Thursday night’s tweet from Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done” is a little much – even for old Sporkfoot – to be saying out loud in public. Hell the Jewish Space Lasers thing is much more within the realm of technological possibility. While it was just batshit it may very well be speaking to a legitimate fear and apprehension within the MAGA establishment over the electoral impact of Hurricane Helene.

This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election. pic.twitter.com/XIbNZjuC1q

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 3, 2024

Seems easy enough to draw a straight line between the two tweets, with the weather control being a classic case of what Emory University doctoral researcher Shauna Bowes last year wrote was a coping mechanism meant to “make sense of distress and impairment” and that “when people experience threat and anxiety, they are likely to perceive that they possess little to no control over their environments. In line with this possibility, conspiratorial ideation tends to manifest small-to-medium negative correlations with perceptions of control. Moreover, experimentally increasing a perceived loss of control gives rise to greater conspiratorial ideation.” Maybe Marge should submit to an exam. Emory’s not that far of a drive from her district and she’s got nothing better to do.