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[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!" ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways" ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens" ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”" ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”", ">\n\nJournalists once said “if it bleeds it leads.” Florida clearly learnt the wrong lesson from this." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”", ">\n\nJournalists once said “if it bleeds it leads.” Florida clearly learnt the wrong lesson from this.", ">\n\nIf they’re no other way around it, then the answer is always the 6th. \nThey like that date, I believe." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”", ">\n\nJournalists once said “if it bleeds it leads.” Florida clearly learnt the wrong lesson from this.", ">\n\nIf they’re no other way around it, then the answer is always the 6th. \nThey like that date, I believe.", ">\n\nThey should make politicians submit dick size and vaginal depth before consideration for office." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”", ">\n\nJournalists once said “if it bleeds it leads.” Florida clearly learnt the wrong lesson from this.", ">\n\nIf they’re no other way around it, then the answer is always the 6th. \nThey like that date, I believe.", ">\n\nThey should make politicians submit dick size and vaginal depth before consideration for office.", ">\n\nJust... don't? This shit is dumb af, and won't pass mystery in court. It's a fucking HIPPA violation." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”", ">\n\nJournalists once said “if it bleeds it leads.” Florida clearly learnt the wrong lesson from this.", ">\n\nIf they’re no other way around it, then the answer is always the 6th. \nThey like that date, I believe.", ">\n\nThey should make politicians submit dick size and vaginal depth before consideration for office.", ">\n\nJust... don't? This shit is dumb af, and won't pass mystery in court. It's a fucking HIPPA violation.", ">\n\nWomen are getting fucked, no orgasm.\nLeaving the typo, cause I'm dumb af." ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”", ">\n\nJournalists once said “if it bleeds it leads.” Florida clearly learnt the wrong lesson from this.", ">\n\nIf they’re no other way around it, then the answer is always the 6th. \nThey like that date, I believe.", ">\n\nThey should make politicians submit dick size and vaginal depth before consideration for office.", ">\n\nJust... don't? This shit is dumb af, and won't pass mystery in court. It's a fucking HIPPA violation.", ">\n\nWomen are getting fucked, no orgasm.\nLeaving the typo, cause I'm dumb af.", ">\n\ngrabs popcorn, sits down in comment section" ]

[ "Even if you only looked at the medical aspect it's nonsense, as it's a known fact that extreme athletic activity can disrupt menstrual cycles.", ">\n\ni guarantee theyll use it to hunt abortions.", ">\n\nAnd stringing up the trans kids. (I'm parent to a trans teen in Florida, he's not even going to public school at this point, as a sophomore... Fuck Florida.)", ">\n\nRun. Run and never look back. For your son's sake.", ">\n\nOur lease is up in July and we're intending to move out of state. Trying to overlay maps of trans care protections, and homeschool laws, and where he may want to go to college and be a state citizen for admission purposes, while dealing with his new autism diagnosis, and figure out tax laws bc I'm self employed... It's nuts.", ">\n\nI wish your beautiful family well, my friend.", ">\n\nAww, thank you so much!! Same too you!!", ">\n\nWearing a mask was too much, but this is totally fine for the government to require?", ">\n\nIf it’s for controlling the breeding stock it’s fine.", ">\n\nJoke's on them; COVID has some effect on fertility.", ">\n\nThis is fucking weird, creepy, and invasive. \nAll straight male administrators involved in female athletics should be required to undergo penile plethysmography on a monthly basis.", ">\n\nWow the volume and pressure are decreasing!?", ">\n\nGonna mark you down for a weak stream Mr Smallwood. Try not to sit as much and - have you been keeping up with your Kegals?", ">\n\nAs soon as I read this I tightened up", ">\n\nAhh, already practicing for the procedures I see! Good for you!!", ">\n\nParty of small gov't amirite?", ">\n\ni'm kind of expecting fl or a similar state to eventually ban school girls from sports, using \"it's the only way to protect them from trans kids\" as an excuse (and ofc it'll also be a test run for banning adult women's sports further down the line)", ">\n\nThey’ll never do that. This whole freak out is about asshole parents salty because their daughter might come in 2nd place to a Trans athlete. It’s all about winning. They might say high school sports are about teamwork or learning life lessons, but all they care about is to be able to brag in church about how “my daughter was conference champ this year”. You notice how they’re not freaking out about men’s sports? What they probably will try is to “privatize” women’s sports to club sports so they can bar anyone they don’t like from competing.", ">\n\nWTAF Florida, this is why no one likes you.", ">\n\nWe don't like it either, but the gerrymandering means only assholes gain effective power down here.", ">\n\nAnyone else remember when Republicans claimed that they didn't believe government should be involved in healthcare.", ">\n\nYou mean like yesterday and all the days before it?", ">\n\nIs there any benefit to the athlete to answer this information truthfully? Because it's none of their business, at all.", ">\n\nEvery day, period.", ">\n\nJust report zero days for all women. Make them prove otherwise.", ">\n\nthen republicans will imprison them for possibly being pregnant.", ">\n\n“Small government” wants to know whats going on in everyone’s pants?", ">\n\nHave you seen what's going on in Hunter Biden's pants?!