Ep 646 ｜ Are Climate Lockdowns Coming？ ｜ Guest： Jacki Daily
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Jackie of the Daily Show joins us to talk about why gas prices are going down, and why we should be worried about it. She also talks about AOC and Ilhan Omar's heroic actions in the anti-abortion protest in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
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All right. Today we are talking again to Jackie of the Jackie Daily Show. She is our resident
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energy expert. So she is going to tell us why gas prices seem to be trickling down slowly but
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surely, why they were up in the first place. But we're also going to talk about Joe Biden's trip
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to Saudi Arabia, where he begged them to produce more oil, even while he is trying to declare some
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kind of climate emergency here. And part of that plan is that he is going to stop the production
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of oil, or at least somewhat. And so we're going to talk about this whole disaster, but we're also
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going to look at it really big picture towards the end of the conversation. Why is this happening?
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What's the purpose behind it? Even what are the theological implications of all of this? You're
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going to absolutely love this conversation. No one breaks down the oil and gas industry and energy
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policies quite like Jackie. Love her so much. If you haven't listened to our last conversation from a
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few months ago, go back and listen to that. This is a great continuation of that conversation. You're
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going to learn so much. But before we get into that conversation, I have got to talk about our
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girl AOC and her brave civil rights activism. And just, I mean, she was brutally, brutally arrested
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yesterday for putting her body on the line for bodily autonomy. And so I've just, I've just got to,
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I've got to play you this incredibly heroic clip.
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I mean, look at the strength of that woman. Number one, how just awesome and tough do you have to be
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to wear a wool peacoat in 95 degree weather in Washington, DC? That's amazing. And just look how
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strong she is that she had her hands behind her back handcuffed. You know, those invisible handcuffs
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that police use, you know, the really scary type. She was so strong that she reached her wrist out of
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those invisible handcuffs and she put it in the air like the communist activist she is. And it was just,
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it was amazing. So yeah, if you don't know what I'm talking about, you need to watch this on YouTube.
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If you're listening to this, she puts her hands behind her back. Okay. She's being led away because
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she's blocking traffic. She's protesting for the right to dismember babies inside the womb. The police
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officer is like barely grabbing her arm, leading her away. And she and Ilhan Omar decided to put their
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hands behind their backs. And then you can see in this picture that's up on YouTube. They did this
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because they knew that the media was just going to take a picture like this from the front so that
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their hands are behind their back. So it looks like they're being arrested, but they're not.
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They're not being arrested at all. They're just being led away. And they don't have any handcuffs on
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at all. You know, like that story that I tell you guys about how when I got sealants,
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when I was little and the dental hygienist told me that there are visible Backstreet Boys stickers
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on my molars. And I was really excited about that. And it took me like 10 years to realize
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that she wasn't telling me the truth, that I actually didn't have invisible
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Nick Carter's on my molars, on my sealants. This is kind of like that. Maybe AOC
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and Ilhan Omar were told that really they have invisible handcuffs on. I'm not, I'm not really
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sure what went down here, but they actually had the audacity to like stick up their fist in communist
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protest, even while they were pretending to have their hand handcuffs all for the sake of abortion.
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You guys, I mean, these people are not well, they're not well, they're not well. They are,
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we live truly, truly in an idiocracy, unfortunately. And, and that actually ties into this conversation.
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Some of the worst people, the most manipulative people, and truly the lowest IQ people. Can I say
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that? I think that's a pretty, that's a pretty nice description of people who are going out there
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and protesting for the sake of killing children. These are the same people who want to run your life
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through destructive climate policy. So without further ado, we're going to talk to Jackie about
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what seems like a controlled demolition through climate change policy in just a second.
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Jackie, thanks so much for joining us again. All right. People might be noticing that the gas prices
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are going down just a little bit in this area. It was like, I saw like 388, which is the lowest I've
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seen in a long time. Why is that going on? Is this a good news? Is it all over? I won't say it's all
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over, but right now we're looking like we're moving into a recession, which means everything's going to
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slow down. Therefore there's less demand. So part of what you're saying is actually people feeling not
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so optimistic about the future. So the demand just won't be there. Also, just because the prices are so high,
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people use less, which is part of the agenda. That's what our leadership is after. They love
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this, right? Right. Less carbon emissions in their eyes, less climate change to them. It's a good
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thing. But what it means is we demand less. So supply and demand make the price. So when demand goes down
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and supply stays about the same, the price goes down. Right. But the problem for us is more about
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inflation. So the price of energy, whether it's oil, natural gas, cold, whatever, feeds into the
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price of everything. So that means whatever you buy, like every dime that flies out of your bank
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account or through your credit card is paying for something that is either made from oil, like our
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clothes and our hair dye and our lipstick and our electronics, or it has been transported to you
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from wherever it came from or was manufactured to you with transportation fuel, which again,
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we're back to petroleum products, or it's manufactured with electricity, which means natural
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gas and coal and nuclear. So the point is whatever energy costs, it's going to be put into the price
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of everything, everything you pay for. If oil goes up, everything goes up. If natural gas goes up,
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everything goes up. Okay. And so people have to understand inflation is an energy issue.
