Originally published at: Actual climate scientists debunk Marjorie Taylor Greene's weather-related conspiracy theories - Boing Boing
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She isn’t making these claims due to lack of access to facts. Her shitting on those who know better is the point.
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Yeah, ^ that. The tweet isn’t wrong exactly, but it’s not meant as a statement of debate, it’s meant as a dog whistle.
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article posted by Jennifer Sandlin
chemtrails / climate change / conspiracy theories / debunking conspiracy theories / Hurricane Helene / maga / Marjorie “Jewish Space Lasers” Greene / mtg / politics / weather conspiracy theories
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Where were her allegations that they called for citizens to “repent” when the path of the last total solar eclipse “miraculously” passed across red states “as ordained by God”?
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Let’s not downplay how courageous Marjorie Taylor Greene is being. After all, by blowing the whistle on the Grand Conspiracy that has the ability to control the weather, she’s putting herself in grave danger of getting hit by lightning 37 separate times on a day with completely clear skies, in much the same way that in the 1980s people who exposed the mind control and demon summoning abilities of people who were brainwashed by Dungeons and Dragons died under mysterious circumstances. [To shreds, you say?]
Oh wait, that never happened back in the 1980s. And there is no evidence of a Grand Conspiracy able to control the weather to that extent today.
So yeah, it’s just Marge being an asshole.
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She might also be co-opting another conspiracy theory that a device located in of all places Alaska supposedly controls our weather:
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C’mon Marge. If Democrats could control the weather you’d always have a rain cloud over your head
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I miss those days when HAARP was current.
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Whoever “THEY” are I hope they keep it up in CA where the weather is perfect most of the time
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I always like how the low hanging fruit that chemtrails don’t exist is the sheer number of people you’d have to involve to even achieve something like that…it’s simply ludicrous. That logic alone seems to imply that pilots have a dedicated “chemtrail” switch.
Meanwhile we did mess up a couple of generations thanks to wide spread exposure to lead, all while doing nothing out of the ordinary and simply putting gas in their car.
I’m not saying chemtrails as conspiracy people define them are real. But trying to counter their assertion with simplistic ideas of scale and complexity seems rather trite. You aren’t going to change their opinion, but you aren’t helping your defense either.
I mean especially when this is front and center under recent articles.
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margarine traitor green is so fulla shit she’s gotta bleach her hair.
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She posted this the other day.
She’s referring to this story, it talks about using lasers in the future. In her mind it vindicates her laser remarks. I guess 9 years was enough time to figure it all out and create a hurricane to target republicans.
As far as conspiracies, someone I know posted this…
Conspiracy theorists are up 37-0
I wonder which ones they think were proven.
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Or, you know, hurricane alley is a bad place to put a city, and people in cities tend to vote progressive. But of course MTG is just going for headlines, she’s not trying to actually make a point or solve a problem, just try and stay ‘current’ to keep her backers happy.
… if Asheville is part of “Hurricane Alley” now, then they’d have to relocate the whole eastern half of the country 
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Seriously, though. There is a dangerous new trend on social media for people to post the most insane or controversial b.s. they can think up because the algorithm cannot accurately determine “good” information from “bad”. It simply recognizes “engagement”, and many folks are really banking their livelihoods on confusing the hell out of people just so they can make a buck, because controversy gets more responses. Most of them don’t even believe their own statements.
Assholes, the lot of them.
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If MTG says “they”, she means “the Jews”. It’s gross and most of us already understand that on some level, but I still think it’s worth making it explicit. That’s who she is.
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If she claimed it’s the Finnish people doing it, her words might have gained better traction.
Wikiarticle:
Magical and religious practices to control the weather are attested in a variety of cultures. In ancient India, it is said that yajna or Vedic rituals of chanting mantras and offerings were performed by rishis to bring sudden bursts of rainfall in rain starved regions. Some Indigenous Americans, like some Europeans, had rituals which they believed could induce rain. The Finnish people, on the other hand, were believed by others to be able to control the weather. As a result, Vikings refused to take Finns on their oceangoing raids. Remnants of this superstition lasted into the twentieth century, with some ship crews being reluctant to accept Finnish sailors.
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That’s not a coincidence.
It is a warning from an Angry Gawd; it is obviously telling those MAGAts to repent & that voting for a blatant Antichrist is a grievous sin…
Not sure how much clearer this could be.
/s, just in case…
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