{"id":1338,"date":"2024-11-11T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-baseless-conspiracy-theory-that-they-can-control-the-weather\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:22","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-baseless-conspiracy-theory-that-they-can-control-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-baseless-conspiracy-theory-that-they-can-control-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes baseless conspiracy theory that \u2018they\u2019 can control the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> is back to doing what she’s best known for: spreading conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Republican, who infamously boosted a conspiracy theory about Jewish space lasers<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Greene wrote on X<\/a> late Thursday:<\/p>\n

That grim warning followed a post earlier in the day<\/a> with a map showing areas affected by Helene and their political leanings:<\/p>\n

To state it plainly: The idea of weather-inducing technology that’s powerful enough to generate a weaponized hurricane has been debunked by experts<\/a>. (Is cloud seeding a thing<\/a>? Yes, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s under discussion here.)<\/p>\n

Greene didn’t specify whether “they” are Jewish in this weather control scenario, but such claims about people nefariously controlling the weather have documented links<\/a> to antisemitic conspiracy theories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As my BLN colleague Steve Benen noted, Trump’s lie is particularly egregious in light of new Politico reporting<\/a> <\/a>(which has not been independently verified by BLN or NBC News) that on multiple occasions as president, Trump “hesitated to give disaster aid to areas he considered politically hostile.”<\/p>\n

The only thing I’m worried about being projected into the atmosphere are Republicans’ dangerous lies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ya’han Jones<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ja’han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer. He’s a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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