Knowledge Fight #532 dissects Alex Jones’s February 15, 2021, rant blaming the Texas blackout on wind turbines and the "Great Reset," despite frozen gas pipelines causing the crisis. He falsely claims Merck withdrew vaccines due to harm, Australia used HIV-positive material, and India banned Pfizer over safety—debunked by Friesen’s corrections. Jones also ties Capitol riots to globalist manipulation, while Holmes mocks his pseudoscientific tangents (e.g., "dihydrogen monoxide"). The episode exposes Jones’s contradictory state autonomy claims amid baseless conspiracy theories, underscoring his pattern of misinformation and theatrical panic. [Automatically generated summary]
I set out with the intention of a regular episode-ish, kind of a mini-episode.
I don't want to, again, I want to stress to everybody that we're not going to have episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but that circumstances kind of demanded this week that we had to jump on the horse and get something together.
So this morning, I was about to take the dogs out for a walk, and I always start a pot of coffee before I take the dogs out, and I realized in that moment I have none.
So I had to walk through close to a mile of waist-deep snow to get some coffee.
So, Jordan, on the 16th, or maybe it was yesterday, I think it was the 15th, actually, Alex put out a series of short vignettes of himself at the Infowars studio.
Lights are out in the studio.
There's also a couple of them where he's outside yelling in the snow.
So, Jordan, we're here recording on Tuesday, and as the time of this episode being put together, InfoWars has essentially been off air since Sunday evening.
Austin and most of Texas is dealing with a once-in-a-lifetime winter storm that has left countless people without power in severe conditions.
It appears that the Infowars studio has been left also without power, and that means no show for Alex.
It makes sense, and I don't think anyone would bat an eye if he just got on air and said that there was a weather emergency and they had to take an unplanned break in programming.
It could be an effective way to push emergency food sales even, so it might not end up being a total money loss if he did that.
But Alex does not go that route.
Instead of just expressing solidarity with the people of Texas, encouraging people to stay inside if possible, and donating to a mutual aid fund, Alex decided to record a video of himself at the Infowars studio with the lights off, explaining how power outages are actually a globalist conspiracy.
We'll get to the specifics of this, but right off the bat, I wanted to explain why Alex feels the need to make this conspiracy instead of just being a normal kind of thing.
You're a human.
You accept that inclement weather happens and sometimes it gets in the way.
The first reason is that Alex has a vested interest in infantilizing his audience.
He needs their critical thinking skills to be on a child's level, so whenever he has the chance, he creates childish narratives.
When you're in bed and you hear a bump, you could either think that it's the water heater, or you could think it's a Viking who's invaded your house to come and get you.
Adults are really capable, you know, they're able to reason it out that there's no reason a Viking would be in your home, but for children, their minds gravitate to the more exciting possibilities, which is often nonsense, but it appeals to a particular emotional need and a drive that children have.
Knowing that the noise is the water heater doesn't prompt an irrational response in a person.
They can ignore it, or if it's a serious noise, they can choose to call a technician.
If you can convince people, though, that it's actually a Viking who almost got them, you might be able to sell them all sorts of products to protect against Vikings or even documentaries where you explain how Vikings operate and how to avoid their attack plans.
Keeping the audience in a state where they don't deal with the problems that come up in a boring but ultimately real way and keeping them fixated on childish emotional interpretations of every stimulus they receive is essential for Alex's business model.
So even a giant storm...
Absolutely.
The second reason that Alex has a strong interest in presenting this storm as some kind of an act of foul play is that it's really something that just happens in nature, and if so, he should have been prepared for it.
His brand is largely built around being a prepper type of guy, so the first question that comes up in the case of his network being taken offline by a storm is naturally, why weren't you prepared for that?
A winter storm like this hitting Texas is obviously a very unlikely event.
And something that the infrastructure was unprepared for.
And my heart goes out to everyone who's dealing with the consequences of it.
But for Alex, the fact that he could be caught off guard by a natural event, that's a contradiction of the way he wants the audience to see him.
You touched on the fourth one, which is the state of Texas and how they operate.
