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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused Vice President Kamala Harris of having the ability to control hurricanes through so-called "weather weapons."

Jones kicked off his Tuesday broadcast by promising to explain how he knew the government could control the weather.

"I'm going to be covering today, and I've sent the crew over 20 clips, and I've got over a hundred documents right here," he explained. "I'm gonna do a big presentation for everybody on what's really going on with weather weapons."

Jones claimed to have interviews and government documents that would prove his point.

"Then we have the bold headlines that I put up on X that the Kamala Harris, you know, the Biden-Harris administration is in control of this hurricane," he said of Hurricane Milton.

"So they have the power certified easily with just five or six big aircraft," he opined. "And that's the old technology, not the lasers that are all certified and the Doppler radar. They also have on ships and in large oil drilling platforms that they've launched. They could totally just make this thing stop and dump the water in the ocean."

Jones insisted that the technology to control hurricanes was used before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"And on 9/11, the hurricane was gonna hit," he asserted. "Remember in 2001, but that meteorologists never saw anything like it. It just turned away from the coast went away because that was gonna get in the way of some of the stuff the deep state was up to."

Scientists have said it is currently impossible to control weather events like Hurricane Milton.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That any double digit percent is falling for this bullshit is a sad commentary of the state of the world today. And I'm not singling Americans out because there are plenty of idiots on the other side of the ocean as well.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

can confirm (source: am on the other side of the ocean and certified idiot). But this is beyond even my level of idiocy. The part on 9/11 is really the icing on this shit cake: he manages to pit two conspiracies against each other:

  • hey man, what are you doing with that hurricane? Today we are doing the "flying airplanes into towers" one, remember?
  • oh shit sorry, totally forgot that one! No worries, I'm just turning this thing off before it hits the coast
[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Scientists ~~have said it is currently impossible to control weather events like Hurricane Milton.~~ first laughed out loud, said "oh you're serious?" and then let out a deep sigh while patiently explaining that "no - nobody can do that." They then picked up their scotch that was half-finished at 10AM and took a deep gulp.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But if you ask him about climate change, humans don't have the ability to change weather appreciable.

No recognition of how stupid he sounds.

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where are these assholes getting all these ideas about "weather weapons?" Oh, wait...

Trump Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a ‘Hurricane Gun’

Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.

“It was almost too stupid for words,” said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.”

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hypothetically, if China did have a hurricane gun, what benefit does it give them to constantly shoot it at the US? America is one of China's biggest trade partners. It is highly counterproductive for them to do it.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The minute his last microphone is auctioned off and he's looking through dumpsters for his next meal can't come soon enough.

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[–] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That is not normal, he has to go straight to jail, to think for a while how being a retarded lying asshole is doing wrong for the society. How hard can it be to stop being one?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Alex Jones is AI generated, don't trust him.

Pass this message on in other places please.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

booooring... we have crazier people in congress now. who even needs this guy? you lost the sauce. boo. hiss. go away.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If dems could control weather why wouldn’t they use it for the benefit of States they favored, like maybe ending the drought in California or putting out the wildfires there or in the PNW?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

She needs to aim it farther south to hit Mar-a-Lago, then.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“So they have the power certified easily with just five or six big aircraft,” he ~~opined~~ lied.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Big question: So when they're in control of the weather, why not send hurricanes to Ukraine/Russia instead. Or China? Or Iran? Or Irak? Or Gaza? Or ...

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[–] stinerman@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

They let the VP control the weather? I missed that part on the AP Government exam.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't his ass supposed to be broke?

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[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the tech the deep state so controls, but somehow Trump still let hurricanes hit and refused to use the same technology for whatever bullshit he would while he was president and had control of this supposed technology.

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[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Jeez, this guy is like Rush Limbaugh on meth.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idiots like this are not totally to blame

The government, the leadership, the establishment, the country, the people are all complicit for allowing someone like this to have such a prominent place in the national discourse.

Jones isn't the only idiot .... the entire country is for having a large percentage of the population who listen to him.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

The fact that MTG can still be in government in any form kinda backs up the founders beliefs that the general population is just too stupid to handle directly electing their representatives lol

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I really can't believe this is what they are rallying around. This is the thing they've all decided yep that's the hill we're dying on.

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Oh wow, he's really putting his reputation on the line with this one /s

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't he have some drinking and crying to do?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The drinking is real, the crying is performative.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yawn.

Dont care about this loser and his remaining 50 listeners.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I spent some time on Threads. It’s shocking how many people (or trolls) are promoting the belief that all of these disasters are instigated and/or the impact deliberately worsened by Harris. Even though Biden is still president and Harris has no power over any of these issues.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Boy this dude’s gonna be pissed when all his livestream equipment gets auctioned off in that firesale to pay his legal expenses.

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He doesn't seem to have learned much from his existing court cases.

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