Louder with Crowder - Free Speech Hypocrite Piers Morgan Hates Alex Jones, Platforms Terrorists!

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00:00:16.000 🎵 Christmas Eve.

00:00:19.000 See, all these toys are made by these elves.

00:00:24.000 These elves have that certain knack for toy making.

00:00:27.000 All except for this, this one misfit.

00:00:33.000 Herbie! 0.94

00:00:35.000 Aren't you finished painting that yet?

00:00:38.000 There's a pileup a mile behind you.

00:00:42.000 What's eating you, boy?

00:00:43.000 Well, see, that's the problem, I guess.

00:00:46.000 What?

00:00:47.000 I just don't like being a boy.

00:00:50.000 Oh, well, if that's all... What?

00:00:54.000 You don't like being a boy?

00:00:57.000 No.

00:00:58.000 Hermie doesn't like being a boy.

00:01:04.000 Hermie doesn't like being a boy.

00:01:05.000 You heard him!

00:01:06.000 Shame on you, Hermie! 1.00

00:01:07.000 Would you mind telling me what you do wanna be?

00:01:10.000 Well, sir, someday I'd like to...

00:01:12.000 Ten minute break!

00:01:35.000 Not for you!

00:01:39.000 Finish the job or you're fired!

00:01:42.000 Later.

00:01:43.000 You're fired.

00:01:46.000 Oh, no!

00:01:49.000 I'm not a dog.

00:01:51.000 Why is he such a transphobe?

00:01:54.000 I can't stand wearing men's clothes. 1.00

00:01:57.000 Chop my d*** off with gusto. 0.99

00:02:00.000 Then I might fit in. 0.99

00:02:06.000 You can't have this conversation everywhere without fear of retribution.

00:02:10.000 And you see it, you know that because you're experimenting with it by talking to people.

00:02:15.000 So what you're saying is, so for all this time that this has been correct, now this short amount of time, everybody's got to change on the dime.

00:02:23.000 Yeah.

00:02:25.000 And come to the other side.

00:02:26.000 That's going to be hard.

00:02:27.000 Yeah.

00:02:27.000 That's going to be hard to change people's minds.

00:02:30.000 I'm a he and a her. 1.00

00:02:31.000 That's it.

00:02:32.000 That's about all I got.

00:02:33.000 When was that term invented?

00:02:34.000 Body sham?

00:02:35.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:02:35.000 That was invented by fat white women. 1.00

00:02:37.000 That's real talk. 1.00

00:02:38.000 That's real talk.

00:02:40.000 That's real talk right there.

00:02:50.000 Oh So

00:03:26.000 Glad to be with you and I guess today we are back We're back here on the YouTube and why didn't anyone tell me?

00:03:36.000 So look hit the share button like it helps with the YouTube algorithm they want you to think that we're dead and if at any point Today and by that I mean at a certain point today with absolute absolute.

00:03:47.000 I mean, there's no doubt.

00:03:49.000 Yes, you will see this In which case, head on over to Rumble anyway and download the app so that you get the notifications.

00:03:58.000 Let's get to the rundown of the show.

00:04:00.000 We are going to be discussing... Well, we're going to do a deep dive today into EV batteries.

00:04:06.000 That's something that a lot of people maybe don't know a whole lot about.

00:04:09.000 Not just not electric vehicles in general, which we know are worse for the environment long term, but specifically what differentiates them from combustion engine vehicles, the battery.

00:04:18.000 What is required?

00:04:19.000 What goes into that?

00:04:20.000 Especially if you're looking at the legislation right now that is suffocating and everyone drives their white guilt mobile.

00:04:25.000 So we'll be talking about that.

00:04:26.000 Pierce Morgan is pissed off about Alex Jones being back on X in our rules for thee not for me segment.

00:04:33.000 And we also have a this week in Biden which is funny but also sad.

00:04:37.000 So let me ask you this.

00:04:39.000 Where do you stand on the issue?

00:04:41.000 Do you Do you still buy into the idea that electric vehicles are better for the environment?

00:04:47.000 Comment below.

00:04:47.000 Before we hit this segment later, it's going to be- Just go with me!

00:04:51.000 Go with me, because it's going to take a little bit of time and a lot of information, and we have the benefit of being able to do that on a slower news day, so this is something that I think a lot of people need the references for as they move forward in life, and it's a lot of fun to drive a Tesla.

00:05:05.000 Yeah.

00:05:06.000 But you're destroying Gaia.

00:05:08.000 Number two, Captain Morgan, how are you?

00:05:09.000 I'm doing well.

00:05:10.000 I think it's Gaia.

00:05:11.000 No.

00:05:12.000 You would.

00:05:12.000 Just kidding.

00:05:13.000 We were talking about pronunciations earlier.

00:05:16.000 Wishful thinking.

00:05:18.000 Tomorrow, by the way, we'll run Black and White and the Gray Issues, in which I went to a barbershop.

00:05:22.000 And just talked.

00:05:24.000 You'd be surprised as to how conservative and, of course, how much we have in common, but we were talking before the show, I said, is it G-R-A-Y or G-R-E-Y?

00:05:31.000 Yeah.

00:05:32.000 And then we got into the whole conversation, color is not spelled with a U, where I was raised in Canada, and it was, so just, you can comment, is it A-Y, is it E-Y, and this will give us some regional insight.

00:05:45.000 Third chair.

00:05:46.000 We're glad to have him.

00:05:47.000 We always thank him for his service, as one must.

00:05:49.000 And he is going to be at the Funnybone in Columbus, Ohio, December 22nd, 2030.

00:05:53.000 You can follow him on Instagram, Josh underscore Firestein.

00:05:56.000 Mr. Firestein, how are you?

00:05:57.000 Good, good.

00:05:58.000 I want to say that I am gayer than Gerald.

00:06:00.000 Yes, well, come on now.

00:06:02.000 That's not true.

00:06:03.000 That's not true.

00:06:04.000 We got the soundbites.

00:06:05.000 I'm more geo-strata than all of you.

00:06:09.000 Yeah, I was jealous you went to that barbershop.

00:06:11.000 I wanted to get a nice line up.

00:06:13.000 They offered me to do a full- They're like, no man, we'll get you a high fade, it'll change your life.

00:06:17.000 You want me to leave here looking like House Party?

00:06:21.000 Come on, man.

00:06:21.000 Little, little.

00:06:22.000 You know?

00:06:23.000 Well, you know what the funny thing is?

00:06:24.000 People are just, of course, I'm sure that most of the people of color, black people, vote Democrat in this country.

00:06:30.000 But boy, boy, boy do you realize that they are not the modern, progressive wing of the Democrat Party.

00:06:35.000 No.

00:06:35.000 That was my suspicion.

00:06:37.000 We continue to do these.

00:06:38.000 And you know what?

00:06:38.000 You also leave feeling better, having had these conversations.

00:06:41.000 So we have a few of them there in the hopper, including with two black women.

00:06:44.000 Surprisingly right wing.

00:06:46.000 Really?

00:06:46.000 Yeah.

00:06:47.000 On every front. 0.94

00:06:48.000 I think a lot of black people don't know they're right-wing. 0.93

00:06:50.000 Yes. 0.81

00:06:51.000 Yes.

00:06:51.000 They don't.

00:06:52.000 I mean, she was supportive of teachers having firearms who have concealed carry permits.

00:06:56.000 She was supportive of school choice.

00:06:58.000 And then she even asked me, you guys will see, she even asked me about, what do you think about people coming into the country who don't speak English?

00:07:03.000 I'm like, why do you?

00:07:04.000 I said, the fact that you have to whisper right now, I said, you had to choose your words carefully, didn't you?

00:07:08.000 She goes, yeah.

00:07:08.000 I said, that's what white people have to do with everything.

00:07:12.000 So just remember that.

00:07:13.000 You should have said, look at my goatee, lady. 1.00

00:07:15.000 What do you think? 1.00

00:07:15.000 She would correct you and say, it's a Fu Manchu, bitch. 1.00

00:07:22.000 All right, so we have other things to discuss here today. 0.97

00:07:26.000 Yeah, you got to adjust your headphones there because they were... you can adjust them.

00:07:29.000 Do you feel better?

00:07:30.000 Do you feel better?

00:07:31.000 Yeah, a little bit.

00:07:32.000 No, I know, they're so sensitive.

00:07:34.000 Yeah, I just wanted to hear you guys a little more.

00:07:37.000 Thanks, Josh.

00:07:38.000 Okay, Gerald, I'm gonna put it back down.

00:07:40.000 You'd rather be back in the trenches.

00:07:46.000 So from impersonating a little girl to rewriting history and inventing new numbers that aren't, uh, aren't num- they're not things.

00:07:53.000 Former Vice President Biden has had a pretty busy week.

00:07:55.000 So let's just go straight to this week in Biden.

00:07:58.000 If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump and you ain't black. 0.53

00:08:02.000 We're at three national monuments, Grand Staircase and Bears Ears.

00:08:09.000 And by the way, you know how that happened?

