Republican after reading news article about republicans removing a bajillion people's voter registrations for no fucking reason:
Republican after reading news article about a hurricane: "Those liberals built an honest to goodness weather-controlling death ray and they're using it to make hurricanes that target republicans so they have a harder time voting"
DeSantis will accept the money, then use it to cut the state's taxes. Biden will threaten to suspend payment, on the grounds that it is misappropriation of funds. DeSantis will then insist Biden is trying to unconstitutionally raise Florida's taxes in the wake of a lethal hurricane. He will then claim FEMA agents are trying to turn people Transgender.
It's always the same with red states. They bitch and moan about how every state has disasters, and how they are prepared and they shouldn't have to pay for states where the people just have to much melanin don't work as hard...
And then they get hammered by a hurricane, or a little bit of cold weather (looking at you Texas) and suddenly it's "we don't have any money left, we need to take care of each other, our fellow countrymen are suffering". It's be nice to find a way to just royally fuck those politicians just once...
HAARP is a research program studying the ionosphere IN ALASKA! Apparently this void-skull thinks it's a weather machine controlling the Hurricanes in fucking Florida!?
Edit: Dug deeper into the conspiracy theories about HAARP. So many morons attribute so many powers to this fucking radio research station. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, earthquakes... it can make the sky appear to burn and control minds. It can flip the Earth's magnetic poles. It can neutralize satellites. And it can create artificial aurora's in the sky visible across the entire northern hemisphere. Man... conspiracy theorists think science is way cooler and more advanced than it actually is. I wish we were at that level of technology. This isn't even a new research facility. It's over 30 years old. We were still using VHS's when this fucking apocalypse machine was being built. Imagine what we could do now!
Conspiracy theorists are just ordinary people lying to themselves and everyone else instead of taking responsibility for their own actions. Nothing new or surprising here, just more of the same cowardly schoolyard behaviour played out at a grand scale. We give people, adults especially, way too much credit.
To me the most bizarre conspiracy theory aspect is, that they consider governments capable of large scale conspiracies. But if you're in the mood for some more, check chemtrails theories. You won't be disappointed.
These people see the US Government as an entity that is massive, overbearing, all-powerful, and technologically advanced beyond our imaginations. But they also think we should privatize everything because the US government is inept, overworked, impotent, and unmodernized at everything. It's a weird dissonance they live in.
Democrats: We should STOP doing things that Cause MASSIVE WEATHER PATTERNS!
Republicans: That's Socialism!
Also Republicans: It's DEMOCRATS Fault for these MASSIVE WEATHER PATTERNS!
If HAARP can control hurricanes, why do we have to deal with them at all? Wouldn't any shadow government secretly controlling the weather have a strong incentive to divert any dangerous weather away from the US? The loss of life is low enough in each hurricane that a few black ops soldiers would be far more cost effective for eliminating enemies. Show me a power hungry autocrat that is going to feel okay funding fema knowing they could have just kept those funds for other things by preventing those disasters.
Or even better, direct them at our enemies and countries we don't like. Why hasn't Cuba been ravaged by decades of severe hurricanes leaving the country in shambles? HAARP has been around long enough they could have destroyed dozens of enemies of the US.
It's not like anyone could stop the US. It has the most powerful military on earth, most of the world's nuclear weapons, veto power in the international organizations that matter, and provides defense for most of the western world. What is the shadow government waiting for?
I wonder what would happen if people started regurgitating the same conspiracy theories the conservatives believe, but instead aimed those conspiracy theories at the conservatives themselves.
Blame everything on the “Shallow State operatives”, frame the existence of viruses and diseases as the conservatives’ method of population control, assert as fact that the cons are installing chem trail canisters into planes to keep us drugged, shit like that. Sure, it’s Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man, but it could be fun to see how they react.
Calling Trump weird worked really well. Maybe some religious Democrats can claim the hurricane is god's divine will for straying so far from biblical teachings and raising Trump as an idol.
Honestly though I think we're all better served trying to come together against the real threat to our lives, Oligarchs living in a second gilded age.
It's true enough that most people would only object to the hyperbolic phrasing, but conspiracy theory sounding enough to give the fantasy prone among us something useful to obsess over.
And bonus points, their power is woven into the country so profoundly we'd never agree on what to do about it. But at least we'd be all having the same conversation, which will lead to better outcomes for everyone, even the poo-brained among us. Except maybe the Musks and Bezoses of the world, they'd hate it.
The conservative stance on climate change is quite a mystery. On one hand, they believe anthropogenic climate change is not real and it's impossible for humans to change climate. On the other hand, they believe the US government has done nothing but fuck with climate through HAARP for their own nefarious ends for 30 years. So who knows what the actual policy is, really. Your average voter is probably not interested of this question - they just want the gas price to go down.
For those out of the loop. There is a batshit crazy right wing conspiracy theory about deep state liberals controlling the weather - and they’ve been using hurricanes and snow storms to prevent republicans from voting in person.
Curse those pesky Democrats! I bet they turned all their windmills towards Florida and now it's blown away by all the wind the windmills blow that way! Yarrr!
Everything is more expensive, wage growth sucks class mobility is dead... is this because of the complex, yet inherent and inevitable nature of poorly regulated capitalism, which is poorly regulated because of the policies our people support?
No, its because of totally secret machinations of the Illuminati, which we definitely know about but also cannot demonstrate. It has to be!
Climate change is so bad now that its undeniable... us this because if the complex yet inherent and inevitable nature of poorly regulated capitalism which is poorly regulated because of the policies our people support?
No, its the result of a dastardly secret plan of evil deep state cabal scientists operating a secret weather machine which we definitely know they are doing even though we cannot demonstrate any of that. It has to be!
A) climate change that was predicted decades ago, and is agreed upon by every major climatology study.
B) or, shadowy cabal of liberals and Jews that use space lasers and weather controlling machinery to screw the right. And, unlike every government or company on earth, these organization are so aligned and well organized that no whistleblowers ever come forward.
In May 2014, it was announced that the HAARP program would be permanently shut down later in the year. After discussions between the parties, ownership of the facility was transferred to the University of Alaska Fairbanks in August 2015.
TIL an outdated science facility is the target for Conspiracy Theorists! Not shocking I suppose, but maybe they should have chosen a presently active facility?
This is fab! My wacky Mom and insane shithead sister live in FL. Somewhat close to the cone of effect. I should email them and tell them that my buddies @ MIT are helping steer Helene in order to fuck over the MAGA nuts.