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Writing on X, the Republican politician said she was creating legislation that would make "the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity" a felony.

"I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity," she wrote. "It will be a felony offense."

She added: "We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering."

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[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago

If this unintentionally regulates greenhouse gas emissions I’m going to laugh so hard.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Express purpose probably saves them. The express purpose is to vent externalities

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It would be beautiful if this dimwit bumbled her way into making the world a better place....but we're probably in the wrong timeline for that

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago

I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity,”

So carbon dioxide? Guess we better shut down the coal power plants. MTG says so!

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

Alas "express purpose" is in there. Clearly the express purpose for petrol companies is profit. And CO2, other pollutants are just inadvertent things that happened on the way to (destroying the planet for) profit. I mean they only sold the petrol products, they didn't force people that purchased the gasoline to burn it. Maybe we can go after the combustion engine producers?

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[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

All pollution?!? Make all pollution illegal?!?!?

That’s what it is, right?

[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Felony to operate your air conditioner. Awesome

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[-] TechAnon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

These aren't serious people.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago

They're decreasing the food, so they gotta increase the circus

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

We dont live in a serious nation.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

What an absolute fucking idiot.

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[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago

I can see how people in the future could turn this one around on to oil and plastic companies. We should probably not stop this one.

[-] Octavio@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

The only “weather modification machines” are fossil fuel powered energy plants. We should join together with MTG to outlaw them.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

I mean, technically we’ve been playing around with cloud seeding and such which is about the only thing I can think of that would even come close to what she is talking about. But it’s by no means a common occurrence.

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

I thought she'd prioritize dealing with sharknado attacks but there we have it.

Immigrantnado!

The new conservative horror film

[-] lipilee@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago

I'll rotfl my mao off when this law will turn out to accidentally punish fossil fuel and chemical companies dispersing chemicals or substances into the atmosphere and altering weather, also known as climate change.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

You just know they won't touch those companies because how else are they gonna get their bribe money?

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Maybe they'll unintentionally outlaw pollution like when the Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis in 2018

[-] III@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Sadly, all it will take is some CEO to publicly state "I didn't intend to pollute the environment. I dumped dangerous chemicals into nature because I wanted more money. Yes, I knew my actions would modify the weather, as this legislation states. But that was not my express purpose. My purpose was to be able to afford my 17th yacht so my peers would accept me."

Perfectly legal.

[-] tungsten5@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I haven’t read the article or comments yet. Just the post title. I am afraid of the amount of brain cells I am about to lose. I’m going in, will update in a moment.

Edit: what the fuck did I just read. A new bill to stop a conspiracy theory? MTG is dumb as a stone and I can’t comprehend how she is still in office

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

So would preventing “geoengineering” also prevent trying to stop climate change?

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I honestly can't tell whether her intent is to block any counter-climate change projects or if this is just a dumb chemtrails thing.

I mean, I assume it's chemtrails, given the source, but it could easily be a "I like the smell of forest fires, and you'll reduce hurricane intensity over my dead body." Given the source.

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[-] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Are they literally just laying the groundwork to frame Democrats for weather modifications so they can blame all of climate change on us and create a modern day witch hunt? Seriously? How the fuck is anyone stupid enough to believe this shit?

[-] III@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

How the fuck is anyone stupid enough to believe this shit?

The American "education" system... that's how. Conservatives paid good money over the decades to build this level of general stupidity.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All the fucking stupidest people. Every goddamn idiotic conspiracy theory is getting a pipeline straight to mainstream news outlets and a rep in government now. Instead of some stupid Bircher literature or having to stand out on the street and screech nonsense at passerby who could just ignore the crazy people...

I am seriously wondering when the moon landing denialists and the flat earth morons and the HIV-denialists will get their day of representation, too.

We already have the anti-vaxxer dumbfucks, the Qanon loons, the evolution-denying dipshits, what else is missing...? How about David Icke level bullshit about lizard people?

JFC.

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[-] Thermite@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

Does this make "Rollin' coal" illegal?

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Geoengineering… like fracking?

Or like building man-made lakes and tunnels? What about digging a pool in my backyard?

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

So glad we handed over all levers of power to these morons.

[-] etherphon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Seriously fuck this idiot and the idiots who voted for her. Just a disgraceful embarrassment. Then again so is work, so I get it, but have some dignity.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Why is mtg still able to talk?

[-] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Does this include using a sharpie to control a hurricane?

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is performative ignorance, to please the home schooled bible toting cretins who vote.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All this is gonna stop is cloud seeding, since that is literally the only way in which we manipulate the weather.

Well... On purpose, I mean. If this has the side effect of outlawing all greenhouse emissions because it's altering the weather in form of making shit hotter, that's a win.

Edit: Also I am reminded of the time some PR lady for HAARP said the array can manipulate the weather because, technically, it could punch a hole in clouds directly above it. Which I thought was just stupid, even as a joke, because they were trying to squash the rumors that it was some kind of hurricane machine.

[-] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

You know it ain't. This is her trying to ban some conspiracy theory non existent weather device, just like the space laser she was crying about a couple years ago.

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[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Can you guys please try to elect some people that will actually do the job they are voted on to do instead of waste everyone's time and accomplish nothing. Tearing shit down is incredibly easy, building shit up takes decades. You ha e severely fucked yourselves over and destroyed all the work of the past 50-75 years of being a country in the modern world. Y'all are fucked and still talking about the next vote like it even fucking matters anymore. America is fucking gone man, you just don't realize it yet.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

gotta shoot them. there's no other way. they have tried all the peaceful options already multiple times each.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't shoot them. You gather in large mobs and take them out of their houses and burn them or hang them or decapitate them in public. There has to be "due process" by the law of the land, otherwise it's just nutsos with guns killing people. Mob justice is rarely the answer, but in cases like this it's the only thing that will work. You also can't bank on your compromised justice system to punish these people, they built the system so they can't be.

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[-] d33pblu3g3n3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Marjorie Taylor Green is such a waste of resources.

Ugly, dumb and vile.

And I bet she stinks.

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Misting fans are now a felony

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Is this the work of a syphilitic brain?

[-] prototact@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

At this point she is trolling with legislation, this is not even legislation for financial profit, she is just doing it to fuck with the minds of people that support green energy transition against climate change. Pure malicious glee. I hope she faces mob justice at this point.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Oh for fucks sake…. How can one woman be some incredibly dense?

She probably heard somewhere that is why there were flash floods in Texas because some evil genius is punishing “real Americans”.

The ironic thing is the GOP constant bashing of clean, renewable energy and promoting fossil fuels and coal really is affecting the weather, just not in a very predictable or controlled way.

[-] III@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is the same moron that has long believed that the Jews control space lasers that manipulate the weather.

I am surprised it took her this long to make a move.

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Stop paying attention to her. Make sure the next thing you click on related to her, is footage of her murder.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Next up is a bill to shoot every remaining unicorn

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

So go after the bullshit corpos releasing megatons of co2 into the atmosphere

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