Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - 04⧸22⧸26 STEVE CORTES Joins. SPLC, Sheridan Gorman, Charlottesville Hoax

00:00:00.000 in the guests are sippers. Okay. Let's see. Did YouTube kick in? Please YouTube work today. 0.60

00:00:11.040 It's like Stephen Lang's sleeping in today. Oh no.

00:00:17.220 Let's see. Oh good. You see Bev. Patty. I see YouTube. I'm so excited. YouTube didn't work

00:00:25.980 yesterday steve sometimes it gets glitchy and then we have to upload it after but we go on rumble

00:00:32.420 we're on youtube we're on x and we are on locals with the beloveds good morning everybody it is

00:00:40.640 april 22nd 2026 it's me erica and you know owen marcella's off in court today and we are so so

00:00:49.740 lucky to have returning with us one of our all-time favorite guests, Steve Cortez. Thank

00:00:55.520 you so much for joining us today. Welcome back. Thank you. It's a privilege to be here. It's

00:01:01.740 great to be with you talking about really important issues. And of course, to honor

00:01:05.500 the late Scott Adams, who was so inspiring to all of us. Amen. I swear. And I mean, you know,

00:01:11.540 we always say there's no coincidences. And the fact that you're here with the news going on

00:01:17.240 right now is so perfect um all right so before we get to the news oh on this earth day happy

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00:02:02.720 it would taste like caucus oh no uh i think he brushed that one a little bit but it was still

00:02:10.460 perfect that was funny okay so i just got some kind of a warning i hope i hope youtube's on let

00:02:15.880 me check you guys all right so you guys happy earth day um so so much has been going on in

00:02:21.660 the news luckily we're not newscasters and we don't have to cover all of it but we did discuss

00:02:28.740 a couple things we wanted to talk about especially with having steve here and one is what just went

00:02:35.060 down yesterday with the Southern Poverty Law Center, those lovely, lovely people.

00:02:42.880 Steve, could you tell us just briefly who they are in general, and then we'll play some clips

00:02:49.060 for everybody? Sure. And also just to quickly out of the gate clarify, they're not Southern.

00:02:54.980 They're certainly not poor. And all they do is engage in leftist attacks, smear campaigns

00:03:01.400 against the right under the guise of supposedly fighting hate.

00:03:06.860 And because there's really not that much hate, frankly, in America for them to fight,

00:03:11.700 they've been manufacturing hate, but in a way that I think few of us knew

00:03:14.620 until these indictments came down yesterday.

00:03:16.560 But Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in the 1970s by a guy named Morris Dees,

00:03:21.260 who had a ton of charisma, but not many ethics.

00:03:24.120 He finally got pushed out of his own organization for very intense corruption.

00:03:28.580 But unfortunately, he did build a bit of a behemoth that got a lot of corporate money.

00:03:32.940 Most of the biggest corporations in America donate handsomely to the SPLC and have for many years, perhaps some of them not even realizing that they are, in fact, funding a very partisan, very leftist, in some ways Marxist organization that, again, under the guise of fighting hate,

00:03:51.580 is actually simply fighting political opponents and trying to get them castigated into a place

00:03:57.920 in society and in law and in media where they simply can't be effective. And they've used lies

00:04:03.200 and smears forever. And that's been very known. I don't think it was known until yesterday by a lot

00:04:08.760 of folks, just the fact that just how pernicious it truly was. And the fact that they were actually

00:04:14.100 using this money that they had gotten from donors, again, big corporate donors, a lot of regular

00:04:18.080 Americans, too. One thing Morris Dees was very good at was building a fundraising machine based

00:04:23.480 on propaganda, that he was supposedly fighting the Ku Klux Klan, and they were around every

00:04:27.540 corner in America, and there's one under your bed, and you need to be afraid. And what this

00:04:32.760 indictment, which is really just incredible and worth reading, quite frankly, even if you're not

00:04:37.860 a legal type, this indictment states is that they have been paying to the tune of millions of

00:04:44.060 dollars literally paying people to foment hate, to stage hateful events so that they can then fight

00:04:51.740 that very hate that they themselves, the SPLC, financed and concocted and staged. So they are

00:04:58.720 setting up an enemy, a boogeyman. They're able to find some derelict people out there, some

00:05:03.920 unscrupulous people who want money and who might have some hateful inclinations but don't have

00:05:08.200 much reach or power well they pay them to stage events the most significant i think being the

00:05:15.580 charlottesville riot the charlottesville uh hoax that emanates from the events the violent effects

00:05:21.260 of what happened in charlottesville virginia where there was not a peaceful protest there

00:05:25.400 was a violent protest you know that was supposedly organic and staged by right-wing racists in

00:05:33.440 Virginia we now know because of this DOJ indictment that in fact the very left-wing SPLC was behind

00:05:41.120 staging and financing this event and the primary organizer they have paid according to the

00:05:47.820 government they have paid $270,000 so we're not talking about small dollar amounts either

00:05:53.340 we're not talking pocket change or meal money we're talking significant money to these people

00:05:58.660 to stage events that are not organic. And so that they can set up a boogeyman of the right

00:06:05.280 as supposedly racist and of Trump as racist himself and his supporters as racist. And they 0.91

00:06:11.420 can then be the heroic fighters against this very fake enemy that they themselves have concocted.

00:06:17.360 So we all know on here that, you know, Scott, along with all of us, okay, I want to give all

00:06:25.580 of us credit. So Scott, with all of us, with Steve Cortez and with Joel Pollack, I mean,

00:06:32.480 the fighters, we were out there, we were out there marching to get the truth out about the

00:06:37.760 Charlotteville hoax. And it was so disgusting and egregious to know that everybody that was

00:06:46.940 talking about it knew they were lying. They all knew they were lying. Every news reporter,

00:06:51.580 It was so sickening, Steve, um, just to, because I, I heard what Trump said in real time and I was

00:06:58.260 like, Oh, that was a good measured answer because I knew he's talking about the protests on both

00:07:02.480 sides. Not the, not the fake now we know KKK situation. Um, and people died and people got

00:07:10.800 hurt. And it, I think that hoax was one of the worst things to happen to our country because I

00:07:16.760 hate to break it to anybody that doesn't know this, but when I grew up, I got to see where

00:07:23.540 I got to watch, let's just say, broadly speaking, racism end. I got to watch our country be like,

00:07:30.880 okay, like everybody's equal. And then I got to watch that whole transformation. And it wasn't

00:07:36.580 until recent years that racism was systematically brought back. Okay. It never used to be like this.

00:07:45.180 So I was like, this is so inorganic, like it all felt so fake. I'm like, what, why are you

00:07:49.740 gaslighting us? So, um, I just want to play. I just don't even know where to go first, but let's,

00:07:56.060 let's go to, uh, cash Patel laying it out these 11 counts, um, and just kind of hear it for

00:08:02.300 ourselves. Cause this is, this is big news. You guys, it's going to have to change all the stats

00:08:07.140 on who are the racists, who are the, you know, uh, radicals because obviously they were bought

00:08:14.060 and paid for. So let's listen to cash and then we'll jump back on the other side.

