They're comin' to git our guns!!! or... when whackadoos attack!

[RandomGuy]

Our Texas governor is catering to the cray cray crowd. Watch it backfire, and make them more nutty. :lol
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Texas governor tells State Guard to monitor Army training

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday asked the State Guard to monitor a U.S. military training exercise dubbed "Jade Helm 15" amid Internet-fueled suspicions that the war simulation is really a hostile military takeover.

The request comes a day after more than 200 people packed a meeting in rural Bastrop County and questioned a U.S. Army commander about whether the government was planning to confiscate guns or implement martial law. Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape said "conspiracy theorists" and "fear mongers" had been in a frenzy.

Pape thanked Abbott for the letter to the Texas State Guard, which he believed helped emphasize the benefit of the military training rather than further fuel theorists.

"It's a sad when people's greatest fear is their own government," Pape said. "Think about the ramification of that. If Americans go to sleep at night worrying whether their own government is going to sell them out before morning, it'd be hard to sleep."

Suspicions about Jade Helm intensified on some conservative websites and social media after a map labeled Texas, Utah and parts of California as "hostile" for the purposes of the three-month training exercise that begins in July. Such war simulations aren't unusual, though the Army has acknowledged that the size and scope of Jade Helm makes it unique.

Texas and six other states are hosting the exercises on public and private lands. The Army says the terrain and topography in the areas selected are ideal to replicate foreign combat zones.

No other governor had so publicly addressed the training exercise.

"It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed," Abbott wrote. "By monitoring the Operation on a continual basis, the State Guard will facilitate communications between my office and the commanders of the Operation to ensure that adequate measures are in place to protect Texans."

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria told the crowd in Bastrop on Monday that the exercise will involve 1,200 soldiers and all four branches of the military, according to the Austin American-Statesman. He said people with a "personal agenda" about the exercise had been spreading misinformation.

Lastoria spoke for two hours, but some left the meeting still unconvinced.

Pape told The Associated Press that some came from as far as Houston and Dallas to attend the meeting. He said the county could reap as much as $150,000 in economic activity from the exercise, which in Bastrop is set to include 60 soldiers, two Humvees and a helicopter.

Bastrop County is home to Camp Swift, the largest base for the Texas National Guard, and Pape said most people likely won't even notice.

"There's been a lot of dust thrown in the air, a lot of haze," Pape said. "Those who wanted to raise concerns on the one hand succeeded. They've raised a lot of attention about this. But the fact is the message is clear: Jade Helm is a well-designed and a well-constructed training operation."

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Associated Press Writer Eva Ruth Moravec contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-tells-state-guard-monitor-army-training-210305780.html

[m>s]

Not a bad idea

[Drachen]

This isn't real is it? It's an onion article lampooning the right in general and the governor of Texas, specifically... Right? RIGHT?

[m>s]

^no it's called a real patriot investigating a thread. Go fuck yourself with a sawed off and pull the trigger

[boutons_deux]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247358&goto=newpost

[Drachen]

^no it's called a real patriot investigating a thread. Go fuck yourself with a sawed off and pull the trigger

Thanks for the suggestion, but I have not cultivated the ability to shove long black (or any other color) tubes up my ass as it seems that you have. No, I get my sex a different way, from my wife.

Don't worry though, no judgment here. Continue doing what's right for you, even if it means shoving random men, or objects up your corn hole.

[cantthinkofanything]

Nothing wrong with keeping the government honest. Maybe they aren't up to anything but I sure don't trust everything they say at face value.
Nothing crazy about being skeptical of the U.S. government.

[boutons_deux]

Nothing wrong with keeping the government honest. Maybe they aren't up to anything but I sure don't trust everything they say at face value.
Nothing crazy about being skeptical of the U.S. government.

but you trust BigCorp? :lol

[cantthinkofanything]

but you trust BigCorp? :lol

Nope. But their interests are closer aligned with mine. At least for the short term.

[angrydude]

but you trust BigCorp? :lol

Lol changing the subject.

