Current Events > MTG doesn't understand solar eclipses

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https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greenes-solar-eclipse-post-gets-brutal-fact-check-1887631

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, was fact-checked on her social media post on Friday about the upcoming solar eclipse.

The total solar eclipse, which is when the moon completely passes over the sun creating darkness during daylight hours, will be observed in North America on Monday. The eclipse's path will move across Mexico, parts of the United States, and a small part of eastern Canada. The total eclipse will last up to 4 minutes and 28 seconds in some areas.

Greene wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, "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."

The congresswoman's post then got hit with a community note, which is a small blurb below a post that gives readers added context and typically disputes the X user's claims.

"Earthquakes happen all the time, all around the world," the community note read. "Eclipses are not random, they follow strict mathematical rules and can be predicted centuries before they happen. NASA has a site listing eclipses until the year 3000."

Newsweek reached out to Greene's office via email for comment.

On Friday, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit Whitehouse Station, part of Readington Township, in New Jersey, and rattled parts of the Northeast. Shaking was felt throughout the region, including New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania and as far as Maine.

Greene, a Christian known for her far-right views, has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration's policies, particularly when it comes to the handling of the migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border. She has also previously called for a "national divorce" between red and blue states.

Former Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, also spoke out against Greene's post.

"Fun fact. There are about 3 solar eclipses worldwide per year, and many earthquakes. Both events were predetermined at the creation of the universe," he wrote on Friday. "The solar eclipse is not a sign. It's just a really cool show, if the clouds cooperate. This lady is in congress?"

Kinzinger, who is currently a CNN senior political commentator, has been critical of far-right Republicans. He, along with former Representative Liz Cheney from Wyoming, were the only two Republicans to sit on the January 6 committeea House select committee tasked with investigating the events surrounding the riot of Donald Trump supporters that erupted at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, to stop the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election win.

I never got this repenting thing. It doesnt seem like it works if its not sincere and if you are threatened with disasters its gonna be anything but sincere. You dont just undo your personality.

I mean, is there anything she does actually understand?

Oh look a topic about Magic the Gathering

Oh

She's absorbed too much jewish satellite space laser energy.

"MTG doesn't understand"

Could have just left it right there.

Srk700 posted...

I mean, is there anything she does actually understand?

How to play to her base.

She is not sensible.

TomClark posted...

She is not sensible.

You're being more polite than she deserves. She's a fucking moron.

Srk700 posted...

I mean, is there anything she does actually understand?

Jewish space lasers

Wait. Nevermind. No.

Srk700 posted...

I mean, is there anything she does actually understand?

Grifting people who are even dumber/more insane than she is?

So if eclipses are warnings and last US eclipse was in 2017 then sounds like Trump is the one the heavens are trying to warn us about

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Oh look a topic about Magic the Gathering

Oh

same

She is a quantitatively and demonstrably stupid person with no redeeming values or qualities. Her term in Congress is solely meant to distort, disrupt and deceive.

Stuff like this is what they teach in grade school Earth science. But she's from Georgia so the board of education there probably struck that out from the curriculum.

bfslick50 posted...

So if eclipses are warnings and last US eclipse was in 2017 then sounds like Trump is the one the heavens are trying to warn us about

And it's trying to warn us again.

bfslick50 posted...

So if eclipses are warnings and last US eclipse was in 2017 then sounds like Trump is the one the heavens are trying to warn us about

Conveniently for them, it's open to interpretation. Conveniently for them, their interpretation is always the correct one.

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I was thinking the same. Liz Cheney too.

Cant you see?
God knew what state America would be in so he made sure that that earthquake would happen close enough to that solar eclipse as a warning!!!

I hope all the trumpers look directly at it. You know, to prove scientists wrong.

Commander?

MTG doesn't understand a single thing. Literally the dumbest person in Congress.

Starforge posted...

Literally the dumbest person in Congress.

As long as Bobobobert exists she still has a ways to fall. Shockingly

How's her ass?

Srk700 posted...

I mean, is there anything she does actually understand?

How to manipulate her base.

TheSuperSilver posted...

She is a quantitatively and demonstrably stupid person with no redeeming values or qualities. Her term in Congress is solely meant to distort, disrupt and deceive.

Stuff like this is what they teach in grade school Earth science. But she's from Georgia so the board of education there probably struck that out from the curriculum.

I'm from NC.

We literally had someone running for public office (only the county level, but still) a few years ago who opposed solar farms because the panels would absorb all the sunlight.

She said that on the record.

Starforge posted...

MTG doesn't understand a single thing. Literally the dumbest person in Congress.

You sure about that? She has some tough competition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVyHdZQPCxU