On Saturday morning, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene launched into a creative explanation for how climate works, providing a graph on fossil fuels in an effort to prove her points.
“If you believe that today’s ‘climate change’ is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled,” Greene wrote on Twitter. “We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one another while our galaxy rotates and travels through the universe. Considering all of that, yes our climate will change, and it’s totally normal!”
She went on the extol the virtues of fossil fuels because they’re “natural.
This is the heir to the MAGA movement. She’s even dumber than Dear Leader.
Texeira is anything but “antiwar” by the way. But he and Marge are definitely on the same page:
The people in the online spaces where Airman First Class Jack Teixeira spent his time and allegedly leaked highly classified documents had many things in common. In obscure game forums and private online chat rooms, his friends posted slurs against minority communities, Ukrainians and pretty much everyone else.
Everyone, that is, except Russians.
Members of that small community, hosted on the social-media app Discord, admired President Vladimir Putin’s regime and its war on Ukraine. ..
As federal authorities began closing in, Airman Teixeira appears to have purged much of his online presence, but The Wall Street Journal attempted to reconstruct his activities from web archives. They reveal a young man with an intense interest in weapons and videogames—and the places where both converged.
On the popular videogame platform Steam, he was in groups with names like “3rd Light Infantry Company” and “The Cobalt Brotherhood”—communities that brought people together where they could jointly play online games while at the same time trash-talking on voice-and-chat services like Discord.
Handles associated with Airman Teixeira also had accounts on websites dedicated to collecting weapons and swapping tactical gear. From a young age, he nursed a fascination with history, especially the minutiae of weapons and armaments used in famous battles, a classmate recalled.
“He was just really into the whole, like, gun and war thing, more than, like, normal people were,” said Brooke Cleathero, 21, who said she attended history class with Airman Teixeira at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School. “He just wore a lot of camo.”
If he hadn’t run his little chat group and shared classified information he probably would have shot up that high school. To Marge that makes a hero.