Wednesday afternoon on Twitter, now known as X, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones wrote that the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires have been engineered by “globalists” in order to “deindustrialize” the United States.
Billionaire technology investor Elon Musk, who is living on the incoming president’s property while leading his commission on reorganizing the government and advising him on other matters, saw this post—and he liked what he saw.
This is interesting—concerning, even—for a number of reasons. But it may be significant at the moment given that Jones has, in the past, explained that “Jewish mafia” figures like George Soros are a key part of the “globalist” alliance. (If you’re wondering why the Jewish mafia would burn down Hollywood, which it runs, a different post of Jones’ sort of explains: It’s because globalists want to turn the Pacific Palisades neighborhood that has been devastated by fire into a “smart city.” In urban planning, the phrase “smart city” refers to the idea of using technology to gather information about traffic and wastewater and stuff, but in Jones’ mind, smart city initiatives are a kind of Trojan horse for implementing totalitarian surveillance and mind control, similar to how Bill Gates put microchips in the COVID vaccine.)
The accusation also echoes Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s infamous claim that a previous wildfire was started by the (Jewish) Rothschild family using satellite-borne lasers.