[boutons_deux]

Lol changing the subject.

nope, ctoa brought up skepticism, the other side of which is trust

[boutons_deux]

But their interests are closer aligned with mine.

:lol

[cantthinkofanything]

:lol

You cut off half my post. But yeah...having a job and being rewarded proportionately for my skills and work is way more desirable to me than me working to support food stamp pontiffs such as yourself.

[pgardn]

It's a sad when people's greatest fear is their own government," Pape said. "Think about the ramification of that. If Americans go to sleep at night worrying whether their own government is going to sell them out before morning, it'd be hard to sleep."

So we use the government of Texas to monitor the U.S. Government exercises...
Did he clarify which government we are supposed to be afraid of? Who will the Bastrop Police Dept. monitor? Can the neighborhood associations align and try to watch everyone?

Fkn country nutcase...

[boutons_deux]

me working to support food stamp pontiffs such as yourself.

pontiffs? :lol you're weird.

[boutons_deux]

Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘What is going on in Baltimore’ is because of too many gay marriages
http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/flores1-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/texas-gop-lawmaker-what-is-going-on-in-baltimore-is-because-of-too-many-gay-marriages/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

TX Repugs, what a Klown Kar! and who let the Hispanic/Mexican in? :lol

[cantthinkofanything]

pontiffs? :lol you're weird.

Bend over, I'll show you weird.

[boutons_deux]

Bend over, I'll show you weird.

try to stay on topic. I suggest you not introduce your cornholing homosexuality.

[Winehole23]

nope, ctoa brought up skepticism, the other side of which is trustboutons can't believe that anyone believes in anything besides being born, walking in meek servitude of the man, misery and death. occasionally he does so in grammatical English.

[Winehole23]

#cornhole

[boutons_deux]

boutons can't believe that anyone believes in anything besides being born, walking in meek servitude of the man, misery and death. occasionally he does so in grammatical English.

while hole is really butthurt, nearly as bad as TB :lol

[Winehole23]

^^^right on cue with the semi-grammatical comeback

[Winehole23]

The latest high-profile response to Abbott's letter came Thursday, when former state Rep. Todd Smith, R-Euless, sent a scathing missive to Abbott accusing him of "pandering to idiots." Smith, who served in the Legislature for 16 years, told Abbott he was "horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my Governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my Governor doesn't have the backbone to stand up to those who do."


"I am appalled that you would give credence to the nonsense mouthed by those who instead make decisions based on Internet or radio shock jock driven hysteria," Smith wrote in the letter, which he also sent to the House and Senate. "Is there ANYBODY who is going to stand up to this radical nonsense that is cancer on our State and Party?"

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/04/30/abbotts-letter-puts-jade-helm-national-stage/

[boutons_deux]

^^^right on cue with the semi-grammatical comeback

grammar smack! :lol

[Winehole23]

couldn't happen to a more deserving poster

[boutons_deux]

couldn't happen to a more deserving poster

excuse me, not even grammar smack, it's typo smack! ya got nuthin, whine-y, shooting blanks, no lead in your pencil

[cantthinkofanything]

boutons not trusting anyone but BigGovern and BigLib

[boutons_deux]

boutons not trusting anyone but BigGovern and BigLib

:lol note to butt hurt brigade, take a number!

[cantthinkofanything]

:lol note to butt hurt brigade, take a number!

you're moving the goalposts

[spursncowboys]

It's disgraceful that Feds didn't notify state governors beforehand. That's what I take from it.

[TeyshaBlue]

while hole is really butthurt, nearly as bad as TB :lol

The obsession continues. Get a hobby.

[DarrinS]

boutons not trusting anyone but BigGovern and BigLib

:lol

[Clipper Nation]

boutons not trusting anyone but BigGovern and BigLib

[boutons_deux]

Ted Cruz makes the Pentagon pinky-swear that Obama is not planning to invade Texas

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-02/ted-cruz-says-he-has-asked-the-pentagon-for-answers-on-jade-helm-15) Bloomberg Politics’ David Weigel on Saturday that he understands why Texans are concerned that the 2-month-long joint military exercise known as Jade Helm 15 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/29/jade-helm-15-a-military-simulation-draws-scrutiny-and-wild-speculation-in-texas/) might signal the end of their state’s sovereignty.

