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Zorro

(16,753 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:25 AM Jan 13

Marjorie Taylor Greene Launches Unhinged Call for Officials to Manipulate the Weather to Stop L.A. Wildfires

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has made it abundantly clear that she didn’t study atmospheric sciences in college, launching an unhinged suggestion that officials could end the Los Angeles wildfires by manipulating the weather.

“Why don’t they use geoengineering like cloud seeding to bring rain down on the wildfires in California?" the Republican asked Sunday in a post on X. “They know how to do it.”

Greene has repeatedly used cloud seeding—the practice of releasing silver iodide particles and other aerosols from planes or ground generators into clouds to encourage rain or snowfall—as a silver bullet explanation for weather phenomena while apparently not knowing how it works.

In October, she suggested that the federal government created Hurricane Milton using the technology, days before it battered Florida. Experts noted cloud seeding can create small amounts of localized rain in some cases, but not a hurricane.

President Joe Biden called Greene’s antics “so stupid,” while one of Greene’s GOP colleagues in the House said anyone who shares her views “needs to have their head examined.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-launches-unhinged-call-for-officials-to-manipulate-the-weather-to-stop-la-wildfires/

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Launches Unhinged Call for Officials to Manipulate the Weather to Stop L.A. Wildfires (Original Post) Zorro Jan 13 OP
Is MTG stupid or psychotic? Irish_Dem Jan 13 #1
I vote for all three! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 13 #5
Yes she is so seriously unhinged it has to be all three. Irish_Dem Jan 13 #7
Just maybe she's a space alien. Seems to think she knows a lot about the sky and allegorical oracle Jan 13 #18
If she is an ET they need to work on making their human operating program a lot better. Irish_Dem Jan 13 #20
... Celerity Jan 13 #13
As George Carlin would say - she's stupid, full of shit, and fucking nuts! Initech Jan 13 #14
Ask her just how is this action to control the weather supposed to happen? She is so, so stupid it hurts. SWBTATTReg Jan 13 #2
Not the Onion? 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 13 #3
How does that idiot manage to even dress herself? Ocelot II Jan 13 #4
Sounds like she doesn't understand the "fi" in Sci-fi movies she watches. GreenWave Jan 13 #6
Nuke the wind Zambero Jan 13 #8
Had a MAGAt family member launch into this idea that Biden's controlling weather Arazi Jan 13 #9
She doesn't get out much, does she? Hugin Jan 13 #10
She's playing to her audience. Dulcinea Jan 13 #11
She is not well bdamomma Jan 13 #12
I have a cousin ITAL Jan 13 #15
I heard that we should just drop Greene on the fire struggle4progress Jan 13 #16
Oh right, this blows her theory that Democrats are controlling weather events to harm red states. tanyev Jan 13 #17
My paternal granny used to repeat an old quote often malaise Jan 13 #19
Marjorie, why can't you republicans control the weather? Are you stupid? God won't let you? keithbvadu2 Jan 13 #21

allegorical oracle

(3,924 posts)
18. Just maybe she's a space alien. Seems to think she knows a lot about the sky and
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:33 PM
Jan 13

Earth's weather. One day we'll wake up and she will be gone -- whisked off in a spaceship.

Irish_Dem

(63,142 posts)
20. If she is an ET they need to work on making their human operating program a lot better.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:59 PM
Jan 13

Maybe the ETs think humans are this stupid, maybe they are right.

Ocelot II

(122,694 posts)
4. How does that idiot manage to even dress herself?
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:34 AM
Jan 13

Her wardrobe is tacky but somehow she manages to put it on, which seems to be about the most advanced activity she can handle. Marge, here's the thing: Clouds are masses of condensed water vapor suspended in the air. You can't seed a cloud, which (sometimes) causes rain to fall, unless there's a cloud to seed. When you have 100-mph Santa Ana winds coming off the deserts (which are hot, dry places with no water), there are no masses of condensed water vapor, i.e., clouds. None. Zero. Marge, please go back to the gym and work on your bad body some more and shut up about cloud seeding. And everything else.

Zambero

(9,798 posts)
8. Nuke the wind
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:38 AM
Jan 13

Now that RWNJ's and their bought-and-sold political allies have done their level best over the course of decades to forestall preventive climate change measures, let's get serious with some projection shit. Bombs away!

Arazi

(7,477 posts)
9. Had a MAGAt family member launch into this idea that Biden's controlling weather
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jan 13

At Thanksgiving in response to an innocuous comment about the lovely day 🙄

It’s a very common belief in RW propaganda. Laugh all you want at their insanity but there’s an enormous number of Rs who believe this

Hugin

(35,385 posts)
10. She doesn't get out much, does she?
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:43 AM
Jan 13

Okay, okay… Supposing it were possible, wouldn’t a better use of the aircraft be to drop water and fire retardant directly on the fires? Like is being done, now?



It may shock you to hear that as stupid as Greene can be, she’s about average for many of the people who have been gerrymandered and Peter Principled into positions of authority in this great nation.

Good Idea fairies abound.

Seriously, it’s one of the primary reasons I resigned and work for myself. I got so tired of explaining the obvious in excruciating detail.

Dulcinea

(7,789 posts)
11. She's playing to her audience.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:44 AM
Jan 13

She's not there to legislate. She's in Congress to fleece the rubes, who eat up this bad performance art & open their wallets whenever she says something to "own the libs."

ITAL

(942 posts)
15. I have a cousin
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 12:03 PM
Jan 13

She's been posting this very cloud seeding thing for the last few days and says the reason they're not is the rich and/or big government want to take over all the land. She's a conspiracy loon. Amazingly she's one of those Bernie Sanders/Donald Trump crossover fans.

tanyev

(45,244 posts)
17. Oh right, this blows her theory that Democrats are controlling weather events to harm red states.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:18 PM
Jan 13

Along with truth, science, logic and common sense.

malaise

(280,521 posts)
19. My paternal granny used to repeat an old quote often
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:40 PM
Jan 13

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Pay attention dumbass MTD

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