Congress is holding hearings on the balloon this week. See how this works - create some bs crap balloon incident to distract the whole country from potato SH head's corruption, hunter's crimes, etc. Sure bub, potato isn't in Xi Jinping's pocket... Yeah, right. If this balloon isn't enough, watch out - they'll arrange a larger distraction. If potato would have handled (captured, etc.) the balloon as it entered the Aleutian Islands outside of Alaska, then it would have been nearly a non-event. That wasn't the objective, and potato had his orders, so it roams all over the country for a week doing whatever it's doing (could be anything, dropping who knows what, electronics, poisons, viruses in containers that break on impact and/or transmitting to China) and causing a convenient distraction from potato's problems.
Potato addressed the balloon like an old man that can't hear. "Huh? What? Ehhh? What's that about a baboon? "