“My office has reached out to the Pentagon to inquire about this exercise,” Cruz said. “We are assured it is a military training exercise. I have no reason to doubt those assurances, but I understand the reason for concern and uncertainty, because when the federal government has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in this administration, the natural consequence is that many citizens don’t trust what it is saying.”

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/04/ted_cruz_i_spoke_with_the_pentagon_to_make_certain _obama_isnt_conducting_a_military_invasion_of_texa s/

[cantthinkofanything]

, because when the federal government has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in this administration, the natural consequence is that many citizens don’t trust what it is saying.”


sounds right to me

[boutons_deux]

sounds right to me

your, or anybody's, evidence?

[cantthinkofanything]

your, or anybody's, evidence?

:lol I could fill up a tome Avante style with all the evidence. Hmmmm....let's see...how about a list....

[boutons_deux]

:lol I could fill up a tome Avante style with all the evidence. Hmmmm....let's see...how about a list....

yeah, Avante has lots of evidence for anti-evolution, overwhelmingly credible.

[cantthinkofanything]

yeah, Avante has lots of evidence for anti-evolution, overwhelmingly credible.

Was talking more about the track and field lists that he Googles and regurgitates.

[Nbadan]

:lol Bastrop

http://juanitajean.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/jwj-Jade-Helm-00442.jpg

[ElNono]

:lol this shit is hilarious

[Winehole23]

Wal-Mart issued a statement Monday to TPM dismissing “rumors” that tunnels were being built by the U.S. military beneath closed stores in an attempt to launch a takeover of Texas.


“There’s no truth to the rumors,” Wal-Mart spokesperson Lorenzo Lopez told TPM via email.

[RandomGuy]

[/INDENT]

WOW.... ROFL...

[TeyshaBlue]

WOW.... ROFL...

That's what they want you to think. #Dale Gribble voice#

[Blake]

:lol Bastrop

http://juanitajean.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/jwj-Jade-Helm-00442.jpg

Rofl Bastropo

[boutons_deux]

http://a3.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/mqwdy8hqn6b1ckwnc7ov.jpg

Conservatives Keep Pouring Fuel On The Texas Takeover Fire

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/conservatives-jade-helm-speculation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Thanks, you Repug asshole voters! American civilization is deeply grateful for your contributions!

[boutons_deux]

Conspiracy Theories Over Jade Helm Training Exercise Get Some Traction in Texas

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/07/us/07TEXASWEB2/07TEXASWEB2-articleLarge.jpg

when Gov. Greg Abbott issued a directive to the Texas State Guard to keep watch over the military operation, seeming to give those concerns some official credence, it raised a more credible question: To what degree has the extreme become mainstream in Texas?

But even some Republicans say Mr. Abbott’s reaction, and the failure of any Republicans in office to clearly denounce what many see as extremism and paranoia, speak volumes about how far right the party has moved in a state in which it controls all the levers of power.

“I have been an eyewitness to the sort of radicalization of Republican primary politics in Texas, but this was just a shocking extension of this fanaticism,”

Representative Louie Gohmert, :lol :lol :lol a Republican, :lol :lol :lol called for changes to the exercise, particularly a war-simulation map that labels Texas, Utah and part of Southern California as “hostile.” :lol

He said that because the Obama administration believed “that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans or even ‘cling to guns or religion,’ patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned.” :lol :lol :lol Fucking East Texas! :lol

A leader of the Republic of Texas, a separatist group that believes Texas never officially joined the United States, forwarded an email to reporters in which an anonymous man claiming to be a Texas Ranger wrote that Texans “should be pushing back against JH15.”

