Discussion: What Exactly Is Jade Helm 15?

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Nothing any reasonable, rationale person says will make any difference. I say the Feds should put their minds at ease by moving EVERY SINGLE Federal facility out of Texas. Maybe they will feel better.

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Of course there’s a real story – there always is to these exercises – and as you point out it won’t make a bit of difference to the conspiracy nut jobs.

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Part of me feels it’s a shame that the feds aren’t invading Texas. I would be curious to see CNN’s nuanced and comprehensive coverage.

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historically supportive

Hysterically?

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Where’s Don Lemon when you need him?

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Tejan wingnut secessionists easily wound up and released. Rinse. Repeat.

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I second the motion.

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Kick Texas out of the union. They’re too crazy and stupid to be citizens.

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What the Army failed to take into account is the low intelligence density in Texas.

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Yes. A handful of old hippies complaining about noise and disruption and generally whining about the continued existence of the USMC because peace and love is just like a wave of mass paranoid psychosis about multistate military takeovers and underground tunnels and Walmart prison camps (which surely the Geneva Conventions would not allow). Totally the same thing. Absolutely comparable. Also, yogurt cultures are totally the same thing as anthrax.

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“Separately, Reason magazine’s Jesse Walker, writing in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, pointed to a 1999 exercise in Oakland, California that posited the “Jade Helm 15” conspiracy theories were an extreme manifestation of the current backlash against police militarization in the U.S.”

This doesn’t make much sense to me, since the anti-JH15 conspiracy nuts are generally on the opposite end of the spectrum from the people protesting police militarization. This comment from a Reason writer strikes me as just wishful thinking trying to tie them together into a general anti-government libertarianism. But the reality is that the people who are afraid of the military coming to take their guns are the same people who WANT the military and police to be clearing all of THOSE people out of the cities.

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Why is Texas suddenly so anti military? By reputation the state should be a great place to train and hone skills.?

Answer: because Obama

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Bingo. What the article doesn’t mention is that US military exercises were held in Texas while Rick Perry was governor, and there was nary a peep of paranoid protest in Texas. I’m sure the fact that the President was a white guy from Texas had nothing to do with that lack of concern.

And the new headline is much better, TPM. Good editing.

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I’m all for messing with Texas.

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TPM is in on it! DON’T BELIEVE THEM!!!

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All this is nothing new for the GOP and the Rightie Wingnuttery. Republican Cons and Frightwing Baggers have been seeing things that aren’t there and/or are conspiring against them for a very long time: millionaire job creators; socialists takeovers; rampant voter fraud; Christian persecution; Muslim President; Benghazi; Illuminati; Bilderbergers; New World Order; …etc.
In any case, ‘belief’ requires no proof and, just as with their Big Sky God, they will cling mindlessly to ‘what they believe’ in the face of any and all truth, facts, and evidence to the contrary.

Soooo’! The terrified, ignorant and crazed Right Wingers and Republican sheeple will just continue to watch FOX, cling to their guns and bibles, read Deadbart’ bullsh*t, listen to Alex Jones and realize how terribly oppressed they are and how scared they should be…

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TPM:

“The public can expect nothing much different from their day-to-day activities since much of exercise will be conducted in remote areas,” the release read.

Resistance is futile! We will take away their guns, force free health care upon them, make them abort their babies then gay marry them, and convert them all to Islamic atheism! We will steal their voting rights and give them to undocumented immigrants!

Mwahahaha! Suffer, Conservative Red State Scum!

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We could get Wolf Blitzer to read us viewer Tweets about it - live!

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The Pentagon should reassure Greg, and Ted, and Louie, and all the paranoid fools they encourage by reducing Texas’ participation in the exercise to exactly zero. Greg, Ted, and Louie can strut, the conspiracy nuts can strut, and Texas can do without the economic benefits of participation. This is marginally doable, and maybe some sane Texans will notice what they paid for Greg, Ted, and Louie to strut.

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