Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods | Texas floods 2025

Disasters and tragedies have long been the source of American, old and new plots. Thus, when sudden devastating floods struck Texas during the weekend of July 4, and while the death review continues to increase, the conspirators of the far right have seen their opportunity to appropriate in force, blurring the lines of what is true and false.

Some people, emerging from the same vectors associated with the long -standing Qanon conspiracy theory, which mainly maintains that a dark “deep state” acts against President Donald Trump, spread over X that the devastating time was controlled by the government.

“I need someone to examine who was responsible for it,” said Pete Chambers, a former special forces commander and a frequent element on the far right who formerly organized an armed convoy on the Texas border, as well as documents he claimed to show the government’s weather operations. “When was the last one enters the clouds?”

The same chain of messages on the X social media platform distinguished a “prepitation” company based in California as a potential culprit.

It did not take long for one of the most integral figures of the Qanon movement to republish rooms, which received millions of views on Elon Musk’s supplies.

“Did anyone have answered this?” wrote the retirement general Mike Flynn, a former national security advisor to the Trump administration and who helped to legitimize Qanon after promising an allegiance to the movement in 2020, republishing rooms.

Conspirators and grains on other platforms have joined. A YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of subscribers displayed a breathless cover of what he called: “The truth of meteorological manipulation” in a segment which earned it nearly 200,000 views.

The rooms of the congress echoed the feeling, as a deputy for Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene – a skeptical vaccine and Gop Hardliner, who married Jeffrey Epstein Plot – did not waste the moment to say that she had presented her accessory after the floods.

“I present a bill which prohibits the injection, release or dispersion of chemicals or substances in the atmosphere with the express aim of modifying weather conditions, temperature, climate or the intensity of the sun,” she wrote on X while floods were continuing. “It will be a criminal offense.”

There were also amplifications of a false story that the rescuers found two daughters who would have been found alive near Comfort, Texas – something that Brian Stelter of CNN has reconstituted. Laura Loomer, another far -right propagandist and one of the biggest stars in Maga, has retweeted a story that stems from a voluntary rescuer who had heard the rumor. Finally, the story was refuted.

Of course, there have been a lot of online debates on which is to blame for fatal floods, many not only turning to allegations of bizarre meteorological manipulation, but by pointing your finger on the recent budget cuts of the Trump administration in favor of things such as the massive funding of immigration and the application of customs of the Trump administration.

In a viral position on Instagram, the Austin firefighters’ association blamed its chief to have delayed the response of the floods in the county of Kerr with hard blows, because it was more interested in saving money rather than the life of the potential victims of the floods.

“Why would the chief of the firefighter Joel G. Baker do this, you can ask?” The message read. “It was an wrong attempt to save money.”

The National Weather Service was also exposed to a meticulous examination following the disaster after underestimating the quantity of precipitation which was poured on the center of Texas. The end of evening alerts on dangerous floods were issued by the service, but the speed of the response and coordination with local emergency services will be examined by officials.

The Texas senator, Ted Cruz, who was again on vacation abroad during a natural disaster of his state which cost his voters life, helped push the “great and beautiful bill” last week, which, among other major reductions, assured that the meteorological forecasts have been considerably reduced to a national scale.

The articles on the Telegram application, in the neonazi and extreme right circles which find characteristic of racist inspirations behind each news event – but still mainly supports the Trump administration – were very critical of the response of the floods and blamed it to the stupidity of the government.

“There is resentment in Texas against their government of the State of Democrats and Republicans for their lack of emergency management at the level of the State, and the incompetence in the planning and construction of disaster attenuation projects,” published an account.

Another position favored the idea that the Trump administration had failed to protect the “life of white girls”, in reference to the death of 27 campers at the Mystic camp, and in general “white American”.

Manufacturers of memes on the left took the opportunity to make fun of the right, with a popular image widespread online using the character of Simpson, the main skinner, shown to wonder if Trump’s cuts may be to blame for deaths in Texas.

“No, it had to be democrats using a meteorological change machine,” concludes legend.