QAnon conspiracists think Biden and China are responsible for the crisis in Texas
Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory believe that president Biden is responsible for situation in Texas, which has left many without electricity, heat or water.
Followers of QAnon, a disproven and unfounded far-right theory that ex-president Donald Trump is at war with Satan-worshipping paedophiles, believe that Biden granted China access to America’s power grid, causing the energy crisis which is currently ongoing in Texas.
The unsubstantiated claims were made despite Texas having its own separate power system to the rest of America.
A post by one QAnon conspiracist, referred to only as InevitableET, reads: “I started pulling Biden’s [Executive Orders] this morning and I found something buried in the Keystone Pipeline EO… way towards the end of the doc.
“it turns out that the same day Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline, he also lifted the security on our power grid for 90 days.
It goes on to add: “Conclusively, Biden, on his first day in office, opened up the American electrical grid to China.
“His very first day in office. Three weeks later, 5 million are without power and struggling to keep their families warm, and many livestock are unable to survive the emergent conditions caused by my power and limited water.”
Meanwhile, another Twitter user shared a post from Instagram, where an account writes in the caption: “The guy in the first video put his snow in the microwave, as well as the oven and on stove top and got unnatural, anomalous results. Have you tried these experiments?”
Texans later commented to express their shock at the snow not melting, with one person saying they tried it and found the snow “stinks and won’t melt”.
“It takes forever for it to slowly go down. It’s not normal,” they add.
Fellow Twitter users were quick to mock the lack of evidence behind such claims:
The QAnon conspiracy is the latest inaccurate statement around the cause of the Texas crisis, with Republicans previously blaming the Green New Deal, wind and solar energy for the outages.
