverage of American-perpetrated war crimes (outside WikiLeaks). Iraq and Syria come specifically to mind (not even Canada has clean hands here)."
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I think the difference is definitely coverage and a significant amount of US atrocities are anecdotal/of limited evidence. It's definitely there, but not as well-known or readily available.
Russia on the otherhand, they aren't trying to hide their war crimes, nor do they even care about the Geneva Convention, nor have any disregard for human life, civilian or military.
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?",
">\n\nNah. They are just \"deporting\" them into a new country.",
">\n\nWhich is specifically also a war crime.",
">\n\nWar crimes really don't matter to Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, Turkey, or India apparently.",
">\n\nLol it looks like that because the war crimes done by US is 2-3 times of all the above list combined.\nAlso coz US Army is outside the jurisdiction of ICJ court. They literally threatened to attack them if they put any case on a US soldier.",
">\n\nI don't think many pay attention to international politics and the destruction of other countries laid out by the United States, there is very little coverage of American-perpetrated war crimes (outside WikiLeaks). Iraq and Syria come specifically to mind (not even Canada has clean hands here).",
">\n\nYes, it is clear from the downvotes here that many of them are US users. \nEither they're oblivious to US Army's/CIA/Intelligence agencies activities or are willfully sweeping this opinion under the rug just like they do to their war crimes.\nI'm still waiting for them to dispute my statements factually, instead of upvoting you and downvoting me."
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 54%. (I'm a bot)
The National Resistance Center reports new cases of kidnappings among the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant workers who do not agree to sign contracts with a fake company from Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear regulator.
Quote: "Many workers refused to work at the station after the occupation, and currently there is a shortage of workers at the station because there are not so many nuclear workers on the labour market. Therefore, the enemy wants to"convince" Ukrainian power engineers to work for the Russians.
The Center reiterated that the occupiers had previously blocked access to the station for nearly 1,500 Ukrainian workers of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: work^#1 Russians^#2 Nuclear^#3 Power^#4 station^#5
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[
"Kidnapping and forcing nuclear plant workers to work for you is a Really Bad Idea ⟨™⟩.",
">\n\nWhy? The plant is in someone else's country, not mine.\n/s",
">\n\nSuch wind; much proжimity",
">\n\nRussia evidently can't learn a lesson, no matter how devastating it was the first time around.\nAnd this time there's no semi-competent leader to order what is necessary to keep it from becoming an international disaster.",
">\n\nPutin's playing with nuclear fire.",
">\n\nAt some point he will make such a mistake that it will trigger a NATO intervention. He won't stop until it happens anyways. In a way that will be a way for him to not lose face.",
">\n\nIf NATO has to intervene because of a nuclear power plant meltdown then this won't be pretty for anyone involved. Last time we had seen that it nearly brought down USSR to bankruptcy on top of emitting enough radiation that decades later still affect farms all the way in UK. \nWe weren't far from this incident growing to a scale when not 50000 people were evacuated but millions would be at risk of having to relocate (Chernobyl was worst case scenario for the reactor but the way it was handled was surprisingly competent for Russians, they accidentally sent one man who could actually see through bullshit and cared, I doubt they have many like that left by now). \nSo let's hope it doesn't come to that.",
">\n\nI understand attempts are being made to keep it secure and cooled, however I do not trust Russia. Noone should trust Russia. You may want to read the novel 'The Warning.' (Mike Gray, Ira Rosen) There are plenty of ways for conventional nuclear reactors to fail and release radiation. We had several oopses where human intervention took the wrong action when the automated systems were the better course of action, before Three Mile Island. Imagine an intentional sabotage instead.\nEven a modest meltdown may trigger NATO escalation and I really don't want a nuclear war fuse to be lit. I'm in a pretty bad spot for a nuke and it wouldn't be over in a blink.\n(Massive edit 8 hours later)",
">\n\ni live in a capital, wont notice a thing.",
">\n\nA year later and those Ukrainian engineers are still not cooperating with the Russians. It's a testament of the limits of the nuclear engineer labour market that they are still alive. All they have been doing is kidnapping and threatening them.",
">\n\nEven a stupid bandit knows not to kill the last doctor in the area.",
">\n\nstop insulting bandits, they are smarter than your average russian army.",
">\n\n\"We have captured Chernobyl! Time to dig some defensive trenches in that shockingly desolate field over there!\"",
">\n\nThese barrels are warm, let's use them to stay warm at night!",
">\n\nThey can also be used to keep our food warm!",
">\n\nWhat a short sighted and incredibly stupid risky thing to do, like invading in the first place.",
">\n\n\"But all the top guys said it was a good idea when I asked them!\" \n-Putin, Right after throwing his 47th dissenter out the window",
">\n\nPretty sure kidnapping is a war crime, but does anyone still think Russia cares about it at this point?",
">\n\nNah. They are just \"deporting\" them into a new country.",
">\n\nWhich is specifically also a war crime.",
">\n\nWar crimes really don't matter to Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, Turkey, or India apparently.",
">\n\nLol it looks like that because the war crimes done by US is 2-3 times of all the above list combined.\nAlso coz US Army is outside the jurisdiction of ICJ court. They literally threatened to attack them if they put any case on a US soldier.",
">\n\nI don't think many pay attention to international politics and the destruction of other countries laid out by the United States, there is very little coverage of American-perpetrated war crimes (outside WikiLeaks). Iraq and Syria come specifically to mind (not even Canada has clean hands here).",
">\n\nYes, it is clear from the downvotes here that many of them are US users. \nEither they're oblivious to US Army's/CIA/Intelligence agencies activities or are willfully sweeping this opinion under the rug just like they do to their war crimes.\nI'm still waiting for them to dispute my statements factually, instead of upvoting you and downvoting me.",
">\n\nI think the difference is definitely coverage and a significant amount of US atrocities are anecdotal/of limited evidence. It's definitely there, but not as well-known or readily available. \nRussia on the otherhand, they aren't trying to hide their war crimes, nor do they even care about the Geneva Convention, nor have any disregard for human life, civilian or military."
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