00:08:18.660 We're here today is to announce what the what the general just told you, the Southern Poverty Law

00:08:23.700 Center in a massive sweeping indictment has been charged with allegations of fraud and using the

00:08:30.820 banking system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to talk about a couple of brief things here.

00:08:36.240 The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertised to raise money to dismantle violent

00:08:42.620 extremist groups for a period of at least a decade. They used their donor network to raise

00:08:48.140 money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty

00:08:55.160 Law Center, used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of

00:09:01.620 these very groups. I just want to say that again. They used the fraudulently raised money by lying

00:09:07.700 to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the leadership

00:09:13.200 of these supposed violent extremist groups.

00:09:17.500 The groups, as the general laid out, include the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America,

00:09:23.080 Unite to Right, National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle

00:09:30.460 Club, and the National Socialist Party of America, and also the American Front.

00:09:36.260 In at least one of these matters, our investigation revealed that funds were used to facilitate the commission of further state and federal offenses, totaling over $3 million.

00:09:48.720 Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center, on top of perpetuating this widespread, decade-long, multi-million-dollar fraud, conducted more criminal activity.

00:10:01.440 They attempted to hide their criminal activity from our financial banking network.

00:10:08.900 They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions that we rely on as everyday Americans were deceived in believing that money was not coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud.

00:10:27.080 This is a serious and egregious violation of a group that purported to dismantle violent extremist groups, but in turn actually only fueled the hatred.

00:10:38.560 This is an important case brought by President Trump's administration.

00:10:42.500 We're thankful for the president for his leadership and funding of not just the FBI and DOJ, but his commitment to go out there and wipe out fraud and conspiracy and waste and abuse wherever it occurs, including the Southern Poverty Law Center.

00:10:55.020 Even though this money was made to appear to be coming from legitimate people and legitimate entities,

00:11:02.140 we at the FBI, with our great partners at the Department of Justice and in the state of Alabama,

00:11:07.040 were able to comb through a decade worth of material, a scheme that took a decade to build,

00:11:12.440 so that we were able to follow the money, because money never lies.

00:11:16.720 And they got caught.

00:11:17.980 As the Attorney General said, these charges are varying.

00:11:21.780 They are widespread and wide-ranging.

00:11:23.860 and this investigation is very much ongoing.

00:11:27.140 Today we're here to announce the charges

00:11:28.560 of the Southern Poverty Law Center

00:11:29.920 and this investigation and the individuals

00:11:32.100 who are responsible will be brought to justice.

00:11:34.680 Thank you, General.

00:11:38.560 Of which there's 11 counts,

00:11:41.340 six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud,

00:11:44.340 one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

00:11:48.500 Owen, do either of you know, Steve or Owen,

00:11:51.240 the american front is that that patriot front group do you know the guys that we all said were

00:11:57.860 feds that were like khakis with like a thing over their face i don't know if that's the same i do

00:12:03.440 know that unite the right did become patriot front so i think that the unite the right is

00:12:10.100 like the the leader of that broke off and then we you know started the patriot front so those

00:12:15.060 are related in some way um but i'm not sure if the american front is a different one

00:12:19.620 Okay. So that's pretty amazing. And I mean, the people, if you watch who they listed as these

00:12:30.220 dangerous people, it's laughable, Steve. I mean, some of the most nice, normal people

00:12:38.900 got this label and got attacked. And these people, and by the way, I can't finish a thought

00:12:46.400 because I'm so upset about this, or I'm happy.

00:12:49.420 I don't know what I am.

00:12:50.600 But I also want the people who push the narrative

00:12:54.900 of the Southern Poverty Law Center to be in trouble,

00:12:58.820 like newscasters that knew they were lying and pushing it,

00:13:02.600 like Joe Biden.

00:13:04.880 Yeah, and in the case of Joe Biden, by the way,

00:13:07.180 let's remember that he launched his entire presidential campaign

00:13:11.120 based on this lie.

00:13:13.520 And by the way, he knew it was a lie

00:13:15.100 Because I'm saying the lie of the Charlottesville hoax, which, again, was available to any rational person who just wanted to take a look at the full transcript or full video, which he surely knew, or at least people around him certainly knew, who knows cognitively where he was at that point.

00:13:29.160 But regardless, he said he claimed as the reason, as the compelling motivation for him to run, to get back into politics, to come out of retirement, to save the nation, was to save America from racism as exemplified by the Charlottesville riots who were Trump supporters and doing the bidding effectively of their leader, Donald Trump.

00:13:51.540 Of course, that was based on a clear lie, which we all knew at the time because it was all public information.

00:13:57.660 But you're exactly correct. Two things happened.

00:14:00.580 First was corporate media was more than willing to take that lie and run with it and amplify it and repeat it again and again.

00:14:08.840 The second part, and this is also key, those of us who were doing our best to fight it with the facts, right,

00:14:14.540 with the actual videos, the actual transcripts of what Donald Trump said that proved that not only is he not racist,

00:14:20.340 But in fact, he explicitly condemned the neo-Nazis. Big tech suppressed our voices, punished our platforms and effectively censored us from our ability to widely get that information out.

00:14:33.660 So let me give you a great example that be specific and tangible here. The great Dennis Prager, who's a friend of mine and and somebody who very early on saw how how hateful and malicious this Charlottesville hoax was and how effective it was, unfortunately, against Donald Trump and against our movement.

00:14:52.320 he knew that I had been on CNN trying my best to get the truth out amidst a sea of lies on that

00:14:58.800 network where I worked at the time about the Charlottesville hoax. So he asked me to do one

00:15:02.820 of his PragerU videos, his really well done five minute videos that have a lot of reach.

00:15:07.020 And thankfully, we did one. It went mega viral. It got millions and millions of views. It was

00:15:11.800 tweeted out by then President Trump in his first term. But YouTube, Google YouTube suppressed the

00:15:19.640 video you actually needed to verify yourself to watch it um at one point it was actually it had

00:15:24.740 to be age verified also you know as if it was some somehow x-rated or violent or you know whatever

00:15:30.040 um and then at one point taken down you know just fully taken down uh from youtube we also could

00:15:35.920 not do any ad spending to promote it we couldn't do paid promotion these are for-profit companies

00:15:40.780 but they said no not your money not when you're telling the truth about the charlottesville

00:15:44.360 fine people hoaxed. I mean, thankfully, the truth largely got out. And I think by now,

00:15:50.140 all these years later, almost a decade later from the initial incident, the actual press conference

00:15:54.800 on Charlottesville from President Trump, I think the truth is widely known, but it took a long

00:16:00.300 time. And it's for those two reasons. It's number one, the legacy media, which was still very

00:16:04.400 powerful then. They're a lot less powerful now, thank goodness. But legacy media, CNN, CBS, NBC,

00:16:09.700 They were still very powerful in those days, and they refused to tell the truth and, in fact, amplified the lie.

00:16:17.340 But then the second aspect was big tech and the censoring and just really horrific behavior, anti-free speech, anti-American behavior of corporate America in cahoots with big tech and this grand lie.

00:16:32.620 And we now know that the lie was fueled by, the lie flowed from an event which was in itself a lie because the event was staged.

00:16:43.060 It was financed and paid for by the left so that they could create racism, create an issue where it didn't exist.

