Cuckoo Award: Happy Trails To You!

So what got the right-wing kooks up in a tizzy this time? Well, it’s their old nemesis — contrails! You know, those clouds that planes leave behind while obviously spraying chemicals for a secret CIA experiment.

Proposal to ban 'chemtrails' from SC skies advances in Statehouse

The Post and Courier

By Nick Reynolds

Dec 11, 2025

A S.C. Senate subcommittee advanced proposed legislation to ban the airborne release of chemicals into the atmosphere, setting the table for a fuller Senate debate on the alleged existence of a shadowy government plot to engineer weather patterns via “chemtrails.”

Sponsored by Easley Republican Sen. Rex Rice, Senate Bill 110 is one of several proposals on this year’s legislative docket seeking to prohibit the practice of intentionally releasing chemical compounds, substances or contaminants into South Carolina airspace with “the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.”

The policy push is not unique to the Palmetto State.

Once relegated to the realm of conspiracy theorists, several red states — including Florida and Tennessee — have taken the fears into the mainstream, enacting similar legislation in their own states despite the federal governments’ insistence that toxic, weather engineering chemicals dispersed from planes are not actually a thing that exists.

Now, if these right-wing nuts would stop and think for a moment… why are they accusing Trump of doing this? Oh wait! They think it’s a Democratic conspiracy — but Trump is running the CIA now. So… are they accusing Trump?

But among the supportive lawmakers on the committee and the four witnesses who spoke Dec. 11 — all of whom spoke in support of the bill — the word of the federal government was irrelevant. The federal government, they said, could not be trusted, while federal officials themselves have suggested, like Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did in May, that the War Department has been adding chemicals to jet fuel to alter the atmosphere.

Oh... It is the Trump right-wingers are blaming! What happened to party unity?

“If states fail to block these actions with legislation by providing their own governance, then we will continue to be manipulated by the federal government, stakeholders and the U.N.,” said Denise Sibley, a Tennessee physician who aided lobbying efforts for similar legislation in her state.

Yeah! States' Rights to go off the deep end!!!

The feds even have a webpage to clam these nut-jobs fears and it only increase their fear of a "government coverup!"

So today’s coveted Cuckoo Award goes to the Republicans who voted for this farce. 🏆