00:08:11.000 I was in a plane and a little girl came up to me.

00:08:12.000 She said, Mr. President.

00:08:16.000 Can you take care of Biz's ears?

00:08:20.000 I thought she said, can I take care of her ears? 0.99

00:08:23.000 I said, what honey?

00:08:24.000 She said, Biz's ears, it's really important.

00:08:28.000 And guess what?

00:08:29.000 She was dead right, and we did take care of it.

00:08:32.000 It's been 65 years since the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

00:08:37.000 65 years.

00:08:38.000 On my watch, instead of Infrastructure Week, America's having Infrastructure Decade.

00:08:42.000 Decade.

00:08:47.000 Over a billion, three hundred million, trillion, three hundred million dollars. 0.92

00:08:50.000 If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.98

00:08:54.000 Guys, come on. 0.99

00:08:56.000 To be fair, I don't want a dog pile on the guy.

00:09:00.000 The Bears Ears thing, it's a classic.

00:09:04.000 Mr. President.

00:09:06.000 I'm taking care of bears here, everyday.

00:09:08.000 I'm taking care of bears here, every way.

00:09:12.000 Woo! 0.99

00:09:14.000 So, here's something else.

00:09:19.000 I don't ever want to hear him say Pwesident again.

00:09:20.000 Pwesident! 1.00

00:09:21.000 Mr. Pwesident!

00:09:22.000 That was so creepy.

00:09:23.000 Oh my gosh, it's Fifty Shades of Grey.

00:09:25.000 Better not talk for him, unfortunately.

00:09:27.000 This administration also refused to invite families of American hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas to the White House Hanukkah reception.

00:09:37.000 This is a Hanukkah reception that the White House is hosting tonight to celebrate the fifth night of Hanukkah, hosted by the President and the First Lady.

00:09:46.000 And what one of the family members of the families that have their family members that are missing in Gaza still believed to have been abducted by Hamas on October 7, they told me that they had reached out to the White House because several of the families were in town this week, had asked for an invitation to this event, but that they ultimately did not get invited.

00:10:06.000 Now, despite this, former Vice President Biden, he did discuss his efforts, touted them, I guess.

00:10:13.000 He likes to tout his efforts to free the hostages.

00:10:17.000 It comes from CNN.

00:10:19.000 He said that he spent probably up to 20 hours working on it.

00:10:24.000 Oh jeez.

00:10:25.000 So you spent the equivalent of when we have an evening livestream, one day of work.

00:10:32.000 But he's on it.

00:10:34.000 Up to, and not limited to, 20 hours.

00:10:37.000 20 hours.

00:10:39.000 What am I, a machine?

00:10:41.000 He probably didn't actually spend 20 hours.

00:10:43.000 He spent like 15 and he's like, but up to.

00:10:45.000 Come on.

00:10:45.000 Maybe.

00:10:46.000 He never wrote 20 hours?

00:10:48.000 I took a nap.

00:10:49.000 I've been a public servant for a long time.

00:10:50.000 I never wrote 20 hours.

00:10:51.000 Dreamt about it.

00:10:55.000 He just made up a number.

00:10:56.000 He just made up a number and he did.

00:10:57.000 He's gonna work 20 hours on anything?

00:10:59.000 He didn't even consider the fact that it's not that impressive.

00:11:03.000 I work 20 hours!

00:11:04.000 200!

00:11:04.000 That's a lot.

00:11:05.000 I work 20 hours.

00:11:06.000 That's almost half of the requirement for a job to be considered full-time.

00:11:12.000 He doesn't know what a full work week is!

00:11:17.000 20 hours over two months!

00:11:18.000 He spent less time on it than if he were doing seven minute Hamas hostage abs.

00:11:28.000 There's more than 20 hours of porn on his son's laptop.

00:11:31.000 It's two months, 20 hours. 0.94

00:11:33.000 Dude, there's more than 20 hours of porn on his son's laptop.

00:11:38.000 That's just with his niece.

00:11:40.000 Don't touch it.

00:11:42.000 You know, come on a second.

00:11:45.000 Can we just also, it's bothering me.

00:11:47.000 Can we bring up that earlier clip about the 65 years, the hollock, do you have it?

00:11:51.000 Okay, bring this back up.

00:11:53.000 It's been 65 years since the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the holocaust.

00:11:59.000 65 cents a deadliest day.

00:12:01.000 That means that Biden's been working on the problem for years.

00:12:05.000 And That works out to 300 billion trillion Jews saved.

00:12:17.000 That's a lot.

00:12:18.000 Or killed.

00:12:20.000 That's a lot!

00:12:21.000 I don't know.

00:12:21.000 We're depending on which way his 20 hours tilts in the 65 years.

00:12:30.000 65 days, Mr. President.

00:12:32.000 65 days.

00:12:33.000 So if you're watching on YouTube, head on over to Rumble.

00:12:35.000 Hit the like button.

00:12:36.000 This is just, it's embarrassing.

00:12:39.000 Alright.

00:12:40.000 I feel bad for him. 0.96

00:12:41.000 The worst wife ever. 1.00

00:12:43.000 Is Jill Biden. 0.97

00:12:44.000 Yes. 1.00

00:12:44.000 Jill Biden is the worst wife ever. 1.00

00:12:46.000 It's your job when that guy is around. 0.93

00:12:48.000 He's gone around the bend.

00:12:49.000 Help him out.

00:12:50.000 Yeah.

00:12:50.000 Well, there was that one lady that drowned like three of her kids, but that was pretty bad.

00:12:57.000 No, no, no.

00:12:58.000 Jill Biden is still worse. 1.00

00:12:59.000 I think she was.

00:13:00.000 I think she was unmarried though.

00:13:01.000 Yeah.

00:13:01.000 Well, okay.

00:13:02.000 So there you go.

00:13:02.000 So yeah.

00:13:03.000 Yeah.

00:13:03.000 Trying to catch me.

00:13:03.000 Terrible mom.

00:13:06.000 Joe Biden, where are you?

00:13:08.000 Help him.

00:13:08.000 He's embarrassing himself.

00:13:11.000 Do you think she loves it?

00:13:12.000 She's like, this is for all those affairs you forced me to have with you. 1.00

00:13:16.000 You look like an idiot. 1.00

00:13:16.000 You took a dump on the Pope's floor, you moron. 1.00

00:13:21.000 That was a good year. 1.00

00:13:22.000 I get the sense that she's like, she's one of those ladies, Camp David.

00:13:25.000 She's not just like, I'm not having a martini lunch.

00:13:28.000 I'm having two!

00:13:29.000 Oh boy.

00:13:30.000 And, uh, just a few cabana boys.

00:13:33.000 When they're shooting him up with amphetamines, you think she's like, hey, let me get one of them thangs. 0.99

00:13:37.000 Yeah, bring it over.

00:13:38.000 Let me get one of them thangs and we talk to one of these interns. 1.00

00:13:40.000 That was her coke.

00:13:41.000 She has a cabana boy Mad Max blood bag.

00:13:47.000 Just so that she can feel alive.

00:13:51.000 Can you put some 44 year old woman blood in me? 1.00

00:13:56.000 Give me some of that fresh menopause blood.

00:13:58.000 That's what she said.

00:14:01.000 She looks significantly younger than him, too.

00:14:03.000 Yeah, of course she does.

00:14:04.000 Which is his thing.

00:14:04.000 Also, every black guy looks significantly younger than me, I found out.

00:14:07.000 Yeah, dude.

00:14:08.000 It's not until you see those gray hairs on their beard, you're like, wait a second.

00:14:10.000 Wait a second.

00:14:11.000 You're over 50!

00:14:13.000 You're not 30!

00:14:13.000 I'm 72!

00:14:16.000 You still can dunk, bro!

00:14:18.000 Still got hops.

00:14:20.000 Alright, this brings us to Pierce Morgan.

00:14:24.000 Look, let me ask you what your opinion is on Pierce Morgan.

00:14:26.000 I'm not a fan.

00:14:28.000 I know that now he's trying to rebrand himself as this, you know, free speech advocate by hosting a bunch of different people, but when push comes to shove, he really does show his true colors.

00:14:38.000 When push comes to... I'm sorry!

00:14:41.000 When pussy boy comes to being a red colt. 0.99

00:14:46.000 I do not talk with the red coat because they hate my country. 1.00

00:14:49.000 So, he's a red coat.

00:14:51.000 He's a red coat at heart.

00:14:53.000 And yesterday in an article at the New York Post, Pierce Morgan was whining about Elon Musk letting Alex Jones back on X. And if you're on YouTube, you didn't see us yesterday with Alex Jones here on the show.

00:15:03.000 And we're really happy, really proud of the fact that, you know, Mug Club, you guys, helped re-platform him.

00:15:08.000 And if you want to continue this, you know, you have the Nashville Manifesto, Alex Jones being re-platformed.

00:15:12.000 None of this happens without your support.

00:15:14.000 LightOathCreditor.com slash Mug Club.