“I think you’ve got some paranoia, which is based upon legitimate concerns by my fellow Texans, by myself and a lot of Americans about the trustworthiness and the competence of President Obama, but let’s not project that on to our military,” Mr. Dewhurst told the network.

Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature and every statewide elective office, far-right activists have the power to sway Republican primary elections, giving them disproportionate influence.

About 200 people turned out for the April 27 meeting. “The people who came with an open mind I think got some useful information and I hope left with a higher comfort level,” Mr. Pape said. “The ones that came with their minds made up probably left with their minds made up.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/us/conspiracy-theories-over-jade-helm-get-some-traction-in-texas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

but Pape ridicules himself by even going to the meeting. :lol

Timothy! Wearing badass dark glasses INSIDE? old white Bible humping men with manly facial hair!

Loonie Gohmert doesn't like TX named "hostile" territory! :lol

TX! :lol

Repugs! :lol

Bible humpers! :lol

"Come and Take It" on my BLACKASS BADASS INFOWARS TEE SHIRT ! :lol

[FromWayDowntown]

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/04/30/abbotts-letter-puts-jade-helm-national-stage/

Surely, this is from The Onion, no?

A former politician recognizing dog whistle politics and calling out a fellow partisan for being too stupid to reject it or too weak to debunk it? I'm convinced this is lampoon, because that sort of sensibility doesn't actually exist in America in 2015.

[Blizzardwizard]

Just caught up on this shit.

Conservatives :lol

[RandomGuy]

"Come and Take It" on my BLACKASS BADASS INFOWARS TEE SHIRT ! :lol



Saw that. I am amazed these looneys haven't started shooting yet. It is merely a matter of time.

[The Reckoning]

Abbott just seeing the opportunity to speak for his supporters. Unfortunately they're all dumbasses who read Cosmored articles.

[The Reckoning]

:lol Bastropo :lol

this is some King of the Hill level shit right here. guy has to be a troll, right?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Saw that. I am amazed these looneys haven't started shooting yet. It is merely a matter of time.

Why are you "amazed" they haven't started shooting yet? What would start them shooting and who would they be shooting at? I believe you'll be waiting a lonnnnng time before your extreme rightwing vs government shoot out fantasy comes to fruition.

[boutons_deux]

Desperate Residents of Austin Completely Surrounded by Texas

AUSTIN – In a deepening humanitarian crisis, residents of the city of Austin report that they are completely surrounded by Texas, a situation that locals are calling “dire.”

Austin has traditionally enjoyed freedoms as a semi-autonomous region, hosting film festivals and literary events without the interference of its hostile neighbors, but there are growing fears that those days may be coming to an end


Alarmingly, citizens of Austin report, extremists within the city limits have taken over the Capitol Building and installed a militant government with dominion over its residents.

In recent days, Austin has made desperate requests for assistance to the U.S. military, which will be conducting exercises in Texas in July.

The city is hoping that the United States will use its military might to liberate the isolated municipality and transform it into an independent state along the lines of Kurdistan.

But those who live in this besieged city are growing increasingly desperate as they await military aid. In the words of one resident, “We feel so alone here.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/desperate-residents-of-austin-completely-surrounded-by-texas?mbid=nl_050715_Borowitz&cndid=&mbid=nl_050715_Borowitz&CNDID=&spMailingID=7724212&spUserID=MjczNzc0Njk0NDAS1&spJobID=680729474&spReportId=NjgwNzI5NDc0S0

[Spur_Fanatic]

Holy shit, some texans are fucking stupid.

[boutons_deux]

Holy shit, some texans are fucking stupid.

Outside of Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, MOST of them are.

[The Reckoning]

Just caught up on this shit.

Conservatives :lol

how do you feel about your Conservatives :lol taking over?

[Blizzardwizard]

how do you feel about your Conservatives :lol taking over?

Conservatism has been leading in England since the 70s, more or less. Today's potential result is not surprising, when Conservatives own 80% of the media.

[Clipper Nation]

Conservatism has been leading in England since the 70s, more or less. Today's potential result is not surprising, when Conservatives own 80% of the media.

