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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 1 week ago

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

I spent some time on Threads. It’s shocking how many people (or trolls) are promoting the belief that all of these disasters are instigated and/or the impact deliberately worsened by Harris. Even though Biden is still president and Harris has no power over any of these issues.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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.

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

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

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

The drinking is real, the crying is performative.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yawn.

Dont care about this loser and his remaining 50 listeners.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a lot more than 50.

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

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

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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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[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You need the energy equivalent of thousands of nuclear weapons to fuel even a mild hurricane. It would be pretty notable.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Yeah yeah go cry some more big stupid crocodile tears about it, ya whiny bitch.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

translation:

"SHE'S A WITCH!"

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For those who don't know, completely unfiltered Alex Jones fits almost seamlessly into the 40k universe and that's bonkers.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhe77z_zTzRY-bmtKMydUF0eoWbGz_cCM&si=j-B2oBobkDcMeYNm

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

GOP Talking Head: The Democrats are pushing the point that we are allowing climate change to make storms worse and a large part of our base are getting affected by the storms. What do we do?

AJ: We blame them for the storms.

GTH: Nobody's going to believe that!

AJ: Have you met your base?

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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. 😖

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

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

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