Appropriately enough, Balloon Juice has a compendium of the lunacy that the Chinese Spy Balloon unleashed in the fever swamps of the American Right. Jason Kander had an especially good day on Twitter lampooning this idiots.
Hawley: SHOOT IT DOWN
Biden: We will when it’s not above Americans
Hawley: Where’s Biden?
Biden: Waiting for it to be over the ocean
Hawley: We need an investigation!
*Balloon floats over ocean, gets shot down*
Hawley: …
boy parts people playing sports with girls!?!
It's not that this tactic is new. It's that the Right Wing Wurlitzer of the early '00s has become a firehose of nonsense. They are so subsumed by their own obsessions that they begin to speak in a foreign tongue.
For the most part, it's invisible to those Americans who are not Very Online, but the weak showing of the GOP in the midterms has to be - in part - a function of just how banana pancakes they must sound when anyone listens to what they are saying most of the time.
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