\nTune in to Fox News to find out!!!", ">\n\nI hear it'll be huge!", ">\n\nIt’s a big fuckin’ deal.", ">\n\nThe sooner Florida is turned back into an alligator farm, the better for all of America.", ">\n\nIt’ll be better when it’s all beachfront property in Georgia.", ">\n\nWon’t be too long.", ">\n\nGOP: My privacy!\nThen they do shit like this.", ">\n\nWearing a mask to prevent infection during a pandemic is government overkill despite massive scientific support yet demanding details of menstrual cycles for no known reason is perfectly reasonable. Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have absolutely nothing.", ">\n\nThey want it 1: say girls sports is harmful to proper development bod will ban girls sports 2: prosecute for missed periods 3: go after you for teenage sex", ">\n\nIn other words, ways the government take away parental rights and make life harder for teenage girls. Seems odd from a government that’s insisting parents have complete control over what kids read and are taught in school. But hypocrisy, right?", ">\n\nEvery single athlete should refuse to provide this information.", ">\n\nI can think of no sane reason for this. There are several republican reasons. But no sane ones.", ">\n\nAs long as they are erasing Black History and Attacking The Gays, Conservatives will literally feed thier Daughters to Republicans even if they are proven Sex Offenders like Matt Gaetz and his Accomplices", ">\n\nSounds a lot like the Handmaids tale", ">\n\nThe government creating an apparatus to track people's menstrual cycles at a young age. Sounds like an obvious violation of privacy, but something tells me 6 supreme court justices will disagree", ">\n\n\"The founding fathers never enshrined a right to private menses in the constitution, therefore they must have wanted all female citizens to be fitted with uterine tracking devices.\"", ">\n\nGod damn. I hate the world I live in.", ">\n\nSubmit directly to Matt Gaetz for inspection.", ">\n\nIf I had teens in any Florida school I would refuse to give that information and take the state and school to court over it.", ">\n\nAnd boys will submit erection records", ">\n\nThey'll run out of paper within a week!", ">\n\nWe are so close to getting an actual penis inspection day at school", ">\n\ncloser than you’d think", ">\n\nFlorida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.", ">\n\nIn FL - women are having their rights to privacy stripped away, one by one.", ">\n\nIts for sports, people were defending it because it was optional. The first thing they are doing is making it non-optional.", ">\n\nWell that's a great way to kill women's sports. Sounds like that's the goal.", ">\n\nConservatives are the real groomers.", ">\n\nSo in need of Bugs Bunny with a bigass saw.", ">\n\nHow about a link?", ">\n\nRegardless of how you feel about Florida politicians (and my contempt for them is pretty deeply into negative territory) I can't imagine parents consenting to this.", ">\n\nReally? Because there's a parent quoted in the article as literally saying “I’m OK with that\".", ">\n\nI guess I'm constantly surprised by how completely parents are willing to betray their childrens' privacy for a political point. \nMy kids are well out of school, and thank GOD we never lived in Florida, but the only possible response I can come up with is \"keep your fucking nose OUT of my daughter's underwear!\"", ">\n\nNot worth it to play a sport . Fuck off.", ">\n\nRepublicans are creepy fruitcakes.", ">\n\nBet you the goal is to remove women from sports full-stop. Then the classroom. Then double back to remove them from the workforce, until they can only feel like they belong in the home and can never leave.", ">\n\nI'd probably just lie... Just makeup whatever. It's dumb, but there's not really anyway to check, it's entirely catering to their stupid base.", ">\n\nwell if the dates don't match up to what they expect, they will throw you in jail for having an illegal abortion. that is the end game here.\nas a side effect, they hope to \"catch\" any suspected trans kids.", ">\n\nFun fact, teenage girls rarely have completely predictable menstrual cycles. Although, hormonal birth control can help with that…maybe they should increase access to birth control for teens. So they can better track their periods. As one does.", ">\n\nwell, i have some bad news: the GOP is against all forms of birth control, for any reason.", ">\n\nThe shame of it is that because of all of the boomers who moved down there to die, their politics are going to be ruined for at least a decade. Florida is a red state now, not a swing state, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. And the longer it's red, the more garbage like this and the Don't say Gay bill will show up.", ">\n\nThere is a nearly unending supply of elderly Q-Tips to refill the ideologically selfish and shitty voters to replace the dead ones. FL is fucked and the only problem I have with it drowning is that the people will disperse closer to me.", ">\n\n“The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 17.4% in 2010 to 21.1% in 2021. “\nThe biggest demographic in FL is 35 to 49 year olds. And DeSantis is a racist, sexist 44 yr old 🤷‍♀️", ">\n\nI doubt it would happen, but it would be wonderful if boys all throughout Florida started reporting there menstrual cycles to fuck with everything.", ">\n\nI'm guessing an easy answer is to just collectively say \"NO\".