"There’s no truth to the rumors," Wal-Mart spokesperson Lorenzo Lopez told TPM via email.
The tunnels are part of a series of conspiracy theories surrounding "Jade Helm 15," a military training operation set to take place later this year in seven Western states. The conspiracy theorists have said the operation may be part of a covert attempt to takeover Texas and other states.
In response to the theories, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) last week issued an order for the state guard to monitor the U.S. military — a decision he defended on Monday.
Theorists have suggested that five Wal-Mart retail locations were shuttered abruptly because of Jade Helm 15. They have suggested that the closed stores, one of which is located in Texas, will serve as "food distribution centers" and will be used to "house the headquarters of invading troops from China, here to disarm Americans one by one."
Another theory suggested that there was already a system of underground tunnels below the closed Wal-Marts.
Whoa Nelly Texans are stupid.
I mean if you are relying on Wal-Mart to be the voice of reason for your state, you really have a serious problem.
Last night Jon Stewart rather hilariously addressed this ridiculous conspiracy theory as well.
Dunno. I'm still trying to figure out why "the US" wants to "take over Texas". Aren't they already part of the US? I'd say I'd like them to secede - and good riddance to bad trash - but I actually know quite a few Texans I like. So...
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That's my question. Aside from the sane Texans, what makes these fools think we want them?
The chemtrails made everyone forget.
DeleteHoly Moly those people are lacking in the ability to reason. Tunnels under the Wal-Marts? What are they connected to? Other Wal-Marts? To any military installations where the troops might come from? Did anyone ever see these tunnels being built? It isn't as if such an ambitious amount of tunnels could be dug and built in the Texas countryside without causing A LOT of TALK. OMG we are in trouble here.
ReplyDeleteThe very fact that there was NOT a lot of talk is proof that "they" killed anyone who might have talked! Wake up, sheeple!
DeleteMwahahahaha!
/snark
Nefer, good one.
DeleteUh yeah. I used to have a neighbor who swore he heard "things" under the ground - like roads with big trucks - and he and his wife would lay on the ground and listen. THey also thought the reason for climate change (when they werent denying it) was "rockets punching holes in the atmosphere." Scariest part? he and his wife got to vote.
DeleteTexas is full of retards. Betcha a large sum of SarahPac's take comes from this state
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ReplyDeleteGuess they found Track! Time for IM'ers to place the time of this photo. Are Dakota, Track and Todd getting ready for the bachelor party or is this an old photo? I think they were reading about Sarah replacing Track with Dakota and posted an old pic.
https://instagram.com/p/2TcyEYS9pP/?taken-by=bsmp2
Track you're no MOH winner
DeleteSIT YOUR ASS IN THE BACK OF THE PLANE!
THE FRONT SEAT IS RESERVED FOR YOUR PAPA'S FAVORITE NEW HERO SON
Looks old, he still has his bangs. Wasn't he up here around Easter?
DeleteOn the way to volunteer against Op Jade Helm!
Delete"What's in it for us?"
"That's why you're in the back!"
http://www.gunsandammo.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/interview-with-sgt-dakota-meyer/dakota_todd_trig.jpg
DeletePic is from May 2014 -- Dakota & Todd are wearing the same shirts.
#mce my crush everyday
DeleteWhy did Bristol post a year old pic? You'd think she would have a more recent pic she'd like to share of her "crush".
WAIT A MINUTE!!!
DeleteNo matter just WHEN this picture was taken: Since when does Toad have a PASSENGER pilot license?????
Something to check with the FAA, I guess?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPDPoj8AeZM
DeleteTodd Palin takes Sgt. Dakota Meyer on a Floatplane Ride over Alaska
omg, did you read one of the commenters;
Deletesarahkhunt.
No way!!
Todd can fly people as long as they aren't paying customers.
DeleteSame shirt as he was wearing during filming of SPA. This photo was posted as a happy birthday to Sarah but was taken earlier while filming in AK.
ReplyDeletehttps://instagram.com/p/y-JI3dnXFw/?taken-by=dakotameyer0317
here's another -- same clothes
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Well, now I've officially heard everything. Bad thing is, I now find myself saying this almost every week...
ReplyDeleteYeah Track, you should have lied to get a MOH like Duhkota did.
ReplyDeleteIt is long past time for someone to publicly state that the emperor has no clothes. I want to see Walmart put out a press release that starts out "Are you morons fucking insane?"
