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In November 2018, California was hit with the worst wildfire in the state’s history. At the time, future Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote a bizarre Facebook post that echoed QAnon conspiracy theorists and falsely claimed that the real and hidden culprit behind the disaster was a laser from space triggered by some nefarious group of people.
A LASER from SPACE. Cue ominous theme music.
Greene’s post, which hasn’t previously been reported, is just the latest example to be unearthed of her embracing conspiracy theories about tragedies during her time as a right-wing commentator. In addition to being a QAnon supporter, Greene has pushed conspiracy theories about 9/11, the Parkland and Sandy Hook school shootings, the Las Vegas shooting, and the murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich, among others.
Not to mention all the death threats aimed at Democrats.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the Republican Party have done little to stop Greene’s rising profile. During the 2020 campaign, the National Republican Congressional Committee added her to its “Young Guns” fundraising and recruitment program. In November, after Greene was elected, McCarthy defended her by falsely claiming that she’d denounced her QAnon views. And Republicans have selected Greene to be a member of the House Budget Committee and the House Committee on Education and Labor. (A spokesperson for McCarthy recently told Axios: “These comments are deeply disturbing and Leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them.”) One of Greene’s conspiracy theories directly targets McCarthy’s state.
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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.”
We can conclude that she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, but she is violent and racist, so by god she’s welcome in the Republican Congress.
Wait. I saw that movie: Diamonds Are Forever.
That’s lightning you morons.
She and Boebert are competing for the stupidest, most insane congressperson award. It’s a tough competition, and right now it’s at least a ten-way race.
Let’s not forget: some of Donny’s more bizarre ramblings (women duct-taped in vans?) were plausibly understood as him channeling some movie he had seen.
Steven, maybe DJT should have watched fewer Quentin Tarantino movies?
@YnnB #1
Or if you prefer Brosnan to Connery, Die Another Day.
As a Californian, I would agree that Newsome has been an…imperfect…governor. But the insane goofballs who are leading the recall effort (which would cost millions) are almost all Trumpalos and other wackos. This…person…IS the modern Republican Party. There is no way in hell I would ever vote fro anything supported by these insane morons. Never. And I am not a blind Dembot…I consider the Democratic Party to be merely the slightly kinder and gentler party of Wall street and War. But the Trumpian Republican Party? Utter insanity.
Brian M. I actually left the Democratic Party for a while, but Trump drove me back into it, at least for now. I don’t intend to assume the Dems are perfect, though. You’re right that they are still Wall Street and War. They need a good hard yank to the left.
The Texas Village Idiot was a fundamentally better human being than Trump. and he had smarter people around him (although the evils and wars were worthy of trial at the Hague). I have disliked the Republicans for a LONG TIME. But now…they are beyond the pale.
I don’t suppose they can explain why someone would go to all the trouble of building the space lasers to set fire to California instead of just send a chap with a box of matches?
But your “chap with a box of matches theory” ignores the EVIDENCE of LASERS and BLUE BEAMS OF LIGHT! The same LASER could be used to start fires in OTHER STATES too! If can’t do that with a box of matches if you’ve used them all up in California!! Explain THAT!!!
You’ll have to try harder. Greene’s Space Lasers are impervious to logic. However, if your “matchbox man” was a Jew, then maybe the two of you can work something out.
YYNNB – haha you’re right, I made no sense at all there (and not just because my “ing” went missing from “sending”)
Maybe I can reinvent Matchbox Man as a superhero. Very small, and his head bursts into flame? Nah. What if he could fit into Matchbox cars? I wonder if it’s possible to build an entire movie franchise based on an 80s toy (cough cough Transformers cough).