\nNo athletes means no income for the administrators / organisers / owners.", ">\n\nSounds like \"proof\" of their records should be submitted directly to the doorhandles, windshields, mailboxes, and doors belonging to the people that are implementing the rule :)", ">\n\nSmall government conservatives want the government to track menstruation. Seems pretty on brand for the things they say they're going to do vs. the things they actually do.", ">\n\nTeenage girls should start mailing their pads to his office", ">\n\nLeave Florida. Just get out. Especially you are young. Let the retirees, racists, and misogynists deal with half the state being underwater by 2050.", ">\n\nand that is how Florida turns bright red from a purple state.", ">\n\nBoy this Republican small government sure seems invasive and targeted, shouldn’t we be collecting like a JO diary for boys as well to keep things fair and balanced?", ">\n\nThe rights obsession with controlling women!! It’s hard to imagine women supporting this. Anything to own the libs though. So dumb.", ">\n\nI don't know if it's ADHD or what, but I've never been able to track my period ever... and I'm a millennial. If I had to do this in high school I would literally just lie saying it's the first week every month on the dot.", ">\n\nMight just have irregular cycles", ">\n\nI would never live there in the first place, but I’d I had a daughter I would leave that state IMMEDIATELY!", ">\n\nget the fuck out of there !", ">\n\nTime to get out of the 3rd world dumpster.", ">\n\nFreedom!!@!!#@#$!!%!#$!!$\\^$\\^#$!##$!", ">\n\nThat's some fucked up shit, right there.", ">\n\nCan't read the article, so what even is the stated rationale for this. While I'm sure they'll use it to target potential abortions, with a side boost of potentially intimidate & target trans kids. Is there reason they're providing to give it at least a veneer of legitimacy?", ">\n\nNotice the distinct lack of conservative ᴄrybabies commenting in here. They know how it looks. They know what it is. They don't care, they want it to happen anyway, and they aren't going to bother to defend it.\nDisgusting fucking deplᴏrable grᴏᴏmer filth.", ">\n\nCredit where credit is due, this is great way to kill girlls’ athletics without violating Title IX. \nThat’s not the explicit goal of course, but I have a hunch that such an outcome is going to be celebrated as a return to the way things “should” be rather then a disappointing and unintended consequence.", ">\n\nFascism at it's \"best\". Horrible. Everyone who didn't read The handmaid's tale should do it. Also, (more important even) check and read all documentation you can find, read it, study it about the rise of fascism, in Europe, f.i. in Italy and Germany... I cannot stress this enough... Act now, do not wait until it's to late, please.", ">\n\nI’m willing to bet we see a biiiig dip in women’s sports in Florida if this actually happens.", ">\n\nmake the boys submit their nocturnal emissions too", ">\n\nWhere are the outraged parents at school board meetings? Where is the push-back against this fascist nonsense?!", ">\n\nI hope all girls will refuse and parents go against that stupid law .", ">\n\nFreedom*", ">\n\nSo you’re telling me the state we bought in order to steal back all the fugitive slaves turned out to not be such a great place?", ">\n\nWho are the sick MF’s who think this sh*t up?", ">\n\nNothing screams freedom more than mandatory menstrual reporting.", ">\n\nIf they claim it’s for health reasons, monitoring athlete health, or anything that resembles providing health care then they are opening themselves up to HIPAA regulations. I can’t imagine that they’re so ignorant they haven’t thought of this. Curious how they think they’ll avoid it.", ">\n\nOne step away from handmaidens tale", ">\n\nDude, if any adult was that interested in what was going on with my cooch in high school, I’d be moving to a different school. \nFkn bunch of gross ass pervs if you ask me.", ">\n\nSounds like some kind of hipaa violation to me not that that matters in Florida", ">\n\nI cannot for the life of me even want to try and wrap my brain on this 😩 I hope every women takes a stand on this and make this the biggest protest that anyone has stood for This guy is an absolute moron and now is thinking about running for president?,??????? Abortions .. Black history ... And now he wants to know when I have my period....ARE YOU FU@@KEN KIDDING ME He belongs in the bottom of the ocean", ">\n\nPerhaps used tampons should be provided all across the state in “compliance” of this insanity.", ">\n\nThis is totally not fachist. Let freedom ring.", ">\n\nThe state of Florida better have lots of funding set aside to cover the multiple lawsuits that will filed when the health data of minors is hacked into and released.", ">\n\nFlorida has asked for this information for 20 years:\n\nThe state has asked these questions for about two decades, according to reports.