Oceans as a whole are form fitted into place.
Oceans are liquid water with significant mass, but freedom to move. Wind causes waves, but not a significant constant height change in water (usually).
Clouds on the other hand are steam - gaseous water.
Can you blow steam away? Yes. the air currents in the cloud layers are hundred+kmph, so a small tug from the moon isn't going to really change how the clouds operate.
Why are the air currents moving at hundreds of kms/hr?
Trolling or for real?
A flat earther wouldn't accept the answer that the earth is rotating at 1000mph, so the jetstream being 100-200kmph and more doesn't make sense.
Flight times at 35000 feet are always adjusted due to the jetstream, sometimes taking up to 20% off the flight time with a good tail wind, or adding just as much (or using more fuel to keep on schedule) when fighting a headwind.
The hot and cold surfaces also create some wind conditions, like the huge winds that just hit the west coast last week.
If the jet stream is caused at least partially by the rotation of the earth, wouldn't the oceans move the same way as clouds, in currents; and also not be affected by that tiny bit of gravity from the moon that we can't reliably measure?
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