RFK Jr. fails to unravel one more MAGA conspiracy

Reside by the conspiracy idea, die by the conspiracy idea. 

Because the MAGA world implodes over its failed Epstein listing obsession—perhaps as a result of President Donald Trump is on it—let’s not overlook one other unhinged conspiracy it promised to unravel: chemtrails.

Sure, chemtrails.

Final August, Well being and Human Providers Secretary and full-time conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to a bonkers chemtrails submit on X, vowing to “stop this crime.”

Then, in an April look on “Dr. Phil,” Kennedy doubled down on chemtrails. 

“That is not happening in my agency. We don’t do that. It’s done—we think—by DARPA, and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. Those materials are put in jet fuel,” he stated. “I’m going to do everything in my power to stop it,” he stated. “We’re bringing on somebody who’s gonna think only about that, find out who’s doing that and hold them accountable.”

The chemtrail conspiracy idea falsely claims that the white trails left by planes are chemical or organic brokers sprayed by the federal government for sinister functions—like climate management, thoughts management, or inhabitants suppression.

Contrails, quick for condensation trails, are seen behind an airplane.

In actuality, they’re contrails—quick for condensation trails—fabricated from nothing greater than ice crystals fashioned when sizzling, humid jet exhaust hits chilly upper-atmosphere air. It’s fundamental physics. If the air is humid sufficient, the path lingers. If it’s dry, it disappears rapidly. There’s no spraying. No thoughts management. Simply water vapor and science.

And DARPA, which stands for the Protection Superior Analysis Initiatives Company, isn’t a secret weather-manipulation unit. If Kennedy genuinely believes this nonsense, he may simply choose up the cellphone and ask his buddy, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, whether or not the navy is dosing the skies with mind-control mist. 

However making a taxpayer-funded place for a full-time chemtrail detective is simpler than simply admitting that you simply don’t perceive clouds or condensation. And for a MAGA base nonetheless emotionally shattered by the Epstein listing flop, Kennedy’s jet-fuel hysteria is simply one other hit of the great things.

As a result of when one conspiracy idea fizzles, there’s all the time one other ready within the sky.