Not metaphorically. Really.
Above, Kandiss Taylor, who ran for Governor of Georgia on a “Jesus, Guns and Babies” platform, weighs in on the global conspiracy about, well, globes.
Also, below, Moon landing was fake.
Taylor, now running for Congress, posted on X that last summer’s Texas Floods were part of a weather modification plot.
The paranoia and conspiracy mongering reaches up to some of the more influential members of the Party in congress. Below, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent hearings on weather modification.
A congressional subcommittee spent nearly two hours on Tuesday discussing the rarely practiced but frequently talked about science of weather modification and geoengineering.
Convened by the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, the hearing titled “Playing God with the Weather — a Disastrous Forecast” looked at the federal government’s role and the potential unintended consequences of weather modification and the ethical and legal issues surrounding the technology.
UPDATE: Right wing influencer Candace Owens – “I’m not a flat earthed, I’m not a round earthed.”
Just asking questions.
There’s barely a conspiracy theory around these folks don’t latch on to for dear life. And there might be a reason for that – MTG is the classic example – the loudest mouth gets the most attention, and name recognition pays dividends in elections. Plus, I’m not sure Republican voters have a bar for ‘too crazy’ anymore. They chalk it down someone being a ‘free thinker’ and a ‘maverick’ for battling mainstream media. Most people are also inundated with k-rap on social media these days – repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
I’ve had enough experience with True Believers to know that, even if I gave here a telescope that gave her a good look at the spheroid shapes of our neighboring planets, she’d find a way to spin it as fake or exceptional.
I love those solar system diagrams that show all the planets as spheroidal except for a disc-shaped Earth:
https://starwalk.space/gallery/images/flat-earth-other-planets/750×422.jpg
A new George Orwell movie is hitting the theaters titled “2+2=5”. I wonder if the current crop of deniers will recognize themselves as the people that put the party before facts.
She might as well have been saying:
“There’s all these people pushing the “you gotta breathe all the time” thing. Why are they pushing it? I mean air is all over the place – it’s touching you so why would you also need to breathe it in, right? But you go to the mall, everyone’s breathing. You go to the beach and people are breathing. Heck they show people supposedly asleep and they’re breathing, as if a person who’s not awake can remember to breathe. I mean, if people HAVE TO breathe, then why are they pushing it so hard? It must just be brainwashing.”
You mean if I read through all the stuff they’ve put together it will erase 95% of my knowledge on the subject but tell me everything about the internal memos and every conversation about it all the new people at the EPA have seen? WOW.
It’s quite a sacrifice they’re asking for but somebody has to do it for when Trump dies and they can’t hide it any more—his next inauguration? They won’t have a VP for Vantz so when he gets impeached, House Speaker AOC becomes president, and the ICC trials on climate denial begin, they’ll need the evidence.
OK sign me up.
If she’s found unconscious, I hope that they refuse paramedics and get a shaman to apply emergency homeopathy and crystals. That should make her see the light.