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I was definitely around and followed politics during the Obama administration, and I don't ever recall hearing a word about this. Probably big in some circles,

• red-iron-pine 2y ago
  like Jade Helm and a lot of other agit-prop it was beamed at certain markets. no one out of red states in the mid-west or south heard jack about "jade helm" but it stirred the pot for a while. that's the whole point of ad-driven social media: you can target exact demographics at exact times. and it works, even here on HN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theori...