Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman sits down for his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke in May. He talks about his recovery from the stroke, the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, abortion, and much more.
00:30:34.500I want to make sure, and this is a theme that we're building for this audience so you become knowledgeable, because this is going to be a big deal.
00:30:42.920We have to break this insanity, and it's insanity.
00:30:47.700The indices you just showed me of power generation, the ability to, you know, continuous base load, right, and I'm not talking, I love Maryland, but I think 3% of the total GDP of Maryland is manufacturing.
00:31:03.760These are not manufacturing states, so I'm not talking about Delaware and Maryland and other states that are more service-oriented and smaller in population.
00:31:13.040I'm talking about California, which I think is the seven biggest economy in the world individually, and the center of the greatest tech center, Silicon Valley, and Texas, which is now the new Silicon Valley around Austin.
00:31:28.140Are you telling me when I compare an apple to apple because of policies and what our leaders have done is that these 80 million people, including Texas and California, are essentially living in what you would describe as a third world power generation country, sir?
00:31:50.340I mean, California imports about 35% of its electrical energy today, so it's already 35% short.
00:31:58.000And of what it uses, 37% are renewable part-time resources, mainly solar, more than wind, which provides out there about eight to eight and a half hours a day of utilizable power, terminating at 4 p.m.
00:32:13.720when their load curve shoots through the roof when everyone gets home.
00:32:17.040So that's why you had the brownouts and service curtailments in Southern Cal just a few weeks ago when it got hot.
00:32:23.160And a resilient, robust energy system is supposed to be in place, utilities, to support the peak times of heat and cold.
00:33:37.160Texas policymakers decided 10 to 15 years ago to get completely on board with deregulation.
00:33:44.540They separated the retail electricity sales distribution from generation totally and let the free market decide that it wouldn't, the state, the ERCOT wouldn't provide what are known as capacity payments to provide some of the funding at fixed cost of a new baseload generating facility.
00:34:02.400So they abandoned the notion of capacity payments to between not having capacity payments and all of the incentives on renewables, investment tax credit and other developers invested only in renewables.
00:34:16.280So you've landed at a massive growth in wind power, now 27% of their total capacity and very limited to almost nil the last 10 years, new baseload plant building, combined cycle.
00:34:28.680Coal, coal was going to be a big player in and around Dallas in the late part of up through 2010, eight coal plants were going to be built.
00:34:34.900They were all canceled, but the lack of capacity payments to finance major new baseload continuous duty plants led to this solar binge, wind binge, along with the fact of the constrained grid because it doesn't really have strong interconnection with Nebraska, with Oklahoma, with Louisiana.
00:34:56.120That minor interconnect with New Mexico, a little bit with Louisiana in the east.
00:34:59.440Mainly it's a self-contained grid, so it needs 30% reserve margin.
00:35:14.200How are they going to easily address this?
00:35:15.560I'm going to go to Tina Peters here in a second.
00:35:17.140But I'm telling you, folks, this is going to be big firestorms over this energy thing to get back to full spectrum energy dominance, which is the Trump plan.
00:35:27.380And we are going to get to full spectrum energy dominance.
00:35:31.540So how is Texas going to unwind from this situation?
00:35:35.480Very simply, they need to provide, like in the upper Midwest and Northeast, a capacity payment structure to facilitate and incent independent money to invest in building several large combined cycle plants, possibly several coal plants, add about 5,000 megawatts of baseload generation that would mainly solve their issues for the next 15 years going forward.
00:35:56.940Is the woke, hold it, you're telling me out of Austin, Texas, the University of Texas, all the woke-ism they got in all these universities, they're going to allow Texas to start building coal plants?
00:36:21.120I'm saying you're going to sell that, you're going to sell that to the University of Texas?
00:36:25.080Well, to the extent we don't, they can build combined cycle plants, which are equally cost-effective, but they too are fossil fuel.
00:36:31.860But that's the state-of-the-art technology today, actually combined cycle, which is naturally gas-fired, they have a ton of, to go ahead and solve their issues.
00:36:40.100Plus, embellish their interconnect with Oklahoma and Nebraska and with Louisiana.
00:36:46.400As you see it right now, you've already, and you've been dead right on this for a year now, Europe's going to have a cold and hungry winter.
00:37:12.440Even on the Republican side, if our folks don't wake up to the fact of, even though when they take polls, solar seems to be popular, wind popular because of the notion of, well, it's free.
00:37:25.320As our guys come to the realization on the Republican side also that you need baseload, continuous duty electricity because there really is no load bank or meaningful storage of any kind for a city, a township, a county, a state.
00:38:32.540And I realize you've kind of stepped back from the day-to-day practicality of hardball politics, which in 16 you were in the middle of.
00:38:39.540But just where do you think the country is and where do you think we stand four weeks from this midterm election, sir?
00:38:47.140Well, it's hard to know because you can't trust any polling.
00:38:51.480You can't trust any data that you're seeing, right?
00:38:54.840Because remember, we've got to remember past this prologue.
00:38:57.900Remember in 2020, the most historic election in my lifetime and yours, we were told that the Republicans were going to lose, I think, seven Senate seats and 20-something House seats.
00:39:08.740I don't know if people ever went back because there was so much focus on Trump.
00:39:11.980People didn't go back and look at all the predictions on all the races that Republicans were supposed to lose.
00:39:17.660And I believe you would know better than me there were 37 toss-up elections and Republicans were 37-0, I think.
00:39:37.740Yeah, so the polls are saying Republicans are barely going to scrape by or maybe not take it.
00:39:44.340And I think, well, I can't look at that data objectively because I remember that Republicans were going to lose all these seats and they were 37-0 or whatever in 2020.
