I guess that explains the run on tin foil...

[Scooter]

...everyone in Texas is making hats

CHRISTOVAL, Texas — Despite the Internet chatter about trains with shackles and Walmart stores being closed to be used as detention camps, this small West Texas town on Wednesday seemed to be surviving the start of Jade Helm 15, the military exercise that some people fear is actually a ruse for a federal takeover of the state.

No military equipment or personnel were visible. No tanks were rumbling past the beige-metal community center on Main Street next door to the fire station here, the scene of 4-H Club meetings and family reunions. But that did not mean that people were not on the alert.

“I’ve been looking,” said Jack Campbell, 61, who was picking up his mail at the post office.

Campbell said that he had concerns about the exercise, and that he purchased extra ammunition for the weapons he keeps in his home. “Just in case,” added Campbell, an emergency physician in San Angelo, 20 miles away. “People are just vigilant. Not vigilantes, but vigilant. They don’t want to be caught off guard.”

Another resident here said a friend of his, a Vietnam veteran, started burying some of his firearms to hide them. A farmer was rumored to have taken a different approach, by buying 20,000 rounds of ammunition. The superintendent of the school district thought he saw low-flying military cargo planes overhead. Members of the Christoval Volunteer Fire Department, which owns the community center, signed an agreement with military officials stating — oddly to some, suspiciously to others — that the Army will pay for any damage to the building after it uses it.

Sindy Miller, who runs a hair salon on Main Street, said fears of a military takeover have been the talk of Christoval, which is southeast of Midland.

“They’re worried that they’re going to come in and take their firearms away,” Miller said. “Martial law, basically. I try not to listen to all these conspiracy-theory-type people. All they’re worried about is their beer and their guns.”

So here's the thing. The exercise will be completed, no attempted military takeover will have happened, but these nutbars will not be convinced. They will insist that the federal "plot" was thwarted by their vigilance.

[rubato]

Republicans are born suckers. They will believe any damn idiotic thing.

Global climate change isn't happening.
The confederates fought 'nobly', not to preserve slavery.
Evolution is not the unifying theory of biology.
Cutting taxes raises revenue.
Cutting taxes on the rich, cutting benefits to the poor and reducing the minimum wage does not increase poverty.
Obama is a Muslim.

yrs,
rubato