Failed GOP Candidates Say 'Deep State' Used 'Weather Manipulation Technology' to Punish DeSantis

[Demovictory9]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-witzke-and-deanna-lorraine-say-deep-state-using-weather-manipulation-technology-to-punish-desantis

Two conspiracy-peddling former MAGA congressional candidates pushed an absolutely bonkers claim this week that the “Deep State” used “weather manipulation technology” to power up Hurricane Ian in order to hurt Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeAnna Lorraine, who unsuccessfully challenged Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in 2020, said on her far-right online show that the federal government knows “how to manipulate and create big storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, climate change,” adding that “huge hurricanes seem to target red states” near elections.

“In this case, possibly Ron DeSantis has been stepping out of line a lot and challenging, fighting the Deep State,” she added, noting that DeSantis is a likely GOP presidential candidate.

Lauren Witzke, the Republican Party’s 2020 Senate nominee for Delaware, agreed that Ian “could be a weather-manipulated hurricane” before noting that the storm became a Cat-5 hurricane “overnight” and “does seem to be hitting the conservative areas of” Florida.

“I’m not putting it past the elites to target something like this toward Florida as punishment for getting rid of vaccine mandates or getting rid of child grooming,” Witzke exclaimed.

[Lovie777]

1. There is always an excuse, even if it is totally delusional.....

they are always the victim and persecuted, but alas if this happened to an opponent it would be spouted that it was GAWD's doing.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

2. Just when you think they've reached a new level of stupidity

[Norbert]

3. The deep state is dumb enough to vote for Biden and Pelosi but...

now it is smart enough to control weather patterns.

Which is it?

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Personally, I find the idea of God showing His displeasure at

Florida voters for giving into their darker impulses and voting for DeSantis and his xenophobic and immigrant-bashing behaviors to be more plausible.

While I don’t believe in an angry God showing His wrath on a cosmic scale, there are a lot of passages in the Bible stating how foreigners should be treated, and those passages are more numerous and explicit than the passages right-wing reactionaries like to quote when they squawk about abortion.

[we can do it]

5. WTF is wrong with these loons?

[tanyev]

6. Oh, please.

You don't need Deep State for that when any moron can change the path of a hurricane with a map and a black Sharpie.

[hamsterjill]

7. Thread winner!!

Thanks for my gut chuckle!!!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. DUzy!!!!!!

[Swede]

8. When you believe in one conspiracy, the next one ain't so hard to swallow.

Occam's razor is not a part of the mindset.

[Demovictory9]

15. Good point.

[keep_left]

18. Yes, that's known as "crank magnetism".

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism

Another great concept, and somewhat related to crank magnetism, is "fractal wrongness".

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness

[Conjuay]

9. Weather manipulation?

Of course we know how to manipulate weather-
buy the biggest fossil fuel beast you can find.
Drive a tractor trailer convoy across half the continent.
Keep the thermostat at meat packing plant levels

We've got plenty of other suggestions,

just ask.

[Timeflyer]

10. "Once, every village had an idiot...

it took the internet to bring them all together," and out of the woodwork and running as GOP for Congress.

[Buckeyeblue]

11. The sad thing is that there are many people who believe this

Back in the 90's I used to listen to Art Bell. For me it was middle of the night sci-fi entertainment. But many people truly believed the outrageous conspiracy theories.

[Demovictory9]

19. I remember Art Bell. His stuff was more benign..not these racist anti lgbt anti democracy nonsense

[Blue Owl]

13. Hey dipshits....

[Zambero]

14. There is in fact such a thing

Weather Manipulation Technology: Decades of poorly-regulated greenhouse gas emissions, as a consequence of applied technology, having a cumulative negative impact on the global environment. And poor DeSantis never saw it coming!

[dalton99a]

16. .

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Crap, they're into us!

D’oh.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

20. I thought it was their god who punishes wicked people.

Doesn't their god create all the hurricanes and control the paths they follow. Surely mere humans, even those in the deep state, wouldn't be able to alter the path that their god had intended for it to take.