Ron DeSantis Worried Bill Banning Chemtrails And 'Weather Manipulation' Doesn't Go Far Enough
Chemtrails are not real.
On Thursday, the Florida state senate passed its “chemtrails” bill, meant to target and end the kind of weather manipulation that exists only in the fevered imaginations of people who get most of their information about the world from email forwards and conspiracy message boards.
SB-56, if it makes it into law, will ban the “the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight.”
In case that it’s not clear enough what that’s about, the bill’s sponsor Ileana Garcia (a Republican obviously) explained in the senate last month that she was specifically referring to “chemtrails,” a thing her constituents are apparently very concerned about.
“Many of us senators receive concerns, complaints on a regular basis regarding these condensation trails, AKA chemtrails. There’s a lot of skepticism,” Garcia explained in a committee hearing last month.
As we hope everyone knows by now, when people talk about “chemtrails,” they are actually talking about contrails, the trails of condensed water that come out of the backs of planes while they are flying. There is a variety of theories out there to [fail to] explain their purpose — making people sick in order to sell more pharmaceuticals, making people compliant in some fashion, and manipulating the weather for various nefarious reasons, which is what this bill aims to address.
Weather manipulation is, of course, an actual thing. Cloud seeding, for the purposes of addressing droughts, is an actual thing. But that is not what Ileana Garcia is talking about when she talks about the contrails.
On Wednesday, in a video posted to Twitter, Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he supports the bill but is upset that it was “gutted” by the state House.
“I support the legislation, however, the Florida House of Representatives has gutted Sen. Garcia’s legislation, and they would actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification,” DeSantis said in a video posted to Xitter on Wednesday. “People got a lot of kooky ideas that they can get in and put things in the atmosphere to block the sun and save us from climate change. We’re not playing that game in Florida. I support what Sen. Garcia is doing and I hope that people will tell the House of Representatives in Florida ‘do not gut this bill’.”
That’s not actually all that “kooky” of an idea, and although there are concerns worth considering, we may eventually end up at a point where that’s our only option to keep the polar ice caps from melting or Florida’s coastline from shrinking due to climate change.
The way the state house “modified” the bill was to require a license to do any geoengineering or weather modification, meaning that the government would have to approve whatever they were doing.
And now the bill goes back to the state house for consideration. ABC Action News in Tampa Bay explains that time is running out to get to the governor’s desk, as the legislative session only has about a month left and the two versions would have to be reconciled before DeSantis can sign it.
Wednesday, a report was released from the non-profit Climate Central finding that “just 25 years from now, a total of 23,000 people and 17,000 homes in Florida will experience annual coastal flooding, with high tides or strong winds that whip ocean water onto land, including into areas that would have previously been unaffected.”
That sounds like the kind of thing that just might upset a whole lot of rich people who own property on the Florida coastline. The kind of people who probably donate to people’s political campaigns. So it might just be a good idea to leave the door open on that one.
And hey! Those who are really concerned about chemtrails can always make their own orgone blasters, buy some purple Tesla plates (not affiliated with Elon Musk) or stand in their backyards spraying vinegar at them, like this very smart lady.
PREVIOUSLY ON WONKETTE!
I posted a video link to George Carlin's "Dumb Americans" monologue an hour or so ago.
Remember, that show was from 2005, 20 years ago. George knew, then.
Here is a partial transcript. Nostradmus could not have said it better:
"There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason that it will never ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better; don't look for it. Be happy with what you have because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners. Now the owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't have no choice. You have owners. They own you.
"They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations they've long since bought and paid for: the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, and the City Halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well we know what they want: they want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want: they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. "They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They are not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interest.
"That's right they don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting by a system that threw them overboard 30 years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.
"And now they're coming for your Social Security money they want your retirement money they want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something, they'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later cuz they own this place.
It's a big club and you ain't in it."
When warm moist air from exhaust hits cold air it forms a vapor trail. Look at your cars exhaust on a cold day you fucking morans.