Posted on 12/26/2011 9:25:24 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This is a story I couldn’t resist writing. Ron Paul supporters are spraying vinegar at the sky to “kill” clouds. They’re standing in their backyards, on their porches, and in front of their windows, angrily aiming spray bottles filled with vinegar into the air.
How could I not write about this? If I live to be one-hundred years old, will I ever again get the chance to write about something so incredibly insane?
I have several friends who support Ron Paul. The aim of this piece is not to malign or belittle all Paul supporters – just the ones who adhere to the “if Alex Jones says it, it must be true” school of thought. And boy, do those Paul devotees love the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory (the belief that the contrails created by the exhaust of aircraft engines are actually toxic “chemical trails” that the Zionist/Illuminati/Bilderberger/alien-lizard-man secret societies are using to poison the earth).
When not listening to Alex Jones and Jeff Rense, chemtrail believers obsessively take photographs of the “poison trails” and “evil clouds.” Of course, since the alien-lizard-Zionist-Bilderbergers forbid the puppet governments of the world from admitting that chemtrails exist, the intrepid chemtrail hunters have been stymied. Sure, they can photograph them, but they can’t stop ‘em.
Or CAN they? This year, a movement has spread like dengue fever among chemtrail sleuths. This movement claims that chemtrails can be “killed” with vinegar, sprayed upward from the ground. And hundreds of chemtrail true believers are doing just that – and they’re uploading videos to Youtube, Dailymotion, Ebaumsworld, and elsewhere, documenting their chemtrail “kills.”
Of the hundreds of “chemtrail kill” videos, the majority are made by self-described Ron Paul supporters. I’ve dubbed this branch of the Paul camp the “Paulsamics” (as in “Paulsamic vinegar”). If you want to see the sheer volume of Paulsamic videos online, just Google or Youtube-search “chemtrails” and “vinegar.” Below, I’ve embedded the very best video of the lot. It’s ten minutes long. Normally, I would grab a video of that length and edit a highlight reel. But it’s impossible to edit this one down; it’s too damn perfect as it is. Watch as a chemtrail-obsessed, Ron Paul-obsessed mom uses her trusty spray bottle to combat the marauding trails, as her long-suffering teenage son is forced to record her. Witness her great victory as she reemerges later to find that she has “cleaned the sky.” Oh, and don’t miss the clip at the 8-minute mark that shows the state of the family’s lawn as a result of the constant vinegar-showers. Perhaps her gardener can explain to her that vinegar is not lighter than air!
Now, my Ron Paul-supporting friends will probably claim that it’s unfair to use the actions of a few hundred Paulsamics to tar the entire Paul base. Perhaps. But I’ll say this: If two hundred Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman, or Rick Santorum supporters converged on the U.S./Mexican border to combat illegal immigration by spraying vinegar in the air, I’d consider that every bit as worthy of ridicule as I do the actions of the Paulsamics. Of course, that scenario would never happen. It’s a simple truth that no other GOP candidate has a group of supporters who are doing anything even remotely as lunatic as spraying vinegar skyward to “kill” clouds. This is something totally unique to the Paul crowd.
Several of the Paulsamics brag about the “money bombs” they’ve coordinated for Paul, the organizing they’ve done for his campaign, the Internet spots they’ve created, etc. This is an important segment of his support base. As Leon Wolf at RedState so aptly observes, “Ron Paul has built an entire political career off of pandering to the paranoid and hate filled when he thinks no one is looking.”
And now he has the Paulsamics as a result – a small cadre of dedicated loons who spray vinegar at the sky. Own ‘em or disown ‘em, Dr. Paul. Or do neither, while still happily accepting their money and support. Either way, there’s no denying that your association with the lunatic fringe is a serious stain on your presidential campaign.
Hey – now that I think about it, you know what’s good for removing stains?
Vinegar!
Please don’t even start me with the Chemtrails. I have people in my life, lovely people, who are obsessed with this issue. I am running for County Supervisor, and it’s the only thing some want to talk about.
The Truth will out!
And they are sacrificing their children to baul. And they set up pagan temples and dance with midgets around a miniture replica of stone henge. I’m not kindding.
My neighbor sprays vineger in the air also except he is a supporter of Rick Perry so I can’t vote for Perry now either.
So that’s Paul and Perry out. I wonder if any of the other candidates have supporters that shoot vinegar in the air to stop chem trails.
Does anyone know if any other candidates have this problem? I’d like to make sure before I decide who to support.
Please tell me this is a joke video. Please tell me that people do not believe this. I am afraid this is a sign of the Apocalypse, and it is 2012...
Don't forget, there's a rock band playing at the same time. With looks of shock and surprise. Awe, not so much.
Sounds pretty Bachmannite to me.
Sorry.
I notice that the usual gang of Paul apologists hasn’t yet shown up to this thread.
Maybe they’re all busy spraying vinegar at the clouds?
I am afraid now. Please hold me.
Ummmm, are you male or female? It has a profound effect on where and how I hold you. :)
(BTW, I'm male.)
Haha Male, but I am still scared that wackos like this roam about! BTW, wheres the Paulbots. Shouldn’t they be here by now chanting and fighting the facts?
I said it before and will say it again. Ron Paul is the Dennis Kucinich of the right.
You'd think so. They must be outdoors looking up to find the Mothership.
> I said it before and will say it again. Ron Paul is the Dennis Kucinich of the right.
Pretty much, yeah. I'll guess that Paul might look better sitting in a tank, though. Damn hard to look dorkier than Dennis.
Ok, then Bachman is out too. Thanks. Did you hear anything about Gingrich supporters wanting to put mirrors in space to light cities. If his supporters want to do that then Gingrich I guess is out also. Paul, Perry Bachman and Gingrich all out. Who does that leave in?
Dumb enough, possibly. But some are crazy enough. My one and only encounter with a chemtrail conspiracy theorist was at a gun show. I don't remember what he was selling, and I don't remember how he even got on the subject, but he believed that the government was producing these chemical trails in order to thin out the population. This was being done, according to him, because the government couldn't afford to pay Social Security to all the people who had it coming.
His solution to counter-act the chemicals in the chemtrails was to drink from a large jug of water that contained silver dollars (a poor man's diy colloidal silver?).
The EPA is trying to shut down fracking...where a major component of the liquids used is acetic acid (vinegar for those in Rio Vista)
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