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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu May 7, 2015, 04:50 PM May 2015

Perry to Texas: Stop Being Insane

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/06/perry-to-texas-stop-being-insane.html

An Infowars conspiracy theory about military takeover of the American Southwest might become a surprising wedge issue among Texas’s Republican presidential candidates.

The Daily Beast detailed last week how the Jade Helm 15 military training exercises—wherein U.S. Special Operations forces will move throughout the Southwest preparing for atypical warfare conditions—have set off such a noisy panic that Texas’s governor has ordered the state’s military to keep an eye on things....

Former Texas governor Rick Perry drew the sharpest contrast with Abbott’s Infowars pandering.

“It’s OK to question your government. I do it on a regular basis,” he said on May 5, per the Dallas Morning News. “But the military is something else. Our military is quite trustworthy. The civilian leadership, you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.”


Goodhair thinks they're insane?!
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NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
1. The remarkable part of his comment, showing what a moron he is and those like him are.
Thu May 7, 2015, 04:55 PM
May 2015
Our military is quite trustworthy. The civilian leadership, you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.”


A. no, the military is the LEAST trustworthy and it is WHY you have civilian leadership
B. questioning the military has ZERO to do with rank and file members

He backed into the proper position on this issue, but he did it by exposing how much of a dumbass he actually is

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. Perry, the governor who sent the guard to the border does not have much to say about others
Thu May 7, 2015, 04:57 PM
May 2015

Doing and saying crazy things.

BeyondGeography

(39,341 posts)
3. And I was just kidding about that dissolving-the-union-would-be-a-terrible-thing, thing
Thu May 7, 2015, 04:58 PM
May 2015

Hard to re-cage those hounds once they've been released there, Rick.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
5. Perry is really just asking the republican Frankenstein
Fri May 8, 2015, 08:35 AM
May 2015

they're created to stop scaring the villagers so blatantly.That Frankenstein is theirs and they own it.

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