ReplyDeleteI want to read that a host on one of the Sunday morning gasbag shows looked right at a guest spouting this craziness and asked them if they realized that what they were saying made no sense, was stupid, and was also wackaloon crazycakes.
I want to read that every host, debate moderator, anchor, commentator, and pundit actually listened to their guests, gave them The Look, and then told these guests that they did not have time to listen to crazy stupid nutballery and that if the next thing out of the guests' pieholes was not sane, lucid, and intelligent, then the show was over.
Why would anyone in their right mind in America watch the various Sunday shows? Especially John McCain if they are still having him on any of their shows?
DeleteStop watching TV folks - it's not worth your while! Nothing is accurate or truthful - check the FACTS!
"Why would anyone in their right mind in America watch the various Sunday shows?"
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I know! They bring on people who are allowed to spout any damn thing they want, so that the show will still have "access." Why would anyone want access to someone who is going to bullshit them? I seldom even read about them any more. It'll just be the same old crap every time.
Remember under Bush when even suggesting that invading Iraq may not be the best idea meant that you didn't "Support the troops"? Now these people are openly accusing our troops of being complicit in a scheme for America to invade America(??). Seriously, if President Obama actually were enacting the Jade Helm 15 in the vein that these consipiracy nuts believe, not only would the Joint Chiefs be involved, but people all the way down the chain of command would be too. Certainly at least one of these individuals would be a good old 'Merican who would have actual proof and expose the plans.
ReplyDeleteOh, and Wal*Mart would have to be complicit too. What would they have to gain? Don't they sell guns and ammo?
Good point. These same loons have long insisted that the American service people hate their Commander-in-Chief and would side with the American people when tyrant Obama finally decides to implement martial law.
DeleteSo what are these pants-wetting fools afraid of?
Nefer, to answer your question with one of my own: ...their own shadows?
DeleteANyone else extremely proud of the officer (?) in the clip from the Daily Show, who refrains from cold cocking the old fart who suggests that he's lying or ignorant? He didn't even laugh out loud at him, or facepalm like the lady in the audience. THAT took heroic effort.
Delete@Nefer; the "the troops hate the (Democrat) Commander-in-Chief" also went on under Clinton--any crazy pre-Teatard with an AOL account was free to forward fictitious stories. Now it's Obama's turn. I can't imagine what the connection is, can you?
Deletegod damn, have decided TX should be excommunicated from the USA! Or, all of the other states in the union should send their retards and extreme far-right residents to live in TX. Fucked up state - and residents - that is for sure!
ReplyDeleteShhhhhhhhhh. That was the plan 40 years ago - look how well it succeeded.
DeleteYes, they do grow 'em stupid in TX, where stupid is serious business - just ask their state education board about that. Were I in the Walton's position, I couldn't have resisted the fun of adding a little fire to the stupid - you know, something subtle (or not), like sending a crew to build a twelve-foot chain link fence with razor wire around at least one of the stores, then if asked, deny knowing anything about it. These paranoid fuckheads make for such precious comedy I hate to see it fade. And I'm still hoping for a power blackout during Jade Helm - Texas has earned it.
ReplyDeleteDump dirt to make a giant gopher trail between the closed Walmarts. Tunnels!
DeleteSo much good in your post.
DeleteThe sad part is there people, NOT from Tx.,who believe this. I've unfollowed friends already from the rhetoric and it isn't political season quite yet!
ReplyDeleteOk, well, karma for the Waltons, who are among those busily dismantling the public school system. Decently educated citizens learn to think for themselves; otherwise, there's just a population of "believers" in all kinds of nutcakieness. Like, tunnels under Wal-Mart stores in Texas.
ReplyDeleteJust wait until one of teh Texas stupid decides to do thier part and blow up one of the Walmarts to destroy the tunnels. 3 2 1
DeleteOT but pissing the pond off to no end. Just love when they get all mean girl concerning any other women "politician"
ReplyDeleteArticle straight up calls Palin a half-term quitter. Ha
https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/what-do-sarah-palin-and-carly-fiorina-have-common_937416.html
I'll say they're ticked! They didn't like this one either: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchaprilmay_2015/ten_miles_square/how_mike_huckabee_became_the_n054222.php
DeleteThey didn't like the "St. Joan Of Tundra?" "La Pasionaria of the Permafrost?" Well, they themselves have elevated her to sainthood status, so why not put a name to it?
