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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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[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Oh wow, he's really putting his reputation on the line with this one /s

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I really can't believe this is what they are rallying around. This is the thing they've all decided yep that's the hill we're dying on.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“So they have the power certified easily with just five or six big aircraft,” he ~~opined~~ lied.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He doesn't seem to have learned much from his existing court cases.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

he knows he can still say pretty much whatever he wants as long as it’s not materially damaging to anyone.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't he have some drinking and crying to do?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The drinking is real, the crying is performative.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I don't know how performative it is anymore now that all of his assets are being seized.

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

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

that is the entire premise of the republican party at the moment and like every article on 5 of the six major news companies

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

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

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

I've seen this in the Paw Patrol movie.

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

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

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days 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. 😖

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

How does this piece of human garbage still have a fucking show?!

[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Are these 'weather weapons' in the room with you right now?"

[–] Zorg@lemmings.world 2 points 3 days ago

Well, they are called unrestrained continuous pollution, or 'man made climate change' if you will.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I assert that Alex Jones is in direct control of Kamala Harris and is in fact directing her to make the hurricane hit Florida so that he has more to talk about in relation to her evil performance

/s just in case

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