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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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[–] undercrust@lemmy.ca 142 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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

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

I want this as a pronoun pin

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

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

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

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm on Team Orca.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month 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 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

I figured that she keeps getting drunk and getting another swastika tattoo, then having it lasered off over and over.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Big fan of Courtney Cox I guess

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

Nutjob News

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 20 points 1 month 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 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

so US Politics

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just wait until she halfway understands the word "quantum"

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Schrödinger’s epistemology.

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

Just like, how to pronounce it?

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

Marjorie "Low Bar" Greene

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (4 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 1 month ago

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

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[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month 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 19 points 1 month 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 month 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 5 points 1 month ago

The Haitian immigrants are lasering your dogs.

[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month 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!

[–] Wytch@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

But are the lasers kosher?

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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 4 points 1 month ago

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

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

fuck her yourself coward

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

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

Next she'll start adding magnets into the mix.

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

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

[–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Regression to the mean

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Well of course there were lasers!!!

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