Republicans will do literally anything to avoid actually governing.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
331 points (98.3% liked)
Not The Onion
20476 readers
1015 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Come on guys you all know."Atheist are using unicorn's to spread chemtrails to kill off all the Angeles in heaven."
It bans cloud seeding and geoengineering. Passing this off as a 'ban on chemtrails' is deliberately dishonest.
a Class B misdemeanor for the injection, release or dispersal of “a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.
No it isn't.
They claim the recent floods were because of chemtrails from planes seeding in the sky (those trails of water vapour you see behind planes, ), based on aluminium found on the ground (cloud seeding is done with silver iodide btw and is incredibly expensive).
Stop trying to downplay it.
So they're going after yhe companies polluting the planet right... Right?
Presumably companies would be able to argue they aren't pushing out pollutants with the intention to change the climate
So we banned ...water vapor. Well done, house committee.
So we banned ...water vapor
No. A chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.
No, they are banning water vapour. Read the article.
Di hydrogen monoxide fits the definition of a chemical...
so.. we banned clouds!
ICE is coming for your tea kettles!
Whoopee. Now the fucking fringers have become the mainstream.
Please pass this bill, that'd be so hilarious, the US inadvertently closing it's airspace semi permanently because they're such dumbasses
Alabama not the US house. That headline needs a lot of context
This is what the decline in education and humility gets you in America.
Should be easy for the airlines to comply with, since they don't leave chemtrails, they leave contrails.
I can't wait to see the house subcommittee hearing where a bunch of old republicans, playing lip-service for their uneducated base, interrogate a Boeing exec about what's coming out of the back of their planes, and the Boeing exec's display board catches fire and explodes on the house floor.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Alabama State House. Not the U.S. House.
Alabama
Nothing of value was lost nor gained from this bill.
We live in the stupidest timeline.
nah, Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat, member of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House, asked if the Mars rover took a pic of the flag planted by Neil Armstrong.
Fucking idiots are bipartisan. Heart warming.
Not making me feel better about the timeline
load more comments
(1 replies)
How are we this stupid?
3-4 decades of purposefully undermining public education
More like 5-7 decades.. "anti-nerd" culture has been popular since about the 50's
The last couple decades have really accelerated though, because the tendrils of capital leaching into everything and sucking people's attention spans out of their fucking skulls so now children and adults alike can't sit still and listen to anything for more than 10 minutes at a time.
I work with and manage teams of people and have for many years. It was never this bad. This isn't localized to young people and the schooling situation, this is widespread across all layers of modern society. I have professionals I deal with who have the work skills and attention spans of teenagers with their first job, and this is just common now.
Of course people are tuned out and not paying attention to politics and policy, we can't get people broadly to tune into the things that actually impact their immediate surroundings and life unless it's a 3-minute vertical clip with subway surfers playing on the bottom half and a streamer reacting in the corner.
load more comments
(4 replies)
The chemtrails aren't a thing, but in the legislators small mind, who would be behind them? Are they actually thinking that there's some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?
Are they actually thinking
Imma stop you right there...
chemtrails aren't a thing
Crop dusting is common.
Are they actually thinking that there’s some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?
I mean, that’s basically what the petrochemical industry has done.
The sad thing is that there is a huge amount that could be done for global warming with some basic legislation around contrails. Clouds that high in the atmosphere are quite bad in terms of greenhouse effect. By avoiding flying through areas that they'd be generated there's a surprisingly large environmental benefit for minimal cost. A good explainer: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08
I never thought it about as a green house thing before though I do remember reading an article many years ago that contrails do contribute when they spread out into cirrostratus clouds.
I was a meteorologist in the Air Force and did make forecasts telling pilots at what levels to fly to avoid making contrails since having a long silver line pointing to your exact location makes sneak attacks a little difficult. Perhaps commercial airlines should make use of that information. It's usually just a few thousand foot difference. Fly a little higher or lower and problem solved.
Should be easy, considering they don't exist to begin with.
Shush. We're this close to getting them to tax contrails, which would effectively be a tax on jet fuel.
load more comments
(11 replies)
load more comments
(42 replies)
Red State voters living in abject poverty: "Republicans is gittin important stuff done!"
load more comments
(1 replies)
How do you think the conspiracy nuts will react if this bill becomes law and then there are just as many contrails in the sky as before?
Considering how stupid those who want this are, they'll just go oh see, they stopped doing chemicals in the trails now!. Or 50/50 chance want all jet planes banned 🤷
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(7 replies)
view more: next ›