WarRoom Battleground EP 496： CEO's Says Green EV Is Failing
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Peter Navarro goes to jail for a crime he didn't commit, and we talk about why this is such a big deal. We also hear from the Saudi Foreign Minister and Harnwell, and Dave Walsh. And we hear from Aramco's CEO, Amin Nasser, about the ridiculousness of climate change.
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This is what you're fighting for. I mean, every day you're out there. What they're doing is blowing
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people off. If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the
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authoritarians get total control and total power. Because this is just like in Arizona. This is
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just like in Georgia. It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies
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and misrepresentations. This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. As we've told you,
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this is the fight. All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
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War Room Battleground. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
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Okay, as we said in the last hour, historic day, Tuesday, 19 March, year of war, 2024. First time
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in the history of this republic that a advisor, senior advisor to the president from the White
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House has gone to prison on a misdemeanor. Peter Navarro, we covered it live this morning,
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obviously, at five o'clock, talked about it. One of the things I want to do today is to pivot to
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one of the reasons that the established order is so absolutely panicked about this coalition we've
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put together and what Dr. Navarro represents. Remember, he's been a fighter for the little guy
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from day one, whether it's manufacturing jobs, agriculture, to stop the invasion of both Europe
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in the United States because it's crushing working class people. I've got two I want to go
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through. I got Dave Walsh. We're going to talk about something that came out of the Saudis
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about the ridiculousness. Dave Walsh has been on here all the time to talk about the ridiculousness
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of this kind of cult of climate change and what it's done to sustainable energy. In fact, I've got
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Dave. So I got Harnwell and Dave Walsh at the beginning. Let me start with Dave. Dave, the Saudi
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foreign minister, because I'm about to go to Harnwell in a minute and talk about the farmers,
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right, which is kind of based on this foundation. Talk to me if Denver could be so kind as to put
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the story up. The Saudi minister, and I think he's the energy minister, so he's like the grand
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poobah in all this. He just called out the ridiculousness that you've been doing in a much
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more professorial way. He just came out and said, hey, fossil fuel is not going to go away. It's not
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going to come close to going away. All these plans that we're making to do transition, particularly the
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rapid transition that the elites in Western Europe and the United States are doing is absurd. It makes
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no scientific sense. It's not going to happen. But you're destroying the economy. And when they say
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that, you're destroying working class people, both in Western Europe and the United States. Can you put
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in perspective what he said and how meaningful it is? Well, he's, Amin Nasser is the CEO of Saudi Aramco,
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the world's largest oil enterprise and oil and gas enterprise. It went public a couple of years ago,
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a piece of it, still the majority owned by the royal family. But he's appearing at the Sarah
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Conference. The Sarah Conference is the annual largest oil and gas show in the world. It's held in
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Houston. Always, you know, recently, everybody there out with pom-poms on figuring out how to deal with
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and expand their renewables footprint and talking about net zero and decarb at that conference,
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even though it's the world's major oil and gas event. It's been held for over 20 years now.
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Dan Juergen started it. He's a guy that wrote the famous book about the history of oil and Saudi
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specifically, Aramco. But what he's presented yesterday in his opening remarks, Nasser, were
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basically that this transition is not working. And he reminded everybody, once again, that less
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than 4% of the world's all-in energy is provided by wind and solar. After 40 years of this movement
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to wind and solar, and particularly the heavy subsidization of the last 15 years in Western
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Europe and the United States, Australia, and Zealand very specifically, that the total energy
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impact. And for example, here in the U.S., since 1976, renewables in the solar and wind form have
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moved the needle on total renewables as a content of U.S. energy by a grand total of 4% since 1976.
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And that's after years and years and years now of nearly a trillion dollars in subsidies, subsidizing
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wind and solar and battery storage now have had a relatively nominal to meaningless effect
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on the all-in energy supply for transportation, home heating, fuel, and electricity. Nominal supply
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because they're very trivial outcomes energy-wise. They're very small, intermittent, part-time,
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small quantity energy creation devices. And he's going on to indicate also, and he's exactly right,
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major, major efficiency gains in combustion turbines, in automobiles, in fuel use over the years have
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provided much, much more real energy delta. That's more efficiency from gas and oil-fired engines via
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jet engines, gas turbines, car engines, over the last 20 years have provided much more absolute energy,
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the efficiency gains in this technology, than have wind and solar all in across the world.