00:15:15.000 And you get a free copy of Beautiful Differences, my children's book, that we have You know, tens of thousands of printings.

00:15:22.000 Once they're gone, they're gone.

00:15:23.000 Between now and Christmas.

00:15:23.000 That's it.

00:15:24.000 Okay.

00:15:25.000 Pierce Morgan! 1.00

00:15:26.000 Asshole. 1.00

00:15:27.000 What? Go ahead. 1.00

00:15:28.000 Pffft! 0.70

00:15:28.000 Hahahahaha! 0.70

00:15:33.000 Lump- Lumpy pillows.

00:15:35.000 Hahahahaha! 0.90

00:15:36.000 So the title is Elon Musk couldn't have been more wrong about Alex Jones.

00:15:43.000 He's not a free speech hero. 0.96

00:15:44.000 He's a hate speech monster.

00:15:46.000 So that brings us to this week's installment of Rules for Thee, Not for Me.

00:15:50.000 All right, let's start off with Rules for Thee. So after 30 paragraphs whining about Alex Jones,

00:16:02.000 Pierce concluded his article by saying to Elon, I always love it how these people write these open

00:16:08.000 I know.

00:16:10.000 Elon's certain to read it.

00:16:12.000 All you've done by showing this monster mercy is reward him for his repellent treatment of already devastated families experiencing the same awful grief you felt when your son died. 0.99

00:16:22.000 Well, thank you for telling him how he should feel regarding the death of his son, you pompous prick. 0.99

00:16:28.000 Jesus. 0.99

00:16:29.000 Think about that.

00:16:30.000 Like, hey, you know what?

00:16:30.000 That's kind of one of those things.

00:16:32.000 Just shut up. 1.00

00:16:32.000 You don't get to tell someone that they're being a hypocrite or get to determine how they should behave because of a loss. 1.00

00:16:39.000 The ultimate tragedy that I can't even imagine in their family. 0.82

00:16:42.000 So that's just, that's the conclusion.

00:16:44.000 But we'll work backwards.

00:16:46.000 This is also the guy, Pierce Morgan, who I guess you could say sparred with Count Dankula about this issue, Alex Jones, on his show just yesterday.

00:16:54.000 Yeah, I think he's completely right in doing it.

00:16:56.000 Why?

00:16:56.000 Elon Musk's company.

00:16:57.000 So if he wants Alex Jones back on the platform, then he absolutely can.

00:17:00.000 Is there a line, though, on free speech at all for you?

00:17:02.000 For me personally, no.

00:17:04.000 Nothing?

00:17:04.000 Anything?

00:17:04.000 No.

00:17:05.000 I think that Alex Jones should be able to go on Twitter.

00:17:07.000 If they want him there, then that's fine.

00:17:08.000 They can have him there.

00:17:09.000 Do you think what he said about the Sandy Hook massacre was justified, though? 0.99

00:17:13.000 Justified.

00:17:14.000 He has the right to say it.

00:17:16.000 I wouldn't say it was justified.

00:17:18.000 These were statements which you repeatedly made which led to actual intimidation, harassment, death threats and rape in the street.

00:17:25.000 Going up to these people and confronting them, these parents.

00:17:28.000 You think all that is fine?

00:17:30.000 I don't think it's fine.

00:17:31.000 I never said it's right.

00:17:33.000 I said he has a right to do it.

00:17:34.000 Does he have a right to do it?

00:17:35.000 Yeah, agreeing that someone has a right to do something.

00:17:36.000 You think he has a right to do that?

00:17:38.000 Yeah, I think he has a right to do it.

00:17:39.000 Agreeing that someone has a right to do something isn't the same as agreeing with what they say.

00:17:43.000 If we're saying, oh, this guy's not allowed to say his conspiracy theories or whatever you want to call them because some crazy guy out there might do something mental, then nobody can talk about anything at all.

00:17:52.000 Well, you can.

00:17:52.000 There are limits to free speech, as are everything else.

00:17:54.000 Even First Amendment America has a number of limitations to it.

00:17:58.000 Really?

00:17:58.000 Okay, good.

00:17:59.000 Name it, Pierce.

00:18:00.000 Let me guess.

00:18:00.000 You're going to use that old hack argument of yelling fire in a crowded theater, trying to grift off of the right wing as a free speech warrior when you don't understand the First Amendment?

00:18:08.000 And I understand why you don't understand the First Amendment.

00:18:10.000 Because you come from a country that doesn't have one, that's why we left. 1.00

00:18:14.000 You don't lose your First Amendment rights.

00:18:15.000 Even after defamation, to be clear, you get charged with defamation.

00:18:20.000 But you don't lose your right to speak.

00:18:24.000 It is completely inalienable.

00:18:25.000 He doesn't understand that.

00:18:27.000 And he also lies, just to be clear.

00:18:29.000 That's not why Alex Jones was removed from Twitter.

00:18:31.000 He was removed from making fun of Oliver Darcy.

00:18:33.000 A journalist from CNN who could be mistaken for, not saying is, an actual terrorist.

00:18:39.000 So that's why he was removed.

00:18:42.000 This idea, I mean he spent something like 16 minutes over the course of years on Sandy Hook, apologized for it, said that it was, he screwed up! 0.55

00:18:48.000 Said he screwed up.

00:18:50.000 He never called for violence or called for people to harass anybody.

00:18:53.000 Pierce Morgan doesn't understand what freedom of speech is, which is why when he goes out there and acts as though he's a platform hosting people of different points of view, It's a lie.

00:19:04.000 It's a lie.

00:19:05.000 You don't have to have Alex Jones on your show.

00:19:07.000 You absolutely do not.

00:19:08.000 And I don't think that that means you're anti-free speech.

00:19:10.000 The problem is when you are writing in a major publication You are calling for someone to be removed based on faulty information.

00:19:18.000 So hit the like button if you agree with Count Dankula there, even if you understood maybe 20% of what he just said.

00:19:24.000 I did love that it was fun to try to decipher that.

00:19:28.000 Listen, you're closer to the TV, even though that's not going to help you hear better.

00:19:31.000 I'm not saying it's right.

00:19:32.000 It's not right. 0.96

00:19:33.000 For example, it's not right for you to be a total prick.

00:19:37.000 It's not right for you to do it, but you have the right. 0.99

00:19:39.000 You have the right to be a giant pussy boy, but it doesn't mean that it's right. 1.00

00:19:44.000 Is it right and do you have the right? 1.00

00:19:46.000 You have the right to be a bull to the piss bag. 0.54

00:19:50.000 I don't make it right, but you have the right. 0.67

00:19:54.000 And I love his point.

00:19:55.000 He said, look, if you're worried that some random guy is going to go do something crazy because you talk about something that we can't talk about anything, that's the natural extension of this.

00:20:03.000 He's like, if Alex can't go out and make these comments, he can be sued.

00:20:07.000 Fine.

00:20:07.000 But he's not driving people to go do something.

00:20:10.000 He didn't say show up at these people's doorsteps.

00:20:12.000 He didn't say go to their homes and follow them in their businesses and make, wait a minute, I'm sorry.

00:20:15.000 I'm talking like a Congresswoman saying, get in their faces in public and make sure they don't have a comfortable life so that they can hear it. 0.99

00:20:22.000 That's not what happened with Alex Jones.

00:20:24.000 No.

00:20:24.000 And if you extrapolate this out, then there is no speech.

00:20:27.000 I'm not talking about free speech.

00:20:29.000 There is no speech because somebody might do something crazy because they don't like it.

00:20:33.000 Yeah.

00:20:33.000 I never thought that the voice of reason in a political talk show would be someone named Count Dankula.

00:20:40.000 Count Dankula!

00:20:41.000 Dude, it's so awesome.

00:20:42.000 Look, I'm one of them already.

00:20:43.000 I look at both sides, right? 1.00

00:20:45.000 Like I see one side, you're a prick. 1.00

00:20:47.000 On the other side, you're an asshole. 1.00

00:20:49.000 But I can see both arguments to be made. 1.00

00:20:53.000 You gotta meet in the middle.

00:20:58.000 I'll agree on that, I guess.

00:20:59.000 Meet in the middle like the buttons that are between your suit hanging on for dear life.

00:21:03.000 Clang on together.

00:21:05.000 I can hear you getting fatter. 1.00

00:21:06.000 You have the right to be a hot bastard. 1.00

00:21:09.000 Doesn't mean it's right. 0.99

00:21:10.000 Now, here's what's so interesting.

00:21:13.000 He wants Twitter to not allow Alex Jones on the platform.

00:21:18.000 Twitter, they benefit from Section 230, right?

00:21:20.000 It's treated as a platform, largely like a public utility.

00:21:25.000 They enjoy those benefits where they're not held liable for what people say on their platform, as opposed to a publisher.

00:21:29.000 And just to prove how little he understands the concept of the First Amendment, and it's rivaled only by his ignorance on the Second Amendment, this brings us to Pierce Morgan's Rules for Me.

