Sickening! The only word that comes to mind when
mentally deranged sickos and psychos spread conspiracy ideations that wreak havoc on top of what nature has wrought already. Such has been the case in the
southeast U.S. in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Across the Southeast, false rumors and conspiracy theories are
flying about Helene, which made
landfall as a major hurricane about a week ago, causing at least 229
deaths in six states. The misinformation is adding to the chaos and confusion
in many storm-battered communities, including many rural
areas that lack power and cell service, leading locals to rely on word
of mouth.
Case in point: One day after Hurricane Helene slammed
into Asheville, N.C., leading to seven trees falling on her house and
destroying her roof, Nicole McNeill read an alarming article that warned a
second storm was barreling toward the area.
McNeill, 43, had a panic attack, her anxiety spiking and her
heart pounding. She knew she didn’t have enough gasoline in her car to evacuate
from yet another disaster.
But it was all a hoax. According to McNeil:
“The second storm turned out to be a nonsensical rumor. And when you are with limited cell service and you come across
misinformation, you can make a split-second decision that can have
life-or-death consequences.”
Meanwhile, in western North Carolina last week, some residents
shared false information that a dam
was about to burst, prompting hundreds of people to unnecessarily evacuate
and diverting the attention of first responders. In eastern Tennessee, some
locals spread a hoax about federal officials seizing and bulldozing a town
hall. And in many parts of the Southeast, a debunked conspiracy
theory has circulated about FEMA spending
disaster relief money on helping migrants who are in the country
illegally.
Thankfully, FEMA has been updating a webpage seeking
to dispute common rumors, while the North Carolina Department of Public
Safety has
done the same, writing that authorities were “working around-the-clock to
save lives and provide humanitarian relief.”
For my money, the primary cause or source of this mental effluent has been the stream of lies and bullshit spread by the Reep candidates themselves. That is Traitor Trump and Vanity Vance. Trump has amplified the false claim about migrants during his Sept. 10 debate with Kamala Harris, e.g.
In ABC Debate Kamala Devastatingly Shows Only One Candidate Is Sane and Fit to Be President.
then doubled down on his horse shit at
campaign rallies and on his platform, Truth Social. Vance has been
no better, also yapping over and over about the Springfield OH stories fanned
by Trump then doubling down in his own Veep debate with Tim Walz.
Recall CBS Margaret Brennan pulled him up for one especially egregious whopper e.g.
“You’ve got schools (in Springfield) that are overwhelmed, you’ve got hospitals that are overwhelmed, you have got housing that is totally unaffordable because we brought in millions of illegal immigrants.”
All of which is utter bullshit, leaving out the point that Springfield arranged to have the Haitians move there to take work-jobs desperately needed but that there weren't enough locals to fill.
The Haitian immigrants in Springfield, as CBS moderator Margaret Brennan noted, have legal status. Their arrival in town, local residents and leaders have said, has helped revive the town, which lost a quarter of its population since the 1960s.
This Goober Vance also actually told CNN’s Dana Bash that he intentionally created
stories about migrants eating cats and dogs. He said it was to dramatize a narrative - working class citizens competing with migrants for jobs, homes - which is pure twaddle. The "jobs" are those few Americans will do, i.e. picking fruit, veggies, slaughtering in meat packing plants. And the homes are too expensive for migrants and Americans because the housing supply is too low. In other words, Vance had no problem snookering
millions of MAGA-morons into his psychotic babble shit bunkum.
Meanwhile, entitled brat baby billionaire imp Elon Musk
is no better and his own atrocity has been spreading rumors (including at least
12 posts Friday ) about the Biden administration’s response to Helene,
much of it based on false or misleading claims. This moron twit
actually wrote that Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas “should be jailed for life for spending FEMA money on illegal aliens
and not Americans.”
No, butthead, you should be locked up for life in a
padded cell in the bowels of a psych ward at Belleville – and preferably in a
strait jacket- for showing wanton dereliction in a time of crisis by basically
screaming ‘FIRE!” in a crowded theater.
As one commenter on the WaPo put it:
“Biden needs to shut this
garbage down. X is a public health and national security threat. How dare they
harm these tragically traumatized people further. It is craven and miserable.”
by Robert Becker | October 7, 2024 - 5:37am | permalink
From early days, the Trump spectacle treated his glib, campaign swindle, fabricated declarations, even law and justice, as variations of the Big Joke, Life-is-just-a-game-for-me callousness
Exposing both his insecure ego shell and AWOL winning messages, Trump’s blustering, scattergun cocksureness sets up his ultimate legacy: “often in error, never in doubt.” The catchphrase hits the uncanny bullseye of Donald’s self-evident pattern. First he lies, then compounds lying with more lying, then impugns (projects on) his reactive critics for lying, finally to smugly bask in fabricated notoriety, whining about absolute grievances and concocting laughable conspiracies, like pet cannibalism.
Know how to know Trump is lying? No, not just when his lips move. but when he encases his manic, desperate blustering with absolute certitude. Like a five-year old, the greater the screamed certainty, the greater the fib factor – thus do tantrums obscure mendacity. Nothing like covering a bold-faced lie with the thick gravy of more lies, then more denials, then more repetition. Frankly, it amazes me that he has any political lives left. Are hardcore fans not fed up with empty hostility against Democrats, the status quo, the “deep state” and minority demands to control everything: school books to elections to capital punishment?
by Maya Boddie | September 11, 2024 - 6:18am | permalink
Conservative talk show host Erick Erickson slammed right-wing news media after Donald Trump "amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets" during Tuesday night's debate against Kamala Harris, according to the Associated Press.
"YOU STUPID MF’ers JUST GOT TRUMP TO REPEAT YOUR LIE ABOUT THE PETS. CONGRATS ON SETTING THE NEWS STORIES TOMORROW BY LYING SO TRUMP PICKS IT UP AND SAYS STUPID S—T," Erickson wrote via X.
Conservative lawyer George Conway replied: "Actually, I don’t think you’re being fair, Erick. I’m going to defend these stupid motherf—kers. Because it’s not their fault that the stupidest motherf—ker of all is @realDonaldTrump."
Meghan McCain, also a conservative former talk show host, also commented on Trump's remarks, writing: "This pet eating thing is a gross internet hoax - come on with this."
by Carl Gibson | October 6, 2024 - 6:25am | permalink
A new report has published detailed complaints from users of former President Donald Trump's Truth Social app describing how they were fleeced by the site's hordes of scammers — including some who lost six-figure sums.
According to Gizmodo' tech reporter Matt Novak — who filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seeking complaints about scams on Truth Social — many of the app's users fell victim to a scam known as "pig butchering." That type of scam involves a grifter winning the trust of a mark, persuading them to invest in a questionable money-making scheme and cajoling them into making even larger investments by tricking them into thinking they're making money.
by Robert Reich | October 7, 2024 - 6:02am | permalink
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