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So he's forecasting no end in sight to the demand for oil and gas, but specifically harping on the fact
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that the BRICS nations and the global south will lead the way. They've got 80 percent of the global
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population, and they're going to keep moving on a continuous duty, conventional energy modality,
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which includes heavy, heavy use of oil and gas. So interesting, his comments were direct and up front
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to this moving to, you know, renewable transition kind of, Sarah, Dan Yergin, Sarah has kind of morphed into
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people, even in the oil industry, talking this, but not really able to achieve anything with wind and solar.
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What does this mean? Because you see all the policy
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issues that, look, we had John Kerry, essentially ran the State Department as the head of climate change.
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We've kowtowed to the Chinese Communist Party because, quote-unquote, we need them for climate change.
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Our entire national security, foreign policy, industry. I mean, you can't even, to the simple
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thing, you can't watch a golf tournament over the weekend, that it's just relentless. Everything's
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about sustainable energy. Everything is about the transition. What does this mean as far as the
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reality check in Western Europe and the United States among our elites to accept what is, and this
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is what I love about you coming on, you kind of give that say, hey, physical properties are not going
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to change, right? The second law of thermodynamics is not going to change. These are the physical
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properties of the world that we have today, and this is what it means as far as energy goes. You
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can't build a robust economy for an industrial power that makes sure that working class people can both
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earn a living and also not be able to pay for that living, that it doesn't cost, you know, outrageous
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sums that the elites don't impact. So what do you think his statement is going to do about, because
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it's clashing head-on with these radicals' policies from everything from farmers to cars to how you heat
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your home, how you get energy into your computer, all of it.
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Well, the culprit over here, the biggest single culprit in the last 20 years was the endangerment
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finding by the Obama EPA in the first year of his administration, wherein CO2 was elevated to
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being identified by the administration then, the EPA, in the first year of his administration as a
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harmful pollutant, which it is not. With the elevation of CO2 as a harmful pollutant,
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the mantra begins, and that Wall Street op-ed last week we chatted about highlighted this very,
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very accurately. Corporate leadership across the board, major Wall Street publicly traded firms
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must be mouthing transition, decarbonization, sustainability, net zero all of the time. It's
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got to be in their messaging, because we've made that part of their rigor of corporate life in the U.S.
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Even though the reality, the CEO of Saudi Aramco points out very accurately yesterday,
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the reality of years and years and years of this has resulted in almost no needle movement globally
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of the use of renewables for actual energy. So at some stage, and then coupled with the sheer huge,
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huge cost of attempting to get the needle move just a little bit more on wind and solar, which
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is a case of diminishing returns, the more of it you apply, the less growth you get in the absolute
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amount of it, because, you know, in the same time zone, in the same regional space, the more you apply,
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the less incremental energy you wind up yielding and harvesting. We have got to come to our senses
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with modulating this CO2 is damaging approach, it is not, and begin to get rational.
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One of the most brilliant... Yeah, but we've got to be beyond hope. One of the best things you've done
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for the show is to say, hey, even if you take the federal government away, if you go down to the
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next tranche to the states where the power companies are really applying, they're laying out a program
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of capital expenditures that we're not going to be able to unwind. In fact, you've actually made the,
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and you're not a cynical guy, the cynical thing that, hey, one of the reasons people are buying
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into this at the lobbyist level and the state government level, there is a lot of capital
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expenditures that have to happen to do this transition that wouldn't normally have to happen
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if you just kept going down the pike of what you had. Once you make these capital expenditures,
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you're going to be set on a path that is going to be tough to unwind, and particularly to unwind to
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get back to cheap and plentiful energy, is it not?
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No, it's true. I'll mention two examples again. NextEra for Florida have announced a $300 billion
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solar and battery storage and hydrogen conversion plan that we'll take and multiply times by a factor
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of 10, their annual CapEx budget. Duke Energy has done the same here and in the Carolinas.
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These programs, even if they don't work, will land in ratepayers' costs for 20 to 25 years as these
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costs are amortized into electricity rates. Even if these programs don't work and have the very low
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yield energy that we know that they'll have based on physics, ratepayers will have to pay for that.
