Republican leader Marjorie Taylor Greene created a row after she posted on X a mysterious two-line amid Hurricane Helene‘s devastation in the country. “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done,” she wrote puzzling social media users about who are they.
“Reminder: This is a conspiracy theory based in anti-Semitism alleging that Jewish people have the technology to manipulate the weather and cause freak storms that wreak havoc on the world,” Shannon Watts, a gun violence prevention activist, wrote on X.
Marjorie is a known conspiracy theorist and such statements are not a surprise from her, In 2021, she suggested that the devastating wildfires in California had been sparked by laser beams controlled by the wealthy Rothschild family from outer space.
In another X post earlier Thursday, Greene posted a map of the southeastern US with the message: “This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election”.
After making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 26 and tearing through the Gulf Coast of Florida, Helene plowed north through Georgia and walloped the Blue Ridge Mountains, washing out roads, causing landslides, and knocking out power and cell service for millions of people.
Across western North Carolina, towns were destroyed, water and fuel supplies were disrupted, and residents were in a communications black hole, scrambling for Wi-Fi to try to reach friends and family. Officials raced to rescue survivors, locate victims and restore flood-damaged water systems.
The chaos in the state was part of a path of destruction that Helene carved through the region, including portions of Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia. As of Friday, there were 215 confirmed deaths from the storm.
Helene is the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike the mainland United States since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina caused nearly 1,400 deaths on the Gulf Coast, according to statistics from the National Hurricane Center.