If the coming winter storm lives up to advance billing, a lot of people are going to be inside their homes, at their keyboard, furiously pumping out conspiracy theories about weather modification.
Marjorie Taylor Green is most famous for the formulation “Jewish Space Lasers”, which is actually a bit unfair to the congress woman.
In fact, I may have had a hand in that meme with my original post entitled “GOP Q-anon Kook CongressCritter: California Fire Started by Jewish Laser Beam from Space” , where I quoted a report from Media Matters:
Rep. Greene is a proponent of the Camp Fire laser beam conspiracy theory. She wrote a November 17, 2018, Facebook post — which is no longer available online — in which she said that she was speculating “because there are too many coincidences to ignore” regarding the fire, including that then-California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) wanted to build the high-speed rail project and “oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires.” She also speculated that a vice chairman at “Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm” was somehow involved, and suggested the fire was caused by a beam from “space solar generators.”
Greene added: “If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not! That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E.”
Taking off from the “Rothschild” mention, a reference to a famous jewish financier family that figures into many a right wing conspiracy theory, I went to “Jewish space lasers”. Probably some other folks did simultaneously.
So to be fair, Marge has since said, she didn’t even know who the Rothschilds were, or that they were jewish, which totally tracks. She just thought, sure, lasers from a satellite in space are the most likely source of wildfires. Totally understandable.
UPDATE:
New Dumbass innovation – combining Chemtrails Bullshit with Anti Vax bullshit.
UPDATE: This gets some kind of award.