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So we're looking at two to three times higher electricity costs beyond inflation just to pay for
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the mass installation of this hugely expensive capital spending on this stuff. And again,
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solar is four and a half times more costly in capital spending space than conventional combined
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cycle gas-fired technology. Battery storage is about 20 times more expensive when you factor in its
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two to three hour a day effectivity and only 10-year life, about 20 to 30 times more costly
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than conventional power, the CapEx part of it. So the rates are going to go through the roof,
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especially through regulated utilities who get to pass this along whether or not these things work.
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So yeah, they're benefiting massively. They've jumped on this program and on board with it
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because financially for them, it's a windfall. It creates asset churn, faster asset churn in their
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asset base of power plants that used to be 30 to 50-year life. Now this comes along with an
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opportunity to layer on top of an existing asset base, a whole new asset base of very part-time
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renewables at a huge cost of rate payers. So know that utilities are, regulated ones are getting
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all over this, Dominion and other ones, Dominion Energy, all over pushing this very, very hard.
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I want to go, I want to end with farmers because it's just not direct energy costs. It's also the
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cost of fertilizer. Every different aspect of productive life goes up. The farmers in Europe,
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in the United States, it almost seems like they're trying to put them out of business. Ben's going to
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join in a second where they're actually giving a sop to the farmers, giving their political muscle
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about the Ukraine. But just talk to me about the farmers for a second. In Western Europe,
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in the United States are under massive pressure from the cult of climate change, sir.
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Well, they're under pressure across two fronts. The main one is abandoning heavy use of nitrogen
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and ammonia fertilizers, the basis of which chemically is natural gas in making those
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fertilizers. So the abandonment of the large use of those is tremendously negative to productivity
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of farmland, especially countries like Holland that have the highest yield per acre in the world,
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the US. Once we get to the abolition of fertilizers that have caused by themselves a tripling of farm
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yield in the last 50 to 60 years, you've got destitution for family farms and others. Also,
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then a move towards somehow finding a way to electrify major farming devices, tractors, harvesters,
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reapers, combines, that's out there. The way in the future, probably not really feasible on a cost
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basis. You're talking abandoning equipment that runs on gas and diesel that is very, very cost
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effective. But that's the minor thing. The major thing is the fertilizer shift away from natural gas
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based ammonia and other nitrogen based fertilizers that are natural gas based. That's a hideous step
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backward in the massive farming productivity we've seen in the world in the last 50 years.
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What impact, before I let you go, what impact do you think, what impact do you think the Saudis
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announcement today that this is all a joke, you're not going to end with fossil fuels, you've taken your
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best shot, you put a trillion dollars of subsidies, you've got four percent. What type of impact do you
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I think it's helpful. I think the UAE appearance in the COP28 with exactly the same message to the
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participants in that conference right up front, the chair of that conference, as a keynote that,
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you know, Saudi Aramco and Sarah are a keynote speaker always as the world's major oil and gas now
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partially publicly traded company. It has a tremendous effect. I mean, this guy has tremendous swag across
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the industry globally, and he's painting the picture accurately, and that is the Global South
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and really about 170 of the world's 187 countries are really not on this page of net zero decarbonization,
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understand and recognize they must use oil and gas to push forward their prosperity. And destitute
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countries in sub-Sahara Africa and Asia cannot sustain economic growth with renewable content of
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about five percent energy value being the only investment made in those countries. They know
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this. So BRICS moves forward as a strong, strong entity based on a dependence on fuels that work
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and fuels that are efficient, cost effective, and abundant for mankind. So I'm hoping, I think this
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will have an effect, is people are forced to listen to this message. At Sarah, and a few weeks,
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months ago at COP28 from the chair of the event itself. So this is good news in a perverse way
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that our energy competitors are telling us, hey, you guys are taking a backbench seat to your detriment,
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your ruination, industrially. They're communicating that very openly and directly. It's almost a sad
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thing. One of the central theses of President Trump's campaign is full-spectrum energy dominance.
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That is the foundational element, as Dave Walsh has preached on here for four years,
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for a peace and prosperity, full-spectrum energy dominance here in the United States to get this
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economy back up. And I'm telling you, African Americans, Hispanic citizens, Asians, white working
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class, middle class have seen how their lives have been destroyed with this radical program of John Kerry
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and Joe Biden, and they're not having it. And this is a signal, not noise, about what we have to do
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to turn this ship around. Dave Walsh, great as usual. How do people get to you? What's social media
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on? So just one more. It is bittersweet to see our major competitor in oil and gas globally, the Saudis,
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actually who do want us to remain strong as a consumer of their products and as an ally and as a
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military ally. It's kind of a last chance kid that their chairman of Aramco are beseeching us to,
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why don't we think about getting back in the game? It's actually to their benefit that we do,
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even though they're a direct competitor in this space. Anyhow, so it's amazing to hear this, but
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I'm reachable on Getter. I see my stuff on Getter at the Dave Walsh Energy and Truth Social the same.
