Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia-based conspiracy theorist who moonlights as a congresswoman, was at it once more on Thursday, posting this semi-cryptic message on X: “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
The “Jewish space laser” aficionado’s declare a couple of nebulous “they” controlling the climate got here just a few hours after she posted a map purporting to point out the injury that Hurricane Helene wrought on predominantly conservative voting areas.
Not that it wants saying, however Democratic-leaning areas had been ravaged too. As the Related Press famous on Sept. 30 relating to only one space, “Asheville, [North Carolina,] which was devastated by the storm, is solidly Democratic, as is much of Buncombe County, which surrounds it.”
As of Friday afternoon, Helene has claimed over 200 lives.
Greene’s conspiracy theorizing is nothing new. And Each day Kos’ Markos Moulitsas wrote all about how Elon Musk’s X—the place Greene posted her newest cuckoo thought—is now a wasteland of right-wingers theorizing that Democrats (and different “elites”) managed, if not created, Hurricane Helene.
Greene is only one soldier in a military of misinformation created to bolster Trump’s policy-anemic marketing campaign. Following Trump’s personal responsible projection of disaster-relief partisanship, right-wing media has promoted false assaults that vary from the federal authorities purposely dragging its heels in response to Hurricane Helene as a result of it has affected Republican voters, to the Federal Emergency Administration Company spending all of its cash housing migrants and asylum-seekers.
None of those claims are true, in fact. Trump’s lies that President Joe Biden was unwilling or unable to take state officers’ requires aide have been contradicted by the Republican officers themselves.
FEMA has a web page devoted to debunking most of the lies being peddled by conservatives today. The Each day Beast studies that “the $640 million earmarked for migrant humanitarian services during the 2024 fiscal year was approved by Congress for FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program, a wholly separate and unrelated initiative to the agency’s Disaster Relief Program.”
And it’s particularly shameless that Greene was considered one of 82 Home Republicans who voted in opposition to extending funding of FEMA the week earlier than she started asking for federal catastrophe aid.
On high of this, Trump and the GOP do not need options for altering climate. Challenge 2025, the authoritarian blueprint for a second Trump administration, would intestine FEMA whereas additionally dismantling the Nationwide Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. It’s NOAA whose scientific information assortment is vital to climate warning methods.
Conspiracy theories in regards to the climate are prone to turn into extra plentiful within the years forward. The fact is that local weather change is being felt everywhere in the world. Traditionally catastrophic occasions—and the necessity for anti-science conservatives to rationalize these devastating occasions—imply broader conspiracy theories that embody the climate itself.
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