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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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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

translation:

"SHE'S A WITCH!"

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You need the energy equivalent of thousands of nuclear weapons to fuel even a mild hurricane. It would be pretty notable.

[–] kyle@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

So say the "experts" and "scientists" /s

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For those who don't know, completely unfiltered Alex Jones fits almost seamlessly into the 40k universe and that's bonkers.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhe77z_zTzRY-bmtKMydUF0eoWbGz_cCM&si=j-B2oBobkDcMeYNm

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah yeah go cry some more big stupid crocodile tears about it, ya whiny bitch.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Well this is an unexpected turn to climate change denial.

I guess the “it’s real but it’s too late” is not as useful as “it’s real and ifs caused by [inset scapegoat]”

Really didn’t see this coming, which shows how satire can’t hold a candle to the stupidity of reality.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I heard Alex Jones got gonorrhea from giving a vocal member of the House of Representatives a blow job.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

I’d rather have a comic book villain as president than a convicted felon, so okay!

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I thought Jones lost his show in the settlement?

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and doesnt this run counter to their whole "climate cant be altered by man" climate denialism?

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What a lame excuse for a person Alex Jones is. The US will be destroyed sooner rather because there's enough people here that believe things as stupid as this or stupider. This is just another lie to tell the public so the people actually responsible (oil company CEOs) can laugh all the way to the bank.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stop giving this dumbass attention. "Idiot says stupid shit" isn't newsworthy in the slightest.

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

GOP Talking Head: The Democrats are pushing the point that we are allowing climate change to make storms worse and a large part of our base are getting affected by the storms. What do we do?

AJ: We blame them for the storms.

GTH: Nobody's going to believe that!

AJ: Have you met your base?

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I've seen this in the Paw Patrol movie.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Even if Harris is a weather wielder, is she also stopping those states from accepting aid?

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Shouldn’t anyone funding his lifestyle also be subject to lawsuits? This kind of lying can get people killed

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For anyone confused where these ideas originated from, I found out some articles from NOAA stuff like these:

Can human intervention diminish the force of a hurricane? From the mid-1960s through the early 1980s NOAA actively pursued Project STORMFURY, a program of experimental hurricane modification

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/modification.html

And I think in Wikipedia there were statement about using laser to warm the water a few degrees to pervent storms from forming..

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I thought one of the main drivers of these storms WAS warm water? How would adding more energy into the system lessen the storm?

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Kind of makes sense. The Republicans are the idiots refusing to evacuate or eating disinformation so I imagine a lot of red states are going to be a little more blue by the end of this.

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Do not give this idiot any more of a platform to shill himself out of bankruptcy

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

It's heartbreaking that this completely utter rubbish exists at all and more still that it will be believed and there's nothing no one can do to convince the believers otherwise. 😖

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Destro! The weather dominator was supposed to be completed months ago!?

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