I was in Trenton for the amazingly rare East Coast earthquake, and the pens rattled on my desk. I'm not sure what I need to repent of, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is sure somebody needs to repent of something, especially the people in the affected blue states who felt that thing. She got "Community-noted" about how tectonic plates and the celestial line-up lead to events that are scientifically explainable and even scientifically predictable, sometimes, but who knows to what extent this obvious grade-school science sticks with people in a world where flat eartherism is coming back?
(Fun fact, eclipses actually disprove flat earth theory. Where in all of recorded celestial history is a pie-plate eclipse?)
She isn't alone in trying this- and people were also using the Baltimore bridge collapse as a sign of...some kind of weird God portent just a beat earlier.
MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau says the "silver lining" to the Baltimore bridge collapse is that it might be a sign from God about the importance of the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/5v9cqiZ22L
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 2, 2024
Or, or--maybe the bridge collapse is a sign that heavy cargo ships are truly and in fact really heavy? It's physics. So are eclipses and earthquakes.
It really astounds me that anti-science is a huge part of GOP messaging. Why would anyone want the US to be less prepared for events that can be explained and ameliorated by knowledge of science? But then I realize the GOP prospers when people don't know any science at all--see global warming, for example.
We don't need to repent. We need to learn middle school geology.
