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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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[–] nifty 3 points 6 days ago

Shouldn’t anyone funding his lifestyle also be subject to lawsuits? This kind of lying can get people killed

[–] Hayduke 2 points 6 days ago

Kamala is Exxon?

[–] Johnmannesca 2 points 6 days ago

I hope we can sue the shit out of him like when he denied Sandy Hook

[–] Sam_Bass 1 points 6 days ago

guess it takes morethan stripping him of his assets to shut his lying mouth off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Ah, we've gone from appealing to conspiracy theorists to appealing to the legit mentally unwell.

Super.

[–] buzz86us 1 points 6 days ago

But you also say manmade climate change is a myth.. So which is it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

People buy pills from this guy and put them IN THEIR BODY.

For anybody outside the US wondering how Trump has even the slightest chance to win the election, this is who we’re living with over here!

[–] aesthelete 1 points 6 days ago

The Democrats control the weather and that's why they purposefully made it rain in Detroit in November of 2016 because they wanted turnout to be low and for Trump to be elected.

Therefore, Trump is a secret deep state agent.

/s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

At this point, right-wing lunatics are already so far removed from reality that it's safe to call them a sect.

[–] crystalmerchant 1 points 6 days ago

Dan and Jordan gonna have a grand ol' time with this one

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

you mean like the nuke that trump said he was going to use against a hurricane?

[–] mostdubious 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you have to round up not only the people that peddle this shit but the people that are gullible enough to believe it and get them far away from the gears of society. i don't care how you do it, or where they end up, or how it gets done, but it's obvious that we cannot have a functioning society with these people in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What the fuck do we do with the weather control machine then? :o

You're telling me we spent $5.7 billion of traceable taxpayer money on a weather altering device just to not u-- I'm just fucking with ya 😂

[–] mostdubious 0 points 6 days ago

i'm absolutely serious.

[–] [email protected] 233 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] Stupidmanager 2 points 6 days ago

Nah, need to update climate controller to version 2 and then we have to subscribe monthly in order to have that level of precision. /s

I like the current theory that this is god smiting those sinners who have turned his words into hatred.

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[–] [email protected] 199 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] billiam0202 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] hemmes 31 points 1 week ago

A billion and a half so far!

👉

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 week ago (32 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?

[–] militaryintelligence 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Its contagious. There's fascist uprisings going on everywhere, not just in the US. I think a lot of "Trump supporters" we see online is astroturfing, making it seem he has more supporters than he does

[–] PorradaVFR 85 points 1 week 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.

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[–] billiam0202 44 points 1 week ago (6 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?

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] ulkesh 2 points 6 days ago

Because idiots listen to him.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 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.

[–] NikkiDimes 39 points 1 week ago
[–] villainy 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Veneroso 1 points 6 days ago

At least one.....

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[–] leadore 50 points 1 week 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] 1 points 6 days ago

A headline of a judge ordering something to happen doesn't instantly make it happen. Still takes time.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This Alex Jones mf. Imagine running your mouth so bad you have to pay a billion and a half dollars to families of murdered children. I'd probably be terrified to ever open my mouth ever again.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week 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.

[–] chetradley 37 points 1 week 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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