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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Tue May 5, 2015, 12:10 PM May 2015

Chuck Norris joins Ted Cruz (and others) in ‘Operaton Jade Helm’ conspiracy watch

“If you haven’t heard about Operation Jade Helm 15, you need to,” says noted actor, martial artist and Internet meme Chuck Norris.

It’s a training exercise planned for this summer involving four branches of the military and seven southwest states. According to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, the operation is routine (though extensive) and will have little to no impact on civilians.

But Norris, and a handful of of other conspiracy-minded critics of President Barack Obama, don’t buy it. And Norris doesn’t think you should either.

“The U.S. government says, ‘It’s just a training exercise.’ But I’m not sure the term ‘just’ has any reference to reality when the government uses it,” Norris wrote in his column for the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily Monday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/05/chuck-norris-joins-ted-cruz-and-others-in-operaton-jade-helm-conspiracy-watch/

This asshole has had far too many kicks to the head.

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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. How did they find out? Who leaked? Damn Snowden and Assange!
Tue May 5, 2015, 12:21 PM
May 2015

Better yet, how could they possibly stop it!

Don't mess with Texas, my ass!

Hail, Emperor Obama!

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)
4. This is such a perfect conspiracy theory. Trot out wild, unsubstantiated fears of a nebulous threat…
Tue May 5, 2015, 12:37 PM
May 2015

get the base all riled up, then when it all comes to nought, claim it was your "diligence and threat of oversight" that kept the plot from reaching fruition.

The best of all worlds: Fear amid speculation on the front end, smug credit for unsung heroism in the denouement. And all of it hosted by a badass septuagenarian clinging desperately to former glories.

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