# Marjorie Taylor Greene — "a laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth" > [!quote] "If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I'm sure they wouldn't ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! … What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don't know. I hope not! That wouldn't look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E." > — Marjorie Taylor Greene, Facebook post, November 2018 ## Context A 2018 Facebook post — written before Greene held office — speculating that the deadly California [[2018 Camp Fire]] was started by a space-based solar energy beam connected to PG&E and "Rothschild Inc." Greene did not use the phrase "Jewish space lasers"; that is the satirical shorthand the post earned. The invocation of the Rothschilds, however, plugs the speculation directly into a centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy trope. ## Why this matters A receipt for the fusion of [[QAnon]]-era conspiracism with classic [[Antisemitism]] inside what would become mainstream Republican congressional leadership. The post is routinely cited to document that Greene — later a close Trump ally and committee member — trafficked in coded antisemitic conspiracy theory, and it stands as a marker of how thoroughly fringe conspiracy material migrated into the elected GOP. ## Verification - **Documentation:** [Media Matters — original post](https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018); [Snopes — what she did and didn't say](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greene-jewish-lasers-wildfires/). - **Status:** Verbatim excerpt of the Facebook post. The "Jewish space lasers" label is a paraphrase, not her words; the Rothschild reference and laser speculation are verbatim. ## Related quotes - [[Renaud Camus - the great replacement]] — the other great antisemitism-adjacent conspiracy frame mainstreamed in the same era.