\n\nAnd most states (44/50) request/require the asking of female high school athletes for information about their periods.\n \nThe American Academy of Pediatrics encourages this because:\n\n“Female athletes/athletes with uteri who are not having menstrual periods are at increased risk of stress fractures,” Carl said.\n\n \nAnd other states do weird shit too:\n\nAmong other states, Massachusetts does currently suggest an examination of “genitalia.” Other states also suggest genital examinations, some of them like Oklahoma and Michigan singling that out for “males only,” or like New York asking if male athletes “have only one testicle.”\n\n \nWhat is weird about Florida is that some states only require the doc signs a form sent to the government that says the athlete is cleared for sports. \nFor some weird reason, Florida wants the menstrual info as well - but always has as fair as I can tell. \nThat should definitely be changed. But I still think that we need docs clearing athletes for sport - in a way that values their privacy.", ">\n\nI have no problem requiring physicals stating they're healthy enough to play. But they have zero need for menstrual or any other private medical information at the government level. None.", ">\n\nTotally agree.", ">\n\nThe point of the bill is to weed out transgender athletes, the misogyny is just an added bonus. They're inherently tied together, that's why you don't see them attacking trans men in men's sports. \nThey view women as weak, something to be controlled and protected from whatever boogeyman they currently are bashing. Same thing as not wanting lesbians participating in women's sports in the 90s because they'll be predatory in locker rooms.\nThese lawmakers are predators, so they can't imagine someone who is similar to them (amab, likes women, pick your poison) not having the same predatory mindset.\nPlus they're all closet cases anyways. Santos gets his rocks off dressing as a woman, so he couldn't imagine someone doing it for nonsexual reasons.\nJust another excuse for the GOP to invade women's reproductive health. Party of small fucking government, am I right? After they're done implementing genital checks for children, they'll probably start doing virginity checks as a \"courtesy\" to parents 🙄", ">\n\nSo now the schools will be responsible for maintaining HIPAA training for all employees? \nOr will they just ignore that part, then try to pass laws protecting the school and the state from lawsuits?", ">\n\nI hate the South so much. I wish a bunch of trans, drag queen abortion doctors would interrupt one of their state government sessions with a huge reading of some banned book or sex education lesson.", ">\n\nAs somebody in the south (thank goodness, not Florida), we aren’t all this backassward.", ">\n\nAint no way thats gonna pass or happen", ">\n\nI wish enough outraged people would move out of Florida so they lose 5-10 Representatives in US House next census. It would reduce them to observers and not leaders. It would reduce their Federal allotments, and taxes that fund this garbage.", ">\n\nJust so they wear the chastity belts on the right weeks", ">\n\nThis is how you alienate and shut down girls sports and dignity!", ">\n\nEven if something’s amiss, they can just report everything’s fine. What are you going to do, inspect the bathroom stall after I use it for evidence of discarded pads and tampons? \nOh wait, they probably would.", ">\n\nFreedom***", ">\n\nUh, what? That's just fucking weird.", ">\n\nWhat? Panty checks are not enough?", ">\n\nJust troll the shit out of them… easy", ">\n\nWhat a world many folks live in hey. What a time to be alive!", ">\n\nstudents should just give them fake data\nthen they will pass law requiring someone from school check their panties", ">\n\nThat’s when you say your period lasts 75 days and let them figure it out\n(Because some who have endo or fibroids do have month long periods, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility )", ">\n\nno one is more concerned with childrens' genitals than republican lawmakers", ">\n\nThe girls are going to Protest\nThe boys being teenaged boys are going to protest along with the girls if only to get close to them\nExpect state wide Organized protests", ">\n\nOk, so, me just thinking out loud.. I don't know... I mean sure it bleed more or less every 28 days.. But if you don't need to keep track, you might not keep track. Lets say your not sexuality active right now, so pregnancy is not even possible. How close are you keeping track? When was my period 6 months ago. Honestly IDK.", ">\n\nWomen, rebel! Don't assent to this gross violation of privacy!", ">\n\nGuys in sports should start submitting menstrual history, saying random period dates with 10 month gaps here and there.", ">\n\nKeep up the crazy FL", ">\n\nit still shocks me how far we have fallen somemtimes. like how sick are so many americans where they vote in people who want to genocide people. \namerica just seems to have a really bad streak in it. and we always have. i assume we always