Conspiracy theories are an American pastime, we just can’t get enough of them. And if you go do a quick search I am willing to bet there are thousands out there under the political category.
Web-based chat rooms and forums are the new norms where Joe and Jane Schmo can sermonize their brains out, bouncing their ideas off of one another until some coincidences become calamitous conundrums that only make sense if the “Illuminati” or the “zionists” or some other unseen enemy is the root cause of it all.
It’s well known that Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of our nation’s newest Congresswomen, is well-knowledged in conspiracy culture. But how deep her beliefs run in some of the internet’s more unconventional ideas is just now coming to the surface.
QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on Facebook that she believed California’s deadliest wildfire was potentially caused by space lasers that were connected to the Rothschilds and former Gov. Jerry Brown to clear the way for a high-speed rail system.
The left-leaning Media Matters for America found a since-deleted Facebook post Greene wrote in November 2018 that details her views on how the devastating Camp Fire got started, which killed 85 people, saying, ‘there are too many coincidences to ignore.’
Greene, a Republican from Georgia, tried to connect the Pacific Gas and Electric Company – whose faulty equipment did start the blaze – through one of its board members to Rothschild Inc., in an anti-Semitic dog whistle.
The theory is that these supposed evil-doers use “direct energy weapons” to create destruction where ever they deem necessary, whether that be starting the devastating California wildfires or even demolishing the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Greene could be expelled from Congress over her recent conspiratorial statements, but the majority necessary to follow through with the move doesn’t appear to be on board.
