Jade Helm 15

[dystopian]

And a plugged in church to boot:

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I don't know if this was a serious inclusion as evidence for people being insane, but that picture is quite obviously photoshopped.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

It's okay. Once Texas fills with Messicans we'll set 'er free.

 

[funinspace]

And a plugged in church to boot:

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I don't know if this was a serious inclusion as evidence for people being insane, but that picture is quite obviously photoshopped.

Yeah, you are right now that I look at it. It came from this very partisan site, which now I realize also didn't say anything about the pic, so they probably figured people would get it as a joke. Of course the problem is that some of these churches are that crazy...
http://aattp.org/fema-death-camps-m...tives-are-back-on-the-conspiracy-theory-kick/

Which is why I followed the link to Bloomberg, and quoted it as a more reputable site.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Pentagon denies invasion of Texas:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/04/politics/pentagon-texas-jade-helm-15-takeover/

First photos from Houston:

 

[AthenaAwakened]

 

[Keith&Co.]

Wow.
A coworker is frothing at the mouth about Jade Helm 15.
We can't just dismiss the possibilities because there's that scenario about the Tea Party.

a 2012 scenario outlined by retired Army colonel Kevin Benson, in which the U.S. Military is used to crush an insurgent rebellion overseen by Tea Party militia members who take over the city of Darlington, South Carolina.

He's acting like no one ever draws up a contingency plan if they're not planning on doing exactly that.

We have a bazillion contingency plans. Plans for likely scenarios, plans for less likely scenarios and plans for scenarios that even James Cameron would dismiss as ideas no audience would ever accept.

Someone thinks up an idea and gets someone to study what the US govt. and military response should be. It gets put into a file, somewhere, and probably never seen again. But just in case the literally-if-only-barely-thinkable should occur, someone's thought out A response so we're not caught too flat-footed.

I used to be amazed at the list of aimpoints in the nuclear targeting databases. All the places we were prepared to be really mad at, either because, for some reason, East Flyspeckistan became enough of a threat to warrant nuclear aggression; or maybe the forces of the Evil Empire chose to march through West Flyspeckistan on their way to our ally, North Nowhere. And if they were successful, we had the targeting coordinates for North Nowhere, too, once it was no longer an ally, when the NN country code became an extended EE.

The fact that something's written down on paper has no bearing on whether it's intended to be used in the near future, the far future, or the mirror universe where we all have goatees or bare midriffs. Or both, maybe.
The military just throws nothing away. Instruction manuals for how to conduct river warfare during the Civil War were dusted off to give us a starting point for patrol boats in Viet Nam.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

He's acting like no one ever draws up a contingency plan if they're not planning on doing exactly that.

We have a bazillion contingency plans. Plans for likely scenarios, plans for less likely scenarios and plans for scenarios that even James Cameron would dismiss as ideas no audience would ever accept.

I did meet a guy who works for Homeland Security that worked on the Zombie Apocalypse contingency plan. - I mean why not?

 

[Rhea]

I saw this comment on TPM and decided it needed a graphic...

 

[Underseer]

Tip 1: Texas has a 1.5 trillion GDP, roughly equivalent to Russia or Canada
Tip 2: Texas is not a net receiver of federal money
Tip 3: bigotry and ignorance not a good combination

It's that reading-for-content problem again, dismal.
He said that REPUBLICANS take more money than they pay in taxes. He's saying the people who'll be in charge of the state will likely use it as their personal piggy bank, but without federal funds to take the load off of the state economy.

Typical liberal. You completely ignore Dismal's point.

Your claim is not true of Texas, therefore it is not true of any Republican state. Dismal proved you wrong and you don't want to admit it! [/conservolibertarian]

On a less facetious note, Rachel Maddow had some interesting comments on the Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory and its effect on Republican presidential candidates:

http://on.aol.com/video/rachel-maddow-takes-jade-helm-15-truthers-to-task-518811406

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[conservolibertarian]Liberals are exactly as bad because they said Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction! Also, they think Obama was born in Hawaii! You wanna talk wacky conspiracy theories? Top that![/conservolibertarian]

 

[jonatha]

Pentagon denies invasion of Texas:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/04/politics/pentagon-texas-jade-helm-15-takeover/

First photos from Houston:

Looks far too dry and mosquito-free to be Houston....

