Fed-up GOP rep says Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘needs to have her head examined’

Republican Florida state Rep. Carlos Gimenez said that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), a fellow Republican, needs to have her head examined for suggesting that Democrats created recent hurricanes in order to harm southern and coastal states.

In October 3, Greene wrote on X, “Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” Though she didn’t explain who “they” refers to, her vague post was widely seen as promoting a conspiracy theory as it’s impossible for humans to create hurricanes on demand. X users added a community note to Greene’s post that said, “Hurricanes and other large storms cannot be produced with modern technology.”

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Greene seemingly doubled-down on her claim by reposting a meme listing numerous patent numbers for weather-related devices. Patents are merely registered ideas of inventions with are not proof of them actually working. A community note added to Greene’s meme says, “These patents can’t ‘control the weather.’ Most are absurd and lack practical relevance.”

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Nevertheless, Greene made another X post touting “proof” of her claim in the form of a video of Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan talking about small-scale innovations to curtail climate change. In the video, Brennan didn’t say anything about the government being able to produce massive natural disasters.

Fed-up with Greene’s antics, Rep. Gimenez re-posted Greene’s initial claim on X on October 9th and commented, “NEW FLASH —> Humans cannot create or control hurricanes. Anyone who thinks they can, needs to have their head examined.”

🚨NEW FLASH —> Humans cannot create or control hurricanes.

Anyone who thinks they can, needs to have their head examined. https://t.co/ILZsbXPi0K

— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) October 9, 2024

Republicans in Florida and other hurricane-afflicted states have criticized former President Donald Trump and his right-wing allies for deliberately spreading misinformation about about the federal government’s response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Though Republican elected officials in affected states have praised the Biden administration for its quick response to the disasters, Trump has falsely accused the federal government of abandoning the public, of only offering victims a mere $750 in aid and of using Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds to house immigrants. None of these claims are true and they have resulted in harassment of FEMA workers, immigrants and public officials in affected areas.

Local media outlets, federal and state officials, and emergency responders all are “desperately trying to swat down [such] rumors and falsehoods,” Media Matters reported.

“The scale of the misinformation — and simply the number of posts and the eyeballs that each of those are being given online, particularly on [X] — that is what is different and truly scary,” a North Carolina state official told Politico. “This has felt like you’re in the Thunderdome, and people are just piping this noise in. They create this great confusion. It creates chaos and a crisis moment where you need people to be able to work together and come together.”

Greene has embraced conspiracy theories before. She has previously said that an airplane never hit the Pentagon during the September 11 terrorist attacks, that all school shootings are fake, that California wildfires were started by a Jewish-owned space laser, and that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once sliced off a child’s face and wore it.

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