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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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[–] [email protected] 232 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If "the libs" controlled the weather, Jones would be getting zapped by lightning every time he opened his stupid mouth.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Can I thank the government for all the sunny days as well? I don't understand how this work, can they only create bad weather or good weather as well?

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

A billion dollar judgement against this guy and he is still spewing lies.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

A billion and a half so far!

👉

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's truly unbelievable, isn't it. It illustrates the degree to which people are truly a slave to their impulses and delusions. No external factors will ever reform this guy, and it's really a sad thing to watch a person trapped in their own kind of hell.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

He knows what the truth is. He just wants money and cocaine, so he continues doing these.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Kamala lives rent free in his head. I've heard, you know...on TV, that there's a way to get her out and it involves a power drill with a long drill bit. But, shhh...don't tell anyone - it's a liberal secret.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

That's the only thing he knows and sells.
How else should he get money now?

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[–] [email protected] 158 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

It's mindblowing to us non-Americans that such a large percentage of a purportedly first-world country can be so utterly stupid. I can't imagine that things were this bad even just 20 years ago. Why are y'all so dumb?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Decades undermining and underfunding education. They want dumb consumers just informed enough to work a shit job and earn enough to survive but not thrive.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I have friends who are teachers, and the education policies in place even here in California are absolutely asinine. They are required to have extensive documentation to fail a student, in that kids who did fuckall that year are promoted to the next grade anyway. There are kids entering highschool are struggling with reading comprehension and basic arithmetic, nevermind have behavioral issues galore and just a general sense of apathy. Admin tend to side with insane parents instead of teachers in the classroom, exacerbating the behavior problems. It's all bad news bears.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Decades of propaganda painting opposition to the GOP as literal Satan worshipping baby killing pedophiles, and when that's who you're running against, how could not vote for the GOP no matter how uneducated they are?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

i agree this is the main thing, plus social media. that’s a recipe for conspiracies to spread like wildfire. any asshat can make a spooky video and appear to know what they’re talking about, and people are not nearly skeptical enough. Not to mention algorithms designed to keep people clicking, tapping, and watching.

sure education is facing challenges but i don’t think it’s THAT much worse than a few decades ago. it just hasn’t been able to catch up with the propaganda and social media.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The attack on education is part of the long term strategy. The early indoctrination and propaganda gets people into the conspiracies and a lack of education makes sure they stay there and don't stop to consider how utterly batshit insane they sound. I also think lead exposure due to usage of leaded gas prior to 1996 can't be overlooked. There's a very obvious correlation in violent crime rates that corresponds with the increased usage of leaded gas in the 60s and the sharp decline in the 90s following its phasing out starting in the 80s and outright ban in the mid 90s.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

I've usually pointed towards our education system but I'm not so sure anymore. I think there's more at play.

I think it's more about the inherit individualism in America, "the American dream", capitalism, and the definition of The United States. There's a strong rejection of community support and social services. There's a desire to have more than we need. There's a fear of "others" who threaten your domicile and prosperity. The country was founded on a distrust of government with the formation of semi-sovereign states and multiple forms of checks and balances.

I think there's an argument that to "be American" means to be in opposition to and skeptical of government. At first, in wake of the revolutionary war, this seemed reasonable. With slow moving news and a journalistic industry maintaining the fourth pillar of democracy, without the temptation of ad revenue or competition with social media, Americans were, frankly, sheep to a small group of organizations. As a 21st century first first world country, we really need to get together and reassess what the role of government should be and how to draft a constitution that meets the needs of a nation in an increasingly connected (and shrinking) planet.

We are not afforded the tools to be competitive with the future of humanity.

I actually believe our lack of faith in religion has had a negative impact. We used to be more connected with our community. We largely trusted one another. It was not that long ago that hitch hiking across the country was a normal practice for teens. I don't believe in gods but I have respect for some aspects of some religious organizations. What seems to have replaced this is social media bubbles or tribes. Or internet forums like this.

We're an increasingly fractured nation that holds distrust of all things in high regard.