00:16:51.220 What this proves once again, and this is a phrase that's been repeated a lot, but I think it's worth repeating,

00:16:55.420 is that the demand for racism from the left, it far exceeds the actual supply out there in

00:17:02.660 American society. And I'm so glad, too, Erica, that you mentioned that for those of us who are

00:17:07.980 sort of middle-aged, I'm 54 years old, by the time we were becoming sort of adolescents into

00:17:12.580 young adults, racism had largely disappeared from American society, right? So America clearly had

00:17:19.040 a serious problem with race. We had the civil rights movement primarily in the 1960s. I think

00:17:24.760 the 70s and 80s were largely times of sort of reckoning. And then the 80s into the 90s were

00:17:29.620 really times of largely racial harmony. It's not just my opinion. You can see this in some of these

00:17:34.880 statistics. For example, approval of interracial marriage, which had been minuscule previous to

00:17:39.700 that, became the overwhelming majority in America. No big deal, interracial couples. 1.00

00:17:44.820 And, you know, there's all kinds of metrics we can use. But the point is, America had become, 0.83

00:17:49.020 in many ways, post-racial, where young Americans, at least, just didn't even really see race.

00:17:54.560 They judge people based on their character. Right. But the left couldn't have that. 0.52

00:17:59.640 They couldn't have because they need to gin up racism at the vehicle by which they then fight since they can't be persuasive based on their ideas because their ideas are lousy and garbage and Marxist. 0.97

00:18:13.400 And so they start to create racism where it doesn't exist. And this really, really accelerated in massive ways with the election of Barack Obama. 0.94

00:18:22.260 What should have been a wonderful moment for racial healing, America electing a black man, a country that once regarded black men as property and could be abused as property, now elected one, chose one to be president of the United States.

00:18:36.080 It was actually a great opportunity for real racial reconciliation in this country.

00:18:41.480 And instead, what did Barack Obama do?

00:18:43.180 He used his platform to, at all times, be as divisive as possible.

00:18:48.180 So that's the Obama presidency.

00:18:49.760 By design, by the way.

00:18:51.280 Yes, very much. And then we get into the Trump presidency. And of course, they're shocked, the left is, that Trump won. What's their main tactic against him then? I mean, how did this guy win? They say, well, we're going to call him racist and all of his supporters racist.

00:19:06.400 And what did SPLC do with their millions and millions of donor dollars? Some of it coming from regular Americans, most of it coming from big business in this country. What did they do? They said, we are going to finance events. We're going to stage events. We're going to pay for fake hate so that we can then fight it for our own political advantage, for our own donor base, for our own selfish needs.

00:19:31.120 And in the case of Charlottesville, think about the consequences. Number one, a young woman died, right? Heather Heyer died in the subsequent riot that we now know was created and concocted. So that's the first immediate dire consequence. But then for the country, the macro consequence for everyone is that it gave rise to this grand lie that Donald Trump praised neo-Nazis, even though the opposite was true.

00:19:57.520 And unfortunately, Erica, for a very long time, most of America or at least roughly half of America believed that lie.

00:20:05.600 And it was so divisive to not just our politics, but to our entire society.

00:20:11.340 And one of the reasons I started picking up on this in 2018 and 2019 when I was working for CNN, I got fired, by the way, for telling the truth about this lie.

00:20:19.260 But when I was working for CNN, I saw it every night on the air, you know, in the panels that I was on.

00:20:25.480 I saw it just constantly brought up right as the it was the foundational attack upon Trump and his supporters.

00:20:32.280 You're bigots. You praise the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. You praise the hateful killers at Charlottesville.

00:20:37.740 But then I also just saw it in my personal life talking to people.

00:20:41.720 Anytime I would ask what you know, what's your main problem with Donald Trump?

00:20:45.060 almost always the very first answer was he praised Nazis in Charlottesville. I mean,

00:20:51.160 that just got to be the standard answer. I said, listen, you can have all kinds of reasons to

00:20:54.760 dislike Donald Trump. You can have all kinds of reasons to oppose the America first agenda,

00:20:58.620 but don't base it on a lie because that's a lie. But unfortunately, that became the go-to,

00:21:04.440 almost default excuse to dismiss not just Trump himself. I mean, Trump can handle, of course,

00:21:09.760 but Trump and tens of millions of people who rallied to the America first cause.

00:21:15.740 And so I said, I'm going to do what I can with my platform to start to fight this.

00:21:18.560 So I started to write articles and do the PragerU video.

00:21:21.380 And then independently of what I was doing, Joel Pollack was chasing it on his own.

00:21:25.440 And of course, Scott Adams was using his powerful platform to chase it on his own.

00:21:29.800 And eventually, thankfully, the three of us synced up and linked up and formed sort of this trinity of truth tellers

00:21:36.340 who said we're going to do whatever we can to cooperate with each other in fighting this lie, you know,

00:21:42.340 in our various lanes and help amplify each other. And eventually, eventually the truth did get out.

00:21:49.300 But we now learn, again, that the entire fight that I'm talking about, that I was happy and honored to engage in,

00:21:56.400 especially with somebody like Scott Adams, that's what brought us together. So I'm thankful for that.

00:22:00.440 But the entire ordeal didn't have to happen because it all flowed from a dishonest staged event that the left paid for.

00:22:11.480 And that's not just unethical. It's not just immoral. It's illegal. It is illegal.

00:22:16.540 A nonprofit cannot take donor money and then pay to stage to stage events of hate and in some cases criminal events inside.

00:22:28.120 This is illegal. This is a mafia-like organization. I'm glad to hear that Cash Patel said this

00:22:33.640 investigation is ongoing. I hope there's a lot more indictments out there.

00:22:37.660 I do too. Thank you. That was so well said. Speaking of Joel, so the account Maze, you guys,

00:22:44.960 on X, he put together a video. I just want to show you guys and see if you can spot Joel because,

00:22:52.280 yes, he also was shocked about this blatant lie. But this is Biden's campaign. And I always do

00:23:03.220 like to point out that I think it was that day when Biden was on stage with like Clooney and

00:23:09.620 Obama at the end when he was giving it one last push. Obama pushed it again that time. That was

00:23:14.920 just in 2023 or four. So, you know, they never dropped this. So anyway, look out for Joel. Tell

00:23:22.000 me when you see him. Close your eyes. Remember what you saw on television. Remember seeing

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00:23:31.840 torches. And remember what the president said when asked? And you had people, and I'm not talking 0.94

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00:23:43.340 But he said it specifically that he was condemning them.

00:23:45.220 No, he did not.

00:23:46.200 He said he walked out and he said, let's get this straight.

00:23:49.680 The veins bulging as they were screaming.

00:23:52.360 Remember, just close your eyes and picture what it was.

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00:25:49.600 So, yeah, you guys, I'm watching you in the chat.

00:25:52.180 It should make you mad.

00:25:53.560 And all of the expletives you're saying, I'm with you 100%.

00:25:57.340 Owen, don't you just feel like – no, Owen, tell me what you feel like about all this.

00:26:02.320 Well, I mean, it's again a mix of emotions. I am angry that this all happened, but I'm also satisfied to see some consequences finally hitting. I think a lot of us have been waiting for some of these types of charges to hit, and I'm hoping there's a lot more. I think this type of thing is much more widespread than just what we heard about today.