will until we go into our fascist days and the country crumbles. i guess hopefully there will be a cleanse or something i dunno.", ">\n\nFuture news: to avoid falsified information, all minor girls are required to submit to physical exams when menstruating, or required to provide used pads and tampons for DNA analysis.", ">\n\nThis is a clear violation of the fourth amendment", ">\n\nIs this the onion?", ">\n\nGoodbye NCAA events, Super Bowls and All Star Games in Florida when this comes down. \nGoing to cost important people a lot of money.", ">\n\nIf that happens - they should ALL quit. Walk out. Say bye bye. Fuck desantis in his mobster butt.", ">\n\nNope! This would be when I would start playing non-intramural sports.", ">\n\nI mean it’s horrible, but I would just lie. How would they ever know? I would suddenly be very regular.", ">\n\nThe trick here is to send their used pads and tampons with the list", ">\n\nSchools should just get rid of sports programs. Turn those big fields of thirsty lawn into school community farms.", ">\n\nAustralian checking in. Like, this is a joke right?", ">\n\nCouldn't you just refuse...? If the issue is forced I'd bet that high-schoolers would be quick to walk out in protest. I just don't understand how invasive measures like these can even fly without people protesting it.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Russia, desantits is a loser!", ">\n\nAh, nothing like GOP limited government. DeSantis: How will I impinge on your privacy and negate your rights away, let me count the ways", ">\n\nI think they should submit a sample.", ">\n\nTens of thousands of bloody tampons show up at Desantis office.", ">\n\nFor kids sport it makes more sense to categorise based on capability or size depending on the sport. Gender can stay out of it.", ">\n\nFlorida has become a fascist state in the true meaning of the word and desantis actions against the freedom of it's citizens", ">\n\nIf I was a parent I would start the lawsuits now.", ">\n\nThis will make parents sue the state. It will probably be picked up by the Supreme Court and they will probably overturn Title 9.", ">\n\nNothing says “limited government” quite like “we demand details about your menstrual cycle.”", ">\n\nJournalists once said “if it bleeds it leads.” Florida clearly learnt the wrong lesson from this.", ">\n\nIf they’re no other way around it, then the answer is always the 6th. \nThey like that date, I believe.", ">\n\nThey should make politicians submit dick size and vaginal depth before consideration for office.", ">\n\nJust... don't? This shit is dumb af, and won't pass mystery in court. It's a fucking HIPPA violation.", ">\n\nWomen are getting fucked, no orgasm.\nLeaving the typo, cause I'm dumb af.", ">\n\ngrabs popcorn, sits down in comment section", ">\n\nThey don’t want trans playing In the opposite sex sport. It’s unfair and I don’t blame them" ]

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[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot..." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens..." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists", ">\n\nMad doesn't exist if they drop something 10 times or more the explosiveness as the \"2nd\" tsar bomba that was designed yet never detonated because there wasn't a way to save anyone dropping it. Instantly fuck up more than half the country and destroy all the main silos in one swoop. Anyway, yeah, I'm just saying, it's extremely doubtful." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists", ">\n\nMad doesn't exist if they drop something 10 times or more the explosiveness as the \"2nd\" tsar bomba that was designed yet never detonated because there wasn't a way to save anyone dropping it. Instantly fuck up more than half the country and destroy all the main silos in one swoop. Anyway, yeah, I'm just saying, it's extremely doubtful.", ">\n\nThankfully that's not how nukes or US nuclear deterrence work, like, at all.\nI'm just going to ignore the super-giga-ultra nuke that wipes out all ICBM silos at once because it is physically impossible to exist.\nBut the entire purpose of the nuclear submarine fleet is to maintain MAD in the event that all land-based nukes are somehow magically wiped out instantly, because they can stay hidden and launch from anywhere without warning." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists", ">\n\nMad doesn't exist if they drop something 10 times or more the explosiveness as the \"2nd\" tsar bomba that was designed yet never detonated because there wasn't a way to save anyone dropping it. Instantly fuck up more than half the country and destroy all the main silos in one swoop. Anyway, yeah, I'm just saying, it's extremely doubtful.", ">\n\nThankfully that's not how nukes or US nuclear deterrence work, like, at all.\nI'm just going to ignore the super-giga-ultra nuke that wipes out all ICBM silos at once because it is physically impossible to exist.\nBut the entire purpose of the nuclear submarine fleet is to maintain MAD in the event that all land-based nukes are somehow magically wiped out instantly, because they can stay hidden and launch from anywhere without warning.", ">\n\nI know, but there's that kind of erie thing like, people were talking about that being bullshit when phone predictions were made such as having a computer in the pocket, is an absolutely giant technological new bomb so out of the realm of possibility? Or an advanced targeted bioweapon? Although not likely at all based on what we know, I still remain humble to such a thing." