State Sen. Kevin Corbin calls out “conspiracy theory junk” about unburied bodies and FEMA stealing money.

A Republican senator in the North Carolina legislature has issued a public plea for people to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the disaster recovery efforts in areas ravaged by flooding from Hurricane Helene.

In a Thursday afternoon Facebook post, state Sen. Kevin Corbin, who represents the state’s westernmost area, asked his followers for a favor: “Will you all help STOP this conspiracy theory junk that is floating all over Facebook and the internet about the floods in WNC.”

  • Flying Squid
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    577 months ago

    You appeal to the worst conspiracy theorists out there to influence your voters and this is what you get.

  • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    277 months ago

    “The biggest issue is rumors and fake memes and photos of people being trapped in areas around the county, and we send folks out to rescue them, and there’s no one there to be rescued,” Prather said, noting that such efforts require resources that could be used elsewhere.

    Just wow. There’s nothing more Republicans hate more than themselves. They rely on federal aid more than any other states but hate the government. They rely on government to save them from their poorly designed infrastructure but then make false reports of likily fellow Republicans trapped. Only to waste resources! Everything is projection for them. Don’t want to give into your homosexuality, so you outlaw it and suck dudes off on the grayhound bathroom. Can’t afford health care? Insure (pun intended) no one else can afford it either. On and on they go. Their belief system is a cult of self destruction.

  • @vegeta@lemmy.world
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    267 months ago

    Who is this Kevin Corbin? He is a low level senator that I hardly know. He came to me tears in his eyes and begged me for a job in 2025. I never heard of him before. Many people say he is a RINO. They said Sir! he is the most liberal Rebublican ever, even worse that LYIN LIZ CHENEY.

    -@RealDonaldTrump

    • Flying Squid
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      247 months ago

      I love that Seth Meyers almost always includes ‘tears streaming down his face’ when doing a fake Trump speech. Because he says it all the fucking time. People just cry around him constantly apparently.

      • @whatalute@lemmy.world
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        127 months ago

        Maybe people actually are constantly crying around him?? …Maybe their eyes can’t help but water up because of his reportedly horrible body odor.

        • Flying Squid
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          67 months ago

          Plausible.

          “So if you take like armpits, ketchup, makeup, and a little butt,” Kinzinger replied. “It’s probably like that all mixed up.”

          “That’s the Trump formula?” Kimmel quipped.

          Kinzinger added that it is a “bit of a pungent odor I would say. You definitely wouldn’t want to bottle it up and wear Trump cologne. That’s for sure.”

          https://www.thewrap.com/adam-kinzinger-donald-trump-odor-jimmy-kimmel/

        • Flying Squid
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          57 months ago

          I look forward to it every time he impersonates Trump or Giuliani. They both crack me up whenever he does them.

          • @cybervseas@lemmy.world
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            67 months ago

            Yes! Also I look forward to when he stops impersonating them because they’ve faded into irrelevance ♥️

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    247 months ago

    Well it’s a post truth world … apparently, and I was always taught that the truth hurts…

  • ozoned
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    157 months ago

    All I hear is

    “Government bad! Government bad! Government bad!”.

    " WE NEED HELP FROM THE GOVERNMENT".

    All while all the other assholes that aren’t affected going “Government bad! Government bad! Government bad!”

    And Vance and all the others making up stories and admitting to making up stories to help…just help someone else.

  • The country singer Jon Rich, for example, told his million-plus followers on X, formerly Twitter, that a friend in law enforcement reported to him they had already “used over 500 body bags, and there are bodies in trees, mud, cars, houses, everywhere,” and that the federal government had provided no support.

    Yeah, fuck that guy.

  • aramis87
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    77 months ago

    It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye gets hit by a hurricane.

  • @root_beer@midwest.social
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    27 months ago

    Mayor Glenn “the Dubya Dubya Eff’s Kane” Jacobs of Knox County, TN, is doing the same thing. Look man, I don’t want people to have to suffer more than they already are, but you reap what you sow and if you want this to stop, you best be cleaning up the mess you made yourself.