00:26:20.820 um you know i remember seeing some videos of some white supremacist guy giving a speech and

00:26:27.660 they made it seem in the media like it was this very big thing and it was this you know

00:26:32.040 sign that racism is back in america and it's growing and then the the camera pans back and

00:26:38.720 you see that there's literally like 10 people in the crowd watching it and there's more media

00:26:43.220 people filming it than there are people in the audience and that to me was just a stark example

00:26:49.740 of where it's like they're making this into this huge thing they're giving it a platform they're

00:26:54.300 basically promoting this hateful person that would otherwise just be talking to 10 people and and it

00:27:00.780 wouldn't go anywhere and and the media is the one that was doing that and so i think this was part

00:27:05.900 of a much larger effort to try and push this kind of hoax and this kind of lie um and i i remember

00:27:12.460 this very vividly back to 2016 when that was the conclusion like you said steve that oh the only

00:27:19.020 reason trump got elected is because america is racist and that became what they ran on after

00:27:23.980 they realized they couldn't do the russia collusion thing um or that that didn't work in the campaign

00:27:29.340 they just moved on to racism as the reason why trump got elected and then it just built from

00:27:33.740 there and um i'm sure that had a big part to do with the 2020 election and um it seems like a

00:27:42.940 a very broad conspiracy to just push this lie and, you know, push back on anyone who says,

00:27:48.580 no, Trump's not a racist. I mean, you remember how they made a big deal out of the Central Park

00:27:53.120 Five when that was a hoax too. And there were all these other ones that they just would add

00:27:57.040 onto the list to say, well, look at all of these things. And they were all lies. They were all

00:28:01.440 lies. Trump is not racist. He's probably one of the least racist presidents I've had in a long

00:28:06.240 time. And they just pushed this with repetition and, you know, more and more lies to the point

00:28:12.820 that they convinced a lot of people that this is what was happening in america and it's been

00:28:17.020 divisive it's been harmful to the entire nation um and it's had a massive impact on our culture

00:28:22.460 oh i mean the riots like what and and because of this you know you could go on for days about like

00:28:30.920 what's snowballed from this when you look at people you know the entitlement now and please

00:28:37.340 I'm using this loosely. You guys don't freak out on me, but of black culture now, and, you know,

00:28:43.280 just running rampant into businesses and destroying things. And it's like, then if you say something, 1.00

00:28:50.360 they're like, Oh, you're racist. And it's like, Oh my God, like they did this. They did this,

00:28:55.640 you know, like nobody was acting like this before. It's so gross. And then, um, I can't not play this 0.72

00:29:01.840 you guys, because you'll understand why, but I just want to play one more clip and I just want

00:29:06.740 you to see, you know, once again, drive home who the SPLC really is. And let's just look at this

00:29:13.080 last clip and then I'll ask Steve to react to this. You're mean, you're anti-women. And speaking 1.00

00:29:19.460 of that, the Southern Poverty Law Center has now labeled, you're in the club with me, by the way,

00:29:24.520 they've labeled Turning Point as a hate group. Yes, it's coming from a hateful group. It's a

00:29:30.320 surprise for them so long to get us on. What took you so long? Understand that they're literally

00:29:34.380 putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group next to the kkk and next to neo-nazi groups

00:29:40.180 and i mean we can laugh this off there's an element to this remember that there was a shooter

00:29:43.820 that went to the family research council years ago inspired by the splc list this is them trying to

00:29:49.320 make us basically surrender at turning point usa we're going to do the opposite and our students

00:29:53.480 are only going to lean and even more but they can't debate us on our ideas they cannot have

00:29:57.220 dialogue they cannot actually go on to the merits of why they are right or why we might be wrong

00:30:03.220 instead they must smear us with the age-old one-liner that you are a racist or that you are

00:30:07.800 a hater and they're finally realizing the power of turning point usa which is why they put us well

00:30:12.100 when you're effective you're a threat right so they call me the high priestess of hate right sam

00:30:17.440 is that what they call me i'm just congratulations 2008 oh it's old it's so old but again the

00:30:23.260 democrats i think they appeal to a certain very whiny man that's that's right it's at the pajama

00:30:28.420 boy, whatever they're calling them.

00:30:30.140 You remember that Obamacare advertisement?

00:30:31.720 I never forgot that guy.

00:30:32.780 It was the archetype of the liberal man.

00:30:35.160 What they think a man is.

00:30:35.600 Yes, that's right.

00:30:36.220 Never standing up for yourself, very feelings-based, no assertion, no drive, no grit, almost always

00:30:42.480 pandering to the zeitgeist of the times where it turns out, especially in the heartland

00:30:46.300 of this country, the American man is still alive and he wants his country back.

00:30:50.020 And they showed up in record numbers for President Trump and they're rejecting the

00:30:53.160 Democrat Party.

00:30:53.880 They're the backbone class of this country.

00:30:55.800 They make the country work.

00:30:57.140 They're largely forgotten.

00:30:58.420 and the Democrats spending $20 million on video game advertisements.

00:31:01.420 Let them spend the money. 0.98

00:31:02.020 Let them burn that.

00:31:02.880 By the way, if they think that's what it's actually going to take to win back young men,

00:31:05.700 maybe you need a message and a messenger that they can relate to.

00:31:08.000 Well, they think their messenger might be David Hogg, I understand.

00:31:10.400 Oh, you know, when I think of masculinity, I think of David Hogg.

00:31:14.340 What's the idea behind him?

00:31:16.060 Again, that goes to show the Democrats probably got in a room and said,

00:31:18.440 guys, we're losing the youth.

00:31:20.140 So what we need is a young vice chair of our party.

00:31:22.400 Turns out, you know, David Hogg is all over the place,

00:31:25.320 talking about how he's going to primary sitting Democrats,

00:31:26.980 and he went on The Breakfast Club saying that Jasmine Crockett is one of the most inspiring

00:31:30.940 leaders of the Democrat Party. And if their solution to winning men is David Hogg, please

00:31:37.020 continue because you're not going to win a national election for quite some time.

00:31:41.140 I couldn't cut off Charlie. So although the beginning part was about the Southern Poverty

00:31:46.900 Law Center, but I mean, it's just goes to show you, Steve, like that was their plan, like just

00:31:51.440 divide, make, you know, what would be strong men weak, you know, make it right. So it was all

00:31:58.020 calculated for, for one. Yes. And it went further than just aspersions and smears. It wasn't just

00:32:05.180 about trying to damage the reputation. Of course, that's part of it, but thankfully patriotic

00:32:09.200 Americans like Laura Ingram and, and the late Charlie there, you can see they wore that scorn

00:32:15.940 from the SPLC. They wore it as a badge of honor, right. You know, as well they should.

00:32:19.720 But it wasn't just about trying to damage the reputations. It was also the tangible aspect.

00:32:25.260 You know, I mentioned before big tech, it was trying to separate them from any of the sort of benefits of powerful American society.

00:32:33.420 So what I mean by that, for example, is any kind of corporate support, if they might want that or large philanthropic support.

00:32:38.900 But then even more importantly is it gave the excuse once you were tagged as a hate group,

00:32:44.120 It gave the excuse that companies like Meta and like Twitter under previous ownership and like Google, YouTube needed to then censor this information, to censor the truth, actually, to get out.

