The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill targeting “chemtrails.”

SB 2691/HB 2063, sponsored by Rep. Monty Fritts, R-Kingston, and Sen. Steve Southerland, R-Morristown, passed in the Senate on Monday. The bill has yet to advance in the House.

The bill claims it is “documented the federal government or other entities acting on the federal government’s behalf or at the federal government’s request may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere, and those activities may occur within the State of Tennessee,” according to the bill.

The legislation would ban the practice in Tennessee.

“The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

The bill is scheduled to go to the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday.

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“The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

Gonna look dumb later when they need cloud seeding for a drop of rain.

Or when somebody applies the law to CO2 or methane and finds an express purpose.

Or if we come up with a remotely feasible sunlight solution for warming. But I think that’s their point isn’t it.

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This is how I see it backfiring.

Federal gov: we hereby formally request that the motorists of the great state of Tennessee drive their motor vehicles in order to release CO2 and other chemicals into the atmosphere for the express purpose of changing the temperature in Tennessee.

Oops, all motor vehicles are now banned in Tennessee.

Edit: also banned are parasols and air conditioners as they’re both an apparatus with the express purpose of affecting temperature

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I’m wondering if this could actually be applied to things like crop-dusting, as it does temporarily affect the intensity of sunlight. The same might be true of any airplanes flying over the state – oops that airliner obscured the sun for a moment and their flight path was intentional. It would be hilarious if all airlines suspended flights “just in case”.

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Lol.

But the bill says it’s only illegal if the intent was to impact weather or whatever. Would still be funny though.

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The law says “express purpose”, the purpose of the flight isn’t to block the sun. The purpose of the flight is to carry people to a destination and a by-product of that purpose creates a shadow.

I thought the same thing at first about the airplanes releasing CO2 into the air, but that release isn’t the express purpose of flying a plane.

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There’s also the reverse: the bill doesn’t actually ban chemtrails. It bans dispersing chemicals for purposes of altering the weather. If they are dispersed for purposes of controlling people’s minds, they slip right past this bill.

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Anyone rolling coal with one of these (or similar) bumper stickers directly violates this law.

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I mean, it ticks every box and doesn’t mention aircraft

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Rolling coal is already illegal tho

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This goes further. Once you put that bumper sticker on a car, this bill effectively prohibits even starting that car, regardless of whether it rolls coal.

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Exactly. This bill is a Trojan horse to solidify the effects of global warming so that the rich and elite can leave the planet and the rest of us behind to burn and rot.

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This is so explicitly evil that it sounds too ridiculous to be true. But I’m far too familiar with capitalists and the republican party to say it’s definitely not true.

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That was just a best guess, I’m not saying thats fact or anything but

Kinda seems to be the gig? Rich people don’t like other not rich people. Their lives are too different. If they can automate most of their shit and rope in enough socially inept super geniuses to follow their path, what’s to stop them from succeeding with their friends and maybe some heavily devoted slaves to boot?

They always come up with these wild ass stories about democrats and their master plans for the world but I really really think the fucks are projecting.

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so much potential for trolling.

someone should do it.

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So if anyone wants to use “chemicals” to try and do anything corrective for the environment, this bill will also stop them.

Classic 2 faced republican bill.

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There’s nothing two-faced about it.

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Really really good point here thanks for the conversation. /s

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Hey have an upvote

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If the Tennessee Senate’s goal was to waste 45 seconds of my life, mission accomplished.

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The Summary reads as something that bans cloud seeding, which is a real thing, and not the same thing as chemtrails which is a made up conspiracy theory about intentionally spreading toxic chemicals.

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Yeah, I mean they have a right to ban cloud seeding I guess

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I’m not sure if Tennessee has the jurisdiction to enforce this law seeing as the FAA makes it very clear they get to decide what state and local laws may be enforced.

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I’m not sure because “chemtrails” don’t fucking exist: It’s an insane conspiracy theory spouted by idiots who don’t understand what contrails are or why they form.

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Just because they don’t exist doesn’t mean they won’t look in the sky and see a condensation trail Coming from a jet liner and start throwing fines at people.

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You sound very sure, but don’t forget that the UK admitted to doing similar things, for decades, on an unsuspecting population.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalscience

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I’m not saying fucked up experimentation has never happened, it 100% has in multiple countries including the US & UK, but I am saying that “chemtrails” do not exist and are a misunderstanding of contrails.

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