Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods

[BumRushDaShow]

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

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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.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Tell them Musk is doing it with rockets. Them blowing up is just a cover story for chem dispersal operations

(insert fiendish grin)

[Prairie Gates]

2. Rather than look at the obvious: the county was too cheap and antigovernment to

even accept federal aid for warning systems.

No, it's not that, even though we have a clear evidentiary record in the form of council meeting transcripts. Nope. There was magical cloud seeding.

Of course, even in the bizarro and psychotic world where somebody controlled the weather to create this flood, a warning system would have still saved lives! But never mind all that. Cloud seeding, sure. Secret shadowy agents and not your own fucking imbecilic ideology and negligence, Texas. Cloud seeding it is, and even better if the evil shadowy agent / evil overlord is from, like, California or New York City! Yes!

Fucking morons.

[sop]

3. They acknowledged the death and disaster? Usually they claim the dead are crisis actors and the disaster was faked.

[IronLionZion]

4. The far right controls the federal and Texas governments

so these idiots should consider that the far right might be the conspiracy.

But of course DOGE cuts had nothing to do with it. Better cut more and give tax cuts to trickle down to them.

[Norrrm]

5. Always refer to DOGE cuts as Trump cuts. He owns them.

[Nigrum Cattus]

8. the republicant's own this

without the RW in congress none of this
would be happening, none.

[SunSeeker]

6. Of course. It's what right wingers do. nt

[SergeStorms]

7. Let me guess.

Without reading a single word before posting this, I'm going to guess it's Joe Biden, Democrats in general, or the supposed "deep state."

I'm going to read the article now, then I'll edit to see how accurate I was. 😁

Edit: OK, I had "deep state" correct, and as we all know, that means Democrats. 😂
That some are finally being woken from their slumber to think Trump's maladministration might be the culprit, actually shocked me.
And of course, EmptyG and her batshit crazy ideas win the prize. 🏆

[Scalded Nun]

9. The only thing more pathetic than these assholes are the fools who believe them.

[Karasu]

10. This shit is MAINSTREAM in that party after the last 10 years. It's an entire mythology of bullshit. They have

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conspiracy theories for literally everything that runs contrary to it and continue to shit them out like nobody's business, especially after a tragedy like this where the blame is fucking clear. In their world, nothing is ever obvious, there's always some nefarious "liberal agenda" behind anything they can't fit into the mythology they've already created.

[ananda]

11. Yes, you saw how MTG is trying to stop people from controlling the weather.

Nutz McCrutz

[LeftInTX]

12. Good ole'Lard ass himself was up in AF1 seeding clouds!!!