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...

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.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
    141·
    2 days ago

    They create an enemy other that must be incredibly powerful but also pitifully weak. Wildly intelligent yet also fundamentally stupid.

    • towerful@programming.dev
      1·
      2 days ago

      Nononononono, controlling the weather is how democrats keep power.
      Like when Trump redirected that hurricane (with a Sharpie), but it continued on its predicted path. Fucking democrats, man.

      (I hope this is obviously dripping with sarcasm, incase not…

      /s
      Trump & a lot of republicans taking the spotlight are idiots. Humans can control the weather: unfortunately that’s from greenhouse gasses and global warming)

    • ashok36@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Jones and his ilk believe that they’re fighting the literal devil who is using demons in the guise of democrats to plunge the earth into a hell scape of suffering and torment.

      That is actually, 100%, bona fide what they believe. Once you’re fighting lucifer himself, why would it be out of the realm of possibility for the prince of lies to have a weather control device?

  • leadore@lemmy.world
    511·
    3 days ago

    Wait, this asshole still has a radio show? I thought he was bankrupt and had to liquidate all his assets to pay damages in the Sandy Hook lawsuit. How can he be broadcasting? Who is paying for it?

  • Doorbook@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    For anyone confused where these ideas originated from, I found out some articles from NOAA stuff like these:

    Can human intervention diminish the force of a hurricane? From the mid-1960s through the early 1980s NOAA actively pursued Project STORMFURY, a program of experimental hurricane modification

    https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/modification.html

    And I think in Wikipedia there were statement about using laser to warm the water a few degrees to pervent storms from forming…

    • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      I thought one of the main drivers of these storms WAS warm water? How would adding more energy into the system lessen the storm?

    • oxjox@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Thank you. This is the stuff we should all one made aware of. Some of the craziest conspiracies are founded in some truth. This is why I find it so concerning. It doesn’t take much effort for some people to become believers in the theory that “climate change” is a hoax.

      Because information travels at the speed of light and crazy headlines like this are attention grabbers, millions more people are exposed to mistruths. This is why we are where we are today. Misleading headlines. Social media. Engagement algorithms. It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what your politics are. I see misleading headlines and stories written all day every day. Then people just go to the comment section to “inform” themselves without reading the article or the source material or the entire context of a video clip, etc.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days 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.

  • orclev@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 days ago

    Can somebody just get this nutjob committed to a psychiatric institution already? He’s very clearly delusional and paranoid. I’m not sure what he needs to be on, but he definitely needs some kind of medication.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 days ago

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

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
    15·
    4 days ago

    Ah yes, because if a politician could control the weather, of course the thing they’d do with it is attack several swing states right before the election /s