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists", ">\n\nMad doesn't exist if they drop something 10 times or more the explosiveness as the \"2nd\" tsar bomba that was designed yet never detonated because there wasn't a way to save anyone dropping it. Instantly fuck up more than half the country and destroy all the main silos in one swoop. Anyway, yeah, I'm just saying, it's extremely doubtful.", ">\n\nThankfully that's not how nukes or US nuclear deterrence work, like, at all.\nI'm just going to ignore the super-giga-ultra nuke that wipes out all ICBM silos at once because it is physically impossible to exist.\nBut the entire purpose of the nuclear submarine fleet is to maintain MAD in the event that all land-based nukes are somehow magically wiped out instantly, because they can stay hidden and launch from anywhere without warning.", ">\n\nI know, but there's that kind of erie thing like, people were talking about that being bullshit when phone predictions were made such as having a computer in the pocket, is an absolutely giant technological new bomb so out of the realm of possibility? Or an advanced targeted bioweapon? Although not likely at all based on what we know, I still remain humble to such a thing.", ">\n\nI think they're getting data on weather patterns for aerosol releases of foreign substances." ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists", ">\n\nMad doesn't exist if they drop something 10 times or more the explosiveness as the \"2nd\" tsar bomba that was designed yet never detonated because there wasn't a way to save anyone dropping it. Instantly fuck up more than half the country and destroy all the main silos in one swoop. Anyway, yeah, I'm just saying, it's extremely doubtful.", ">\n\nThankfully that's not how nukes or US nuclear deterrence work, like, at all.\nI'm just going to ignore the super-giga-ultra nuke that wipes out all ICBM silos at once because it is physically impossible to exist.\nBut the entire purpose of the nuclear submarine fleet is to maintain MAD in the event that all land-based nukes are somehow magically wiped out instantly, because they can stay hidden and launch from anywhere without warning.", ">\n\nI know, but there's that kind of erie thing like, people were talking about that being bullshit when phone predictions were made such as having a computer in the pocket, is an absolutely giant technological new bomb so out of the realm of possibility? Or an advanced targeted bioweapon? Although not likely at all based on what we know, I still remain humble to such a thing.", ">\n\nI think they're getting data on weather patterns for aerosol releases of foreign substances.", ">\n\ni dont think weather patterns are exactly something thats difficult to come across lol" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists", ">\n\nMad doesn't exist if they drop something 10 times or more the explosiveness as the \"2nd\" tsar bomba that was designed yet never detonated because there wasn't a way to save anyone dropping it. Instantly fuck up more than half the country and destroy all the main silos in one swoop. Anyway, yeah, I'm just saying, it's extremely doubtful.", ">\n\nThankfully that's not how nukes or US nuclear deterrence work, like, at all.\nI'm just going to ignore the super-giga-ultra nuke that wipes out all ICBM silos at once because it is physically impossible to exist.\nBut the entire purpose of the nuclear submarine fleet is to maintain MAD in the event that all land-based nukes are somehow magically wiped out instantly, because they can stay hidden and launch from anywhere without warning.", ">\n\nI know, but there's that kind of erie thing like, people were talking about that being bullshit when phone predictions were made such as having a computer in the pocket, is an absolutely giant technological new bomb so out of the realm of possibility? Or an advanced targeted bioweapon? Although not likely at all based on what we know, I still remain humble to such a thing.", ">\n\nI think they're getting data on weather patterns for aerosol releases of foreign substances.", ">\n\ni dont think weather patterns are exactly something thats difficult to come across lol", ">\n\nLmao, yeah pretty sure that is openly mapped already" ]

[ "“Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”\nThe plot thickens.", ">\n\nBottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. \nI think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster.", ">\n\nAm I missing something? \nCould be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one.", ">\n\nFrom a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes?", ">\n\nNo homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade.", ">\n\nAfter having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch.", ">\n\nI wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. \nThe only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones.", ">\n\nAs long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane.", ">\n\nThe attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.