 

[Keith&Co.]

Looks far too dry and mosquito-free to be Houston....

But it looks like they're well on the way to bombing the sidewalks to rubble, thus disarming the teens.

 

[Underseer]

Pentagon denies invasion of Texas:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/04/politics/pentagon-texas-jade-helm-15-takeover/

First photos from Houston:

Looks far too dry and mosquito-free to be Houston....

What? The pictures clearly prove that the federal government is taking over Texas! Obviously, you're just making excuses because you're part of the conspiracy!!!!!1!!!!!1!!!!!111

 

[Underseer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-stanford/the-pentagons-response-to_b_7251254.html

I have no idea if this is legit, but it is a hilarious response whether or not it really came from the secretary of defense.

 

[Underseer]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/09/1383563/-Bill-Maher-to-Texans-You-are-the-White-Somalia

Bill Maher had fun with this whole Jade Helm 15 business.

 

[Keith&Co.]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-stanford/the-pentagons-response-to_b_7251254.html

I have no idea if this is legit, but it is a hilarious response whether or not it really came from the secretary of defense.

AT the bottom: Elie Jacobs and Frank Spring, who along with Jason Stanford are political partners of the Truman National Security Project, contributed equally to this post but suffer lesser billing because of Stanford's inability to figure out certain technological hurdles.
Ashton Carter gets no credit for the post, so he probably didn't legitimately write it....

 

[Underseer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-stanford/the-pentagons-response-to_b_7251254.html

I have no idea if this is legit, but it is a hilarious response whether or not it really came from the secretary of defense.

AT the bottom: Elie Jacobs and Frank Spring, who along with Jason Stanford are political partners of the Truman National Security Project, contributed equally to this post but suffer lesser billing because of Stanford's inability to figure out certain technological hurdles.
Ashton Carter gets no credit for the post, so he probably didn't legitimately write it....

Thanks for catching that.

Still funny.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Thanks for catching that.

Still funny.

Oh, yeah.
And i'm sure the Secretary will admit no knowledge of the contents even if they made him laugh himself silly. his position is not a good one for highlighting the foibles of his overlords.

I work with people for whom it would be politically contra-indicated to laugh at some of my jokes so I can't send them any. The admiral cannot laugh at something a contractor makes that paints another contractor or a fucking loon in a bad light....

But I know for a fact that there is a guy in their office who receives copies of the humor and makes it available to the people most likely to piss their pants laughing.
But no paper or electronic trail exists....

 

[Nice Squirrel]

http://bigamericannews.com/2015/04/29/the-sandwich-making-fox-from-chernobyl-shows-off-skills/

I'm loving this site. It is so Poe.

http://bigamericannews.com/2015/05/...stians-president-bush-jesus-and-chuck-norris/

 

[fromderinside]

Ha! Texas Walmarts as concentration camps. Yes, they are going to force Texans to live in Walmart and eat at the McDonald's inside. Oh, the horror of it all.

Yes, but would your average Texan see this as being placed in a concentration camp or heaven?

I claim Texicanism since I drove through Texas on the way backt o California from Florida. Give me Walmart permanent residence anytime over Texas-ah residency.

 

[fromderinside]

Thanks for catching that.

Still funny.

Oh, yeah.
And i'm sure the Secretary will admit no knowledge of the contents even if they made him laugh himself silly. his position is not a good one for highlighting the foibles of his overlords.

I work with people for whom it would be politically contra-indicated to laugh at some of my jokes so I can't send them any. The admiral cannot laugh at something a contractor makes that paints another contractor or a fucking loon in a bad light....

But I know for a fact that there is a guy in their office who receives copies of the humor and makes it available to the people most likely to piss their pants laughing.
But no paper or electronic trail exists....

NSA, using the Hitler principle of two, now tracks verbal communications .......