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Marjorie Taylor Greene Responds to Backlash Over Comments About Northeast Earthquake
April 7, 2024 1:34 PM EDT
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, doubled down on remarks about Friday’s earthquake in the Northeast and the upcoming solar eclipse anticipated throughout North America as indications from God in action to online criticism.
On Friday, in the wake of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake with a center in New Jersey that rattled the Northeast, Greene published on X, previously Twitter, that she saw the natural phenomena as magnificent significance.
“God is sending out America strong indications to inform us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and a lot more things to come. I hope that our nation listens,” Greene composed.
Readers included context in reaction to Greene’s remark, culminating in a neighborhood note appearing under the initial post. They explained that astronomers have actually understood for several years that April 8’s solar eclipse will happen. In addition, the National Earthquake Information Center reports around 55 earthquakes take place a day around the world, brought on by motion in between the earth’s tectonic plates on active or non-active faults.
Greene reacted to the online reaction on Sunday, publishing on X: “Many have actually buffooned and discounted this post and even put neighborhood notes.” She estimated a passage from the Bible where Jesus stated to a crowd: “You understand how to translate the look of the Earth and the sky. How is it that you do not understand how to translate this present time?”
“Yes, eclipses are foreseeable and earthquakes occur and we understand when comets are going by, nevertheless God developed all of these things and utilizes them to be indications for those people who think,” Greene composed.
Lots of have actually buffooned and discounted this post and even put neighborhood notes.
Jesus discussed that in Luke 12:54 -56.
Yes eclipses are foreseeable and earthquakes take place and we understand when comets are going by, nevertheless God produced all of these things and utilizes them to be indications for … https://t.co/BPs70oNXx3
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) April 7, 2024
The reactionary Republican typically makes headings for her remarks. In March, the Donald Trump advocate swore at a British reporter at the end of an on-camera interview when inquired about a conspiracy theory she had actually upheld. Greene likewise disrupted President Joe Biden throughout his State of the Union speech, leading him to provide unscripted remarks in reaction about Georgia nursing trainee Laken Riley, whose murder has actually ended up being a flashpoint in migration arguments this election year.
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