They’ve sounded the all clear in central Texas.
Jade Helm has ended. President Obama’s allegedly threatened takeover of Texas didn’t materialize.
We can sleep better tonight.
If there ever was a moment in which the governor of our great state couldn’t embarrass himself more, it was when Gov. Greg Abbott responded to that idiotic Internet gossipĀ that Jade Helm — a long-planned military exercise — was some kind of harbinger of a federal takeover of Texas.
What did the governor do? He ordered the Texas National Guard to “monitor” the activities of the Army, Marine Corps and Navy special forces that were conducting exercises in Texas.
It’s what they do. They practice military maneuvers to prepare them for actual combat.
But some right-wing freaks decided to launch a conspiracy in cyberspace that contended that it was all part of some plot to declare martial law or some such nonsense.
Can you say “black helicopters”?
Well, the exercise has ended. The Texas National Guard can go home. The governor can concern himself with actual threats to the state, such as, oh, illegal immigrants or red tide on the Gulf Coast.