Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is back to doing what she’s best known for: spreading conspiracy theories.
The Georgia Republican, who infamously boosted a conspiracy theory about Jewish space lasers in 2021, seemingly tried to imply that Hurricane Helene was the product of someone — an ominous but otherwise unidentified “they” — who can control the weather.
Greene wrote on X[itter] late Thursday:
Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.
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To state it plainly: The idea of weather-inducing technology that’s powerful enough to generate a weaponized hurricane has been debunked by experts. (Is cloud seeding a thing? Yes, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s under discussion here.)
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Together, Greene’s posts certainly give the impression that she thinks Hurricane Helene was the result of some artificial technology to harm Republicans. Which is taking a claim that Donald Trump and others in the GOP have been making — suggesting that federal agencies are deliberately denying aid to Republican residents and giving it to undocumented immigrants instead — and really launching it into the stratosphere, so to speak. For the record, FEMA has denounced and corrected Trump’s claims.
She is the inevitable result of a severe lack of education mixed with the backwoods of Georgia, sprinkling on some homegrown racism and lust for power.
She is the last gasp of a dying ideology, thrashing about in the hopes that something will stick. She will be irrelevant soon enough. But sadly soon enough is not soon enough.