Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Wed 9 Jul 2025 06.00 EDT
Last modified on Wed 9 Jul 2025 06.30 EDT
Disasters and tragedies have long been the source of American conspiracies, old and new. So when devastating flash floods hit Texas over the Fourth of July weekend, and as the death toll continues to rise, far-right conspiracists online saw their opportunity to come out in full force, blurring the lines of what’s true and untrue.
Some people, emerging from the same vectors associated with the longstanding QAnon conspiracy theory, which essentially holds that a shadowy “deep state” is acting against president Donald Trump, spread on X that the devastating weather was being controlled by the government.
“I NEED SOMEONE TO LOOK INTO WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS,” posted Pete Chambers, a former special forces commander and frequent fixture on the far right who once organized an armed convoy to the Texas border, along with documents he claimed to show government weather operations. “WHEN WAS THE LAST CLOUD SEEDING?”
The same chain of posts on the social media platform X singled out a California-based “precipitation enhancement” company as a potential culprit. It didn’t take long for one of the most integral figures in the QAnon movement to repost Chambers, which received millions of views on the Elon Musk owned-app.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories
Didn't they give Muskrat the "honor" (with his $1/4 billion "entrance fee" ) of "draining the swamp" and "clearing out 'the deep state'"?
So there is no one left but these brain dead stinking rotted corpses now revealed to be the true cause for the disasters due to their climate-change denial and war on science, facts, and common sense.
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