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Dave, once again, great. Thank you so much for your analysis. Ben Harnwell, as much as the elites in Davos
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detest the farmers and are trying to put them out of business, and you see these farmer protests all
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over Europe, the political, the muscle of the farmers has, they've done a full flex. Talk to me
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about the elites beloved Ukraine, the farmers, and what's happened here over the last day or two.
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Good afternoon, Steve. Well, really, it's quite shocking, actually, because the farmers
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have succeeded, the threat, the ever-present threat of a farmer protest has bludgeoned Europe's
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political leadership into backing down. What happened last night in a meeting ahead of the,
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there's a big conference in Brussels this week of the European leaders to discuss exactly what to do
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with regards to farming subsidy support protection. And the farmers are obviously descending on Brussels
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right now as we speak in order to make their presence felt. There was an earlier meeting,
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a Sherpa meeting, call it that, of the envoys of the 27 European member states. And what happened
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was in that meeting, and I'll tell you which country it was in just a moment, but they succeeded
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in getting the European nations to block Ukrainian imports into the Union, which will cost Ukraine
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approximately 1.2 billion euros. Now, the backdrop of this, Steve, is that we've seen in the press over
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recent days, President Emmanuel Macron in France coming out saying, you know, and he's resisted
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pressure from the Germans, for example. He's doubled down on this, saying, you know, we might need to see
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NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine. And to rule that out now would be to hand Russia defeat.
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Well, so which of the countries was it, Steve? Which of the EU countries was it that insisted the most
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in hanging Ukraine out to dry? It was France. The interesting thing about this, you know, I won't
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dwell on the fact that here you have the posturing on the public stage, the gung-ho, the whatever it
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takes in front of the cameras, and then behind closed doors, it's hanging Ukrainians out to dry.
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But the actual takeaway of this, and I think I give credit to Politica, who's not our natural ally on
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these things. I think they came out with the absolutely perfect take on this. And they said
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that today's decision doesn't just mean a revenue loss for Ukraine. It proves that EU leaders' support
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for Ukraine caves under interest group pressure. And that is absolutely right. We're beginning to see
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that. And I think the presence of that reality now is only going to grow stronger. And of course,
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the factor here that is concentrating everybody's minds is the European Parliament elections,
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continent-wide, I should say European Union-wide, across all of the 27 member states in the second
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week of June. That is why, that is the simple reason why, as you say, there was a full flex on behalf
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of European farmers seen last night in Brussels.
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How the budget's getting rolled out here the next couple of days, the second part of it,
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we're leading an effort to try to have either shut the border or shut the government. But there's also
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Johnson, there's talk about he may take a break, they go for Easter, come back immediately, put the
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supplemental out to $60 billion, although it's lost tremendous momentum here in the United States.
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In the EU, where does the war in Ukraine stand right now, particularly with the full flex? And look,
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Putin, that was not a real election, obviously, but it shows you he does have tremendous support by the
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Russian people. Where are the heads of Europe right now, also the media on the whole, let's continue the
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Ukraine war, because it's lost tremendous momentum here, although our sociopathic overlords are still
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going to try to jam this thing through. Where do we stand with Ukraine overall?
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Well, there is something interesting, I think, on specifically this point. Charles Michel,
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who's the president of the European Council, that's one of the European Council, is the third of the
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European, the three European Union institutions, along with the European Commission, the European
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Parliament. And you also have the European Council, which represents the actual elected governments
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within the EU. And it needs to be like that, because the EU is fundamentally an undemocratic
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bloc. So the governments can control things, their agenda themselves, through that third voice,
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the European Council. So Charles Michel came out and said that Europe needs to take responsibility for
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its own security, and not rely heavily on the support of countries such as the US. And he basically
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sort of expands on that argument. But it is interesting to hear that voice being sort of at
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that level, saying, Steve, what you've been calling for on the war room for the last 18 months, it's now
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starting to filter through in the highest levels of the European Union. The reality is, of course,
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you're going to kick in, because nobody in Europe wants to actually pay for this. So, you know,
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they're going to have to make decisions. Are we going to be paying to defend Ukraine? Or are we going to be
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paying here in continental Europe for the social welfare provisions, six, the six week off a year,
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the retire at 63, and all the rest of it? Is there going to be some difficult choices for the European
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sociopathic overlords to make? And of course, if, you know, speaking now to our to our followers,
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followers here in continental Europe, if you want to make your voice heard, the only opportunity to do
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that to shout as loud as you can, will be at the European Parliament elections.
