FEMA has been under attack by Trump’s cult and the treats have been working there way down the ladder to the workers on the street.
The lies have consequences as they trickle down…JD Vance Doubles Down Defending Donald Trump's False FEMA Claims
Newsweek
By Rachel Dobkin
October 13, 2024On Sunday, Ohio Senator JD Vance doubled down on defending his running mate former President Donald Trump's false claims about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.
After Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane late last month, leaving a trail of destruction along the southeastern United States, Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, began spreading falsehoods about recovery efforts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
While appearing on ABC News' This Week on Sunday morning, the network's chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz confronted Vance about the claims.
"During Hurricane Helene, as we heard, former President Trump suggested the federal government was not only sending FEMA aid meant for the hurricane to migrants but 'going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.' Do you think that is true?" she asked.
During a campaign rally in Michigan on October 3, Trump said that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, "spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country."
And the hatred has gone down to street level, there were reports of armed militia but were later refuted.‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans
The Guardian
By Oliver Milman
11 October 2024Meteorologists 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).
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“I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we have just been putting out fires of wrong information everywhere,” Nickolaou said.
“I have had a bunch of people saying I created and steered the hurricane, there are people assuming we control the weather. I have had to point out that a hurricane has the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs and we can’t hope to control that. But it’s taken a turn to more violent rhetoric, especially with people saying those who created Milton should be killed.”
And according to Newsweek the militia were armed!FEMA contractors ordered to “stand down” after security threats, messages show
WBTV
By Naomi Kowles
October 13, 2024An inspection agency that works as a contractor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency has ordered its employees in western North Carolina to cease inspections over the weekend and return to hotels, WBTV has confirmed.
Sunday evening, the Washington Post first reported messages about reports of threats to FEMA-affiliated workers in Rutherford County. WBTV has independently confirmed that reporting with sources with direct knowledge of the threats.
The news comes after FEMA workers across Hurricane Helene’s disaster zone in western North Carolina have been targeted with misinformation and rumors about the federal government’s recovery operations in the area.
Messages that WBTV has reviewed, sent to employees of a contracting agency that works with FEMA for inspections, appear to show an impact area across western North Carolina.
“Effective immediately, disaster wide -- cease inspections today and return to your hotels,” an alert from Vanguard Inspection Services read on Saturday. “FEMA received news that the Title 10 (active military unit deployed to NC) came across some trucks of militia units who said they were out hunting FEMA personnel.”
Federal emergency response workers operating in North Carolina's Rutherford County in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene were told to evacuate on Saturday over concerns that an "armed militia" was threatening workers in the area, it has been reported.
These are the loyal Trump followers who worship every word that their cult leader says!
Then there is this from CBS,
In a statement to CBS News, the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office said they received a call Saturday afternoon that said a man with an assault rifle had made a comment about possibly harming FEMA employees working on recovery efforts in the Lake Lure and Chimney Rock area. Deputies alerted the Lake Lure Police Department and other agencies of the threat.The man suspected of making the threat was identified as William Parsons, 44, of Bostic, North Carolina. He was arrested and charged with going armed to the terror of the public.
Trump and Vance know that they are inciting violence and I think that they are relishing in their power to motivate people.
Trump threatens revenge on politicians...
Trump Steps Up Threats to Imprison Those He Sees as Foes
The former president is vowing to prosecute those he sees as working to deny him a victory, while laying the groundwork to claim large-scale voter fraud if he loses.The New York TimesBy Charlie SavageMaggie HabermanJonathan Swan and Michael Gold
Sept. 9, 2024Donald J. Trump has long used strongman-style threats to prosecute people he vilifies as a campaign tactic, dating back to encouraging his 2016 rallygoers to chant “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton. And during his term as president, he repeatedly pressed the Justice Department to open investigations into his political adversaries.
But as November nears, the former president has escalated his vows to use the raw power of the state to impose and maintain control and to intimidate and punish anyone he perceives as working against him.[...]He has been laying the groundwork to claim that there was large-scale voter fraud if he loses, a familiar tactic from his 2016 and 2020 playbooks, but this time coupled with threats of prosecution. Those who may face criminal scrutiny for purported efforts at election fraud, Mr. Trump has declared, will include election workers, a tech giant, political operatives, lawyers and donors working for his opponent.
And remember the Supreme Court has said that the president has immunity from prosecution!
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I think that this is an example of the type of people who are voting for Trump and Vance, those who believe in the conspiracy theories that are being feed to them by their candidates! They are people who are paranoia, insecurity, and emotional volatility. They believe that the whole world is wrong and everyone is against them. They distrust toward institutions and others are strongly associated with conspiracy beliefs, they are struggling to make ends meet and believe that the cause of their troubles are the “Others.”