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Right. So when a voter says what's most important to me is the economy or inflation, what they're
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really saying is what's important to me is lowering the price of energy for starters and other things
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to like, how about stopping wars and not starting them? Yeah. And a government that doesn't just print
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money. That would help too. There are other reasons too. Right. But yeah. Yeah. And the Biden
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administration is admitting what you said earlier, that this helps the what they would call the
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anti-climate change agenda. I believe it was Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, testifying
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before Congress earlier this week saying, well, you know, everything that's bad for fuel is better
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for electric cars and people should just get more electric vehicles. I remember you explained last time
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why that's not just an easy solution. And multiple members of Congress have said that it is an easy
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solution. But tell us why that is such a silly suggestion.
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So it's them and it's also Europe. And it's so upsetting that they don't understand the fundamentals
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that, first of all, where to start? Fundamentally, the key with electric vehicles or with renewables
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is storage. It's all about batteries. And so we don't have right now the technology to run the entire
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U.S. transportation sector or electric sector, which is completely different. Right now we use oil
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basically to run our transportation sector, whether it's gasoline or diesel, and we use natural gas
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and coal to run the electricity sector. These are the traditional ways of doing it. No battery storage
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needed. To even dream of flipping just the U.S. transportation sector to natural or to electric
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vehicles, you need more batteries than planet Earth can create with lithium and cobalt and nickel and all the
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things that are required to make that battery. We don't have enough on planet Earth. We just don't.
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So that this plan is a non-starter. And then you would make the entire economy even more reliant on
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electricity. Right now we're diversified. You know, if the price of electricity is high, at least you have
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oil in the transportation sector that could be lower. But here you're making everything, their plan,
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reliant on electric vehicles that rely on wind and solar. That's their vision. And we simply cannot,
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we would be putting all of our eggs into the basket of, is the wind blowing or the sun shining?
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Right. That's an outrage. I mean, that's completely a non-starter. It is not going to happen.
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Yeah. Like I can just tell you, this is a big PR campaign to redistribute a lot of wealth,
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like trillions. I mean, they pour almost more money into PR and education campaigns. Yeah.
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Persuading you to do this than actually implementing the plan because they can't implement the plan.
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Right. Because we don't have what we need to implement the plan. The plan doesn't work.
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So what is the purpose then of all of the PR? They have to know a lot of the things that you just said.
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Um, I'm not convinced all of them do. Actually, I think, I think that some of them actually believe
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their own propaganda. I mean, look, not everybody in the government is an energy expert. Certainly
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very few are. I mean, Pete Buttigieg doesn't have any experience in that realm. No. Well,
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no. It was always the mayor of like Fort Bend, Indiana or something. Yeah. Some little town in
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Indiana. Um, yeah, no, I think it's this. When you announce we're going to redistribute
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trillions worldwide for a transition, what happens immediately is people get in line for that.
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And once they get in line for that, they're a hundred percent committed. It doesn't matter if
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it works or not. All they need to do is show up and get their part done. So in Washington,
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I worked in Washington for seven years, um, starting from like 2006 to 13, around 2012 or 13,
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suddenly everyone I knew who was no longer in the government was in a defense contracting firm
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doing solar. Hmm. I mean, overnight, everybody's doing solar and making money or wanting to make
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money, trying to get in line. And like, how did this happen? I wasn't paying attention at the time
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to solar energy. Yeah. Well, the answer is the government announced massive taxpayer backed funds
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to back these deals. And so, you know, to provide solar to the military or to a municipality or
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whatever. Um, and so look, once they're in line and they're making money, they don't want to hear
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anything else about what doesn't work. The government's already pronounced that this is what
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we're doing and I'm making money. And it doesn't really matter. No, I mean, and, and if you get enough
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people, this is how some people govern. I'm sorry to say in our leadership on both parties,
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they think as long as we can slice up the federal trough in such a way that everybody benefits,
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who really matters. Yeah. And who really matters. That's the key. And that's not you and me. We
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don't really matter. We don't really matter because we don't have a big pack and we're not making out
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the big checks. Whoever's making out the checks gets taken care of first. I'm sorry to say, I mean,
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I worked there. I remember very well the way it always seemed to work out. And so that's what they
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call governance. That's what they consider the transactional side of the business. Yeah.
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There shouldn't even be such a concept as the transactional side of Capitol Hill. And they
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also mean the Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi deals like a Paul Pelosi will know a few days before the rest
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of America, what's going to happen in terms of a bill and who benefits and what companies obviously
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are going to be boosted at the bottom line. And voila, somehow he manages to invest in those
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companies. And obviously he is nowhere near the only one. And it's not a, it's not a Democrat thing.
