I mean, mostly. The amount of right-wing fearmongering before Obama was elected was intense, and after he won, a large portion of the Republican party lost their goddamn minds, convinced it was the end of white people. This led to the Tea Party movement, which fed directly into MAGA.
On a more personal level, Obama mercilessly roasted Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the notorious slumlord was so monumentally, volcanically pissed-off at being humiliated by a powerful Black man that he became determined to prove he was his better, leading to his presidential ambitions, and courting of the existing Tea Party movement who became his initial base of support. (MAGA is basically TP 2.0.)
The culture-war stuff was red meat for keeping the psychos’ attention, lest they wander off into dumber, less controllable conspiracy theories. But it could have been anything. (Sharia law, Socialism, FEMA camps, White Genocide, Great Replacement, Blood Libel, whatever the Murdochs could get their talking heads to complain about, basically.)
Man I want to start off saying this is a good post for the most part, but if you were around for Katrina you would not include concern about fema camps in a list of conspiracy theories. They intentionally dropped levies to drive people from their homes, corralled them in a stadium until they could be shipped off, and started shooting at anyone who escaped that process on sight as a looter. “Follow the money” is always good advice, relief funds were delayed until desperate former residents had to sell the wreckage of their lives to developers for pennies on the dollar and the ghouls who orchestrated the whole scenario made fortunes building luxury homes on stolen land with government money when they finally did come through. People were camping on their own roofs and getting shot at by the national guard. Sorry if I got kinda intense, worst period of a lot of people’s lives.
Sorry man, I’m posting from a phone here. Some is “trust me bro” and local hearsay, some you can look up pretty easy. Levy in front of the 9th ward is the one people say was dropped most, news media has plenty of footage of roof campers, “Danziger Bridge shooting” will get you something hard to watch, Zillow or Google Maps New Orleans before and after would show you the shift in demographics and property values, government response including forced evacuation, stadium “housing”, and curfews should be pretty much public record and Red Cross did some whistleblowing at the time. Trying to explain this is making me feel old, felt pretty obvious while it was happening
I mean, mostly. The amount of right-wing fearmongering before Obama was elected was intense, and after he won, a large portion of the Republican party lost their goddamn minds, convinced it was the end of white people. This led to the Tea Party movement, which fed directly into MAGA.
On a more personal level, Obama mercilessly roasted Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the notorious slumlord was so monumentally, volcanically pissed-off at being humiliated by a powerful Black man that he became determined to prove he was his better, leading to his presidential ambitions, and courting of the existing Tea Party movement who became his initial base of support. (MAGA is basically TP 2.0.)
The culture-war stuff was red meat for keeping the psychos’ attention, lest they wander off into dumber, less controllable conspiracy theories. But it could have been anything. (Sharia law, Socialism, FEMA camps, White Genocide, Great Replacement, Blood Libel, whatever the Murdochs could get their talking heads to complain about, basically.)
Man I want to start off saying this is a good post for the most part, but if you were around for Katrina you would not include concern about fema camps in a list of conspiracy theories. They intentionally dropped levies to drive people from their homes, corralled them in a stadium until they could be shipped off, and started shooting at anyone who escaped that process on sight as a looter. “Follow the money” is always good advice, relief funds were delayed until desperate former residents had to sell the wreckage of their lives to developers for pennies on the dollar and the ghouls who orchestrated the whole scenario made fortunes building luxury homes on stolen land with government money when they finally did come through. People were camping on their own roofs and getting shot at by the national guard. Sorry if I got kinda intense, worst period of a lot of people’s lives.
Source for any of this?
Sorry man, I’m posting from a phone here. Some is “trust me bro” and local hearsay, some you can look up pretty easy. Levy in front of the 9th ward is the one people say was dropped most, news media has plenty of footage of roof campers, “Danziger Bridge shooting” will get you something hard to watch, Zillow or Google Maps New Orleans before and after would show you the shift in demographics and property values, government response including forced evacuation, stadium “housing”, and curfews should be pretty much public record and Red Cross did some whistleblowing at the time. Trying to explain this is making me feel old, felt pretty obvious while it was happening