00:32:57.900 And I want to make this point, too, because I think it's really important for the audience, is that we're in a better place now, thank goodness, because of Trump's second election.

00:33:05.200 We're in a better place regarding tech censorship.

00:33:07.720 But everything's not OK, in my view.

00:33:09.620 So Twitter right now is a very free speech zone, but that's only because, frankly, we are counting on the benevolence of its owner, of a single billionaire.

00:33:19.520 That's not healthy for American society long term.

00:33:22.560 I'm glad it has become a free speech zone, of course, and I'm thankful to Elon Musk for what he has done.

00:33:27.580 And right now, Mark Zuckerberg is sort of playing ball with free speech because he's clearly trying in some ways to cozy up with Donald Trump.

00:33:35.140 And so Facebook meta is better, still not perfect on these issues of free speech.

00:33:40.720 And I would argue that Google YouTube still has a lot of problems regarding the censorship of speech.

00:33:46.860 And so my point is, though, we shouldn't have to rely on their goodwill or them having some affinity or needing a favor from the current occupant of the Oval Office.

00:33:54.880 I really believe that there needs to be significant legal bases, regulatory oversight of big tech so that the digital public square cannot be censored going forward.

00:34:05.740 Because, again, part of why the Charlottesville lie was so effective was not just that it was amplified by corporate media.

00:34:12.180 That was a big part of it.

00:34:13.800 Thankfully, corporate media is not nearly as effective today as they were 10 years ago.

00:34:17.960 That's a good thing for our society.

00:34:19.360 But then secondly, it was that truthful voices were being censored.

00:34:23.760 And part of why they were being censored to tie this back into SBLC is because SBLC was considered by these corrupt companies and corrupt organizations was considered to be an arbiter of who is a hate monger and who is not.

00:34:39.560 And of course, they were anything but that. They were a criminal enterprise that was using corporate money and donor money to actually create and concoct hateful events and in some cases even crimes so that they could then pretend they were the heroes to fight against it.

00:34:57.160 So this is this is communism. This is Marxism at its core.

00:35:02.660 Let's be very honest about what this is. And I commend the DOJ.

00:35:06.620 By the way, I'm one of the people on the right who has been frustrated so far in this Trump term with the DOJ.

00:35:12.500 I don't think there has been enough action. I don't think there have been enough indictments.

00:35:16.800 So this is good news, though. Let's give credit where it's due.

00:35:19.400 I think lots more to do. But so far, there hasn't been the kind of truth telling and righteous retribution that I think a lot of us are looking for from the Trump DOJ. But having said that, this is certainly a big, big step in the right direction.

00:35:36.740 For sure. And Owen, you know, you're talking about ActBlue.

00:35:40.200 Yeah, well, I agree. I mean, I think I can envision Scott in this instance saying something like, you know, this is exactly what you thought it was. And I think I would extend that to ActBlue as well with all the things that are going on in terms of investigating them. And I'm really hoping we're about to see some indictments there, too.

00:35:55.520 I mean, that situation, you know, they've been doing these things called smurfing where they impersonate people and they make little donations for them to all these various Democrat races and might be five dollars or twenty dollars.

00:36:08.640 All these little ones that are, I think, are intentionally designed to go under the radar, not be noticed.

00:36:14.700 And now that as soon as the investigation started, then, you know, their entire compliance and regulatory department got either quit or they either quit or they got fired.

00:36:23.100 so all their lawyers just scrambled like cockroaches and you know so it's it's pretty

00:36:28.660 clear to me what's going on there i think it's exactly what it looks like and i know personally 0.61

00:36:33.480 that they're doing that because i i looked into it myself because i noticed that my own mother

00:36:38.000 is on that list i i looked up her records and there's all sorts of little donations for races

00:36:43.360 all over the country not just my state not federal just like nebraska or some random state like that

00:36:49.720 where she supposedly gave money to these races.

00:36:53.260 And, you know, I asked her, I was like,

00:36:55.780 did you make these donations?

00:36:57.300 And, you know, she is a Democrat.

00:36:58.460 And she's like, well, I've made a couple of donations,

00:37:00.360 but nowhere near that many.

00:37:02.280 So she said, yeah, a lot of these are not real.

00:37:05.500 And it's happening all over the country

00:37:07.720 and in a massive scale.

00:37:09.240 And I'm really hoping to see some consequences there too,

00:37:11.820 because I think a lot of the Democrats

00:37:13.340 have been just funding themselves

00:37:15.280 through these foreign donations, most likely,

00:37:18.240 but clearly illegitimate donations because there would be no other reason to do it that way.

00:37:22.940 Steve. Oh, and I'm so glad that you mentioned that. And, you know, and Erica, you earlier

00:37:26.620 mentioned BLM. I think BLM probably has similar criminal problems to the SPLC. And I hope that

00:37:34.720 the Trump DOJ is taking a very serious look at what happened, particularly in 2020 with BLM,

00:37:41.020 because the SPLC has been really effective over decades and taking in millions of dollars,

00:37:45.520 I would guess probably into the hundreds of millions, but certainly at least into the tens of millions.

00:37:49.980 BLM, in a very short period of time, in just weeks and months, took in billions and billions of dollars, big, big corporate money.

00:37:58.760 Every big corporation in America was tripping over themselves after the George Floyd killing to to give massive amounts of money and prove, you know, their their anti-racist credentials by giving BLM just absolute mountains of money.

00:38:14.120 there is significant evidence that a lot of that was at least wasted, that there was at least

00:38:19.320 very, very unethical behavior going on. I suspect it goes much deeper and gets much worse than that.

00:38:25.800 I suspect there was actual criminal activity going on. Probably a lot of the tactics,

00:38:30.440 just like what we see with the SPLC. And I hope and expect that the Trump DOJ is taking a similar

00:38:38.460 look there because if they do, I'm confident that we would see real indictments. And if you

00:38:44.020 want to talk about consequences, by the way, the consequences for the country of BLM and its 0.57

00:38:49.080 activities were horrific. I mean, in terms of loss of life, loss of property, division of this

00:38:54.380 country, you know, the supposed summer of love, which was one of the worst periods of time in

00:38:59.840 recent American history. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that. So, you know, these

00:39:04.420 leftist organizations need to be scrutinized in many ways. And Owen, to your point about foreign

00:39:09.540 money. One of the great things, I don't think Doge did enough, unfortunately, and I was overall

00:39:15.260 disappointed with the lack of big time success from Doge, but dismantling USAID, I think was

00:39:21.900 massive. And we're just starting to learn how much supposed foreign aid money was actually funding

00:39:28.120 the American left right here at home. So not just getting donor money, getting our money,

00:39:33.760 getting taxpayer money, those of us, even those of us on the political right, unknowingly through

00:39:39.200 our taxes, we're funding the left wing ecosystem in the United States, a lot of it flowing through

00:39:46.380 USAID. So under the guise of, oh, we're feeding starving kids in Africa, when in fact, you're

00:39:51.980 actually feeding an NGO in the Washington Beltway, who's then acting in a very partisan way against

00:39:58.320 your interest here in the United States and funding your own political opponents. And so I

