Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Believed Wildfires Were Started By “Jewish Space Lasers”

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January 29, 2021, 12:31 pm

Donald Trump might be out of the White House, but he left behind a trail of weirdoes who should not have anything to do with running the government.

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One Republican Representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has been getting a lot of attention lately for all the stuff she’s said and done in the past that would get her banned from most jobs. Just not Congress, apparently.

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The most recent “reveal” of public posts Greene has made has started the hashtag #JewishSPaceLasers trending on Twitter.

It refers to a Facebook post that Greene wrote in 2018 as wildfires raged along the west coast. Unearthed by Media Matters, it refers to a QAnon conspiracy theory that the fires were deliberately started to clear the way for a high-speed rail, using “space solar generators.”

“If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented.

What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not! That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E.”

Not that it matters, but Newsweek reports that Solaren was planning to launch for PG&E in 2016 but it never happened, so there were no solar panels launched into space for nefarious or beneficial purposes.

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Greene mention of the Rothschilds is basically a red flag wave for anti-Semites, and people noticed. Soon, the hashtag arose, and some people used it to joke (instead of raging out) and others used the Facebook post as yet another example of why Greene isn’t fit to serve in office:

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A member of congress thinks there is a Jewish Laser beam to clear space or something for high speed rail and on Sunday TV pundits will ask democrats why they can’t find middle ground on Covid relief. All of these otherwise smart people will pretend not to know the answer.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 29, 2021

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This Jewish space laser thing makes no sense to me. Because, as every Jewish mother knows, you could put an eye out with that.

— Ruth Marcus (@RuthMarcus) January 29, 2021

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Ah, I see we’ve come to part of the narrative where the Jews have a super-secret space laser that we use to start forest fires—instead of using it to zap the congresspeople who out our super-secret space laser.https://t.co/VXxTqzxfRD

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) January 29, 2021

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the GOP Congressional leaders on Thursday that she wants to hear more from them about Greene’s history, like “no” and “we don’t want her here.”

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“What I’m concerned about is the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, who is willing to overlook, ignore those statements,” she said.

Well, they’re willing to ignore her for harassing a teenager on the street because he survived a mass shooting.

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*First Published: January 29, 2021, 12:31 pm