US military shoots down China's balloon (SNL)

"Saturday Night Live" kicked off by spoofing latest suspected threat to national security: a balloon

USA spies on its citizens with these devices.

The big white balloon, which the Biden administration says it believes the Chinese government was using for surveillance, became an internet celebrity when people began tracking its travels [high above] U.S. airspace.

China's Foreign Affairs Ministry said the balloon was for meteorological [weather] research and accidentally went adrift.

But its presence led Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone a trip to Beijing amid rising tensions between the two murderous and increasingly authoritarian nations.

The U.S. shot a missile and has downed a Chinese [weather] balloon off the coast of South Carolina [and it is now scrambling to prove it was for spying to get a propaganda win in the war of words between Beijing and DC]. More

NATIONAL SECURITY: The U.S. military says it has downed a Chinese "spy balloon" off the coast of South Carolina — a move that the Chinese government called an overreaction.

Meanwhile, in more important news from The Swamp:

Republican George "Sociopathic Liar" Santos is a drag queen!

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(MSNBC) Jan. 20, 2023. “While his apparent lie about performing in drag is literally the least consequential of his many lies, it makes sense he feels he has to fight that one,” says Chris Hayes on Rep. George Santos. “Because drag has become this strange, disgusting, bigoted obsession on the right.” #georgesantos #msnbc #republicans