And we'll talk about that a little bit down the line.
The third issue is a storm like this brings into sharp focus some of the elements of the climate change conversation that Alex doesn't want people to think about.
As the climate changes and weather events become more severe, they're going to test longstanding assumptions about infrastructure and how we build.
For instance, houses are designed differently in different parts of the country.
Like in California, they prioritize earthquake protection.
Whereas in Missouri, where I grew up, every single family home that you're going to find has a basement because of tornadoes.
Yeah, and as, you know, different sorts of weather patterns and more severe storms hit different areas, you're going to see those things, the long-standing assumptions that we've had.
Not be enough to suffice.
And Alex doesn't want the audience to think about that.
Because it requires shifting ideas and paradigms, and he's not into that.
Because as shifting weather patterns are going to test our assumptions and our architecture, what if...
Now, and hear me out.
We've got a lot of real estate.
Now, admittedly, it is being held right now, but if you go underneath the Getty, all right, no problems with weather issues, no problems with, you know, all that stuff, you go under there, you knock out a few Nazis, and then you got a home for life, Dan!
Our power has been turned off 40% of the state without power this morning.
All the Great Reset.
I told my wife that this morning.
I told my security people that.
And then my head security guy walks up and goes, here's the Austin American statesman admitting that since they shut down the coal plants in Texas under Obama, the windmills in West Texas failed.
And the power may be off for a week or longer.
Rolling blackouts.
Because coal is evil.
So here we are at InfoHorse, and we have to open the windows up to have light.
So, Alex wants to pretend that the wind turbines freezing in Texas is what caused the blackouts, but that is absolutely not true.
From an article in Bloomberg, quote, While ICE has forced some turbines to shut down as the brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that's been the least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state's power grid.
The main factors, frozen instruments at natural gas, coal, and even nuclear facilities, As well as limited supplies of natural gas, he said.
The article goes on to quote Daniel Cohen, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University, who said that it, quote, is really a red herring to blame renewable energy production for the blackouts.
If the wind turbines were operating at full capacity, things would still be bad because of the infrastructure of Texas's power grid and how it was unprepared to deal with a weather event like this.
Alex doesn't want to address that point because it's real, and it requires calling in a technician.
And if you look at the graph of the Earth, it was a lot hotter in the last few hundred thousand years and then was going down and now has gone up a tiny bit.
Yes, we've raised the temperature like maybe half a degree.
And thank God, that's us terraforming it in a good way, unknowingly.
And saying that CO2 is a trace gas is meaningless in this context, because the message he's seeming to suggest is that there's so little of it that we should just make more.
That's dumb.
Ammonia is also a trace gas, but I think that Alex would realize you don't want a ton of it in the air because of obvious reasons.
With Alex, though, I really do think that he is just, like...
Dumb.
He is just not interested, and someone has explained it to him in such a way that, like, oh, hey, the power plants are totally clean, and he's never seen fit to have to look into it, because why would he?
So, Alex goes outside, and he's just a man yelling in the snow.
He is hanging out with a snow backdrop.
Being mad.
And I think this is really interesting because if you take him at his word, he seems to be lamenting the Industrial Revolution and how it made it so we don't have to make our own power or something that made us soft.
You know, one, hello Unabomber, it's been a while since we've talked.
And two, no, I think it's far worse.
Look, if you and I want to say we're unaware that technology has domesticated us and we have moved away from the land and then act like that, that's fine.
But if we are aware of it and don't take steps to avoid it and instead only tell other people to do it, we're hypocritical pieces of shit you shouldn't listen to.
If you want to broadcast, you should not ever have inclement weather get in the way because you should have a ton of generators and you should be broadcasting from a compound somewhere that no one knows where it is and you got a bunch of potatoes growing so you don't have to worry about anybody.
These guys have written about every damn bit of it.
How do you think I could make a film 13, 14 years ago called Endgame, Blueprint for Global Enslavement, and you watch the damn film and almost all of it's come true?
Because I show their quotes and their statements.