\nBut that's the R attacking the L.", ">\n\nIt’s just my Shein order", ">\n\nOhh that’s why it’s off track", ">\n\nPack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one.", ">\n\nI could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current - but for 2 to be located as a \"oopsie\" - no way Find a space to safely deflate.", ">\n\nThe first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that.", ">\n\n“We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.”", ">\n\nIt's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure.", ">\n\nMinh has a better recipe", ">\n\nAdd nutmeg!", ">\n\nfurious scribbling\nOkay, how bout this one? 🧁", ">\n\n\"Just monitoring the weather\"", ">\n\nThat’s no moon. That’s a space station.", ">\n\nThat's no balloon. That's a spy station.", ">\n\nThe local news coverage of these balloons is cracking me up. I feel like it's the national equivalent of half the small towns fire station trying to get a cat out of a tree. \nVery Pawnee Indiana\nThe news have no idea how mad they're supposed to be about a balloon floating above the 18 people who live in Montana, and the military seems to want to use this for fundraising so they can finally get those anti-weather balloon guns. \nSince this isn't going away today or anything, I can't imagine how the multi day 24-hour news cycle is going to try to get people to care. It will be interesting to learn what a balloon expert looks like and their thoughts on the matter.", ">\n\nOh no! What if it.... they put the satellite in space with the 10,000 other satellites Just like it? \nDrops the satellite for fun?\nI don't understand why this is so serious", ">\n\nSounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the balloon drops or reaches ground level one way or another and releases a massive virus or some shit", ">\n\nChapter 1 of a Zombie apocalypse novel.", ">\n\nThere s always two of them!", ">\n\nno more, no less", ">\n\nWe should send one back in the shape of a dragon", ">\n\nI'm sure they will bring it down intact when it's over the ocean. Need to see that shit.", ">\n\nIf they don't, then that's when we need to start criticizing.", ">\n\nIt'll all be OK guys. There monkeys being stolen from zoos, and I have a feeling they'll be equipped with darts", ">\n\nThe future is history", ">\n\nAtleast make an effort and give it some sky blue camo", ">\n\n99 red balloons go by", ">\n\nWhy can't they pop a hole in it, then let it fall slowly, then capture the equipment ?", ">\n\nInteresting article from Forbes.\n\nBringing down the balloon may be difficult as it is highly resistant to available weapons and is located in the stratosphere, far above the altitude of airliners.\nStratospheric balloons are very large, with NASA's standard balloons having a volume equivalent to over 195 Goodyear blimps.\nThe balloon envelope is thin and made of plastic material and it is unlikely that puncturing it would bring the balloon down.\nPrevious attempts to bring down large balloons have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon was hit by more than 1,000 rounds of cannon fire and a volley of rockets, but it continued to drift.\nInterception aircraft may be able to hit the small gondola of the balloon, but a failed attempt would be a public relations disaster.", ">\n\nWe apparently haven't figured out how to fight giant balloons yet.", ">\n\nIf aliens come in giant balloons we are doomed.", ">\n\nYou see “Nope?”", ">\n\nThat movie was insanely good", ">\n\nIt was ok", ">\n\nIt was bad.", ">\n\nChina already playing victim.\nYou really can't make this up. \"We always respect international law and it's the US making us look like the baddies over a minor mistake of a civilian balloon that accidently hovers over key military sites and is accidently correcting itself when wind tries to push it along\"", ">\n\nIf this balloon is so critical to national security and secrecy, why isn't it taken down by now? Imagine whining about a floating balloon just so you can raise money for the military complex.", ">\n\n\nso critical to national security and secrecy\n\nSource?\nI haven't seen where this is critical to national security, the opposite actually that it's not a major security risk to US intelligence.", ">\n\nLook to see if Christopher Robin is hanging off it. Incase Xinnie the Pooh is looking for Honeypot...", ">\n\nAre we sure it's not a \"V\" first contact like situation?", ">\n\nAliens flying a battle bus? Maybe we're more akin to a batrle royale prelude", ">\n\nDon’t shoot ‘em down. Trap them shits and read the info available", ">\n\nIt’s about time the world sees what China is doing. Y’all are making a big deal out of the balloon while all your data is being given to the Chinese government by Chinese companies like tencent by law. They own a big part of Reddit you know?", ">\n\nSays the person typing on reddit who probably shops at Walmart too", ">\n\nYes 😭 It’s almost impossible to avoid it, which is the problem. I use Snapchat, Spotify for example and all of them have the same issue as reddit. \nThankfully I haven’t got a Walmart for hundreds of km", ">\n\nSo anyways I started blastin", ">\n\nShoot ‘em down. Let’s get this show on the road", ">\n\nMaybe I’m just not up to date on foreign affairs but what are they spying on? Farmers, cars driving on highways, people living day to day life? I don’t get it.", ">\n\nAir Force bases would be my guess. Malmstrom AFB in Montana is one location where they maintain the minuteman III ICBM’s (inter-continental ballistic missile), part of our nuclear deterrence strategy. But again, that’s me just assuming stuff, nothing official.", ">\n\nYa as someone who doesn’t understand this stuff, it sounds like some BS world leader pissing contest lol", ">\n\nPanama Canal Authority gonna be upset they missed a transit fee.