By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO — Reacting to the ferocity of Hurricane Helene, Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X: “Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” Although Greene doesn’t say who “they” are, “they probably are the same Jews she blamed for igniting California’s wildfires in 2021 with giant space lasers.
Greene is selective about who causes natural disasters. This summer when an earthquake shook New York, she contended that “God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens.” If Jews are really the Chosen People, perhaps the Almighty outsources Hurricanes to them.
Of course, Donald Trump would never resort to blaming the Jews for the devastation left in Helene’s wake. After all, they are too busy conspiring with the Democrats to engineer his defeat in November. Nevertheless, he did accuse the Biden/Harris administration of sabotaging FEMA’s relief efforts by diverting FEMA funds to illegal immigrants to get them to vote for Harris. Rather than credit FEMA for anything, a viral photograph shows Trump heroically wading through the floodwaters caused by Helene’s torrential rains on a mission to rescue the storm’s victims. This picture may disappoint his MAGA minions who believe he can walk on water.
Indeed, Trump knows how to redirect hurricanes by redrawing their paths with a sharpie. If he hadn’t been campaigning, he could have shifted the Helene’s trajectory into the Atlantic like he switched Hurricane Dorian’s to extend into Alabama in 2021. Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to concede that “the sharpie is mightier than the laser.”
PS You can either lament or celebrate that this is my 700th column for the San Diego Jewish World.
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Laurie Baron is a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University.
I, for one, celebrate your columns. They bring a bit of sardonic humor into the grim realities we face in the US today.
Laurie—thanks for reminding us about the great sharpie moment! At this point, I’m not sure the Angry Cheeto could even find the US on a map.
MTG is certifiable. I would love to see her and Laura Loomer in a cagematch. People would pay serious money to see that on Pay-Per-View. Then, we could donate the funds to the folks in Sandy Hook, and the families of RBG and Anthony Fauci.
Amazing turn of political philosophy.
I would not have thought a sharpie in the hands of a republican would have been so effective in controlling the weather. It has biblical implications – like the parting of the Red Sea.
Kuddos on your 700th.