FEMA Chief Asked At Hearing Do You 'Control The Weather' Or 'Send Hurricanes' To Trump Areas

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Nov 23rd, 2024, 10:24 am


Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) asked FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell if she or her agency “controls the weather” or “sends hurricanes” to areas based on political considerations at a hearing this week.

Fired FEMA employee Marn’i Washington was dismissed for telling workers in Florida to skip Trump houses during the Hurricane Milton recovery effort — but Washington says she was following orders, and that her instruction was a temporary “avoidance and de-escalation” measure. During Hurricane Helen, relief work was delayed because of an “armed militia” hunting FEMA workers.

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing this week on FEMA’s response to hurricanes that focused mainly on the incident.

But when Rep. Krishnamoorthi’s turn to question Administrator Criswell came around, he used part of his time to mock conspiracy theories that were spread by Republicans, including about “controlling the weather”:

REP. RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI: Thank you, Chairman, and thank you, Administrator, for your service. I want to show you a visual. Do you recognize this picture?

ADMINISTRATOR DEANNE CRISWELL: I do not.

REP. RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI: Good. It’s an atmospheric research facility in Alaska that, believe it or not, conspiracy theorists allege is a mind-controlling weather machine. And one of the conspiracy theories out there is that somehow FEMA controls the weather. And I assume that you as the administrator do not control the weather, right?

ADMINISTRATOR DEANNE CRISWELL: I do not control the weather.

REP. RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI: And you don’t use secret machines to control hurricanes to target certain places in the United States, right?

ADMINISTRATOR DEANNE CRISWELL: Correct.

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[SupportSanity]

1. Phew!!! (wipes sweat off of brow) That's reassuring!!!!

It's a rigged answer.



They won't believe it anyway. Why bother with an answer.

There's already one hundred "experts" saying that's not the truth.

This gets really boring. Like half the country is actually three year olds.

[Justice matters.]

4. That's an insult to three year olds.

Real three year olds are more reality-based than these maga dipshits.

[SupportSanity]

9. Woops. Sorrrrrryyyyyy!!!

In my best Emily Latella voice.....

Never mind!!!

[Ndp5]

2. Sad how people buy into that stuff

Good for him for winning re-election comfortably in a district where that’s less of an issue, but those types of conspiracy theories are a real problem.

I’m not saying there weren’t always people like that (I believe the term is “cranks”). But the internet — and social media platforms in particular — have basically weaponized idiocy.

We need better restrictions on social media conspiracy theory proliferation. Uninformed people find garbage online and just take it as gospel.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos

[Karasu]

3. The fact that this question is even being asked now really makes me think this country is too stupid to survive.

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Stop. Revisiting. Settled. Debates.

Stop. Normalizing. STUPIDITY.

Stop reducing literally fucking everything to a matter of "opinion." For that matter, stop treating uninformed opinions as somehow deserving equal respect as informed opinions.

Facts fucking exist, whether you like it or not.

This post-factual reality cannot endure much longer. It simply can't.

[ShazzieB]

15. I don't think that's what Raja was doing at all.

He wasn't normalizing that malarkey. He was putting it on display and showing how absurd it is. Metaphorically pointing and laughing at it.

[rampartd]

16. i heard it that way

giving the fema guy a chance to say, under oath, that the "weather control" nonsense is exactly nonsense.

[Karasu]

19. My rant was directed at American society in the last 8 years, not Raja specifically, but I know that was unclear.

Sorry about that. Raja's intentions were indeed good, though personally, I don't like to see this kind of nonsense given a platform even in jest.

[patphil]

5. Control a hurricane? Depending on it's size and intensity, it's 10's of thousands times more powerful than a nuke.

Controlling a hurricane is way beyond the ability of any government, and always will be.

[Rebl2]

6. Just

the thought you would even have to ask such stupid question because you have a bunch of maga republicans that think we can control where hurricanes, tornadoes or other weather phenomena go is UNBELIEVABLE 🙄.

[markodochartaigh]

7. Well, duh.

HAARP (The Alaska facility) is old news. Modern climatologists realize that the greatest, bestest way to control hurricanes is with a sharpie.

/s

[mercuryblues]

8. Or wear a diaper

like their hero,

[orleans]

11. holy crap! i didn't realize those weirdos made such a thing to support that shit!

found this diaper related thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1cikyuj/whats_going_on_with_maga_people_supporting_diapers/?rdt=51855

[sop]

10. Trump has Sharpies, he don't need no FEMA mind-controlling weather machines.

And everyone knows FEMA uses Jewish Space Lasers to control the weather.

[orleans]

12. good for raja Krishnamoorthi for bringing up the stupidness the Qs and trumpers put out there. nt

[NowsTheTime]

13. They deny climate change supported by 99% of scientists, but claim scientists are smart enough to control the weather.

..... geniuses all

[Afrocat]

14. Sigh, is this where we are at?

It really needs to be read into record that people aren't using Ming The Merciless weather machines?

[The Wielding Truth]

17. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... OMG! No I don't, but the Easter bunny does. Fools!

[SWBTATTReg]

18. What is the old saying, that if you're too dumb, you don't deserve to mingle w/ the rest of us normal people, or

anything else for that matter. You're just too stupid or dumb.