00:21:46.000 He hosted Alex Jones on his very own program this year.

00:21:51.000 Here's a clip.

00:21:51.000 You're never gonna get our First Amendment, and I'm glad you had to move back to England to live under your Islamic takeover when they're arresting people for being against transgenderism.

00:22:04.000 All right, Alex.

00:22:05.000 So in other words, he doesn't want someone like Alex Jones to be able to speak with a bullhorn in the town square.

00:22:10.000 Right.

00:22:11.000 But he, which is basically a video version of New York Post, New York Times, he wants to host him.

00:22:15.000 Hey, you actually can be liable if you're hosting that person.

00:22:20.000 You're a publisher.

00:22:21.000 You're not a platform.

00:22:22.000 You are not a utility.

00:22:23.000 By the way, I was about to say Elon Musk.

00:22:25.000 Sorry.

00:22:26.000 Piers Morgan has also hosted Sahil Shaheen, the Taliban spokesperson.

00:22:31.000 Jeez.

00:22:32.000 Waheed Asif Shida, an Islamist extremist leader.

00:22:36.000 Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-Semitic Labor Party leader.

00:22:38.000 Lorenzo Gillyard, THE Kansas City Strangler, murdered 13 women.

00:22:43.000 I like how we say THE as though there are multiple and we have to distinguish.

00:22:46.000 No, no, no, this isn't the fake, you know, Johnny come lately Kansas City Strangler.

00:22:51.000 It's THE.

00:22:52.000 Or like a football player telling their college, THE Ohio State.

00:22:55.000 Right, exactly.

00:22:56.000 I was THE murderer. 0.95

00:22:57.000 This guy just wants to peddle and smut. 1.00

00:23:00.000 This guy just wants to have all of the clicks, all of the clickbait, all of the eyeballs and ears while just claiming that he's being a neutral observer as he offers his...

00:23:09.000 So why is he so upset that Musk is letting Alex Jones back onto X?

00:23:13.000 I'd love to hear from you.

00:23:13.000 term platform, remember there's a platform and publisher.

00:23:16.000 He's a publisher and he's availing his audience to these people so that he can hopefully, you

00:23:20.000 know, take another stab at relevancy after the lowest rated show on CNN after Larry

00:23:24.000 King, which is an accomplishment.

00:23:26.000 So why is he so upset that Musk is letting Alex Jones back onto X? I'd love to hear from you.

00:23:35.000 You can comment below. I have a theory and it could be that he's scared Alex might drop

00:23:42.000 some more truth bombs and hot takes like this.

00:23:46.000 And I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms.

00:23:51.000 It doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there on the street begging for them to have their guns taken. 1.00

00:23:56.000 We will not relinquish them.

00:23:57.000 Do you understand?

00:23:59.000 That's why you're going to fail and the establishment knows, no matter how much propaganda, the republic will rise again when you attempt to take our guns.

00:24:07.000 How many chimpanzees can dance on the head of a pin? 0.97

00:24:08.000 You've got a lot lower gun crime rate because you took all the guns.

00:24:12.000 Let me try exactly my point.

00:24:13.000 But you've got hordes of people burning down cities and beating old women's brains out 1.00

00:24:16.000 every day. 0.93

00:24:17.000 Let's try again.

00:24:18.000 How many gun murders were there...

00:24:19.000 Oh, you're gonna ban your fests now?

00:24:21.000 ...in Britain last year?

00:24:23.000 How many chimpanzees can dance on the head of a pin? 0.97

00:24:26.000 I need to know the answer!

00:24:33.000 Listen Alex, I'm not going to play into your trick questions.

00:24:36.000 Three.

00:24:37.000 Everybody knows it's four.

00:24:40.000 I can answer how many monkeys jumping on a bed.

00:24:45.000 One fell off and bumped his head.

00:24:46.000 That's the problem with American healthcare, isn't it?

00:24:51.000 Because, see, that monkey would have to go to an insurance company.

00:24:54.000 It just appears... Stop.

00:24:57.000 I'm sorry.

00:24:57.000 Fraud.

00:24:59.000 Fraud.

00:25:00.000 There we go. 0.90

00:25:02.000 I cut you off, Josh.

00:25:03.000 What were you about to say?

00:25:03.000 I said he should have asked how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

00:25:07.000 Well, it depends on the owl you ask.

00:25:09.000 I'm friends with the owl.

00:25:10.000 Was it the spotted owl?

00:25:12.000 We don't ban the owl.

00:25:13.000 Gosh.

00:25:15.000 Let's not talk about the bro-ing owl, the ground owl.

00:25:17.000 No, I didn't say it.

00:25:18.000 Hey, I need to mention this.

00:25:19.000 It's still the 12 days of Christmas at CrowderShop.com and we are announcing, I guess we have the winner right now.

00:25:24.000 The winner of the 75-inch Samsung Crystal UHD 4K TV is...

00:25:29.000 Heather Cahill from Midwest City, Oklahoma.

00:25:32.000 Ah, nice!

00:25:33.000 I think it's Cahill, but you know, we'll just go with Cahill.

00:25:36.000 What did I say?

00:25:37.000 Cahill.

00:25:37.000 What is it?

00:25:38.000 Cahill to fish.

00:25:38.000 I'm sorry, Cahill.

00:25:39.000 Cahill?

00:25:40.000 Alright.

00:25:41.000 I think it's Cahill.

00:25:42.000 Heather Cahill?

00:25:43.000 I don't know where that's at.

00:25:44.000 Starting today, I guess every purchase at creditoshop.com gets you entered to win a

00:25:47.000 PS5.

00:25:48.000 That's the most current iteration, I hope.

00:25:50.000 Yes, it is.

00:25:51.000 It would be a really lame 12 days of Christmas to give out the third one back.

00:25:55.000 You get a GameCube!

00:25:57.000 Yeah!

00:25:58.000 Or maybe that's retro now.

00:26:00.000 No, it's not cool.

00:26:01.000 It was never cool.

00:26:02.000 It was always the worst.

00:26:03.000 No, I'd be stoked for a GameCube.

00:26:04.000 Would you?

00:26:06.000 Yeah.

00:26:07.000 What the?

00:26:07.000 He'd be stoked for half an eaten can of sweet potatoes, so we can't use him as a...

00:26:13.000 That's day 13.

00:26:14.000 It's your story.

00:26:15.000 All right.

00:26:16.000 Anything else?

00:26:17.000 No?

00:26:17.000 Okay.

00:26:18.000 Let's go into this EV battery deep dive.

00:26:22.000 I guess that's what people call it.

00:26:23.000 We used to call these meat segments and everyone says deep dive.

00:26:25.000 We're like, let's unpack this.

00:26:26.000 I don't need to unpack this.

00:26:27.000 That sounds pretentious.

00:26:30.000 All of the references are available at lightearthcrowder.com.

00:26:34.000 We'll have the link in the description so that you can go through all of these sources.

00:26:37.000 I think that's important for you.

00:26:39.000 And again, my question earlier is, how much do you know about EV batteries?

00:26:43.000 What is required to process them, manufacture them, what goes into them?

00:26:47.000 And I think that there are a lot of, if you've driven some like Teslas, they're cool.

00:26:52.000 They're fun to drive.

00:26:53.000 That's a different issue.

00:26:55.000 And I think that there are a lot of Teslas out there that are... First off, it's a more American car than a lot of American car manufacturers are creating.

00:27:02.000 Cool, they're fun.

00:27:03.000 The torque is a lot of fun.

00:27:05.000 I also have a realistic view and understanding that these are significantly worse for the environment, just to be clear.

00:27:11.000 Specifically, when you get to the issue of batteries.

00:27:14.000 So, you've heard it ad nauseum that we all need to switch to EVs immediately or you are going to die.

00:27:22.000 This is so serious now.

00:27:24.000 We're in the hottest year ever measured.

00:27:27.000 We're seeing these extreme climate-related weather events just causing havoc all over the world.

00:27:34.000 And scientists who've been spot on and dead right in their past predictions, we've seen it play out.

00:27:40.000 We need to give them careful attention to what they're saying would happen if we don't phase out fossil fuels.

00:27:46.000 So we've got to do it by 2035.

00:27:50.000 In the next 15 years, we will eliminate in the state of California the sales of internal combustion engines.

00:27:57.000 Battery, electric, plug-in, hybrid, electric, fuel cell, electric.

00:28:02.000 It's electric.

00:28:03.000 And there's no turning back.

00:28:05.000 How adults who are in position of responsibility can be avoiding responsibility for taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis.

00:28:15.000 And the reality is...

00:28:18.000 That we didn't edit that, that actually happened.

00:28:19.000 So is any of this true, aside from they're electric?

00:28:23.000 Former Vice President Biden was right about that.

00:28:25.000 Are electric vehicles the savior to humanity that we believe them to be?

00:28:29.000 And we've already gone through, think about Alex, not Alex Jones, we've already gone through Al Gore's predictions.

00:28:35.000 Turns out some of them are wrong.

00:28:35.000 For example, Florida is still there.