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Do you think that this, we had Nigel on this morning, obviously, in a breathtaking,
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that we covered at five o'clock, a breathtaking interview, just great, as only Nigel can do it
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with President Trump, that played it earlier today. It is, do you believe that Ukraine and the
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financial commitment to Ukraine will be a big part, a central part of the European Parliamentary
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elections in June? I think the country's, you know, it's a it's a moving target, Steve, I think
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what's happening in the United States is going to lead what happens in the European Union. And that's
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certainly been the case, from a top down approach in the first two years of this war, now that the
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American people are starting to make their presence ever increasingly felt. And that's been manifested
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mostly in the in Congress, thanks to the constant pushing of MAGA. Now that that is starting to take place,
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it's now turned for the European peoples to act similarly over the next four months, I think a
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lot can happen in the next four months, if America's support definitively drives, drives up, excuse me,
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then the European leadership, and they know, they know that they are now on a knife edge if they want
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to keep their hands on the levers of power. If America's support definitively dries up in the next
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four months, they're not going to keep flogging this, this, this dead horse, because it will be
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political suicide for them. So I, you know, well, that's a that's a live question, I think, and it's
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going to be answered over the over the over the next four months in the run up to June. Right now,
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the determining controlling factor in this is the American people. That's, that's absolutely clear.
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You're, you're, you're telling me then, I want the Warren Posse to hear that, the fight we have
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on this budget, and particularly the supplemental, is going to drive much of the political conversation
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in Europe, and particularly the European parliamentary elections in June. Good. That's what I wanted to
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hear. I believe that thoroughly, and that's why I think they're, they, they, they're trying every
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different way to get the 60 billion through, but MAGA has been, America First has been adamant about
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this. Ben, we'll get to, there's a lot of polling on, on Christianity and religion. I want to get to that
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tomorrow when we have more time. This has been great, and great to know that the, the farmers in
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Europe did a flex, and they're starting to be taken care of at least a little bit. Where do people go on
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social media to get you? Thank you so much, Steve. Get to my social media platform of choice. Just tap
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We've got, we've got a lot more to say about that. We'll say it over the next couple of days and
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
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He asked a question about what can really stop it and the bloodbath, really? I'm going to say one word, reparations.
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Who ends up paying for it? Let me ask you, just as a community.
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I can tell you that. I feel that the Democratic Party should pay reparations to blacks because it was in the 1800s when the Republicans, which was known as abolitionists, separated from the Dixiecrats because they did not want to continue slavery.
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So after the abolitionists helped black people become Republicans and they changed their name, black people were able to own businesses.
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They was able to create the Black Wall Street, Rosewood. They were the most wealthiest communities in the United States.
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And so it was the Democratic Party who created the Ku Klux Klan and the Klan were the ones who hated the blacks for creating Black Wall Street.
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And that's why they dropped the bomb on Black Wall Street. It was the Klan that did that.
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Two years later in 1923, it was the Klan that destroyed Rosewood.
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So if anybody owes black people money and reparation, it should be the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan, which they originated from, that Democrats should be paying the money to blacks for all that they've done with slavery, the destruction of the black economic engines like Black Wall Street.
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I feel the Democratic Party should pay reparations to black people.
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I know you hate your grocery bill just as much as I hate my grocery bill.
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I know you hate paying hot gas just as much as I hate paying hot gas.
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So we need to come together as one white, black, gray, purple, orange.
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And for the illegals, it's proper channels to go through.
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You shouldn't be able to come cross the border illegally and receive help.
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If you come in my back door, you're going to get shot legally.
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So I understand where everyone is coming from with the illegals.
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It's proper ways to go through these channels to come into America and officially become an American.
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Here in the black community, the kids are going to school.
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You go out into the white communities, the school, what they have in there, the computers and what they have in technology.
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Because if you can't get out here in this world, they don't teach you how to be entrepreneurs.