00:40:04.140 also think there's a lot of criminality to be uncovered there. Thankfully, most of that money

00:40:10.200 has dried up, but a lot more work to do here. What we're seeing again and again is in so many

00:40:17.200 ways, we've been fighting such an unfair battle, such a biased battle, because we on the right

00:40:23.880 generally are fighting with ideas and with our own money, with our own money that we go out

00:40:29.840 and earn. On the left, they had been fighting largely with corporate money, with with publicly

00:40:36.760 traded company money, big business money. And they had been and they've been fighting with

00:40:41.660 censorship, lies. And we now know actual staged events, actual false flag staged events that they

00:40:50.060 created to to impart upon the public a myth that there is some scourge, widespread scourge of

00:40:56.520 racism in the country and that Donald Trump and his supporters are part and parcel of that very

00:41:03.000 bigotry. So once you start peeling back this onion, there's just so many layers to it. And

00:41:08.160 hopefully this is the beginning in this specific case of a lot more indictments out of this Trump

00:41:13.820 DOJ because indictments are a really, really powerful tool, of course, for us finding out

00:41:19.100 the truth and getting to a place where our politics can be honest again and where we can

00:41:23.140 actually argue about ideas and know that we won't be censored and know that we won't be fighting

00:41:29.680 against events that have been financed and staged by our opponents. It's starting to look like this

00:41:35.280 vast left-wing conspiracy, Steve. Yeah, that's right. I mean, we got the burn bag story too,

00:41:41.100 with millions of pages of documents that were hidden and put aside. And now we're going to

00:41:45.720 take a year, I guess, to go through it, to even see some of them. But it seems like it crosses

00:41:50.840 into the FBI, crosses into the media. We had even Snopes on this Charlottesville hoax that it took

00:41:56.440 until 2024 to finally do a fact check and say, well, actually he didn't say that. Oh, I have that

00:42:02.760 here. Look at me having that. Yeah. And, but it wasn't until June of 2024 that they came out with

00:42:09.640 that. So, you know, it was well after all the benefit that they could have gotten out of that

00:42:14.460 was juiced completely. And then they come out and say, oh, well, you know, let's save our credibility

00:42:18.880 and just throw that in there at the end and say, look, we did the fact check here too. 0.90

00:42:23.880 It's ridiculous. And these things are all tied together, right? I don't know if George Floyd

00:42:28.920 would have been nearly the scandal it was if these other things hadn't preceded it.

00:42:33.160 Oh, it's right in the middle of, well, didn't that kick off? That kicked off BLM. Yeah,

00:42:37.780 no, it would not have been, Owen. I agree. And I want to congratulate anybody who's listening to

00:42:42.820 this that did not donate to BLM. Congratulations. Honestly, I'm like, not even kidding because

00:42:48.840 your gut told you something and you didn't fall for it. And I'm so proud of you, um, because you

00:42:56.340 have to really be careful. And, you know, we always say you just can't trust or believe anything.

00:43:00.280 If you're going to donate to something, really know what you're donating to. Like I tend to do

00:43:04.840 it like directly to somebody, um, you know, or to like something smaller or, you know, just if you,

00:43:11.860 if you know someone that needs help, but these big organization, the organizations like these

00:43:16.680 big orgs, you got to be really careful and you're not getting reparations for the money you lost

00:43:23.440 either. And the other thing I just want to put a point on that was very upsetting to me was all

00:43:31.880 of these hoaxes and we knew they were hoaxes. And then to have people that were your friends in real

00:43:38.040 life and they were like, oh, Trump's a racist, his supporters are this and that. And you're like,

00:43:43.860 is that really what you think of me like you think that you know i i'm racist or i would be

00:43:51.160 you know in favor of somebody who is like a nazi sympathizer it just like made no sense so

00:43:58.140 they did a great job dividing everybody and never again that particular thing i think was based on

00:44:04.940 all these people who wrote these anti-racism books like abraham kendi and the you know d'angelo

00:44:09.580 woman where they would essentially redefine racism in a way that basically said if you are white

00:44:15.480 you're automatically racist there's nothing you can do about it you're just part of the problem

00:44:20.560 and you know for a while a lot of people seem to actually believe that like it was like they 0.99

00:44:26.220 actually let that go and it was all just a you know trick on their part and so ridiculous and

00:44:32.700 racist in itself to say those sorts of things which is basically saying if you if you have 0.91

00:44:36.800 white skin that makes you racist i mean that is a racist statement yes and and and then they tried

00:44:42.780 to redefine racism to say oh well if you're a minority you can't be racist they started saying

00:44:47.060 that's prejudice that's a different thing and so they they were trying to just play with words to

00:44:53.080 say that all whites are racist and it was just so divisive and so harmful to our country and i really

00:44:59.520 hope we're starting to put a nail into this i think we are i'm going to ask everybody to take 0.88

00:45:03.440 an interstitial sip right now, because I just want to switch gears for the last 15 minutes

00:45:08.280 because it is Earth Day. And those of you that know me, you also know that this whole wind turbine

00:45:16.580 wind issue is something that is very close to my soul. Scott helped me with this because I live on

00:45:26.080 the Jersey shore and they're putting in these turbines in the ocean. And we've had well over

00:45:31.220 a hundred humpback whales wash up on the coast, like from New York to, you know, South, like

00:45:38.060 through New Jersey, Connecticut also, and then down to, gosh, I forget where it stopped, but

00:45:43.080 you know, two whales is a little alarming. Five whales is like, what? Over a hundred. You're just

00:45:50.160 like, oh my God. So wind is a problem. And Steve, you, you know, if you could just tell us what's

00:45:56.920 happening. And I would like to talk about this in the future also, you guys, because it's bigger

00:46:02.340 than you can imagine. But Steve, tell us what you're looking into here. Sure, you bet. So I do

00:46:09.440 a lot of documentaries, generally short form documentaries in the 20 minute range or so.

00:46:13.820 And one of the more successful ones I've done was exposing the wind scam. And it is absolutely a

00:46:19.900 scam. It's called Blown Away. If you'd like to see it, it's on my cortesinvestigates.com website.

00:46:26.920 I believe it's 20 or 25 minutes long.

00:46:29.280 I did it actually in New Mexico.

00:46:31.040 We do talk about offshore wind as well.

00:46:33.480 It's a scam everywhere, you know, from the valleys to the mountains to the sea.

00:46:37.760 It's a scam.

00:46:39.180 But we did our very best to expose it and why it's a scam.

00:46:43.140 And what I started with, though, because I think it's important,

00:46:46.260 and I think this is a way you can grab people,

00:46:47.840 especially if they're not right-wing or don't consider themselves MAGA or America First.

00:46:52.300 What I started with is just how aesthetically unpleasant they are.

00:46:55.840 These are just ugly and they're marring some of the most beautiful landscapes in America.

00:47:00.920 And that was one of the reasons I went to New Mexico is the New Mexico desert is really just spectacular in so many spots and quite unique.

00:47:08.220 You know, a look that you don't find elsewhere in the world, frankly, certainly not in America.

00:47:12.620 And a lot of these wonderful desert landscapes have been completely just polluted, the scenery polluted by these windmills.

