As one terrible Hurricane just passed through Florida and devastated North Carolina, and another potentially worse one is lining up to hit Florida’s Gulf Coast, here are some further reminders of conservatives’ views of climate change and other matters.
Here’s a convenient baseline. Vivek Ramaswamy has a new book out called, modestly, Truths: The Future of America First.
You can click the link and preview the book to see the table of contents, and some of the text. First chapter: “God Is Real.” (Which one? No point in asking.) “The Climate Change Agenda Is a Hoax.” (Is he quibbling with the word ‘agenda’?) And so on. The reader reviews extol him for providing all the answers! In simple language! Easy to read!
There are no reviews from reputable sources.
Let’s move on.
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Meanwhile, in the real world…
- Vox, Li Zhou, 8 Oct 2024: Donald Trump’s many, many lies about Hurricane Helene, debunked, subtitled “Rampant disinformation is getting in the way of disaster response.”Does Donald Trump lie because he’s mendacious, that he does it deliberately because he knows he can get a way with, that he can shape the reality of followers who nothing about anything except what he tells them? Or because he’s incompetent, and simple-minded, and truly doesn’t understand more than superficial takes on these issues? Pick one.
- Axios, 8 Oct 2024: FEMA chief issues dire warning on hurricane disinformation FEMA officials are desperate for Trump to shut up; he’s making their job worse, and endangering the lives who believe his lies.
- This is rich. JMG, 8 Oct 2024: Schlapp: Milton Is God’s Attempt To Get Our Attention. As if decades of data about the changing climate might not have been God trying to get our attention to, you know, stop polluting the planet? MeidasTouch Network editor Ron Filipkowski comments:
They have been saying for years that climate change is hoax, so now they are offering up a series of alternative explanations to their dumbed-down anti-science followers.
- Slate, Scott Nover, 8 Oct 2024: The Far Right’s Newest, Dumbest Trick to Spread Misinformation on X, subtitled “When a guy you know texts you, it has to be real.”
This tweet format has become conspicuously popular on the redpilled internet. The formula is simple: 1) Post a screenshot of a supposedly genuine text message, 2) express outrage, 3) ask if it’s true without really caring whether it is, and 4) do no further investigation into the matter. It’s a newfangled incarnation of a classic, the chain email. Pass it along or else no one will know the “truth.”
Sort of like, “Just asking questions…”
