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POLITICAL HUMOR
I’m The Chinese Spy Balloon and I’m Just Looking For Love
I’m so much more than just a bag of hot air.
Oh, hey! Wow, this is embarrassing. Americans almost never look up — I’ve been here lots of times, but nobody ever notices! Ha ha!
Usually my little jaunts are kept on the down-low. But this time I messed up and got a little too down low, so to speak. Plus, there’s the whole China-Taiwan thing and it’s time to start banging the war drums. Australia is having a kitten over the prospect of China increasing its hold on the Asia-Pacific region.
I mean, can you blame them? Stuck out there in the ocean with nothing but kangaroos and unpronounceable place names?
Isn’t it funny how the stuff that makes the headlines depends on how much the military-industrial complex wants you to know?
And then you react just as predicted, with outrage and recriminations, conveniently ignoring the fact that the U.S. spies on China all the time. Like, 24/7.
And also ignoring the fact that you saw me coming — I mean, duh, look at me — and hid everything important before I got here, just like you always do.