00:28:38.000 That's a big one.

00:28:40.000 It's going strong!

00:28:43.000 Is there something more nefarious behind the scenes?

00:28:45.000 That brings us to this installment of Climate Claims.

00:28:47.000 Okay, so we've already done some segments here on electric vehicles, right, and how

00:29:03.000 they're powered.

00:29:04.000 You can go and search the channel, or probably best to go to Rumble or Mug Club.

00:29:08.000 Wanted to laser in on a point here.

00:29:11.000 The main difference, obviously, between supposedly eco-friendly electric vehicles and other eco-holocausting vehicles is that they use a battery instead of gas, instead of a combustion engine.

00:29:22.000 That's really the differentiating factor, right?

00:29:24.000 They both have frames, windows, tires.

00:29:27.000 So what makes the EV better for the environment, allegedly, is the battery.

00:29:32.000 Okay, battery, good.

00:29:34.000 Fossil fuels, bad.

00:29:35.000 So what goes into one of those batteries?

00:29:37.000 What's needed to make one?

00:29:39.000 All right, well, let me list the important raw materials.

00:29:41.000 And I know that there are more, but these are sort of the main ones here.

00:29:44.000 Lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, manganese, also the names of the planeteers.

00:29:50.000 So how are we supposed to access all of these so-called eco-friendly materials?

00:30:03.000 Now, that looks rough, but it's because you don't understand it.

00:30:05.000 So let's go to lithium first.

00:30:08.000 Lithium, very important mineral, especially for Britney Spears.

00:30:13.000 75% of all lithium is located in the lithium triangle.

00:30:17.000 So that's Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Courtney loves small intestine.

00:30:21.000 Now, extracting lithium It's not easy.

00:30:26.000 It's not easy.

00:30:28.000 The process itself pollutes the surrounding air, water, and it consumes a significant amount of fresh water in the mining process itself.

00:30:38.000 Mining companies also use millions of gallons of fresh water, and in one of the driest places on earth, locals are scared of what that will do to their already scarce water supplies.

00:30:50.000 And they worry they won't get their fair share of the white gold rush unfolding in their own backyard.

00:30:58.000 Don't let them incite us, because we know when to get up.

00:31:05.000 So, 2.2 million liters of water are needed to produce one ton of lithium.

00:31:11.000 That's 21 million liters, just to give you an idea, per day, on average.

00:31:15.000 21 million eco-friendly liters per day.

00:31:18.000 day.

00:31:36.000 That we're running out of water.

00:31:37.000 I'm just, I'm using those as the premises here for the arguments that the left is making, these politicians are making, to try and force you to lithium cobalt batteries.

00:31:46.000 All right, this should be pretty concerning.

00:31:49.000 Because the largest lithium mines, they're smack dab in the middle of the desert where water is already hard to come by.

00:31:55.000 Which brings us to another problem, where a lot of the lithium needs to be mined.

00:31:59.000 So, another major source of lithium is in Afghanistan, which is, some would argue, a

00:32:07.000 distinctly non-eco-conscious country under the control of a particularly non-eco-conscious

00:32:12.000 Taliban.

00:32:22.000 I'm putting that work in.

00:32:27.000 The United States government estimates that the amount of lithium in Afghanistan could even rival that of the lithium triangle that we just mentioned there in South America.

00:32:36.000 So, let's be clear here.

00:32:37.000 A lot of lithium comes from remote deserts with no water, from a failed state controlled by radical warlords who, by the way, even worse, are rumored in some instances to also be transphobic.

00:32:53.000 And another little hiccup here, I don't know if you know this, they don't build Teslas in Afghanistan.

00:32:59.000 So there's the matter of getting all of this shipped to a country with processing and manufacturing facilities where, you know, hopefully they don't burn people alive in cages because of a speech impediment.

00:33:11.000 Now, this brings us finally to the fact that there isn't enough lithium to meet the coming demand.

00:33:20.000 So, this comes from CNBC.

00:33:21.000 Again, all references available at lottothecoder.com, link in the description.

00:33:24.000 The experts are forecasting that by 2025, we will be at a 40,000 to 60,000 ton deficit.

00:33:30.000 By 2030, that'll be 768,000 tons of a deficit that we'll be seeing.

00:33:37.000 Let's go to another mineral.

00:33:38.000 Again, we're just talking batteries here.

00:33:40.000 Cobalt.

00:33:42.000 Rare mineral.

00:33:43.000 It's mined from pits, trenches, using tools like shovels, pickaxes, rebar, and of course the process involves this toxic dumping.

00:33:52.000 It's ruining some landscapes, soil fertility, water quality, killing off fish from some rivers that serve as a major source of food for local populations.

00:33:59.000 Now, where?

00:34:00.000 When we talk about cobalt, most of our cobalt resources, around 60% according to estimates, are concentrated In mines in Central Africa, specifically the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

00:34:14.000 Now, I need to be clear about something here.

00:34:16.000 I'm using the term Democratic Republic kind of loosely.

00:34:22.000 Just pick one.

00:34:24.000 The most important source of cobalt used in EV batteries is actually from a country

00:34:28.000 that has been democratically, republically at war for 25 years.

00:34:34.000 Never give a monkey an AK. 0.98

00:34:46.000 That's just good family fun.

00:34:49.000 Sorry, here's the war stuff.

00:34:51.000 Women and children are doing so-called artisanal mining.

00:34:55.000 But don't be fooled.

00:34:57.000 This is no quaint cottage industry.

00:35:00.000 At barely 10 years old, children lug heavy sacks of cobalt to be washed in rivers.

00:35:07.000 From as early as four, they can pick it out of a pile.

00:35:10.000 And even those too young to work spend much of the day breathing in toxic fumes.

00:35:18.000 Yeah, sorry, we had the wrong clip.

00:35:21.000 That's my fault.

00:35:22.000 Remember I told you earlier that it was largely mined with shovels and pickaxes.

00:35:22.000 So that was another thing.

00:35:26.000 I forgot to mention, you just saw that.

00:35:28.000 Yeah, that's also done by children.

00:35:30.000 A lot of them.

00:35:31.000 Of the 250,000 people in the Congo who mine for cobalt, 40,000 of them are children.

00:35:35.000 Let me give you some stats here.

00:35:37.000 Their wages are typically less than $2 a day.

00:35:40.000 It's been reported repeatedly that children working these mines are drugged to dull their hunger, they're starved if they don't collect enough cobalt, they're often beaten and extorted by soldiers dispatched by the government, but they have weekends off and they are their own boss.

00:35:54.000 So that's good.

00:35:56.000 Oh.

00:35:58.000 ♫ Captain Planet, he's our hero. Gonna take pollution down to zero. ♫

00:36:02.000 Alright, tool man.

00:36:05.000 You got your fingers on the button now?

00:36:06.000 Okay.

00:36:07.000 Yes.

00:36:09.000 So, actually, there's a company, Glencore.

00:36:11.000 It's a mining company that provides Tesla with a lot of the materials they need, including cobalt.

00:36:16.000 They topped the list for human rights abuses in 2022.

00:36:22.000 Think of all the companies that exist in the world.

00:36:26.000 You're number one.

00:36:27.000 Yeah.

00:36:27.000 Well, they're up there.

00:36:28.000 They're up there.

00:36:29.000 Well.

00:36:29.000 I believe they're technically, depending on the list that you use, if it's a pound-for-pound list, but you know, the point is, they're bad.

00:36:36.000 So when you talk about protesting GAP because of sweatshops, and then you say buy EVs, it's not even close.

00:36:43.000 Because you're dealing with these rare earth minerals that need to be mined in ways that are impossible to do without, largely to meet the demand, slave labor of children. 0.98

00:36:53.000 Luckily, Hollywood has picked up a story and is going to be bringing awareness to the masses.

00:36:57.000 It's the hard knock life for us. It's the hard knock life for us.

00:37:02.000 Okay.

00:37:03.000 That was South African. 0.85

00:37:08.000 It was a chimpanzee with an AK when you eat him.

00:37:15.000 To be clear, people tuning in late, it was an actual chimpanzee with an AK.

00:37:21.000 It was.

00:37:22.000 Literally.

00:37:22.000 Yes, yes.

00:37:23.000 So now you know where the material for these EV batteries, right, where we get the actual material.

00:37:29.000 Okay, but who actually controls the means of production?

00:37:33.000 So if you get the raw material, okay, now we need to go to production.

00:37:36.000 All right, let me give you a hint.

00:37:41.000 China.

00:37:42.000 China now accounts for over 70% of global EV battery production capacity, and with over 20 years of consistent commitment to African nations, it has placed itself in the right position to access the resources needed to continue this trend, leaving the U.S.

00:37:56.000 to play catch-up.

00:37:57.000 So, the Chinese government, just to be clear, tiny people but large ambitions.

00:38:03.000 So it shouldn't be a surprise that they control 70% of the production worldwide according to researchers of lithium production world 70% of the lithium production worldwide China In 2020, all global companies, to give you an idea, some context here, all global companies combined, they acquired about 6.8 million metric tons of lithium.

