Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went so far afield with her latest conspiracy theories that a fellow Republican congressman was forced to put out a statement shutting them down.
Greene, who represents a state directly in the path of Hurricane Helene, spent several days pushing the bizarre idea that someone is "controlling" the weather to summon hurricanes.
"Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done," she wrote in a post to X.
The theory has made rounds on the internet with people speculating everything from election interference in Republican areas to a bid to run people off land where companies might want to extract lithium deposits. Greene has also previously speculated on social media that Jewish space lasers set wildfires in California before she was elected to Congress.
An exasperated Rep. Chuck Edwards, a Republican who represents one of the hardest-hit areas in western North Carolina, felt compelled to put out a statement on his congressional website debunking the claim.
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"Hurricane Helene was NOT geoengineered by the government to seize and access lithium deposits in Chimney Rock," said the statement. "Nobody can control the weather. Charles Konrad, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southeast Regional Climate Center, has confirmed that no one has the technology or ability to geoengineer a hurricane. Current geoengineering technology can serve as a large-scale intervention to mitigate the negative consequences of naturally occurring weather phenomena, but it cannot be used to create or manipulate hurricanes."
"Incredible that a Republican member of Congress had to put this out," wrote MSNBC's Sam Stein on X.
"I’m sorry… that we need to spell this out…. Maybe our time as a self-governing people has passed after all," wrote Huffington Post White House correspondent S.V. Dáte.
