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Marycat2021's avatar

People, like RFK Jr., who feel they are overwhelmed by their surroundings tend to go nutjob on imaginary stuff like chemtrails. There are perfectly healthy people out there who, for example, have decided that gluten is pure poison. The number of people who suffer from celiac disease is small, yet grocery store shelves are stocked with gluten free this and gluten free that. A friend of mine in Wyoming actually found bottles of vodka labeled "gluten free." I have seen shampoo labeled "gluten free." Next thing you know, gasoline will be labeled "gluten free."

Louisiana is the home of Cancer Alley. Look it up. But instead of doing anything about the crap that's actually killing people, we see loonies writing legislation banning "chemtrails." We are living in the Age of Crazy.

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Lana Hibiscus's avatar

I'm curious how these highly concerned people will respond if they succeed in banning something that doesn't exist and then continue to see contrails. Will it be proof of an even bigger conspiracy? They are averse to logic and reality.

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Thompson SubMachinegun's avatar

What people are seeing in the sky!

con·trail

/ˈkänˌtrāl/

noun North American

plural noun: contrails

a trail of condensed water from an aircraft or rocket at high altitude, seen as a white streak against the sky.

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Thompson SubMachinegun's avatar

Simple question, where do the people who are in charge of seeding the sky with chemicals, live or hide at?

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simpledinosaur's avatar

The "paranoid style in American politics" (as R. Hofstadter called it) never gets old, does it! We have people deciding by fiat that everyday, ordinary things are part of a vast conspiracy to "sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids." Fluoride and chemtrails, man -- they're coming after us!

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Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

Yes, believe in Chem Trails, but not Covid, pasteurized milk or any other verified science.

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Paul of Mount Pleasant's avatar

Bananas are 4% AARGHaneen.

Flavors: Imagine a food tasting where the participants bite a tiny piece, chew it several times, spit it out and say things like "I detect notes of methylbutanal."

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. It'f fine with me if people want to spray vinegar (not on me, please) and pray. What's not fine is they haven't word one to say about the oil and gas industry's very real destruction of habitat

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Gregory's avatar

The irony is jet exhaust is changing the weather…. I wonder if a sharp lawyer could sue for cleaner air under this statue/whatever it is…

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

I myself have been known to release noxious chemicals into the air! Arrest me!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

The essential point is that the worsening of the climate, which Louisianans in particular cannot possibly deny is happening, cannot be due to fossil fuel combustion releasing CO2 into the atmosphere, as those egghead scientist conspirators keep saying, because that would mean the solution is clamping down on a business that makes lots and lots of money in Lousiana, enough to buy all their politicians.

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Biff52, Two Weeks!'s avatar

I've lived in some remote outposts in my life. One of the funnest was Tecopa Hot Springs, California. The folks living out there describe themselves as "bottom marbles" that couldn't make it in the outside world. In Tecopa, they could own a home and have a business or a job and dignity. They also almost universally believe in chemtrails. They think they're a benevolent thing provided by the gummint. It get hotter in Tecopa than it does in nearby Furnace Creek, and the chemtrails block some of the harmful UV rays.

When ya put it that way...

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Chemtrails are real, just not in the way the ijits think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iEXD3gY9MY&t

The laws will be so poorly written that once they pass them, environmental groups will use them to sue to ban crop dusting because those actually are chem-trails.

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Linda Brown's avatar

Louisiana should get its shit together and get rid of the Gulf Cartel, which is cranking out fentanyl faster than Americans can die from it. Which brings up another point...why the hell isn't Trump sending troops to Texas and Louisiana where this huge cartel is active right now??? Gee, let me guess. It's much more fun to send them to L.A. where he can take on a Democrat.

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JW's avatar

I hope they ban snipe hunting too.

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Free beach's avatar

More concrete evidence that we live in the most stupid country on earth.

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Some chemicals are good in some amounts and bad in other amounts. Science can't explain that!

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