"Unkind and biased?" Why, because he doesn't ascribe to their idolatry of all things $arah? No, he cannot be a conservative writer, no siree, not with his views!
And finally, she's still relevant, dammit, because she's still mentioned! Of course she is....the poster girl for dunce caps.
Dakota on Fox and Friends this morning. My stars he is a terrible speaker, just plain awful. But thank goodness he told us that we live in the United States of America because for a minute there I thought we were in Cabo.
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What makes matters worse is that he is having them hashtag this campaign to his commercial business #neveroutgunned. Once again using the blood shed for this country for profit. Oh yes he fits in perfectly with the Palins.
DeleteDakota booked this at the end of January before he knew (was told) that he was to marry Bristol. Wonder if he is going to show. I find it hard to believe his pudgy pudding ass could finish.
Deletehttps://twitter.com/Dakota_Meyer/status/562318999460274178
https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/595564851147079680
DeleteSome of the comments are tearing Dakota up -- brainiac!
Oh my goodness! At first I thought it was funny and realized it's actually sad that we have so many ignorant paranoid people in this country. I'm still laughing though.
ReplyDeleteHere is a good example why these ignoramses haven't a clue. They can't read, just parrot off what bits of fearful stories they hear then make up the rest.
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A friend just called me and said Fiorina in an article on the daily mail took some swipes at Gov Palin said she wouldn't listen to her....Fiorina seems to have forgotten she was fired from the McCain campaign.....didn't read the article don't have time now will do it later..
Shall we direct her to IM? Gryphen has already posted it.
I live near a large Air Force base.
ReplyDeleteThey are holding training exercises all week.
Happens every year.
Even when a white guy lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Some Texans are pure idiots.
JJ
You know the dumbest thing about the Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, Ron Paul, Chuck Norris conspiracy theory that Obama and the U.S. Military want to "take over" Texas? The belief that they could actually do anything to stop it even if it was true. (The second dumbest is the belief that anyone would WANT to take over this confederacy of dunces.)
ReplyDeleteThat's the same level of idiocy that believes the Second Amendment is a protection against the U.S. government rather than against marauding Redcoats and Indian attacks. Sorry, guys, but AR15s wielded by old fat White guys with free fishing licenses don't stand up all that well against Hellfire missiles and F35As.
I'm so embarrassed. I didn't vote for these idiots, that's a promise!
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Whew! For a second there, I thought they'd mention the top secret missile silos under Target. The logo is a dead give-away.Someone's belfry is batless!!!!
ReplyDeleteNext the boys will be mentioning Johnson Space Center...and all their defense armaments.
DeleteCrazy is as crazy does.
Why is the US military conducting these exercises outside of military bases, anyway?
ReplyDeleteAny environment they need exists on a military base somewhere in the country -- a neighborhood, power and industrial plants, schools, airports. Why is the military taking to civilian areas for their exercises?
I'm skeptical of the whole thing, and I'm glad I don't live in a state where they are taking place. I don't believe the army has tunnels under closed Wal-Mart stores, but I'm a little surprised that liberals are so quick to mock and bash the people objecting to the presence of the US military in their communities.
I'm not willing to call Gov. Abbott a whacko for wanting state officers to monitor the goings-on. If it were happening in my state, I'd want the same thing. My reasoning might be a bit different, but I'd definitely want someone other than the military watching out for the free citizens of the US when the US military is operating in our neighborhoods.
Oh, please. These exercises have been going on for decades and they cover a lot more area than bases because in the real world, battles, strategy, tactics, and fighting are not confined to defined, fenced-in small scale operations.
DeleteRight now, many of our military operations are in the Middle East. If we were at constant warfare with the Swedes and Norwegians, these exercises would be happening in the northern reaches of the US.
The military is not suddenly "taking to civilian areas" for these exercises. They have been doing these exercises in exactly the same way for many decades.
Why haven't the present pack of lunatics in congress been ranting about them all along?
Calm down, Jill. These are annual exercises so there is nothing to be alarmed about. President Obama is not going to do you any harm. And yes, Gov. Abbott is an idiot and so is Ted Cruz. People in power who know better should not go around fanning the flames of hysteria. Sit down, relax, watch another episode of the Kardashians and chill - that's my advice to you.
DeleteAs a liberal, I know that military exercises have to be done. Would I prefer that the military budget be greatly reduced so we could have more money for health care and education? Of course. But we liberals do not run the whole show, now, do we?
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