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Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to double down on her Hurricane Helene conspiracy theory over the weekend, following up a baseless claim that “they” can control the weather with an assertion that such a scheme might involve lasers.


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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

She’s more obsessed with lasers than the RCA labs were

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

So she's saying man made climate change is real??

[–] projectsquared@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn’t she just sounding almost like a reasonable person? Like last week?

[–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago

Regression to the mean

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Just yesterday i was trolling conservatives on tiktok with space lasers. I wonder if i found MTG's information source on accident

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Hey I've been a junior lieutenant in the Jewish space laser corps since I was 16

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

This is a step forward.

You see, for millenia people have most been swindled en masse using Fantasy stories - you know, Demons, Gods, flying demigods with wings, that kind of thing - and now we're starting to see more and more Sci-Fi stories used to swindle people (honorable mention to Ron Hubbard, a true trailblazer in this) - so chemtrails, mind-control satellites, weather lasers.

PS: Curiously this pretty much aligns with the increase in Fraud in Tech and phenomenons like Tech Bros.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

fuck her yourself coward

[–] undercrust@lemmy.ca 139 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Suddenly it makes sense why they're so terrified of anyone outside the gender binary.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Damn I kinda want to get a polo with this embroidered on it.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

I want this as a pronoun pin

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s actually an acronym which stands for Telemetry Hastening Energy Yachts.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

, which is a row boat rental company in the Bay Area

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm on Team Orca.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

I'm here to remind you that May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

Ms. Greene is here to remind you that you should be aware during months other than May, also.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago

It's the only thing that can add color to her face leather.

Big fan of Courtney Cox I guess

[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

If I had to choose between two parties and one of them had the power to control the weather, I'm pretty sure which one I'd choose!

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The fediverse needs a special community for posts like this..

Nutjob News

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

so US Politics

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly, until we, the US, as a country, get our heads out of our asses and vote these people out, regular news and nutjob news are going to have a lot of overlap.

There's also !nottheonion@lemmy.world I guess.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

True that. I'm already subscribed to Not The Onion, but thanks for sharing, very fitting community for such batshit crazy news. 👍

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just wait until she halfway understands the word "quantum"

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's no halfway to understanding quantum; you either do or you d-- ooohhhhhhhhhhh.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Schrödinger’s epistemology.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just like, how to pronounce it?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

it rhymes with aflac

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Marjorie "Low Bar" Greene

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look, lady. Us Jews are way too busy controlling Hollywood and the world's banks to bother with space lasering some hurricane. Figure it out for yourself this time.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Wait, I thought you guys were busy with the metric system and the Atlantis project. Did you outsource that again?

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t let her fool you, she’s in the government and has a say in where the lasers are aimed.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d love to see a reporter follow through with this. Put her on the spot for her vote on laser weather control, what she knew and when she knew it, if someone trusts her enough to put her on a committee what did the committee do when that came up. May she can start an investigation into the actions of the National Weather Control Service

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s why she says “they” instead of who she really means. She can always claim to not be a part of “them” and the label can be applied to any group people want. Keeps the hate train running on schedule.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

The Haitian immigrants are lasering your dogs.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

But are the lasers kosher?

[–] Wytch@lemmy.cafe 15 points 1 day ago

Margie, are the lasers in the room with us right now?

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Another thing I'm certain she doesn't actually understand.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 11 points 1 day ago

Actually, that was just me. I have the weather laser this week and I decided Florida was due for a bath.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

As a Canadian I am embarrassed for the United States every day.

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Next she'll start adding magnets into the mix.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Well of course there were lasers!!!

[–] nemonic187@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The dumbest people on the planet.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

No doubt they are dumb but a lot of them know they are lying.