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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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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The minute his last microphone is auctioned off and he's looking through dumpsters for his next meal can't come soon enough.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

The sad thing is there are actual people out there who would believe this sooner than they'd see climate change as the cause.

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And some, or at least one, of them is a member of Congress.

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

At least one.....

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's a human nature thing. We are really much happier as people when there's a "logical" course of real events that lead to any disaster. We can understand "evil group did evil thing" better than "the collective actions of humanity over the last 200 years caused a fundamental change to our world that we cannot reverse in our lifetime."

We aren't good at nuance.

Some random wacko deciding to kill Kennedy because of mental illness and a general hostility towards his world view is harder for us to accept than a secret plot to seal power. Bad guys make sense to us. Chaotic elements just don't.

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[–] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

That is not normal, he has to go straight to jail, to think for a while how being a retarded lying asshole is doing wrong for the society. How hard can it be to stop being one?

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 74 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why does this sentient piece of excrement still have a platform?

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

He needs money to live now that the courts have started selling his business to pay off the last people he hurt by spreading insane conspiracy theories.

He’s a one trick pony, only thing he knows how to do is lie and sell snake oil pills that turn you red.

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[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait, this asshole still has a radio show? I thought he was bankrupt and had to liquidate all his assets to pay damages in the Sandy Hook lawsuit. How can he be broadcasting? Who is paying for it?

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago

Any idiot can "broadcast" from a smartphone.

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

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.

[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This Alex Jones mf. Imagine running your mouth so bad you have to pay a billion and a half dollars to families of murdered children. I'd probably be terrified to ever open my mouth ever again.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, but your entire brand image probably isn't agressively lying.

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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Kamala is Exxon?

[–] beSyl@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

The day this guy dies, I will throw a party. And I hate parties.

[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 days ago (5 children)

In my opinion, the real concern here is that this may be the demise of the need to address climate change. Just as these wackos convinced millions of people that vaccines were a government plot, they're setting the stage for the climate change hoax. There will be a large swath of people who convert to believe the government is in control of the weather and the change we've experienced in our climate. This should be a grave concern for all.

[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

2000's conservative: "Climate change isn't real".
2010's conservative: "Climate change is real, but it's not caused by human activity".
2020's conservative: "Climate change is caused by human activity, and IT'S THE LIBERALS AND THEIR HURRICANE MAKING SPACE LASERS".

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please stop feeding the troll.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

guess it takes morethan stripping him of his assets to shut his lying mouth off

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They stopped with the ‘it’s God punishing sinful States’ when it became apparent that all the states that kept getting hit with natural disasters were mostly Republican controlled ones. 😂

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand what the word "certified" is supposed to mean in his rant. Is this some new teen-speak redefinition that he's trying to appropriate? "power certified"? Huh?

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[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I hope we can sue the shit out of him like when he denied Sandy Hook

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 15 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, because if a politician could control the weather, of course the thing they'd do with it is attack several swing states right before the election /s

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