Trump being elected will do far more damage than any hurricane, in that respect.
His influence is already having an affect...
Meteorologists tracking the advance of
Hurricane Milton have been targeted by a deluge of conspiracy theories that they were controlling the weather, abuse and even death threats, amid what they say is an unprecedented surge in misinformation as two major hurricanes have hit the US. A series of falsehoods and threats have swirled in the two weeks since
Hurricane Helene tore through six states causing several hundred deaths, followed by Milton crashing into Florida on Wednesday. The extent of the misinformation, which has been stoked by Donald Trump and his followers, has been such that it has stymied the ability to help hurricane-hit communities,
according to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).
A wide range of misinformation has been spread as Helene and then Milton gathered pace in the Gulf of Mexico, such as claims spread by Trump that Fema had run out of cash for hurricane survivors because it has been given to illegal immigrants. Violent threats have also become common, with posts across
TikTok, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter), alleging that Fema workers should be beaten or “arrested or shot or hung on sight”.
More outlandishly, several of Trump’s closest allies have baselessly asserted that the federal government is somehow controlling hurricanes. “Hurricane Helene was an ATTACK caused by Weather Manipulation,”
claimed a video shared by Michael Flynn, a former national security advisor to Trump.
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Alex Jones started this nonsense back in the 90s, claiming FEMA were up to all kinds of weirdness and Trump simply took over the mic, amplified the white noise, added amphetamines, bleach and Tia Maria into a lethal cocktail of absurdity. His followers drink it like a Jonestown party animal.