And they think you deserve to have this done to you, what's now unfolding, because you're not fighting back.
They all have private jets.
They all got a bunch of kids.
They all have palatial mansions.
They all live however they want, have huge yachts.
They're telling you, when Obama goes to Africa, that you can't have a car, you can't have an air conditioning.
Most of that shit we've covered in the past in episodes, it's all nonsense.
The India one, though, is a new narrative, so I wanted to just clarify why India didn't approve the use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
It was reported by CNBC back on February 5th that Pfizer had withdrawn their application for emergency use of their vaccine in India after, quote, the government in January approved two much cheaper shots.
There were a couple of other hurdles, namely that India requires local studies to be done to approve vaccine use, and the studies of Pfizer's vaccines had not been done in India.
The second issue is that vaccine, the one that they had created, the Pfizer one, it requires storage in very cold conditions, which creates a concern about the ability for it to be rolled out all over India.
You know, there's concerns about the supply of deep freeze capabilities.
Alex is pretending that they banned it because it's dangerous, when in reality, it's really just kind of a boring logistics issue.
Again, this is a water heater noise Alex is trying to tell you is a Viking.
They admit that they have shut our power systems down so much that we can't even provide power in the summer and the winter in the great state of Texas that up until 10 years ago was supplying power to 15 states.
And was doing an incredible job, but we've been shut down.
Texas is a unique state in the country in terms of their power grid, and it's actually one of the reasons that the situation in the state now is so much more complicated.
Texas is the only state in the country that has its own completely autonomous power grid called ERCOT, which is run by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Houston Public Media recently posted a very concise explanation of how the system works and how it got to be the way it is, which I will paraphrase now.
When electricity started to become more prevalent, the country saw utility companies begin to combine and link up and create regional things.
In 1935, FDR signed the Federal Power Act, which charged the Federal Power Commission with overseeing interstate electricity sales.
The federal government could only really get involved with regulating interstate power exchanges.
So, in order to avoid that regulation, Texas has remained the only state in the country with its own power grid.
This has been breached a few times, notably in 1976 when a Texas power company sent power to Oklahoma very briefly in what's been called the, quote, Midnight Connection.
Alex is completely making up that the state of Texas formally provided energy to 15 states.
I suspect that he doesn't even know that his state's energy setup is the way it is and how some of the problems he's complaining about are the direct byproduct of his state following his own anti-federal government paranoias.
Okay, so what I'm hearing is the globalists are afraid of what happened on the 6th, and so they did the 6th in order to make sure that Alex couldn't do it better later.
So, we know that Alex is a scholar on the matter of Carbon dioxide, climate change, World War II.
Alex does, he seems to think this, I've heard him say this before, and that's why I wanted to play this again, because it's such a dumb thought that I'm surprised he repeats this multiple times.
It's clearly something he actually believes, and that is that people are only afraid of carbon dioxide because it sounds like carbon monoxide.
I might be crazy, but I'm going to toss this out for you, Dan.
I think somebody who knows what dihydrogen monoxide is, yet believes that the president is secretly controlled by the devil, is still dumber than somebody who thinks things are what they are, but is like, just say what?
And I think that, you know, leaving all that aside, you know, you may be right, you may be wrong, but my conjecture is anybody who thinks one of these kinds of studies of the public means anything is a dick.
So we just got one last clip here, and I mean, the report ends with Alex sitting in a dark studio, and it actually ends with him yelling about how the New World Order is going down, and just the visual of it, of him sitting in a completely dark studio.
Yeah, if I didn't hate him so much, there'd be a little bit of pathos in the moment of him sitting alone in a dark studio, insisting he was going to destroy the globalists.
But I choose not to end our episode with that clip because, honestly, it's angry.
It's kind of funny to think about, but it's meaningless compared to this.
This clip, I think, says everything that you need to know.
He's just rambling about how well-read he is and he's not like normal people because he's figured all this out because he's so smart and read all this shit.
And then he gets completely derailed by a chip.
Just, oh, I ate a chip earlier.
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That's all we get now, because the power's out, man!