Rep MT Greene (R-GA) puts out an apparently outrageous tweet:
Yes they can control the weather.
It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 4, 2024
Yes they can control the weather.
It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.
Yes, very silly. But her own Party’s response helps reveal an unspoken nuance:
Florida Rep. Carlos Gimenez, for example, issued a statement online this week, suggesting that Greene and those who agree with her need “to have their head examined.”
He’s not alone. Axios spoke to several other GOP lawmakers, one of whom said Greene’s beliefs on the subject are “loony tunes.” The same member told the outlet that “disgust with her recent comments is widespread among House Republicans.” [Maddowblog]
Both sides are taking her seriously, without realizing that neither is the intended audience. That audience is … the electorate.
An electorate that should terrify the GOP. They and their allies have spent decades denying that anthropogenic climate change can occur, and that capitalism is a prime contributor. If that message fails, they, at a minimum, may lose to regulation an economic system at the core of their beings; and it’s not impossible that angry mobs might toss them into the ocean, or worse.
So what’s going on here?
Greene is simply finding a new way to deny it. Much like talking to the Divine, she’s pointing at a mysterious “them” who are controlling the weather, a hypothesis that, much like the Divine, cannot easily be falsified.
In other words, Greene is fighting for her political survival. Unlike her colleagues, she’s willing to go to any length, and play it as strong as necessary, to save that career.
This could get more intriguing, not to mention silly, before the election.
