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Cheryl Ann's avatar

I’m not so sure I agree that we (Americans) are mature adults who won’t panic - look at how a certain segment of the population panicked about the balloon, even attempting to shoot it with guns from the ground. As long as people are sitting home watching propaganda all day and night, they will not respond like mature adults.

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Michael MacPherson's avatar

Yah and the Fox News crowd, are total children fighting over who is the stupidest, the most childish, and knows the least.

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Betty Allen's avatar

Wow. I didn’t hear about that. But shooting guns are some people’s favorite thing. I actually thought it was funny when the balloon was shot down and people were posting a cartoon of the US launching hot air balloons in retaliation.

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Mark Miller's avatar

Bravo, Michael. Thanks for popping the balloon (pun intended) of media pomposity and reflexive government secrecy. I got thyroid cancer at 19 because the US government would not tell folks in the Great Plains that fallout from Postwar A-bomb tests in Nevada was drifting over the Dakotas. President Eisenhower knew but decided it was "better" to say nothing because the public would panic. Ah, yes, don't panic the Rubes. Let 'em get cancer someday, but don't panic 'em. Spot on, Michael.

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Ingrid Nyeboe's avatar

Transparency -- up up and away! We are so not told the facts by our “government”! Thanks for keeping their feet to the fire! Keep up the good work.

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Michael MacPherson's avatar

Mike! Not to be petty, but you promised we would have a quiz, on the Canadian Provinces and territories, and you forgot to do it. Even though you would have to have a very pitiful life to be upset over this but a promise is a promise, maybe you can fit it in on your next Rumble. This a long with all of your Rumbles, movies, and pod casts, are excellent, they really make a big difference, I feel and I am sure we all feel, you are making a big difference in keeping us informed, and keep blowing on the glowing cinders, trying to keep Democracy alive. I myself don't believe we have a Democracy, the will of the people, is ignored by our lawmakers; the Constitution is no longer the law of the country. I believe the number is 141 traitorous insurrectionist republican Senators, who were allowed to run for office again, against the Constitution, and they are not even talked about anywhere, except on Rumble. It is obvious the government has become, only for the Corporations, the rich, Military Industrial Complex, and the politicians. They are stealing our tax money, and if the people need help we get a few crumbs. Michael, thank you for all you do for us, the only fear I have is, that without you we have no truth.

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Dianne Labadie's avatar

Oh, you have hit it on the nail. Thank god for Mike. Michael MacP, no more truer words then your own "the will of the people, is ignored by our lawmakers; the Constitution is no longer the law of the country. I believe the number is 141 traitorous insurrectionist republican Senators, who were allowed to run for office again. We so badly need term limits.

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Ann Rosenkranz's avatar

Michael, thanks for the as always incisive commentary and for making me laugh numerous times throughout the narrative. Also......hilarious choice of music!

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Mark S Williams's avatar

Mike's comment, that NORAD shot down a UFO, is a lot to wrap one's head around, but it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility.

At any rate, the known fact that our government and media are keeping what they know secret from the public is disturbing.

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Suz-an's avatar

These things have been around forever. They know it. And they always keep secrets. Now this one is outta the bag. That's all.

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Lorraine nabozny's avatar

I live off of North Myrtle Beach and there has been significant activity on the water all week. There have been several ships, both Coast Guard and Navy. The divers are still searching for the main payload hardware that is imbedded in the silty muck at the ocean bottom. This is a great find for the Pentagon and we need to be patient on the feedback knowing that the rest of the world is also watching. It's highly unlikely that the other UFOs are from non-earth intelligent life. There is a great deal of debris in our airspace world wide and we are likely just responding to prove to our potential enemies that we are hyper aware of our airspace intruders.

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Michael MacPherson's avatar

We are a government of lies and secrets, they are not going to tell us the truth, they never have. There is a reason government whistleblowers are either in prison, living in Russia, like Snowden or awaiting extradition from Belmarsh prison to this country to face 150 years in prison like Julian Assange.

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Dianne Labadie's avatar

Yeah, like fricken' Elon Musk's Tesla

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PEB's avatar

Greetings Michael,

We come in peace. We are not Aliens, simply more evolved humanoids from the distant future. Some of us look strange to you, and you call us Aliens. Others of us are simply clones of particularly gorgeous and intelligent humans. There are many copies. But we have no plane.

We like balloons.

Spa Fon!

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PEB's avatar

PS…

You may find this Coefficient of Universal Expansion useful when you primitive early humans finally get around to inventing Time Travel:

7.7e-7

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Dianne Labadie's avatar

HAHAHAHAHA- now that is funny!

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Barry J Kaufman DO's avatar

Weapons of mass buffoonery, which sums up our military to a tee.

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Elaine Cimino's avatar

The UAPs has been happening since the Trump administration and most likely before. This article goes into the research that some have been doing who experienced this. Despite the military complex large spending capability our adversaries have found it weakness. They are exploiting it. While we have spent billions on defense, the low tech normalization of drones and balloons can carry bombs, biological warfare and strike by our shooting it out of the sky, or their firing.

Our warfare has come home to roost. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos

I cringe to even post this but is seems the most logical explanation

Kinzinger had this on his Twitter pointing this link

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Elaine Cimino's avatar

The more we spend on bombs and guns the less safe we become. Yes we have a right to transparency. Maybe they are trying to figure out how to justify the large military budget when this low tech threat is very hard to defend against. We can speculate as to whether we should allow Elon mush to control space satellites and gather intelligence or whether adversaries or even ET’s are coming to figure out how to Neutralize our systems. The best answer is gives us the lowdown -- we can handle it. Be truthful. Thanks Mike for another good report!

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Mort's avatar

I hope they didn’t shoot down ET. That could mean war.

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Lori Boydston's avatar

Hi Micheal, I hope to see you at the Peace Rally this Sunday Feb 19th Lincoln Memorial 12:30

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Marc Krulewitch's avatar

Great show! However, any interstellar civilization visiting us would be so technologically advanced that any weapon the US military had would be a joke to these folks. To quote theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku, it would be Bambi vs. Godzilla. The real reason the US would not admit to ET visiting is because ET is not traveling light year distances burning Exxon jet A fuel. For the truth regarding ET, I suggest checking out Dr. Steven Greer's various website/videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@DrStevenGreer55

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Suz-an's avatar

Yes!!

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Charlotte's avatar

We are opeeating from fear since the country was founded- must protect abd preserve at any cost rather than caring for each other and our home. We will protect us right into oblivion. Its inevitable.

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Sally Joy Rubin's avatar

Hi Mike, It was a good game. But the cutaway you missed from that event was Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch sitting in a booth together.

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