00:47:20.980 And I found them hideous, first of all, just aesthetically from that standpoint.

00:47:24.920 Once I started to look into the economics of that, right, found out that they don't work at all in terms of a cost benefit ratio, in terms of the actual energy produced for the cost of building them and maintaining them.

00:47:37.840 They don't make any sense. I mean, absolutely none. So on the economic side.

00:47:43.620 And then lastly, what I started to learn about is the grave environmental harm done by these windmills on land.

00:47:50.960 it's primarily about birds that's most of it so you've got the aesthetics the in the uh the

00:47:56.440 economics that don't work and then the the environmental part but the uh the sea-based uh

00:48:02.800 windmills unfortunately the turbines in the ocean are far worse as far as the environment goes

00:48:07.720 mainly because you have to do such a disruptive build underneath the surface of the water on the

00:48:14.640 seabed to maintain these giant windmills a lot of folks who haven't been close to one don't realize

00:48:19.500 just how big they are. The ones I was filming next to in New Mexico, 200 feet tall. I mean,

00:48:24.780 these are skyscrapers. Every one of them is a skyscraper. And to moor that to the seafloor

00:48:31.480 and to make it stationary in a windy area and to last for at least, you know, they hope a couple

00:48:36.760 of decades. That's the other thing. They don't last long enough to pay for themselves. And we

00:48:41.060 don't know what to do with them, by the way, once they're done. There's nothing environmentally

00:48:44.940 sound to do then with this behemoth of plastic and steel and petroleum, by the way, which a lot

00:48:50.860 of people don't realize just how much petroleum is necessary to build them, to operate them,

00:48:55.200 to transport them, and to lubricate them, all of that. And so I used Landman. A lot of people know

00:49:02.380 this very popular series, Landman. There's a rant by Billy Bob Thornton, and I don't think he is by

00:49:08.820 any stretch a right winger, but he delivers, his character delivers a rant about how there's

00:49:13.960 nothing clean about windmills in that show that went kind of viral and so i use that in my

00:49:19.360 documentary as the basis for uh my documentary and i and i go step by step through what he said

00:49:24.760 and most of the things he said not all of it but most of what he said um is actually true um in

00:49:30.160 terms of his disparaging as an oil man his disparaging of windmills and uh but the reality

00:49:36.260 is you know on earth day i think it's a good day for us to be talking about this and to be exposing

00:49:41.100 the fraud because billions and billions of dollars of your money, okay, we are funding

00:49:46.380 these things.

00:49:46.900 If they were up to the private sector on a cost-benefit analysis ratio, right, as a regular

00:49:52.260 economic investment to, you know, to green light these windmills, they would have never

00:49:57.700 happened, okay?

00:49:58.660 It's only because of massive, massive subsidies from us, from the American taxpayer, for

00:50:05.020 supposedly green reasons that a lot of companies and some really connected individuals have

00:50:10.560 gotten massively wealthy off of this entire boondoggle. They've gotten wealthy by building

00:50:16.220 hideous structures that mar our landscapes and our seascapes that don't provide any real energy

00:50:23.900 benefit. One of the biggest reasons is that they don't work economically, by the way, is because

00:50:28.120 of the redundancy issue. In other words, they have to be backed up, okay, because the wind doesn't

00:50:33.240 always blow. So they have to be backed up. Our power demands are not intermittent with the wind.

00:50:38.900 And what are they backed up by in almost every case? Fossil fuels. They're backed up by hydrocarbons.

00:50:43.820 So because they need to be fully redundant, there's no cost savings. There's actually no environmental savings either.

00:50:49.160 And then, in fact, you know, again, to that third point, they do grave environmental damage in many cases.

00:50:54.820 So I think Americans are starting to wake up to this, thankfully.

00:50:58.260 But on a day like Earth Day, which has been used as a cudgel to sort of beat people over the head of if you don't believe in our full, ridiculous, fake green agenda,

00:51:07.680 you somehow don't like flowers and honeybees and rainbows, right? That has been the narrative for

00:51:14.540 far too long. We need to wake up about that. And Earth Day is a great time to do it and say,

00:51:19.200 wait a second, a lot of this supposed green agenda, a lot of it is a fraud. And to me,

00:51:24.140 the most fraudulent aspect of it, the most fraudulent are the windmills. And they're also,

00:51:29.040 to me, again, just the most offensive. We have a beautiful country. Let's not allow these leftists

00:51:34.620 to pollute it any longer with these ridiculous windmills that don't work. 0.91

00:51:37.780 And besides the windmill, Steve, it's like, okay, they're constantly breaking.

00:51:42.380 Like if you see a field of them, there's always a bunch that aren't working.

00:51:47.640 Nobody is like really rushing out to fix these things.

00:51:50.540 And if a blade or a whole turbine is broken, you guys, they bury it in the earth.

00:51:56.260 They're burying these things in the earth and polluting the earth.

00:51:59.420 um also about the animals on land there's also like there was a study you guys don't quote me

00:52:07.260 this is like directionally accurate because i just can't remember right now but there's like

00:52:11.300 big wild cats and they aren't mating properly like the migration for them and they're the way they

00:52:19.220 they colonize and the way they like go off and do their families they're all screwed up from the

00:52:24.440 windmills it's like change their patterns of everything so they're not reproducing the way

00:52:29.140 they're supposed to. And I just read something this morning about, um, an Island that they're

00:52:34.920 putting these turbines on and the noise scared off the entire seal population. When the noise

00:52:42.540 from all the drilling and the putting them up, stop, they came back, but now they're like,

00:52:46.840 we don't know what to do. And they're, they're all, they're just all screwed up and confused.

00:52:51.160 They don't know what to do. Um, there I'll post that story later. And then I always tell you guys

00:52:56.180 in the ocean, you cannot even believe the size of the crane they have put off my coast here

00:53:03.880 to pile drive the base that goes under the water into the ocean floor so far down. The noise that

00:53:14.420 this thing makes, because they're like pounding it like through the ocean floor and the disruption

00:53:19.600 it causes for everything that lives in the ocean. Like, you know, when you're underwater,

00:53:23.140 the sound, everything's so magnified. All of our sea life has to function by hearing signals

00:53:31.420 to and from each other. If they can't hear it, they don't know how to eat. They don't know

00:53:36.720 where their young are. They don't know how to do anything. So what's happening with the whales is

00:53:41.820 they're mapping the ocean floor with a sonic sound thing, which is making all of the sea life

00:53:48.780 insane. Okay. It's like screaming in your head 24 seven. Then they're like with the whales,

00:53:54.340 I've told you before, if you were ever here is that the calves are being separated from their

00:53:59.440 mothers because the mother can't communicate with the calf and send signals to know where everybody

00:54:05.320 is. They're all getting separated. They're getting turned around in the directions they're

00:54:09.520 supposed to be in. And that's why we've had well over a hundred of these majestic, gorgeous whales

00:54:15.940 washing up on the beaches. It's like, what are we doing in the name of what? And our former

00:54:22.440 governor here, Murphy, he leased our ocean to other countries to do this. So it's like another

00:54:30.840 country is leasing our oceans to put these useless pieces of garbage into our water that are just 0.94

00:54:39.820 rusting, they're dropping into the water, they're leaking fuel. And then when they aren't working,

00:54:46.200 like I said, they just, on land, they just dig a hole in our earth and they just are burying them.