Also, we're a nation that defines wealth as the ability to acquire rather than the ability to give.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Because the Republicans have spent the last 40 years slowly demolishing public education. That combined with a steady feed of propaganda on AM radio and Fox News, plus mild lead poisoning from leaded gas usage prior to the 90s has resulted in multiple generations that lack even the most rudimentary critical thinking skills or scientific knowledge and are primed to believe whatever absurd conspiracy reinforces whatever their pastors and favorite talking heads are saying.

They're absolutely convinced that the US government has been infiltrated by "communists" that are engaged in grand sweeping conspiracies to destroy the US, and the only solution is to remove all power from the US government. They've been steeped in propaganda for decades that tells them all governments are corrupt and only corporations can be trusted, that the "free market" is the solution to all problems.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Why does this sentient piece of excrement still have a platform?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

He needs money to live now that the courts have started selling his business to pay off the last people he hurt by spreading insane conspiracy theories.

He’s a one trick pony, only thing he knows how to do is lie and sell snake oil pills that turn you red.

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[–] kn0wmad1c 72 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

The sad thing is there are actual people out there who would believe this sooner than they'd see climate change as the cause.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And some, or at least one, of them is a member of Congress.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's a human nature thing. We are really much happier as people when there's a "logical" course of real events that lead to any disaster. We can understand "evil group did evil thing" better than "the collective actions of humanity over the last 200 years caused a fundamental change to our world that we cannot reverse in our lifetime."

We aren't good at nuance.

Some random wacko deciding to kill Kennedy because of mental illness and a general hostility towards his world view is harder for us to accept than a secret plot to seal power. Bad guys make sense to us. Chaotic elements just don't.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Any idiot can "broadcast" from a smartphone.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

In my opinion, the real concern here is that this may be the demise of the need to address climate change. Just as these wackos convinced millions of people that vaccines were a government plot, they're setting the stage for the climate change hoax. There will be a large swath of people who convert to believe the government is in control of the weather and the change we've experienced in our climate. This should be a grave concern for all.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

2000's conservative: "Climate change isn't real".
2010's conservative: "Climate change is real, but it's not caused by human activity".
2020's conservative: "Climate change is caused by human activity, and IT'S THE LIBERALS AND THEIR HURRICANE MAKING SPACE LASERS".

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Here’s the thing… If we can control the weather so easily, why can’t the Republicans? Have they not figured it out yet? I don’t want to vote for someone who can’t even destroy Florida on a whim with a few clouds.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Didnt this guy just get bankrupted?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Weather devastated a place they don't like : god is punishing sinners

Weather hits their dirty little chode-land: THE DEMZ CONTROL THE WEATHER!

K, got it...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They stopped with the ‘it’s God punishing sinful States’ when it became apparent that all the states that kept getting hit with natural disasters were mostly Republican controlled ones. 😂

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't he supposed to be liquidating his equipment and not using it to get into more trouble. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard this before but if Harris and the Dems are literally controlling the weather, why wouldn't you vote for them?!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

So she is targeting Democratic leaning cities to stop people from voting for her. Idiot.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand what the word "certified" is supposed to mean in his rant. Is this some new teen-speak redefinition that he's trying to appropriate? "power certified"? Huh?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, because closely-scrutinized disaster responses that are having to be done in multiple states for multiple storms are such a huge winner for the incumbent party. This is one of those conspiracies that is not only stupid on its face, but it doesn't make any sense at all even if it was true. It's a failure of critical thinking on so many levels.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is this even in the news? This is the same kind of dumb shit that would get talked about on AM radio stations and other conspiracy theory circles that nobody paid any attention to because of how completely stupid it sounded to a rational person. Can we stop giving these people any attention?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not a conspiracy theorist but a scam artist.

Pretty sure he doesn't believe those lies, he's just scamming the poor bastards that do.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Please. Let's not post conspiracy theories in the news channel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn't this motherfuckers show broken up and to be sold to pay the billions he owes? How is this asshole still allowed to go on the air and spew this bullshit?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That any double digit percent is falling for this bullshit is a sad commentary of the state of the world today. And I'm not singling Americans out because there are plenty of idiots on the other side of the ocean as well.

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