'Veterans on Patrol': Inside MAGA's new assault on reality and bizarre conspiracy theory
'Veterans on Patrol': Inside MAGA's new assault on reality and bizarre conspiracy theory
In Oklahoma, a domestic militia calling itself “Veterans on Patrol” is systematically targeting weather radars. Their leader, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, claims the military is controlling the weather through Doppler radar systems and that these machines are part of a divine affront — a “weather weapon” — that is “mocking God Himself.”
He’s encouraging his followers to sabotage these radars under an operation he calls “Leaning Tower.” This isn’t just fringe paranoia: it’s part of a growing anti-reality insurgency that threatens our democracy itself.
So domestic terrorism?
Yes. That’s exactly what the article concluded.
Finally, the second amendment people are here to protect us! From radar!?
Looking forward to another Moore tornado, but with no warning sirens. When people die will the prosecutors have the nads to come after these dumbshits?
Bet we're gonna find out years later that this was the outcome of a successful foreign psyop to destroy US infrastructure. Kinda like how ppl were shooting at substation transformers a while back
Maybe, but I kinda doubt it. I think this psyop is Made in AMERICA™
ETA: Actually, I have no clue what to believe. I'm just a Texan screaming at an echo chamber of stupidity. I forgot that just because we've become a self-drinking glass of idiocy doesn't mean that there could have been an external catalyst.
Social media can influence a lot of people into doing things that go against their own interests
People are increasingly living in their own version of reality that is utterly irreconcilable with that of everyone else. In these conditions, how can we come in agreement about anything?
Acceptance of chaos.
We can't. That's part of the plan. A balkanized populace can never get together and face the real threat.
It'd be a real shame if these people were treated like the terrorists they actually are.
lol ok, Oklahoma. Go for it. Have fun. Throw Molotovs at the radars that literally save your lives in tornado season. You’re only going to decrease your own population. And I’m genuinely past caring at this point.
No. My old mentor had to move back to his home state of Oklahoma due to money reasons recently. He's a boomer but so very anti-Trump.
He's been away for fifty years. He hates that Oklahoma is at the absolute bottom of education, but it's where he grew up. Not everyone there is bad.
For being so bathshit crazy, they landed pretty close to the reality that oil rigs and other fossil fuel equipment are actually doing a ton of things they blame on the weather radars that make their lives better.
Maybe we don't factor out subtly redirecting them that way. Don't even tell them they're wrong, just point to what's making the weather actually be screwy.
Maybe it's those 30ish gas turbines in TN that are polluting the city to power a racist LLM
You might just be on to something there.
That's not new. That's Bush era old at the youngest
I don't know where the Wx radars are around here, but you don't have to drive more than an hour to see a hell of a lot of wind turbines sharing space with crops out on the Palouse . Those turbines absorb wind and therefore they change the weather, right? I'd be very surprised if they can't be run in reverse to generate winds - winds designed to blow farmers and their giant pickups and their farm equipment wherever the government wants them to be. Full government control. Fortunately I see that the small-town intelligentsia are starting to fight back against this kind of out-of control wind turbine government overreach.
is this a bit?
It's impossible to tell anymore. There was a time when we could have assumed it was a bit. Now we have mentally incompetent people running our government and encouraging their followers to be delusional.
A what?