00:40:15.460I said, because if Trump wins, we'll have four more good years.
00:40:19.460And if Biden wins, then morally, I feel like with a clean conscience, I don't have to feel bad for what happens, right?
00:40:29.320Because so much about life and about trying to follow God and live a good life is knowing when am I just wasting my time with people.
00:40:37.560And if people don't want to vote for Blake Masters and Joe Kent and J.D. Vance after two years of Biden, then when things get even worse than they are now, which, oh, they're going to get worse than double-digit inflation, $7 gas, potential for World War III.
00:40:54.540At the very least, there's environmental catastrophe in Nord Stream 2, right?
00:40:58.080It's like, where is Greta to talk about all that methane gas being pumped out through the ocean?
00:41:02.160Suddenly, we don't care about environmental catastrophes anymore.
00:41:04.680And if people don't want to vote for these gold standard candidates, then I don't care, man.
00:41:11.620I'm just telling you that personally, as a matter of karma, as a matter of destiny, I believe that people want to live in nihilism because they have Blake Masters, they have Joe, they have gold standard people.
00:41:24.180You can say, oh, well, it doesn't matter who you vote for when your choice is Mitt Romney.
00:41:30.860If you're talking about the difference between Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney or that Spencer Cox guy out of Utah with the pronouns in his bio, sure, if those are your choices, then I completely understand your point of view.
00:41:43.000But if you can't get out to vote for Joe Kent and Blake Masters and J.D. Vance and these gold standard candidates, then how am I supposed to feel bad when things get even worse?
00:41:54.660I think that the polls are even more off now than they were in 2020.
00:41:59.240And spiritually, I think that 2022 is the most important spiritual election maybe of our life or maybe 2016 was because it's come to Jesus moment for everybody.
00:42:10.040Are you going to vote for these people?
00:42:11.180Are you going to get out to vote for people?
00:42:12.620Are you going to be out there whining at a two-party?
00:42:37.740I don't know if you saw that video clip Don Jr. posted where J.D. said, hey, man, the only reason 10-year-olds are getting raped is because of you and because of your immigration policy.
00:42:47.300And Ryan, you could see the life draining from the space.
00:42:53.720These are the kind of people you get to vote for in November and, more importantly, bring people out to vote for and, more importantly, register people to vote for.
00:43:00.560So I think people should be really hyped for November.
00:43:22.240Return with Mike Cernovich in a moment.
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00:45:24.960Mike, I want to have you back and develop this theme I've seen in your social media about DeSantis and Trump and all of it because people don't – a lot of people may not realize today President Trump, one of the reasons he's president of the United States in 16, Cernovich was the cutting edge of social media about that.
00:45:42.400But everybody asked me – we only got a couple minutes.
00:45:45.240Everybody asked me, what is Cernovich reading?
00:45:53.620One of the best things that people can do is watch the really far extreme areas and see where they're tilting, right?
00:46:02.020Because it's hard to know where the middle wobblers are going to go.
00:46:05.160And one race – one election to watch is Los Angeles.
00:46:08.680Rick Cruz is a Republican and, you know, he's in the game.
00:46:12.000He's not what we would consider a MAGA guy or an America First guy, but just the fact that a Republican is putting on a competitive race in Los Angeles.
00:46:19.180And by the way, the L.A. City Council thing, maybe there's a whole other segment to talk about because that's really interesting.
00:46:25.060Lee Zeldin is in the game in New York.
00:48:57.180So there is an issue with eligible but unregistered EBU mailing done by the state for their agreement with Eric.
00:49:07.860And as many people know, Eric, the Electronic Registration Information Center that controls the voter registration, was founded by a man, David Becker.
00:49:21.980Just do your homework on David Becker.
00:49:26.640I mean, to the point where it's just vile.
00:49:30.740But this mailing goes to people that Eric identifies as potentially eligible to register to vote, but that are not currently registered.
00:49:42.340So these reports include individuals who have driver's license, ID cards, and it's protected by the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1990.
00:49:54.480We've got to bounce, but I'm – hang on, I'm sorry.
00:49:57.460We've got to bounce just real quickly.
00:49:59.200Are any of these people going to get registered to vote in this election cycle in the next four weeks to your knowledge?
00:50:04.300You know, anything is possible in this corrupt administration in this state.
00:50:11.880You know, it's obvious from them cheating in elections already.
00:50:15.760We've identified that they delete the evidence.
00:50:19.220Somebody just went to prison because in another state that happened to say something bad about Jenna Griswold.
00:50:26.620What I want to know is why isn't she in prison for deleting election records and having these remote devices?
00:50:33.200And then, I mean, there's so much, Steve, that's going on in Colorado.
00:50:37.480We have to get this recount done that I paid for.
00:50:41.100And so we're going to the Supreme Court.
00:51:22.220It's going to be a big event this week.
00:51:24.480Steve, October 13th, Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
00:51:27.460We have a situation in Arizona where we have the five most important races, governor, secretary of state, senate, and two key congressionals.
00:51:36.580And all of them are running up – all the GOP are running up against those Democrats who declare themselves as Catholics, which begs the question, what is a Catholic?
00:51:46.100How is it possible that so many people can use that term and move voters – it's a key voting segment – to the polls to vote for them by just throwing out that word?
00:51:54.460And as a Catholic, Steve, you're a Catholic too, we have to reclaim what that word actually means.
00:52:02.060Blake Masters, Mark Fincham, the team, and General Michael Flynn, and a favorite of yours as well, Father James Altman, will be spearheading this event and rallying the troops here in Arizona.
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