00:38:29.000 In 2021, Chinese firms alone acquired 6.4 million metric tons of lithium.

00:38:36.000 So one year, 6.8, the whole world.

00:38:38.000 Next year, 6.4, pretty close, just China.

00:38:44.000 No.

00:38:45.000 So Chinese mining and battery companies, they've also invested about $4.5 billion.

00:38:50.000 I almost said million.

00:38:53.000 The good old days.

00:38:55.000 $4.5 billion in lithium mines in the past two years.

00:38:59.000 And China themselves are behind it. 0.96

00:39:00.000 A lot of Africa's lithium projects in countries like Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mali.

00:39:04.000 And China is on track right now, as Well, they're on track to get more of it.

00:39:11.000 And by the way, they're on the right track, because according to the World Bank, they report that global production is predicted to rise by 965% for lithium, and then about 585% for cobalt by 2050.

00:39:24.000 So they've carved out a stronghold in the African mining market, the Chinese government, in exchange for development aid, and this is particularly prevalent, something that you see in Congo.

00:39:36.000 Back in 2008, the Democratic Republic of Congo struck a big deal with Beijing.

00:39:42.000 China's state-owned firms would build hospitals and roads in return for revenues from copper and cobalt mines.

00:39:49.000 Thirteen years on, critics say few of the promised benefits have materialised.

00:39:54.000 Surprise!

00:39:56.000 Aww.

00:39:56.000 No, not China.

00:39:56.000 Yeah, not China.

00:39:57.000 Maybe keep their word!

00:39:58.000 Yeah, you mean that China wouldn't be treating Africans well?

00:40:02.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:40:04.000 Pinky promise.

00:40:07.000 Let me give you an example.

00:40:10.000 2008, there was this infrastructure for resources swap, I guess.

00:40:13.000 I guess kind of like a Chinese gift.

00:40:16.000 You'd have to call it white elephant now.

00:40:17.000 You can't call it Chinese gift.

00:40:19.000 It's a red elephant.

00:40:23.000 In this case, you know what?

00:40:24.000 Let's just call it the old China screw job. 1.00

00:40:28.000 China acquired a 68% stake in SICO Mines, a copper and cobalt disjoint venture with Congo's state mining operation, I believe it's pronounced Jekamine.

00:40:40.000 Jekamine.

00:40:40.000 I don't know how you pronounce it, but you guys, it's a French word I'm pronouncing, but you can correct me to say it the right wrong way in English.

00:40:45.000 This is according to AP News.

00:40:47.000 So China's also unbelievably active with their investments in Zimbabwe, a country with huge resources as it relates to lithium.

00:40:56.000 Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years, and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, located 300 kilometers south of the capital Harare, has about 11 million metric tons of lithium resources alone.

00:41:09.000 In Zimbabwe, there are more than 80 state-owned Chinese enterprises, which have amassed a total of $10.4 billion in investments and contracts in the country from 2005 to 2020.

00:41:21.000 Meanwhile, the U.S.

00:41:22.000 has fallen behind, and relations with the nation have been shaky.

00:41:25.000 Now I know that some of you are going to say this next part is ethnocentric, but it has nothing to do with the fact that, you know, that these are small Chinese people.

00:41:35.000 And everything to do with the fact that they employ slave labor and, you know, as they see their economic boom there in China, total disregard for basic human rights.

00:41:46.000 Their domination of these mineral markets is a big problem!

00:41:49.000 For a place like the United States.

00:41:50.000 So in 2022, the United States imports of lithium-ion batteries climbed up to 637,000 tons.

00:41:58.000 That's a 99% increase from 2021.

00:42:01.000 Wow.

00:42:02.000 How many Dustbusters do you need?

00:42:05.000 Five.

00:42:06.000 And a Tesla.

00:42:07.000 Yes.

00:42:08.000 So, currently, to give you an idea, and this, if you assume that all countries are equal in the way they treat the environment, now of course statistically they're not, The United States relies 100% on imports and secondary scrap materials for its cobalt consumption.

00:42:23.000 90? No. 95? Incorrect. 100% on imports and secondary scrap materials for its cobalt consumption.

00:42:31.000 China refines 72% of the world's cobalt, while the United States refines 0%. 0%!

00:42:39.000 Again, you have to keep in mind that that means these products also, aside from the energy, the incredibly energy intensive process to mining them, to process them, it has to be sent across the ocean to the United States because we refine zero percent.

00:42:56.000 So the United States, for example, we have about one main cobalt mine, at least that would be of note, stopped construction in late March 2023.

00:43:03.000 This was in Idaho.

00:43:03.000 Why?

00:43:06.000 This is a news report to focus on their real passion.

00:43:09.000 Whatever people think of Idaho, the first thing they think of is the potato.

00:43:14.000 Real cool.

00:43:15.000 He's not happy to be there.

00:43:18.000 And keep in mind, before we even get to transporting it, all of this mineral production, this comes from the country that far and away leads the world in CO2 emissions.

00:43:30.000 Rebecca! 1.00

00:43:30.000 Get that guy! 1.00

00:43:31.000 Jim Planet, he's our hero.

00:43:33.000 Gonna take pollution down to zero. 0.94

00:43:37.000 We're back up the graph.

00:43:40.000 Yeah!

00:43:40.000 Look at that!

00:43:41.000 That's China! 0.90

00:43:42.000 Geez! 0.99

00:43:44.000 They're the red one?

00:43:45.000 Number one!

00:43:46.000 Where are you, Greta Thunberg?

00:43:50.000 I should be in China right now!

00:43:52.000 How's not my job?

00:43:54.000 Because I'm white!

00:43:55.000 Yeah, they can't criticize China at all.

00:43:56.000 No, you can't criticize China?

00:43:58.000 At least they had, how dare you in Mandarin. 1.00

00:44:00.000 She needs to learn it.

00:44:01.000 It probably takes 19 times longer.

00:44:03.000 It does, yeah.

00:44:05.000 So here's a question I guess that you probably would have.

00:44:08.000 Why would American companies not want to mine for these precious commodities?

00:44:13.000 Alright, a couple of answers here.

00:44:15.000 Number one, and this is also a very important point, because anytime you get to eco-friendly proposals, there's sort of a few issues that you have to deal with.

00:44:23.000 Okay, is this actually better for the environment?

00:44:26.000 Assuming you believe that the earth is warming to a catastrophic degree, and that we would be able to stop it through government intervention, right?

00:44:33.000 Let's assume you believe all those things, okay?

00:44:34.000 You have to ask, is it actually better for the environment?

00:44:37.000 This being presented as an alternative, is it?

00:44:40.000 Then you have to say, is it something that is sustainable?

00:44:42.000 And then you have to ask yourselves, okay, what would be the rate-limiting factor to getting this accomplished?

00:44:47.000 And that's how you end up, for example, with inefficient solar panels being proposed and wind farms in the United States to replace what they consider non-renewables, but then they can't actually be built or installed, for example, solar panels in the Mojave Desert, due to an endangered insect.

00:45:02.000 Because the same environmentalists prevent you from doing exactly what it is they told you you need to do.

00:45:08.000 First answer here is regulation.

00:45:10.000 The United States does have vast lithium reserves.

00:45:13.000 Now we're just, not cobalt, but lithium.

00:45:15.000 Including huge amounts in Maine, California, Nevada.

00:45:18.000 So Maine, for example, the Plumbago Mountain has 1.5 billion dollars worth of lithium ore.

00:45:25.000 California, the Salton Sea, which is one of the creepiest places on earth, if you've ever been there, contains 500 billion dollars, potentially, of lithium.

00:45:34.000 Nevada, the McDermott Caldera, That's on the border with Oregon.

00:45:38.000 It contains 1.5 trillion dollars worth of lithium.

00:45:43.000 That's a lot of lithium!

00:45:46.000 Unfortunately, environmental concerns, now keep in mind, the environmental concerns that come from the same people who demand electric vehicles Which is why we have a demand for lithium and cobalt in the first place end up creating regulations that prevent the United States from ever actually getting their hands on their own lithium.

00:46:08.000 So the United States, to give you just a really quick fact, takes 10 years to get a permit.

00:46:12.000 You have any idea how much carbon dioxide is going to be released from China in those 10 years?

00:46:17.000 And then, of course, you also have a lot of local communities who are completely opposed.

00:46:21.000 Like, there are towns, entire towns in Maine that have passed laws preventing nearby mining due to fear of water pollution.

00:46:27.000 Kind of like Ted Kennedy, remember?

00:46:29.000 He said, we need wind turbines, but not on Cape Cod out in front of my house!

00:46:36.000 Both Biden, to his credit, and Donald Trump have tried to onshore some lithium mining, but they have had incredibly difficult... they've had an uphill battle to fight.

00:46:45.000 So, for example, the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, it was approved by then-President Trump.

00:46:51.000 It's still tied up in litigation.

