“Yes they can control the weather,” she tweeted. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
She’s been at this for a long time: In 2018, amid an earlier spate of California wildfires, and before she was a member of Congress, Greene shared a long-winded theory on her Facebook blaming what can most succinctly be described as “Jewish space lasers.” (Her theory is a lot to unpack, but it’s an early case study in Greene doing her “own research.” She felt there were “too many coincidences to ignore” and yarnwalled the Rothschild family, unattributed anecdotes that “all these people” saw “what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires,” insider trading, and outer space into her speculation. Does the whole thing end with a shrugging emoji? You know it!)
This time, even hardcore Republicans are begging the congresswoman to hush. Texan Bo French, chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, the largest purple county in the U.S., brags in his bio on X (formerly Twitter) about his goal of “making Tarrant County inhospitable to Democrats.” Same team as Greene, ideologically. But French responded to Greene’s post with an exasperated-sounding tweet of his own, reading in part, “It doesn’t work like that. They can’t just manufacture rain out of thin air.”
And as for who “they” are, the mysterious entity Greene has repeatedly claimed controls the weather? We have a few educated guesses of who she means, based on her body of conspiracy theory work.
Vanity Fair did not receive a reply from Greene after repeated requests for clarifications on her theories, and who, exactly, “they” are.