Stupid people of the week

NJ Senate Candidate Deletes Post Blaming ‘Climate Crisis’ for Northeastern Earthquake

ocial media erupted with criticism when a Green Party member, who is a candidate running for Senate in New Jersey, pointed to the “climate crisis” as the reason behind the recent earthquake in the Northeast.

The New York Post reported Saturday that Christina Amira Khalil wrote the post not long after the area felt the quake that was followed by several aftershocks on Friday.

“I experienced my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes. The climate crisis is real. The weirdest experience ever,” her post read:

Social media users were quick to share their thoughts on Khalil‘s message, one person writing, “She skipped science class.”

“She probably thinks Guam is going to flip over, too,” someone else commented, while another person said, “More lies to scare everyone.”

So-called “climate change” and earthquakes are not connected because an earthquake happens when tectonic plates hit each other underneath the Earth’s surface, the Post article continued, citing NASA:

“We know that most earthquakes occur far beneath Earth’s surface, well beyond the influence of surface temperatures and conditions,” Alan Buis of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in 2019.

“We know the statistical distribution of earthquakes is approximately equal across all types of weather conditions. Myth busted.”

Meanwhile, officials said there were approximately 18 aftershocks from the 4.8 magnitude earthquake, and tremors were felt from Washington, DC, to New York City, to Maine, per Breitbart News.

“When the earthquake hit, officials began working to determine if there was any damage incurred, according to Breitbart News. However, authorities reported very slight or no damage, and the NYPD said no one was reported to be injured,” the outlet said.

Clips recorded inside people’s homes and other areas show their reactions when the earthquake happened. One woman appears to be in her kitchen with her dog, according to NBC New York.

“That was an earthquake. Oh my god! What in the world was that? That was an earthquake, Lucy!” she tells the dog who also seems to be slightly confused by the quake:

A man filming outside records a road with a large crack going across it in New Jersey. He said, “This crack wasn’t here,” before showing a second one nearby.

Source; Breitbart

ABC’s Hostin Links Eclipses, Earthquakes, Cicadas to Climate Change

Not to be outdone, The View takes the stupid up a level.

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Monday on ABC’s “The View” that eclipses, earthquakes and cicadas could “lead one to believe” that “climate change exists.”

Partial transcript as follows:

HOSTIN: I know, right? I have to say, one of our wonderful makeup artists…when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was, like, Jesus is coming. I’m out. I’m leaving. We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got an earthquake. She ran down the hallway.

GRIFFIN: The Rapture is here!

HOSTIN: The Rapture is here. Also, I learned that the cica-ah-das are coming.

GOLDBERG: Cicadas.

HOSTIN: For the first time in a hundred years.

GOLDBERG: No, no, no, no. There’s two different kinds coming. There’s two different kinds of cicadas coming.

BEHAR: The good cicadas and the bad cicadas.

HOSTIN: This is for the first time in many, many years.

GOLDBERG: No, every 17 years this happens.

HOSTIN: That’s not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.

GOLDBERG: In a way.

HOSTIN: All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.

BEHAR: Earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground.

GOLDBERG: The eclipse, and they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen. So all these folks who are saying, you know, it’s a sign from God — God doesn’t give you warning. Ok? You think he gave people at the Tower of Babble a warning? “Oh, I’m about to jack y’all up?” No. God does stuff and then you figure, oh.

Source; Breitbart

Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Sun Is ‘Almost’ Impossible to Go Near, Moon ‘Made Up Mostly of Gases’

Then, to make Hostin look like a genius, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee proves she’s perhaps one of the dumbest people in the country.

Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is under fire for remarks she made about the moon and sun on Monday, concluding that the former is “made up mostly of gases” and asserting that it is “almost” impossible to go near the sun.

“You’ve heard the word full moon. Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Jackson Lee claimed during a recent appearance at the Booker T. Washington High School in Houston.

“And that’s why the question is why or how could we, as humans, live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?” she asked students before switching gears to the sun.

“The sun is a mighty powerful heat,” she said, telling students it is “almost impossible to go near the sun.”

“The moon is more manageable. And you will see…in a couple of years that NASA is going back to the moon,” she said, offering other head-scratching facts ahead of the eclipse:

I don’t think we’ve been on the moon the last 50 years. So we will be landing on the moon. What you’ll see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years, which means that’s why they will shut the light down because they will be close to the Earth.

Jackson Lee added that she would like to be the “first in line to know how to live and to be able to survive on the moon.”

Her remarks generated plenty of mockery, particularly given that she once reigned as the top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee.

