Perhaps They Used Jewish Space Lasers?
MTG is at it again.
So, the other day I noted in my post on the devastation in North Carolina that some fringe types were asserting that the federal government controls the weather and that they used this technology to drive Helene through predominantly Republican counties.
Now Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a member of the US House of Representatives, is getting into the act:
So, yet again, she is mainstreaming fringe notions.
She also posted the same map that noted in a tweet from the conspiracist blaming the path of the hurricane on federal weather control, but she did not include an accusation with that tweet:
Given the devastation and displacement from the storm, I do think it is possible that the election will be affected. Exactly how will have to be determined by analyzing the results. We will be able to determine if voting in specific precincts is comparably different or not.
I am compelled to note that almost any map of counties based on voting will show more red than blue because there is a direct correlation between population density and Democratic vote concentration and a likewise correlation between more sparsely populated areas and Republican voting. As such, it is quite likely that a widespread event would hit more red-hued locales. But the good news is, setting aside any partisan considerations, is that because the Atlanta metro area was hit by the western side of the storm and not the eastern side fewer human beings were negatively impacted. On a human level, that is a good thing! MTG can also be glad that her district, which is in the northwestern area of the state, was spared a direct hit.
Note: for anyone who misses the reference in the post’s title, Greene blamed wildfires in California on Jewish space lasers.
Wait, people can control the weather? The weather has shown unwelcome changes with warming as the main driver of problems. We should pass legislation that ameliorates this. Restriction of greenhouse gases, alternative energy sources, etc. Thank you, Ms. Greene, for being a leader on this issue.
Republicans are too mentally challenged to be able to control the weather or Chicago would be hit by floods and tornadoes every election year.
If Democrats *could* control the weather (to be clear, they cannot), they’d use that power to make sure that farmers had the water and sun they need, and every election day would dawn clear and dry. Republicans would figure out a way to monetize it.
I really wish that we could all ignore this nitwit.
We often call someone “stupid” when we really mean that they have a stupid belief but are not necessarily subpar themselves. Given her long and public history, though, Marjorie Taylor Greene is an incredibly unintelligent person, and therefore has no real capacity to judge what is possible or not. The Internet exists so why not Jewish space lasers? We can drive a little car around on Mars, so we must have the technology to control the weather. So I suspect that Ms. Greene really does believe that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sat in the Situation Room and steered Helene with a joystick to hit Republican areas. And she believes this because, yes, she’s stupid, but also because it’s what she would do if she had that ability.
You know, in comics and movies, it’s usually the super villains who control the weather. Hm…
Or maybe climate change is getting too obtrusive to keep on dismissing, and the Trailer Queens of the GQP need some scapegoat.
@Jen: I would gladly ignore her if she wasn’t so prominent within her party.
And to agree with your broader point: it is truly insane to think that the federal government has the power to control the weather and this would be the best usage for such a power. The mind reels at the insanity of it all.
I think we have to ask why Donald Trump didn’t do anything about either the weather or the people controlling the weather when he was president.
I was curious enough to look up a couple numbers. In the map GA has a big blue blob representing the Atlanta metro area. Underlining your point, the Atlanta metro has 6 million people, leaving 5 million in the entire rest of the state.
Over at LGM, Aaron Rupar is quoted as tweeting, “Trump claims that Marjorie Taylor Greene is “really highly respected in Washington,” which is one of his biggest whoppers ever”.
@Gustopher: I’m pretty sure in MTG’s dark, damp and poorly lit mind, “they” did not mean the government in general, but rather the vague cabal that festers in her resentful malignancy
@Kathy: I just want to represent for Trailer Queens for a moment. Given how I grew up, I know a few of them. They all have more sense than MTG. Many of them had some oddball notions, it’s true, but then, so do some of the super-affluent that I know, just not the same oddball notions. Orly Taitz comes to mind.
Meanwhile, MTG is a graduate of UG. Her bio suggests that she is pretty well-to-do. Yes, she cultivates that “vibe”, but in fact, she’s no Trailer Queen. I can think of a dozen of them I’d rather spend time with than her. And I suspect that all the conspiracy-theorizing is a pose, meant to advance her political career. But that’s far from clear.
@Slugger: The unfortunate part of this whole comedy is that we’re probably past the tipping point on climate change. Not that it matters because the Tragedy of the Commons dictates that we will all ignore the risk for the gain ignorance yields.
@Steven L. Taylor:
Indeed. MTG’s schtick is what the rank & file GOP wants and what the Republican establishment cowardly embraces to establish the minority rule authoritarianism they want.
BTW, I think “stupid” is the wrong characterization of what Greene is. She is performative first and foremost, so what she actually thinks or knows is mostly irrelevant. She has learned at the feet of Master Trump that what one knows is not as important as what you say you know better than anyone, over & over & over, in order to get people to do as you want. If Trump or MTG were stupid in the cognitive sense, they could learn with exposure to evidence and reasoning, even if the education process were daunting. Theirs is willful, or motivated, ignorance which is impervious to counter-argument.
Hurricane Helene is the crisis to be exploited for Trump’s benefit at this moment, so MTG is an authority on weather and the Deep State’s ability to control it. If the crisis were something else, she would “know” that the Deep State was controlling that and the weather control would be memory-holed immediately.
The people who want to blame the Other for their problems eat this sh!t up. The Party keeps riding the tiger in the hopes of holding power.
@Gustopher:
He tried mightily, but was thwarted by the Deep State, RINOs, and
the Jews“Soros” and “bankers” and dudes whose surnames end in -stein and -berg.– Joe Rogan, probably
@Jay L Gischer:
Oh, I know plenty of reasonably smart, reasonably educated people who are morons when it comes to science. Here’s one:
In the mid-80s, NASA launched two comsats for the Mexican government at the time. I’ve heard from two people, these were spy satellites to snoop on Cuba. There is sooooooooooo much wrong with that, I scarcely know where to begin. The implication was there was no way NASA would launch Mexico’s satellites in the Shuttle, even though the Shuttle was publicized and operated as a commercial launch vehicle, and had launched several commercial satellites already.
The most interesting thing about the top three posts today is that this sh**’s so common place that we can’t even sustain outrage among ourselves about it.
@just nutha:
One of my pet peeves is conservatives who argue climate scientists are making this up to get tenure and all the sweet money that goes with a university teaching position. But they’re completely oblivious to the hundreds of millions fossil fuel companies have spent pushing denialism.
@MarkedMan:
And Speaker McCarthy, craven empty suit that he was and is, let Marj have the gavel a few times. To be sure, Marj isn’t the only idiot he could have ceded power and stature to.
Also … Let’s be clear, only Trump, with sharpie in hand, can influence the path of hurricanes.
@Gustopher:
Clearly, the Deep State hid the key weather control keys from Trump as part of their conspiracy to deny him his rightful powers as
fuehrerPresident.Brit schadenfreude department:
Well, at least Liz Truss was not quite that nuts.
Nearly, though.
“He can push the tempest by…”