00:46:53.000 Okay, so the first answer is regulation from the same people who demand that we use these to artificially manipulate the market to begin with.

00:46:59.000 The second answer here is the cost.

00:47:02.000 Which goes hand in hand with regulation.

00:47:04.000 Obviously red tape makes it more expensive.

00:47:05.000 But the cost in the United States is prohibitive.

00:47:08.000 Largely because of this legislation.

00:47:10.000 So China... 0.57

00:47:11.000 They have made it financially impossible for us to do so at this point.

00:47:15.000 And this is where the idea of global enterprises and companies that are too big to fail, who, you know, get to curry favor with governments, right?

00:47:24.000 Multi-trillion dollar companies end up creating policies and taking actions that harm you, the American consumer.

00:47:30.000 None of this, to be clear, none of this is dictated by the free market.

00:47:33.000 So China has made it pretty much impossible to do so.

00:47:35.000 So Bryce Crocker, the CEO of Australia's Javar Mining, This is a company, did I say, is it Jevoir?

00:47:42.000 Jevoir.

00:47:43.000 I don't know.

00:47:44.000 Is it French?

00:47:44.000 Do they try and sound French?

00:47:45.000 Like, Jevoir?

00:47:46.000 Jevoir.

00:47:47.000 Jevoir Mining.

00:47:47.000 All right.

00:47:48.000 Sounds like a cologne that you'd get.

00:47:52.000 This company, they own that, they own that Idaho mine, the rights to that Idaho mine.

00:47:57.000 They blamed the cratering cobalt prices caused by developments in China and the Congo.

00:48:02.000 So China controls such a huge portion, basically a monopoly on the production, they can make it impossible for other countries to enter the market.

00:48:11.000 So considering all this, it's really not a surprise that China is moving to increase the sale of cheap electric vehicles in the United States of America.

00:48:18.000 And this presents what you might refer to, you know, The Goldilocks problem that the United States has when it comes to electric vehicles?

00:48:24.000 If the United States, for example, wants to rapidly increase production of electric vehicles, can only do so relying on Chinese imports.

00:48:32.000 But if the United States moves too slowly, low-cost Chinese EVs, they're going to make their way, like BYD is actually, oh that's right we have a clip, BYD. 0.61

00:48:43.000 If they do it, if they try and do it fast, the United States, They have to do it through China. 0.97

00:48:48.000 If they do it slowly, they get devoured by China. 1.00

00:48:52.000 Companies like BYD, they're going to flood the U.S.

00:48:54.000 market.

00:48:55.000 If we work together to build a brighter future for today, you can make history tomorrow.

00:49:04.000 Make history.

00:49:11.000 Then he made with a 19 year old.

00:49:15.000 He was on vacation.

00:49:19.000 What else does one does?

00:49:22.000 There's no joke, that's just a real commercial that actually happened.

00:49:26.000 By the guy who said we was taping the Revenant, when he was filming the Revenant, he said we had to go there because there was no snow.

00:49:30.000 Global warming.

00:49:31.000 Uh-huh, uh-huh.

00:49:32.000 Is that you?

00:49:33.000 In that Chinese EV advertisement?

00:49:39.000 The irony, it's lost on you.

00:49:43.000 And this brings us to the idea.

00:49:44.000 Let's assume that there was nothing wrong with the mining of lithium and cobalt.

00:49:50.000 Let's assume that the Chinese government was honest and they weren't releasing record numbers of carbon emissions into the air.

00:49:56.000 Let's assume that it then did not have to be transported to the United States or anywhere else in the Western world because we have a dependency on basically a monopoly that is reinforced by international corporations and the communist Chinese government.

00:50:10.000 Let's assume all of that and still believe that EV batteries, good.

00:50:15.000 Combustion engines, bad.

00:50:17.000 Okay, that brings us to the battery's been made.

00:50:20.000 Sure, you know, you break a few child slaves, but the batteries are made.

00:50:24.000 That's a good thing now.

00:50:26.000 Once the battery is produced, how long does it even last?

00:50:30.000 Well, let's look at the end.

00:50:30.000 Again, Tesla's cool cars.

00:50:32.000 A lot of fun to drive.

00:50:33.000 Let's look at the Tesla Model 3, their warranty, actually, as an example.

00:50:37.000 Eight years, 100,000 miles.

00:50:39.000 But the fine print, it allows for 30% degradation.

00:50:42.000 That means the ability to only hold 70% of its original charge before being considered defective.

00:50:49.000 At least, though, once your battery is dead, good news is you can recycle.

00:50:55.000 Sorry.

00:50:56.000 Turns out it costs more to recycle a lithium battery than it is to just mine More lithium to make a new battery.

00:51:03.000 Just toss some Democratic Republic of Congo bodies at it! 0.99

00:51:12.000 Should I put this in the blue bin or the green bin? 0.85

00:51:15.000 Just throw it as a Zimbabwe child. 1.00

00:51:17.000 It's fine.

00:51:17.000 It's the same net result.

00:51:19.000 So, how do we find ourselves here?

00:51:22.000 And where does that go?

00:51:23.000 About 5% of lithium batteries are being recycled globally.

00:51:29.000 5%.

00:51:30.000 Meaning that the majority of them, the vast majority, if you do the math, 95% are just sitting around somewhere being a pollutant no matter what you try.

00:51:40.000 See, we're creative, but that's really more of an arts and craft.

00:51:42.000 It's a hobby.

00:51:43.000 It's not sustainable.

00:51:46.000 It'll catch fire.

00:51:47.000 As an alternative.

00:51:48.000 I would've went with Energizer, but... Okay, fine, whatever.

00:51:51.000 The problem is, I like my batteries to go, but I don't want them to keep going and going.

00:51:57.000 I guess you go, you stop.

00:51:59.000 You stop.

00:52:00.000 It's unnatural.

00:52:04.000 So there are entire swaths of EVs that have been abandoned in what they call electric vehicle graveyards in China.

00:52:12.000 Look, it's like staring into a crystal ball.

00:52:14.000 Because it's all a money grab and it's a ridiculous scheme and a Ponzi scheme type situation in China, they just pumped these things out without doing proper market research, without actually seeing if it was viable or not.

00:52:26.000 And so the end result is fields and fields of thousands of hundreds of thousands of abandoned vehicles that are now going to rot.

00:52:34.000 Now this is where it gets insidious.

00:52:37.000 These cars are electric vehicles.

00:52:39.000 I prefer my equally eco-unfriendly diesel graveyards.

00:52:44.000 That's not really an important point, it just comes down to personal preference.

00:52:52.000 I'm a diesel graveyard guy.

00:52:55.000 I'm a people graveyard guy.

00:53:00.000 Sometimes I drive past a diesel graveyard and I go, can I hold my breath? 1.00

00:53:03.000 No.

00:53:04.000 What am I, a pearl diver?

00:53:07.000 So, what's the worst, I guess, and yeah, I would say ironic part about the whole EV charade.

00:53:17.000 I'm using it appropriately.

00:53:18.000 I'm not pulling an Alanis Morissette.

00:53:20.000 It's all powered by fossil fuels anyway.

00:53:22.000 Coal, natural gas, petroleum.

00:53:24.000 They account for about 60% of all electricity production in the United States of America.

00:53:28.000 Renewables, they're way too far away from replacing coal, other sources of energy.

00:53:33.000 Since 2004, the world has invested $6.7 trillion into this energy transition.

00:53:38.000 And what do they get for the money?

00:53:40.000 Fossil fuels still supply 84% of the world's energy.

00:53:43.000 Down a total of less than 2%!

00:53:47.000 Since 2004!

00:53:48.000 20 years, 2%!

00:53:50.000 In that same time, China, India, doing this!

00:53:53.000 On the graph! 1.00

00:53:57.000 So stupid. 1.00

00:53:59.000 Doing what? 1.00

00:54:01.000 Just... that!

00:54:04.000 That's what it's doing!

00:54:08.000 Gotta fix your hair now.

00:54:08.000 Thank you.

00:54:12.000 That happens every time I do the CO2 emission graph.

00:54:18.000 One of my favorite characters.

00:54:19.000 So let's bring this home here.

00:54:22.000 And again, all of the references are available.

00:54:25.000 The link is in the description, livewithcredit.com.

00:54:26.000 I highly encourage that you go and research this more because this is, it's a con.

00:54:31.000 It's a con.

00:54:33.000 By the way, I have no problem if you like electric cars.

00:54:35.000 They're cool.

00:54:36.000 I get it.

00:54:36.000 They're fun to drive.

00:54:37.000 In some cases, they make more sense.

00:54:40.000 In most cases, they don't.

00:54:41.000 But as it relates to the environment, as it relates to governments stepping in and punishing you, raising the prices of energy that you need in the name of the environment, it's a lie and they are.

00:54:53.000 Invariably, as government does.

00:54:56.000 When they intend to solve a problem, more harm than good.

00:55:00.000 Let's walk through it.

