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ProudMNDemocrat

(19,027 posts)
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:59 AM Oct 4

MTG Says 'They Can Control The Weather,' Promoting Conspiracy About Hurricane Helene

I mean, how much crazier can this woman get? This is rich coming from someone who has repeatedly voted AGAINST Disaster Aid and now has her hand out for Disaster Aid for her state that suffered the wrath of Hurricane Helene. This is the same woman who supports Project 2025 defunding the National Weather Service, NOAA, and the National Hurricane Center.

Right-wingers have long promoted wild theories about weather control, and Greene, a Donald Trump ally, gave them a big boost. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) pushed an unhinged conspiracy theory about Hurricane Helene on Thursday as a large swath of the southeastern U.S. still struggles to recover from the storm’s devastating floods, with residents desperately searching for missing loved ones and mourning the 215 people killed.

“Yes, they can control the weather,” Greene wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, Thursday evening. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

Greene didn’t specify in her tweet who “they” were (although such insinuations are typically antisemitic, and wouldn’t be out of place coming from a congresswoman who once blamed wildfires on Jewish space lasers). But another post, from earlier in the day, seemed to suggest Greene was blaming Democrats.

More at...https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-hurricane-helene_n_66fff7a8e4b0c87ec5521aaf
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MTG Says 'They Can Control The Weather,' Promoting Conspiracy About Hurricane Helene (Original Post) ProudMNDemocrat Oct 4 OP
Sooo "they" created a natural disaster less than 40 days from the election for what exactly? underpants Oct 4 #1
Yes, MTG. You are ridiculous. Among other things Deuxcents Oct 4 #2
We can do cloud seeding. maxsolomon Oct 4 #3
It was space aliens who are out to destroy leftyladyfrommo Oct 4 #4
Aim the Jewish space lasers central scrutinizer Oct 4 #5
"Trump directed Helene with his Sharpie" struggle4progress Oct 4 #6
This country will never live up to its promise so long as we have people like this in power. Yavin4 Oct 4 #7
She has been watching old video tapes FemDemERA Oct 4 #8

underpants

(186,444 posts)
1. Sooo "they" created a natural disaster less than 40 days from the election for what exactly?
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:09 AM
Oct 4

To make it harder to vote in mostly Republican run states that have been quite active already to make it harder to vote?

Yavin4

(36,151 posts)
7. This country will never live up to its promise so long as we have people like this in power.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:20 AM
Oct 4

Regardless of the outcome of the presidential election, there are huge swaths of Americans living under idiots like MTG. We could be so much greater as a nation. We could have so much more. We could eliminate poverty, hunger, homelessness, but we're held back by idiot, retrograde morons who never think about the future.

FemDemERA

(396 posts)
8. She has been watching old video tapes
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:43 AM
Oct 4

Of “General Hospital” and believes Mikkos Cassadine is on the loose with his weather machine.

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