“How are these the people running our country,” one person asked.

“She criticizes others for being unintelligent,” another mocked.

“Listening to this hurt,” another added as others piled on:

Jackson Lee corrected her remarks in a statement to the New York Post, claiming she “misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters.”

“What can I say though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity!” Jackson Lee said of her GOP critics.

“They should be focusing on issues like prenatal care, building more affordable housing, and more reduction of student loan debt as President Joe Biden is,” the congresswoman continued, claiming that she cares “more about these children who would not have experienced the eclipse in this enthusiastic manner.”

“And I care more about protecting the rights of women and children than engaging in this kind of senseless dialogue!” she added.

Source; Breitbart

Don’t Walk, Run did a fantastic video on this.

Killer LA mom who stabbed partner, pushed kids out of car in murder-suicide was reportedly terrified of world ending with the eclipse

The killer mom who butchered her boyfriend and pushed her kids out of a moving car before crashing into a tree Monday was a once-prolific astrologer who was terrified of the impending “apocalypse” she believed the eclipse would incite, according to a report.

Danielle Johnson — a popular astrology influencer who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online — warned her 106,000 followers to “wake up” and to “pick a side” in the days before she carried out the twisted murder-suicide that spanned several Los Angeles neighborhoods, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday.

“WAKE UP WAKE UP THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE. EVERYONE WHO HAS EARS LISTEN. YOUR TIME TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS NOW,” Johnson wrote last week in a tweet that was viewed 600,000 times.

“IF YOU BELIEVE A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE FOR THE PEOPLE RT NOW. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE!!!! REPOST TO MAKE THE CHOICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE.”

Three days later — hours before the eclipse was expected to occur over California — Johnson murdered two of her loved ones and tried to kill her oldest daughter before killing herself in an early-morning massacre, according to police.

Johnson urged her followers to protect themselves from the eclipse, which she dubbed the “epitome of spiritual warfare.”

Johnson — who offered self-help and healing sessions online for just $2.99 — spewed antisemitic posts and conspiracy theories about natural phenomenon on X.

She also likened the New Jersey earthquake to white supremacy and accused the government and media of trying to cover up what she feared was the impending apocalypse.

“THESE ARE ALL THE WAYS THEY HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMING US WITH LIES!!! LOOK AT THESE TO UNDERSTAND THE AGENDA THIS IS REAL THIS IS SPIRITUAL WARFARE,” she wrote.

WAKE UP WAKE UP THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE. EVERYONE WHO HAS EARS LISTEN. YOUR TIME TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS NOW. IF YOU BELIEVE A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE FOR THE PEOPLE RT NOW.

THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE!!!! REPOST TO MAKE THE CHOICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE pic.twitter.com/NMyuLkBj5l

— Ayoka (@MysticxLipstick) April 5, 2024

The healer — who also peddled R&B songs — was once a media darling who was profiled by Refinery 29 and the Fader, both of which applauded her clairvoyant talents.

In 2016, Refinery 29 said Johnson had “a brilliant gift for calling out the nonsense of any sun sign in need of real truths.”

Johnson was apparently last active on social media Sunday afternoon — roughly 12 hours before police say she stabbed her 29-year-old boyfriend, Jaelen Allen Chaney, in the heart while he was on the couch of their luxury Woodland Hills apartment.

Evidence suggests she tried to drag the body out of the unit, but gave up and left his body in the kitchen, sources told the LA Times.

She then piled her two daughters in her Porsche Cayenne, which she drove through a security gate as she peeled away from the scene.

Around 5 a.m., Johnson threw her 9-year-old daughter out of the car and onto a freeway while the girl clutched her 8-month-old baby sister, authorities said. The older child survived the fall and escaped traffic, but the infant was found dead at the scene.

Johnson’s body was found several miles away at 5:30 a.m. inside a crushed car that had been driven into a tree at speeds topping 100 mph.

It was another two hours before police were called to the apartment where the violence broke out and pieced together the horrifying incident.

Investigators found a trail of bloody footprints leading through the open door of the apartment, which was also littered with black feathers and tarot cards, sources said.

Police initially said Chaney and Johnson were engaged in a verbal altercation when Johnson picked up the knife around 3:40 a.m.

The partial eclipse was visible across California about seven hours later.

It is believed the 9-year-old child — the sole survivor of the horrifying attack — had witnessed her mother slay Chaney.

Johnson killed herself more than 30 miles south of the site of Chaney’s murder.

Investigators are also still working to determine if the baby had died before being thrown from the car.

Source; NY Post

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