They are the ones who believe that immigrants are taking away their jobs, and that gays are grooming their children. They feel that they no longer have control over their lives so they go on the defensive. They believe that they have to “Take Back” everything! That they are the true defenders of democracy.
They are the ones who believe that immigrants are taking away their jobs, and that gays are grooming their children. They feel that they no longer have control over their lives so they go on the defensive. They believe that they have to “Take Back” everything! That they are the true defenders of democracy.
They ignore everything that doesn’t fit their world view.
Why some people are willing to believe conspiracy theories
American Psychological Association
June 26, 2023
People can be prone to believe in conspiracy theories due to a combination of personality traits and motivations, including relying strongly on their intuition, feeling a sense of antagonism and superiority toward others, and perceiving threats in their environment, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
The results of the study paint a nuanced picture of what drives conspiracy theorists, according to lead author Shauna Bowes, a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Emory University.
“Conspiracy theorists are not all likely to be simple-minded, mentally unwell folks—a portrait which is routinely painted in popular culture,” said Bowes. “Instead, many turn to conspiracy theories to fulfill deprived motivational needs and make sense of distress and impairment.”
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The researchers found that overall, people were motivated to believe in conspiracy theories by a need to understand and feel safe in their environment and a need to feel like the community they identify with is superior to others.
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The researchers also found that people with certain personality traits, such as a sense of antagonism toward others and high levels of paranoia, were more prone to believe conspiracy theories. Those who strongly believed in conspiracy theories were also more likely to be insecure, paranoid, emotionally volatile, impulsive, suspicious, withdrawn, manipulative, egocentric and eccentric.
The Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism) had a much weaker relationship with conspiratorial thinking, though the researchers said that does not mean that general personality traits are irrelevant to a tendency to believe in conspiracy theories.
They are scared of people who are different. They are scared of change. And the Republicans are playing on those fears and intensifying those fears.
This is the type of person that half the country is voting for...
Opinion: An abortion ban killed her. Trump used Fox town hall to mock her grieving family.
I've seen plenty of vile things happen during political campaigns, but this was several steps beyond twisted. Who weighs the words of a grieving family or the weight of their grief on a ratings scale?
USA TodayBy Rex HuppkeOctober 16, 2024The death of Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old mother, has been linked directly to Georgia’s draconian abortion ban, a ban that exists because Donald Trump proudly oversaw the end of Roe. v. Wade during his presidency.
At a Fox News town hall focused on women’s issues – taped Tuesday in Atlanta and broadcast Wednesday – Trump, the network host and the town hall attendees treated Thurman’s death and her family’s grief like a laugh line.Noting that Thurman’s family held a press call hosted by Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign before the Fox News event, host Harris Faulkner, with snark in her voice, said to Trump: “Amber Thurman’s family have come out on a press call, and they’re doing what’s called a prebuttal to our town hall right now.“Oh, that’s nice,” Trump said, dismissively, as the crowd chuckled.
Then he said: “We’ll get better ratings, I promise.” And Faulkner and the crowd erupted in laughter
These are the loyal Trump followers! What does this say about Trump and his base?
Vote Blue, vote Harris/Walz, vote the Democratic line, and vote “Yes” on the Connecticut Ballot question. Don’t fall for the Republicans “Big Lie!”
Vote Blue, vote Harris/Walz, vote the Democratic line, and vote “Yes” on the Connecticut Ballot question. Don’t fall for the Republicans “Big Lie!”
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P.S. Look at Trumps newest biggest donor according to AP News...
Elon Musk, a tech mogul who is the world’s richest person, plunged more than $70 million into helping Donald Trump and other Republicans win in November’s election, making him one of the biggest donors to GOP causes this campaign season, according to campaign finance disclosures released this week.Musk made the donation over the summer to America PAC, a super political action committee he launched in May to aid Trump in his bid to return to the White House. It quickly became a central player in Trump’s election effort.“The America PAC is just aiming for common sense, centrist values,” the Space X and Tesla founder said Tuesday on his social media platform X, shortly after the sum of money he contributed was made public in a campaign finance filing.
People are telling me that I no longer write about trans issues, that all I write about now is politics… nothing about trans issues or people. My reply is that this is trans issues. Every single anti-trans law is written by one party. The laws they pass take away our rights to free assembly, our rights to get healthcare, and our rights to be ourselves. POLITICS IS A TRANS ISSUE!
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