# Jade Helm 15 Ends - Texas now annexed by the U.S.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 14, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216 "2015-09-14T16:26:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/1 "2015-09-14T16:26:50Z")
Jade Helm 15, the military operations by US forces, ends tomorrow in various southern and southwestern states. Texas has been subsumed into the United States by this UNDERCOVER operation and no-one is talking about it!
Why have the news cites stopped siting the PATRIOTS and GOVERNOR Abbott about this operation to homeland Eradictate local Militia? Where do the Various Candidates Stand on This illegal grab for power on they’re Watch?
i for one am so frustrated at the news media for no teven coverng these events their even getting to Alex Jones since he’s not talking about it any more ether
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/2 "2015-09-14T17:07:19Z")
I seem to have heard that the evil scheme to absorb Texas into the United States was thwarted by those stalwart volunteers in camos and XXL t-shirts who nobly donated their time, pickup trucks and shotguns in an effort to keep an eye on the nefarious (but somehow heroic) military.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/3 "2015-09-14T17:11:00Z")
Hello 1845.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/4 "2015-09-14T17:12:58Z")
It’s because Confederate flags in Texas have fringe on them.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/5 "2015-09-14T17:19:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> It’s because Confederate flags in Texas have fringe on them.
The lunatic fringe?
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/6 "2015-09-14T17:22:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> It’s because Confederate flags in Texas have fringe on them.
spit all over monitor…thanks.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/7 "2015-09-14T17:37:38Z")
> [@Finagle](#):
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> I seem to have heard that the evil scheme to absorb Texas into the United States was thwarted by those stalwart volunteers in camos and XXL t-shirts who nobly donated their time, pickup trucks and shotguns in an effort to keep an eye on the nefarious (but somehow heroic) military.
Pickup trucks? But, they had so many [options](https://www.alamo.com/en_US/car-rental/deals/grid.html)…
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/8 "2015-09-14T17:48:49Z")
Whaaaaa? Somebody help a brother out. DaFuq is this about?
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/9 "2015-09-14T17:56:57Z")
Just as long as everybody is distracted enough by JADE HELM that they never notice the real secret operation to kick Texas out of the union so we don’t have to bother with them anymore, it’s a success.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/10 "2015-09-14T18:05:53Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Whaaaaa? Somebody help a brother out. DaFuq is this about?
[Jade Helm conspiracy theories.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories)
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> The Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories are based on the eponymous United States military training exercise, taking place in multiple U.S. states. It started on July 15, 2015, and will end on September 15, 2015. The announcements of these training exercises have raised concerns that have been characterized by The New York Times as “travers[ing] the outer edges of political paranoia.”[1]
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/11 "2015-09-14T18:27:13Z")
What sneaky thing was done to Florida while all these shenanagins were going on in Texas?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/12 "2015-09-14T18:29:41Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> What sneaky thing was done to Florida while all these shenanagins were going on in Texas?
It was cut loose and will slowly drift out to sea.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/13 "2015-09-14T18:49:09Z")
Thats pretty bad. AFAIC hoverounds are not seaworthy…
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/14 "2015-09-14T18:56:13Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> What sneaky thing was done to Florida while all these shenanagins were going on in Texas?
The government’s arch-nemesis, [Florida Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man), is now safely incarcerated in a black site where he will never again be free to wreak his unique brand of havoc upon the Sunshine State.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/15 "2015-09-14T18:56:56Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> Thats pretty bad. AFAIC hoverounds are not seaworthy…
That put a bizarre image into my head of thousands of old-people scooters with pontoons being chased by Rover from The Prisoner.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/16 "2015-09-14T19:07:30Z")
Did the PATRIOTS under-inflate Texas? :eek:
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/17 "2015-09-14T19:20:49Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> Thats pretty bad. AFAIC hoverounds are not seaworthy…
That and [del]cockroaches[/del] [Palmetto bugs](http://www.orkin.com/cockroaches/difference-between-a-cockroach-and-a-palmetto-bug/) have 6 legs for swimming…
[music video](http://bit.ly/1Ewhpnk)
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/18 "2015-09-14T20:08:25Z")
> [@wevets](#):
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> Jade Helm 15, the military operations by US forces, ends tomorrow in various southern and southwestern states.
That is just what they want you to believe.
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### Author:  [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/19 "2015-09-14T20:34:43Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> That is just what they want you to believe.
the bank wont even let me exhcange my dollars for ameros :mad:
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jade-helm-15-ends-texas-now-annexed-by-the-u-s/731216/20 "2015-09-14T20:38:51Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> What sneaky thing was done to Florida while all these shenanagins were going on in Texas?
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> It was cut loose and will slowly drift out to sea.
[What, again?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTM2HQ0g98)
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