'A felony offense': Far-right conspiracists are pouncing on the Texas floods

In the wake of Texas tragedy, the Guardian reports far-right online conspiracists have “come out in full force” to blur the lines of what’s true and untrue.

“I need someone to look into who was responsible for this,” posted Pete Chambers, who included documents he claimed show government weather operations. “when was the last cloud seeding?”

Chambers is a former special forces commander and frequent fixture on the far right who once organized an armed convoy to the Texas border.

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The Guardian reports the same thread of posts on X singled out a California-based “precipitation enhancement” company as a potential culprit. Before long one of the most notorious figures in the QAnon fold reposted Chambers’ unproven flotsam, nabbing millions of views on the X app.

“Anyone able to answer this?” posted retired general Mike Flynn, a former national security adviser in the Trump administration who pleaded guilty to making false statements to federal investigators before Trump pardoned him.

According to the Guardian, the conspiracies sprout from the same vectors associated with longstanding QAnon conspiracy theories purporting a shadowy “deep state” is acting against president Donald Trump. This, despite Trump controlling nearly every aspect of federal government through either fealty or firings.

Elon Musk’s platform is not the only source of deep-state storm theories, however. The Guardian reports at least one YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of subscribers posting “breathless coverage” of what he called: “The Truth of Weather Manipulation” in a segment that earned more than 200,000 views by Wednesday. And now the halls of Congress are carrying the claim.

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“I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity,” wrote Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on X. “It will be a felony offense.”

But conspiracy theorists don’t appear to be talking about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who the Guardian reports as “again on vacation overseas during a [deadly] natural disaster” passing a major budget bill that makes major cuts to weather forecasting funding.

Read the full Guardian report at this link.