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And you get back to this, and it's been Democrat for 60 years.
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Why does the black community keep voting for Democrats?
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When I was coming up in my household, it was a straight Democratic ticket.
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If we don't stand together and we don't make a change, they've already brought the replacements in for us.
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If we don't shut the borders in the black community and get all the illegals out of our community, there will be no more black community.
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I really want to thank Real America's Voice, Rob Sigg, Parker Sigg, for allowing the great Ben Burquam to be part of our show over here on Lindale TV today.
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We're all kind of in this together, and they help us do our production, all of it in our recent shift.
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One thing I want to say, coming from an Irish Catholic working class family, when I was a little boy, particularly around my grandfather and those people, it was the same thing.
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It was not even a concept, and this is back in the 1950s, early 60s.
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It was not even a concept that any Bannon, associate Bannon, you never heard Republicans were considered the wealthy white people or just were anti-immigrant, anti-this, anti-that, anti-working man, anti-union, all of it.
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It wasn't really until Jack, actually Jack Kennedy was a Democrat, the thing with Nixon, it wasn't really until the Vietnam War, and particularly McGovern, I think, broke that, being so anti-war and kind of perceived as anti-American, although McGovern was a war hero in WW2, but it was really President Reagan that brought those Democrats in.
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But I can, people say, well, how can you be brainwashed?
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Hey, just these communities, you just don't even hear and don't even think about Republicans.
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These folks are smart, they're tough, they're seeing the world as it is.
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Is there a MAGA revolt going on in Chicago, or are we just kidding ourselves?
00:37:06.120
And before I get to that, I want to make one thing.
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You just had Ben Harnwell on talking about the farmers in Europe.
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We escaped California a few years ago, and the exact same thing was happening to the Central Valley.
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And the farmers sat back and allowed it to happen.
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They protested a little bit, but we should have been doing the exact same thing the farmers in Europe are doing today.
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You heard it on that clip today from the guys I was with yesterday.
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It was this illegal invasion that tipped the scales where they said, wait a second, this has gone too far.
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And it's going to take something like that, whether it's the farmers in Europe who are now standing up and driving over the barricades and spreading manure all over these politicians that are really the real manure.
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This is central because the people in Chicago are not that much different than the Central Valley, not that much different than the farmers in Holland.
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It's the elites just think you're trash, right?
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Whether you're African-American or just some farmer.
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I think it was the snail daughter or something like that.
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This is how Victor Davis Hanson rose to national prominence because he was a farmer up there, I think, near Fresno.
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I'll walk you through it exactly because that's where I got my political start.
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I actually got involved with the Central Valley Tea Party.
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And then through that, got involved with the water fight.
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I was the youth spokesperson at Fresno State for the Central Valley Farmers.
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You had this huge mobilization of people that wanted to help across America.
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And then you had these brainwashed Democrat farmers who came in in the middle of it and destroyed the whole thing.
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And now you have farmers who used to get 100 percent of their water.
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They are thankful if they get 30 percent of their water allocation.
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I grew up in an industry that is almost 100 percent destroyed.
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The timber harvesting industry that was shut down in the mountains of the Central Valley, supposedly to protect the spotted owl, did nothing to protect the spotted owl.
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So instead of harvesting 200,000 acres of timber every year, now we're burning over a million acres of timber every year at the throne, at the altar of climate change, at the altar of these spotted owls.
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And it's always the elite, the San Francisco elite, that come down and put their thumb on these communities.
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And sadly, you don't have enough communities stand up like we see in Europe.
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We took a thousand migrant farm workers from the Central Valley to San Francisco to Nancy Pelosi's office as a protest.
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Many of them guaranteed were illegals, probably more than half of them.
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And we were out there and they couldn't have cared less about them.
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They couldn't have cared less about the people that were actually picking the fruit.
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I actually had two people come up to me on the streets of San Francisco and tell us, we don't care about farmers, we get our food from the grocery store.
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I had two people basically verbatim say that to me.
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But the sad reality is you had several of these farmers that were Democrat controlled and they came in at the end of the day because we had talked about taking tractors and going down and shutting down California, shutting down the interstate, shutting down San Francisco, dropping manure all over the streets of San Francisco and Sacramento, and they didn't have the balls to do it.
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And now you see farmers that have been absolutely destroyed in the Central Valley.
