We can joke about it rather a lot…and it is derisory…
But in all seriousness, (and I am being serious here) a group of armed civilians following around soldiers, reporting their position, and somehow trying to “contain” them while they’re on a training mission sounds…foolhardy, or to be more accurate - it’s asking for trouble
So long as they don’t trespass…shrug. Let 'em have their fun.
(“Containing” someone could get you charged with various kinds of traffic offenses, just as if I tried to prevent a city bus from making a left turn, or just stopped ordinary commuter traffic from a freeway exit. But if they want to play dopey games like driving slowly down the same country road where the soldiers are driving – huh. Whatever. Doesn’t break anybody’s arm. Hell, in a real war, the soldiers would have to cope with that and a lot worse. Good practice for 'em!)
B-but what if we gave bears EBT cards? Would that be OK?
In a real war, they could shoot people.
Jade Helm 15 about to start - Texas about to be subverted. Uh - what happened during the previous 14 exercises?
This just in; the secret plan for the exercise. Shhhh! The special forces guys will have a bunch of regular Army soldiers in uniform show up and drive around to attract the “monitors”. Then the special forces will pretend to be part of the group surveilling the soldiers. The “Counter Jade Helm” volunteers will be cover for the Spec Ops guys. Shhhh! 
This accomplishes a number of the exercise objectives: (from the official briefing slides)
Adapting to unfamiliar terrain, social and economic conditions.
Operating in and around communities where anything out of the ordinary will be spotted and reported (locals are the first to notice something out of place).
The opportunity to work with civilians to gain their trust and an understanding of the issues.
In a real war, they could carpet-bomb Texas.
I suppose learning to deal with an irrationally uncooperative and aggressive populace that simply cannot be engaged with without quickly finding oneself repeatedly boinking one’s forehead on the nearest wall with great force and conviction is valuable training for the next go around in Iraq, too ;).
Then shouldn’t we practice that too?
Youthful trendsetters give their views on whether Math should be taught in schools. Enjoy.
With comments like “Math is a theory, it’s not at all what the Bible tells us” I’m sure most of these gals are Republidiots, but some might be Democrats. Still, most stupid white people are Republicans so this thread seemed as good a place to post this as any.
After we invade Texas, can we keep the oil? I mean, this thing could pay for itself.
Seems kinda pointless . . . it’s all so flat already . . .
Y’know, all these problems the local yokels are having with Jade Helm could have been avoided with one simple name change: Jesse Helm.
They would have supported it without question.
Absolutely not ! They’d use their EBTs to buy dispendious luxury items like salmon or honey instead of stale, mouldy bread ; decade old beans and stagnant water as the Fathers intended.
Can’t have commemorative coins supporting breast cancer research because abortion!
According to a lawsuit in Texas, some State Health officials are refusing to issue birth certificates to the children of undocumented immigrants who are born in the US (and therefore US citizens).
Was it a giant shoe that covered both their feet?
Maybe they are dufflepuds.
Back to Michelle, who started all this:
Washington State mayor compares Michelle and family to “gorillas, monkeys.” But refuses to resign because that “would admit I’m racist.”
I can’t help thinking the (awesome) person running ODHS’ Facebook feed will now be fired.