:lmao Socialism taking yet another L

[Blizzardwizard]

:lmao Socialism taking yet another L

Socialism losing?? Socialism has swept across Scotland tonight with the SNP. Once the Conservatives kill off more people and force exit to the EU, people will see the stain Conservatism leaves.

[Clipper Nation]

Once the Conservatives kill off more people and force exit to the EU, people will see the stain Conservatism leaves.

The EU is trash, there's a reason why everybody in it is going bankrupt :lol

[Blake]

how do you feel about your Conservatives :lol taking over?

I hate uneducated buffoons taking over. I know you remember Rick Perry's college transcript from lol a&m

[Blizzardwizard]

The EU is trash, there's a reason why everybody in it is going bankrupt :lol

Yeah, like Germany. Short-term reactionaries wanting out of the EU would come crawling back a couple of years later when they're being attacked by ISIS and nobody will help them.

[boutons_deux]

Majority of likely GOP primary voters could believe Operation Jade Helm 15 is probably a federal invasion of Texas

According to a poll (http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_National_51315.pdf) released by Public Policy Polling (PPP) late on Wednesday, 60 percent of likely voters in the Republican primaries believe that Operation Jade Helm 15 is an attempt by the federal government to invade and take over Texas.

The idea that the Obama administration is using the multistate military exercise called Jade Helm 15 as a means of launching a “soft invasion” of Texas has been roundly mocked (http://www.salon.com/2015/05/05/the_truth_about_operation_jade_helm_is_that_some_o f_you_can%E2%80%99t_handle_the_truth_obama_really_ isnt_invading_texas/) by mainstream news organizations, but the message apparently isn’t reaching Republican voters, as the PPP poll found that 32 percent of them believe an invasion is imminent, and 28 percent of them aren’t sure.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/14/majority_of_likely_gop_primary_voters_believe_oper ation_jade_helm_15_is_a_federal_invasion_of_texas/

You rightwingnuts are goddam fuckin stupid, ignorant assholes.

[Winehole23]

28 percent clueless. they ain't believers. just possible believers.

60% convinced is a grandiose exaggeration.

[m>s]

Yeah, like Germany. Short-term reactionaries wanting out of the EU would come crawling back a couple of years later when they're being attacked by ISIS and nobody will help them.
EU isn't a military alliance dipshit

[boutons_deux]

Greg "Jade Helm" Abbot, "running" his state of paranoid, ignorant assholes like a pro.

[m>s]

^fuck off kike

[SupremeGuy]

^fuck off kike:lol

[Blizzardwizard]

EU isn't a military alliance dipshit

Du bist ein scheisskopf. Hitler war ein feigling mit einer kugel im kopf wie Himmler :lol

[m>s]

Your German sucks and you sound like a faggot

[Blizzardwizard]

Your German sucks and you sound like a faggot

I don't think there's much wrong accuracy wise with anything I wrote, what did I get wrong then oh Deutscher Meister?

[m>s]

Germans don't talk like faggots that's what. It just sounds weird a German saying that

[Blizzardwizard]

Germans don't talk like faggots that's what. It just sounds weird a German saying that

So to clarify, there was nothing wrong grammatically with what I typed and you're just a salty mofo?

Got it :lol

[m>s]

Ask your doctor about prescribing testosterone

[Blizzardwizard]

Ask your doctor about prescribing testosterone

:cry :cry

Es tut mir leid, aber du bist ein grosser arschloch. Fotze.

[Nbadan]

Is Tropical Depression Bill a government conspiracy? Some conspiracy theorists in Texas claim that Tropical Storm-turned-Depression Bill is a secret government project created by weather manipulation technology aimed at weakening Texas ahead of a July 2015 federal invasion known as Operation Jade Helm.

http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Jade-Helm-HAARP-weather-manipulation-Texas-storms-6333316.php

[Nbadan]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/88498/lightbox/1192ckCOMIC-open-carry-patriots.png