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surfered

(7,862 posts)
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 05:59 PM Monday

Why Kristi Noem Hates FEMA

It seems the far right has a long history of believing whacky conspiracy theories. As to why Trump and Noem want to end FEMA, as we know it, this is as a good a guess as any.

From Salon:
“When FEMA was founded in 1979, far-right groups immediately circulated rumors that FEMA’s disaster relief mission was a cover story for the true goal: Rounding up white Christians into concentration camps, so the “globalists” (read: Jews, people of color, feminists, queer people) could impose the “New World Order.”

As usual with racist conspiracists, the psychological motivation is a combination of sublimated shame and defensiveness, manifesting in a victim complex. In the imagination of right-wingers, the “real” victims are white Christians, and it’s the people who were once subjected to slavery, concentration camps and genocide who are the oppressors.”

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/14/why-kristi-noem-hates-fema/

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bucolic_frolic

(51,381 posts)
1. Wow, that is heavy parsing of psychology
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 06:45 PM
Monday

I need to process it. But this reply is to remind, from what I recall, that G.H.W.Bush used the term "New World Order" in a speech as president. I don't recall the context so some might want to pan for gold in them there speeches.

slightlv

(6,094 posts)
2. They're so scared of the "New World Order"
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:29 PM
Monday

and have no idea THEY are that dreaded "New World Order!" They are the Beast they've screamed Democrats are for so long...

jmbar2

(7,045 posts)
3. Operation Jade Helm in 2015 triggered rumors of concentration camps being set up in Walmart
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:54 PM
Monday

FEMA still has a post on their website debunking this oft-recycled CT. I'm surprised they haven't taken it down yet.

https://www.fema.gov/node/rumor-responder-lodging#:~:text=This%20is%20all%20false.,not%20secretly%20operate%20mining%20settlements.

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,015 posts)
4. After deports peter out, who they gonna put in empty gulags? Gnome & Bondi are the guvmint maga/tea/Birchers warned of.n
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 09:02 PM
Monday
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