00:54:51.140 And it's like a graveyard of, it's so disgusting. So don't ever be fooled by the money grab of

00:55:00.160 environmental issues and grifts because it's such BS and they are causing so much damage.

00:55:07.840 you can see I'm passionate about this, Steve, I told you, but it's just, it's the biggest grift

00:55:13.060 and the saddest thing happening. It's killing animals. It's ruining vistas. It's changing the

00:55:19.620 wildlife on land. And also when you dig those things into the ground, you're also disturbing

00:55:24.900 every ecosystem that lives in the ground right there, the vibration of these things,

00:55:29.600 the sound of these things, it's just wrecking everything. So you guys are like, you go girl. 0.97

00:55:35.140 I am so sick of this.

00:55:37.040 I can't even tell you.

00:55:38.200 So I'm seeing.

00:55:39.320 I would just throw in like, amazingly, Michael Moore produced this documentary called Planet

00:55:44.920 of the Humans.

00:55:45.720 He released it on Earth Day 2019, and it talks about a lot of these things too, not just

00:55:49.880 wind, but solar and a lot of the other renewable energies.

00:55:52.360 And it kind of makes the case that none of these things really work and that it's really

00:55:56.960 all just a big money grab by all these people.

00:55:59.080 And I think they were just going after those government subsidies and saying, hey, we can

00:56:03.080 just grab a bunch of money.

00:56:04.360 so let's go do it. And this is a massive scale. It's like billions and billions,

00:56:08.580 maybe even trillions of dollars that we've spent on this renewable energy that doesn't accomplish

00:56:13.060 anything. Steve, go ahead. And the good news there, by the way, too, is that we have the

00:56:18.460 alternative and it's primarily natural gas. The United States is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.

00:56:23.520 Thank goodness. We sit upon oceans of it that we've just been blessed with. And listen, I think

00:56:28.860 other things are going to work in our energy future. Things like geothermal, nuclear obviously

00:56:33.160 should be bigger so i'm not saying it has to be only hydrocarbons you know or fossil fuels but in

00:56:37.480 terms of fossil fuels the one that is plentiful that is clean that works is natural gas so you

00:56:43.640 know we don't have to rely on these boondoggles in any way we're just choosing to chase those

00:56:48.120 ridiculous paths when that's also part of why i went to new mexico was to make the point that by

00:56:52.360 the way we're building these you know obnoxious structures that don't work when right beneath

00:56:56.920 those very structures are oceans of natural gas um enough to cleanly efficiently domestically

00:57:02.680 power this country um so you know we have the the near-term answer and then long term again maybe

00:57:07.400 there's other answers that that makes sense but it sure isn't windmills um and and certainly not

00:57:12.680 as promoted right now and i think on earth day it's a good day to be aware um and and to be

00:57:18.760 vigilant about saying no more of this and certainly not with our money yeah and and just to tack on to

00:57:24.920 that same thing with solar okay stop taking up our land with these solar farms you can be way

00:57:31.960 more creative if you have to use them you know lease them out lease property to people to put

00:57:37.960 them on like your buildings or you know there's already structures that are there put them on

00:57:42.480 there don't take up you know that they're they're again killing farmland and the whole ecosystem

00:57:48.740 that just lives within our earth by covering it with these things one hail storm all these things

00:57:54.560 break and you have all this wasted land it's disgusting it's ugly it's pollution um i happen

00:58:01.380 to care, I guess, more than I thought I did, but it really bothers me. It breaks my heart. It just

00:58:08.880 breaks my heart because the other thing I was thinking, you have people stack up little rocks

00:58:13.220 when they go camping somewhere and they like to make a stack. One day, I don't know, I think it

00:58:17.980 was Periscope about the same time I found Scott a hundred years ago. Somebody was saying, don't do

00:58:23.060 that. When you lift up a rock, you're like, oh, I'm on vacation. I'm going to make a stack of

00:58:27.300 little rocks and it's so cute. And then he talked about the whole little environment that lives

00:58:32.400 under that rock, all the little bugs and the little creatures that had been under there for,

00:58:37.280 you know, forever, like making their home and where it goes to. And then we pick it up and

00:58:41.740 move it. And it's like, oh my God, let's just leave everything alone. Like leave it alone.

00:58:46.740 You know, I don't know. I get crazy. Who knew Earth Day was going to be so triggering for me?

00:58:51.060 so you guys we have two minutes left and um i will steve i can't thank you enough because we

00:58:59.380 we really appreciate you coming on with us and last time we under you know we got we got it you

00:59:05.180 couldn't be here but i'm glad you could be here today with us and um you bring such good perspective

00:59:10.740 and you know so much and um it makes owen and i look a lot better so that's really nice you two

00:59:17.880 don't need to be made to look better you you just are you're that patriotic and smart but no thank

00:59:22.000 you yeah i missed the last one i had an emergency appendectomy which is a really minor surgery no

00:59:27.060 big deal thank goodness but yes i was uh i was in excruciating pain i would have much rather have

00:59:31.680 been on your show uh but i was having a very minor surgery that day and i'm thrilled to be healthy

00:59:35.760 and with you here today and it's always just an honor scott adams meant so much to me to millions

00:59:41.920 and millions of Americans to this audience.

00:59:44.700 And it was just a privilege of my life to get to meet him.

00:59:48.720 And again, this Charlottesville issue

00:59:49.980 that we talked so much about today

00:59:51.260 is what brought that on.

00:59:52.860 And so I'm thankful for that.

00:59:54.380 I'm not thankful it happened,

00:59:55.800 but I'm thankful that it brought some great people together.

00:59:58.500 And anytime I can be here, I'd love being here.

01:00:01.920 And I didn't divulge why you weren't here,

01:00:04.200 but you guys, Steve was like,

01:00:05.640 yeah, you know, I don't know.

01:00:08.460 I might have to get my appendix out.

01:00:11.240 so I don't know if I'll be able to be on tomorrow. I'm like, uh, Steve, that's a no.

01:00:17.900 You're so sweet. I was cracking up, but we're so glad you're here today and that we can ask you to

01:00:22.780 come back in the future. Cause you were definitely one of our favorite people here at the Scott Adams

01:00:26.820 school. So with that being said, you guys, it's time to go tomorrow. Guess who's coming. One of

01:00:34.280 my other favorite people in the whole world. First time on the show, Michael Malice will be here with

01:00:39.400 us. And did you know he was an underwear model? It's true. I'll show you tomorrow. So in the

01:00:45.640 meantime, you guys, we'd like to thank Shelly and Scott for keeping this going and please go out

01:00:51.520 there and be useful. And on this earth day, be extra useful and kind to the earth. And let's

01:00:56.400 have a closing sip to all of you and to Scott and Owen and I always appreciate you guys being here.

01:01:02.660 Thank you so much. Owen, thank you so much. Thanks everyone. Okay guys, to Scott. Thanks, Steve.

01:01:09.400 Be useful.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 22, 2026

The Scott Adams School - 04⧸22⧸26 STEVE CORTES Joins. SPLC, Sheridan Gorman, Charlottesville Hoax

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