🇵🇦", ">\n\nAnnnd... Here's how we usher in WW3. Great time to be alive.", ">\n\nChina always doing China shit", ">\n\nI highly doubt that it's designed to spy on anyone. Almost all phones and electronic components are made in China, if they wanted to spy on anyone, they'd do it that way. We no longer live in the 50s, spying balloons make no sense. At best it's just some lost weather analysing equipment and at worst it's full of some new bioweapon that will erase humanity in a few years. But think about it, if they wanted to release a bioweapon into the world. There would be like a million better ways of doing it. So yeah.", ">\n\nSeems to me the simplest guess of its purpose is exactly what it’s achieving…pandemonium. It worked for Russia, who spent a helluva lot more on Republican politicians than China spent on a balloon. \nWhy would any adversary invest in any weapon against us other than simple internet fuel for crazy people? It’s the only thing necessary to keep this country in mortal hysteria and constant bickering.", ">\n\nIt may very well be Operation: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.\nThey may be testing how long Americans will stay complacent in the event of obvious foreign transgressions in a time of inept government. Right now, a heavily armed population is realizing how vulnerable they would be to a simple Trojan weather balloon. A population fractured by civil war that can't trust its militarized police. When you're a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.", ">\n\nGo touch some grass jesus christ", ">\n\nin times like these the most important thing for us to do is panic and catastrophize", ">\n\ninflation in china must be worst then ours.", ">\n\nI'm thoroughly entertained by the idea of open espionage. Just have a shady dude walking around with \"SPY\" on the back of his uniform jacket just walking up to people asking invasive questions.", ">\n\nThat's called: social media", ">\n\nAre the Feds watching the Coca Cola plants around the country?!?! Let’s not forget, people, these folks like to play jokes. If the taste of our beloved national beverage changes, we know who to blame!!!!!", ">\n\nI love how the US said they were afraid to shoot it down over Montana because the debris might hit civilians… Montana is about 95% open range with a ranch home about every twenty miles.", ">\n\nMaybe the debris of a biological fall out...\nthe plot really thickens...", ">\n\nYup… and I wondered if somehow they were trying to see the equivalent of “who picks up the package”…", ">\n\nJust a thought.. \nA nuke can weigh in at just a couple hundred pounds. What if a nuke was put onto one of these as it passed over a military installation, a major city, or D.C.? \nCould a nuke be disguised as something else such as surveillance equipment and then released over a target?\nWould there be enough time to take it out as it falls from 60,000 feet? Could this happen undetected? \nJust thinking. Just becuase it hasn't been done before doesn't mean that it couldn't happen for the first time today. The attitude of \"no one would ever dare to do that\" or \"that couldn't happen to us\" has been just the approach that has gotten us in trouble before. Disregarding or shrugging something off as \"no way\" has came back to bite us in events such as Pearl Harbor or cockpits of commercial airliners not being secure prior to 9/11.", ">\n\nMAD still exists", ">\n\nMad doesn't exist if they drop something 10 times or more the explosiveness as the \"2nd\" tsar bomba that was designed yet never detonated because there wasn't a way to save anyone dropping it. Instantly fuck up more than half the country and destroy all the main silos in one swoop. Anyway, yeah, I'm just saying, it's extremely doubtful.", ">\n\nThankfully that's not how nukes or US nuclear deterrence work, like, at all.\nI'm just going to ignore the super-giga-ultra nuke that wipes out all ICBM silos at once because it is physically impossible to exist.\nBut the entire purpose of the nuclear submarine fleet is to maintain MAD in the event that all land-based nukes are somehow magically wiped out instantly, because they can stay hidden and launch from anywhere without warning.", ">\n\nI know, but there's that kind of erie thing like, people were talking about that being bullshit when phone predictions were made such as having a computer in the pocket, is an absolutely giant technological new bomb so out of the realm of possibility? Or an advanced targeted bioweapon? Although not likely at all based on what we know, I still remain humble to such a thing.", ">\n\nI think they're getting data on weather patterns for aerosol releases of foreign substances.", ">\n\ni dont think weather patterns are exactly something thats difficult to come across lol", ">\n\nLmao, yeah pretty sure that is openly mapped already", ">\n\nMight be a plan to infect America like the Japanese had in WW2 when it is brought down." ]