00:55:01.000 Okay, the ingredients that are required, these minerals, cobalt, lithium, right, now this of course relies on dirty mining, United States reliance on authoritarian owners of mines, the use of child slave labor, and then these batteries rely...

00:55:14.000 Entirely on minerals that are procured through all of these practices that we've discussed.

00:55:19.000 Countries run by places like the Taliban, the communist Chinese government that use child slave labor to make inefficient, uneco-friendly vehicles, all so that you can roll down your suburban street in your white guilt-mobile. 1.00

00:55:32.000 Captain Planet, he's our hero Gonna take pollution down to zero

00:55:39.000 So someone tries to tell you, you need to go electric They forced you to go electric into a car with a giant lithium battery. 0.99

00:55:51.000 By the power of yours combined, he's a dick. 0.98

00:55:54.000 That's been this installment of Climate Claims. 0.99

00:55:56.000 ♪♪♪ Alright.

00:56:09.000 You mean I can't, I can't feel like I'm doing my part?

00:56:11.000 What do you mean?

00:56:12.000 By buying an electric vehicle?

00:56:13.000 Nope.

00:56:13.000 No.

00:56:14.000 You can.

00:56:14.000 I just, I just won't be.

00:56:15.000 You can feel a lot of things.

00:56:18.000 That's true.

00:56:18.000 I just won't actually be doing my part.

00:56:20.000 Yeah.

00:56:20.000 So when Elon Musk said he's done more than any human being on the planet to help the climate... Probably not.

00:56:26.000 Probably not.

00:56:27.000 It depends on your goals.

00:56:28.000 Well, hold on, hold on.

00:56:28.000 If you want to not help the climate... Yeah.

00:56:31.000 But also, it depends on if you're a child in one of these countries.

00:56:35.000 Probably not loving the demand for cobalt in the mining process.

00:56:40.000 But, you know, it'll solve the population problem, because the life expectancy isn't great.

00:56:46.000 Plus, according to that video, they can add to their resume, artisanal mining.

00:56:50.000 Yes, they can.

00:56:51.000 That's what they called it.

00:56:51.000 They called it artisanal mining.

00:56:53.000 It's a cottage industry.

00:56:54.000 Just use buzzwords.

00:56:56.000 Like it was an Italian BMT.

00:56:58.000 Artisanal.

00:57:00.000 I wonder if there's a hierarchy, too, or someone who mines manganese is like, well, I'm artisanal mining adjacent.

00:57:09.000 One day, to be in the cobalt mine.

00:57:12.000 I'm stuck in manganese.

00:57:16.000 No one ever thinks about manganese.

00:57:18.000 No.

00:57:19.000 I'm like the middle child.

00:57:22.000 I don't know.

00:57:24.000 Does lithium catch fire when it touches air?

00:57:27.000 I mean, it can.

00:57:28.000 It's flammable.

00:57:30.000 I know you can't bring it on an airplane in a certain capacity.

00:57:34.000 Yeah, if it touches air it goes on fire.

00:57:37.000 Ah.

00:57:37.000 Yeah.

00:57:38.000 Yeah.

00:57:39.000 Don't let the terrorists know that! 0.90

00:57:40.000 All you have to do is blow on it and you get your virgins? 0.99

00:57:45.000 Yeah, you ever puncture a phone battery and it starts swelling up?

00:57:48.000 It's because it's lighting on fire.

00:57:50.000 Ah, really?

00:57:52.000 Inside the phone?

00:57:53.000 Yeah, that's why you see phones explode when someone stabs the battery with like a knife.

00:57:57.000 It'll explode.

00:57:58.000 I thought, I just thought it was a prank.

00:58:00.000 I thought people were putting blasting caps on phones.

00:58:03.000 I didn't know that.

00:58:03.000 It was a thing.

00:58:04.000 Oops.

00:58:05.000 I think it was crazy.

00:58:06.000 Glad I have it in my pocket all the time.

00:58:07.000 I feel bad for the one person out there who finds like the last remaining blasting cap on railroads and loses a hand.

00:58:14.000 Because they don't do the PSAs anymore, don't play with blasting caps.

00:58:16.000 But I'm sure there are a few still around.

00:58:18.000 Or don't play with railroads.

00:58:19.000 Who's out there?

00:58:20.000 You didn't play with a railroad.

00:58:22.000 It's a rite of passage.

00:58:25.000 Ah, come on, I did!

00:58:27.000 Come on, dude!

00:58:28.000 Yeah, that was my thing, I would do the little... Watch, here goes the train, it's gonna derail!

00:58:33.000 Yeah, that's exactly it.

00:58:35.000 Yeah, you know, it happens.

00:58:37.000 He's too busy tying girls up on them.

00:58:40.000 Yes, exactly.

00:58:41.000 And then saving them.

00:58:42.000 Exactly.

00:58:46.000 Josh Whiplash.

00:58:48.000 Do you want to see a video of a lithium battery, like, going up in flames?

00:58:51.000 Do I want to?

00:58:52.000 Yeah.

00:58:52.000 Do you have to ask?

00:58:54.000 Yes. 0.97

00:58:59.000 Practice my stabbing.

00:59:02.000 Yeah, you're exposing it to air.

00:59:04.000 There you go.

00:59:09.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:59:11.000 Huh.

00:59:12.000 That is cool.

00:59:13.000 That can't be normal.

00:59:14.000 That is neat.

00:59:15.000 That is normal.

00:59:16.000 Really?

00:59:17.000 Yeah.

00:59:18.000 Like if I have my phone in the wrong position in my pocket with a bobby pin, I'm gonna look like the Rocketeer?

00:59:26.000 The bobby pin punctures the battery in your phone, but I think it'd take a lot to... Well, the back of the phone is supposed to be really strong compared to the front of the phone, right?

00:59:33.000 I mean, that guy stabbed it like four times.

00:59:34.000 That's true.

00:59:36.000 Well, you know what?

00:59:37.000 No one's saying it's impenetrable.

00:59:38.000 What if it's like Ben Carson?

00:59:40.000 And Ben Carson hits that instead of a belt buckle?

00:59:42.000 That's true.

00:59:43.000 There you go.

00:59:44.000 Then you're gonna have some roasted chestnuts, my friend.

00:59:45.000 His mother should thank her lucky stars. 0.82

00:59:48.000 Tesla fires are really hard to extinguish because you basically create a blowtorch with batteries.

00:59:54.000 Yeah.

00:59:55.000 Yeah.

00:59:56.000 So we should be dropping these on the tables.

00:59:58.000 But, let's be fair, you know, a combustion engine fire is no picnic either.

01:00:01.000 No!

01:00:02.000 Yeah, but you can put it out.

01:00:03.000 Either way, someone's shouting, Either way, that receiver from the Raiders is going to prison.

01:00:13.000 And when he called 9-1-1, what did he say?

01:00:22.000 TV's are good!

01:00:26.000 What happened to you?

01:00:29.000 Cell phone.

01:00:33.000 Lung cancer?

01:00:36.000 No.

01:00:37.000 It's a support group, they're going in a circle.

01:00:39.000 What happened to you? 1.00

01:00:40.000 Cordless Dyson vac fucked me. 1.00

01:00:45.000 How about you? 1.00

01:00:47.000 LG Zero.

01:00:51.000 And you, Marlboro.

01:00:53.000 That's the wrong room, that's room C-17.

01:01:00.000 Alright, we have, by the way, we have, every now and then we'll do these meat segments

01:01:08.000 where it's, I get it's more of an evergreen, but it's just something that hopefully can

01:01:12.000 help you have these discussions.

01:01:14.000 as you move forward. So many people are fooled by this, and it's not that hard

01:01:18.000 to poke holes in it, it's not that hard to dissect. You don't have to be a genius, you

01:01:21.000 don't have to be a climatologist to understand that the economics don't make

01:01:25.000 sense, and the energy required doesn't make sense, let alone, and

01:01:28.000 this is where when people say, oh man, I look at every issue individually.

01:01:31.000 No, no, the ism, the ideology does matter because 0.98

01:01:34.000 these nations on whom you are depending, they of course have an ideology, and you can't simply

01:01:40.000 replace it without any semblance of right or wrong yourselves.

01:01:44.000 You need to look at these issues critically, you need to look at issues individually, but I do think it's important to have a worldview.

01:01:49.000 Otherwise, you can be led astray by any of them.

01:01:50.000 That's the only reason.

01:01:51.000 I would say this, if you have to put a finer point on it, the only reason that people are driving these electric vehicles, thinking they're helping the environment, is because they have no worldview, and so they buy everything, hook, line, and sinker, just like they did with COVID.

01:02:02.000 So, if you're watching right now, On Rumble, I think we're still on YouTube.

01:02:06.000 If you're on YouTube, head on over to Rumble.

01:02:07.000 But on Rumble, you click that button below, you can join Mug Club, and you'll just continue watching this seamlessly.

01:02:13.000 We're going to do a segment, Would You Rather.

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Louder with Crowder - December 12, 2023

Free Speech Hypocrite Piers Morgan Hates Alex Jones, Platforms Terrorists!

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