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And if we don't wake up, they're going to do it to every community across America.
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They're going to do it to the inner city of Chicago.
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They've just separated us enough that we don't realize they're the same enemy.
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Do you see, listen, no person in this country has done all the way from the Darien Gap and the Colombian border.
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You're at every rally, but you have also done amazing reporting all over the country.
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Now, Chicago, you've seen the awakening of this country.
00:41:18.900
What you didn't see in the Central Valley a couple of years ago, you've seen the awakening in the MAGA movement.
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You've seen the awakening under President Trump.
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Is there a real awakening in inner city Chicago that they understand that this is a joint fight, that they're trying to crush them like they're trying to crush the Hispanic citizens in the Rio Grande Valley?
00:41:38.600
Yeah, and I will say there was an awakening in the Central Valley, and it's analogous to where we're at right now.
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You have huge conservative—you have people in the Central Valley that will never, ever, ever be Democrats.
00:41:52.200
The problem is the election—they've perfected election theft in California.
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And so a lot of people in California just throw their hands up in the air and say, to hell with it, and they've moved out.
00:42:01.980
But in Chicago, you're kind of at that tipping point.
00:42:04.500
You're at the place where they say, OK, we realize these are the bad guys.
00:42:13.120
And really, it's up to Chicago to see where they take it from here.
00:42:17.400
When you see the look in these guys' eyes, when you heard Bob Israel say yesterday, it's going to be a bloodbath.
00:42:24.800
Most of those guys you saw in that interview today were former gang members, grew up in these hard streets and had to fight to survive these streets.
00:42:36.760
So I think we're playing with an entirely different animal.
00:42:39.460
These guys are standing up, and we're going to see a shift here.
00:42:41.920
Now, again, you're talking about Mayor Daley's Chicago that also has perfected election fraud.
00:42:48.320
So it's an uphill battle, but there's no question there is a major paradigm swing taking place, not just in Chicago, but across America.
00:42:57.020
MAGA is ascendant in the inner city, and you're seeing it here, and you're seeing it in Minneapolis, and you're seeing it in New York.
00:43:04.620
And I just want to—the one thing that they are begging, the one thing that will put it over the top, they are begging President Trump to come here.
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For the longest time, Republicans have basically given up on these communities.
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The reason why they didn't even know about—they voted for Democrats.
00:43:24.120
Republicans don't show up in their communities, and they are begging you, if you are a Republican, if you are MAGA, come to the community.
00:43:32.000
They're welcoming you with open arms, and that message needs to spread to President Trump and everybody.
00:43:42.900
I think President Trump is thinking about that, doing a rally in Chicago.
00:43:49.640
Last thing, the Democrat convention this summer is going to be in Chicago.
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Do you think these people are going to let it be known that they're not happy?
00:44:01.100
So if you are a Chicago MAGA and you are sick of the Democrats and you are sick of the lies, show up to that convention.
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They're going to march around that building in red.
00:44:14.820
I'm planning on being here for that with the guys, marching with them in the streets.
00:44:18.120
And before my last thing, Steve, I've got to say, today is my wife and I's 19th wedding anniversary.
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The girls are here with me doing some traveling.
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You were the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Now we've got a 13-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a 2-month-old.
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It's for the next generation and those that come after us.
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And I couldn't be any happier to be with the love of my life, Vili Berkwam.
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Social media, you've got so much other footage on this of a real America's voice.
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Yeah, I'll be posting it throughout the day at Ben Berkwam.
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I'm speaking in Geneva, Illinois, tomorrow night.
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So if you guys want to join us for that, check it out.
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I put it on my social media, at Ben Berkwam, frontlineamerica.com, americasvoice.news.
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If you missed our last episode, it was the Chicago special.
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You can download the Law & Border episode there.
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And I'll be posting everything I get today and tomorrow and the rest of the time we're up here.
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By the way, we'll do the pregame on your speech tomorrow.
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Do you see a real awakening in this country about what the issue is, the central issues?
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Like I said, the poor folks in Chicago, the daily machines perfected stealing elections.
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And so people from the Central Valley of California to Chicago just kind of toss their hands up and say, nothing I can do about it.
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I was just in Illinois, as you know, and in Chicago.
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I actually went to the Capitol building in Chicago.
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This is from the stuff that's destroying our country right now.
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The things that are destroying our country are just helping pour into this bucket, this mega bucket from both sides.
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