Say what?

Somehow, this woman named Marjorie Taylor Greene became a U.S. Representative from Georgia, and she is up to her chit again, this time suggesting that  “they” control the weather. This nonsense was doled out as many Southern states, Republican-leaners all (including her Georgia), deal with the double wallops of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. 

What she said was: “Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

I limit my political content to snarky Facebook remarks and Instagram photos meant to embarrass a certain family, but I have to comment on this lunacy from MTG, because if there's one thing we of a certain age heard about all the time, it was the parental ban on nonspecific pronouns. For example:

"SHE won't let me to Towson Plaza to hang around the carnival."

The reply: "SHE has a name! Don't call people 'she'."

"We all had to write 'I will not talk in class" a thousand times because of HIM!"

In this landmark case from junior high, "HIM" referred to a martinet who taught social studies.

So, don't be afraid to name the people to whom you refer, unless you are speaking of an unschooled woman such as Greene, who once claimed that our government was trying to force us to eat fake meat grown by Bill Gates in a petri dish, although she called that glass dish seen in every school science lab a "peach tree dish," and once got mixed up and called the Nazi secret police of WWII Germany the "Gazpacho," instead of Gestapo, proving that it's foolish to serve a complete meal, soup to nuts.