So, years of the GOP and the right-wing media in the United States fomenting irrational fears about the Federal government and Barack Obama, led some of their followers to actually believe that a routine training-exercise by the US military represented some sort of threat of invasion/illegal takeover by the Federal government. To the degree that actual sitting Congressmen expressed concern publicly, and the actual Governor of Texas, ordered the State Guard to monitor the activity, being carried out by...the military of the United States of America.
Sounds crazy, doesn't it. But what could actually go wrong ?
Other than shots being fired by two white guys in a pickup, at soldiers in training.
Or a bunch of anti-government nuts hoarding guns and making explosives, to use apparently in defence against said non-existent federal takeover.
And the exercise isn't even halfway over yet, so who knows what more might be in the pipeline ?
Not that the conclusion of the exercise in September with the US somehow miraculously not under martial law will do squat to ease the paranoia of the nuts in question (ie, a huge swath of the GOP's electorate). 'No', they'll say, 'what really happened is that we spooked 'em. We showed Obama and those other UN New World Order-types that we knew what they was up to and they warn't gonna mess with Texas**. You wanna come here, 'n' take our, guns, then suck on this !' Followed by the explosive sound of a gunshot as one of them accidentally blows off their own head, or that of their dog, or their child. But they died free, see, and that Commie Muslim Kenyan interloper didn't get 'em after all.
* I didn't intend to say a word on this idiocy, but it...just...won't...go away...And now we're getting close to people actually being killed over this nonsense.
** I know, I know, these two cases in question weren't in Texas...Oh that it were only the population of one state that had gone batshit-insane.
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