As more and more various thingys are being shot out of the skies over North America, it would seem appropriate to wonder “why now?”
The almost certainly correct earthbound reason is that the People’s Republic of China is so dismissive of Joe Biden and disdainful of the current state of our nation that they are happily engaging in a global geo-political game of “I’m not touching you!” just to see how far they can go.
True, so far three things have been shot down – one of them definitely a Chinese spy balloon – but it is quite possible many more are floating about, tracing lazy circles amongst the sky gods.
Or something else could be happening, something the world has been waiting for in terrified trepidation since even before the “X-Files” premiered: are they - and by ‘they; I mean extraterrestrial beings and not the vajazzled gender fluid barista down at the Cup o’ Truth – here?
And if they are here, could they have possibly come at a more inopportune time?
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