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I mean, I think this is across the board and this is the problem. And it all, it all went wrong with
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the income tax, right? Yeah. Do you realize this country didn't even have a federal income tax
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until the world war one era? Before that they didn't have a trough to parse out. And once that
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happened, wow, it's just, there's, there's like no limit to it. And it's what the founders talked
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about where, you know, our form of government works until people realize they can vote themselves
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favors from the federal trough. Yeah. And then it just, there's no discipline. There aren't many
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exceptions to the rule in human history that once that trajectory takes off, it doesn't stop until it
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And America's green agenda benefits the worst countries in the world. It benefits Russia,
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it benefits Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, and it also benefits China. China is making a lot of
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these, a lot of these solar panels and also the blades of the wind turbines and also a lot of the
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batteries. So some of the propaganda that you're talking about, the green energy PR that is going on
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here in the United States, how much do you think of that is being pushed by our enemies?
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I would be shocked and awed if they weren't pushing it hard. If I were them, I would,
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because it's, it's not just a matter of making money. It's about making this country reliant
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on them because they control the supply chain. They would be crazy not to, and to,
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this is perfectly legal, what you're suggesting. They can push any PR campaign and, you know,
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who knows how many hands they can pass money through to hide where it's coming from.
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We know the anti-fracking movement is in big time, big form funded from offshore funds.
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And Joe Biden is representative of that. He said that in a debate with Donald Trump during the
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campaign that he is going to end fracking. And Donald Trump was like, oh, that's a huge admission.
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Thank you so much for saying that. Obviously that didn't stop people from voting for Joe Biden. So Joe
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Biden is open about that, that he is a part of that push.
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Sure. I mean, and how convenient, you know, his family's doing international deals
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with countries that have massive energy interests or, or deposits or reserves. And wow,
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they are benefiting Hunter Biden in particular, um, in his big deals, foreign oil and foreign natural
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gas companies, um, like Burisma. Yeah. While at the same time, his dad is warring against their
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number one competitors, American oil and gas producers. How convenient is that?
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So convenient. Yes. And so tell us a little bit more about, I want to talk about Russia and then
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I want to talk about Saudi Arabia. We keep hearing that this is Putin's fault, that the high gas
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prices, it's the Putin price hike, even inflation we hear is the Putin price hike. Is that true?
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So, okay. War is definitely inflationary. Yeah. So that's for sure. If you start destroying things,
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like say a wheat crop and the two biggest wheat producers in that region, Russia and Ukraine go to
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war, yes, that's the price of food goes up. There's no question. So there is some truth to the fact
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that yes, a war, um, will definitely cause inflation, but the, the history book need only look back a year
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to see we had a massive inflation problem that kicked off about February, 2021. Yeah. Um, long before
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Putin began lining up at the border of Ukraine long before. So what is that? What will Joe Biden label
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that? You know, and this is because he signaled immediately what he was going to do to regulate
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our energy producers out of business. If possible, he said on the campaign trail, I will end fossil
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fuels and across all the agencies will be a directive to do everything they can to advance the climate
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agenda. Okay. That's problem. Number one, um, problem number two, his $1.9 trillion COVID bill,
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9% of which was only, uh, devoted to COVID. The rest of it was like every other appropriations bill,
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a massive grab bag and Christmas wishlist for the Democrats and all of their interests.
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This is what they do. It's packed into every one of those bills and it's all or nothing deal. It's
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thumbs up or thumbs down. And if you vote thumbs down, they'll say that you're against COVID relief,
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right? So you print money like this and what does it do? It reduces the value of the dollar,
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uh, debases the currency and it throws all this money into the economy. And this is like economics 101.
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I was an economics major as well as a history major. Um, too many dollars chasing too few goods
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means prices go up. This is not up for debate. People are trying to pretend suddenly like it's
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up for debate. No, it isn't. This has been settled for a long time. You won't find examples in history
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that go in the opposite direction, except inside the Biden white house where they just, they have their
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own build back better calculator that says the opposite of what history and the truth have been for
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so long. So that's where the inflation came from. And until he takes the boot off the neck of us
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energy producers and stops printing money, it actually tightens the belt. We're going to continue to have
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inflation. Tell us what happened in Saudi Arabia when he fist bumped the leader of Saudi Arabia. What
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was he doing over there? How does that have to do with the production of oil and gas? Well, so as you
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know, the first thing he did was call the Saudi Arabian leader a pariah. You're right. Okay. People
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talked about how undiplomatic Donald Trump was. Right. Like he didn't name call one of the top three oil
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producers on earth. Yeah. Even though Saudi Arabia is not my favorite country. Yeah. For obvious reasons.
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They're not my favorite country. I would never have done that. No, no American president should ever do
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that. You have to maintain rapport with people who control the energy supply, especially if you're
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going to destroy your own. But no, so he goes over there to beg. And this isn't the first time an
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American president has begged the Saudis to increase production to help us out with gas prices and for
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other purposes. I'm embarrassed to tell you that George W. Bush did the same thing. And that was right
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before the financial crisis of 2008, the meltdown. So that was the highest oil prices in history at that
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time, $147 a barrel. So, you know, he goes to his old buddies, the Saudis. The Bush family was always
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very tight. If you go to the Bush library right now, the first photo is him and the Saudi king walking
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hand in hand through the fields of Texas and Crawford. Okay. Goes over there and begs on his knees,
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which is shameful. Help us. And they said, no. So that was humiliating. And that was 2008. Thank
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God the U.S. fracking revolution came on after that, which made us a bigger producer than Saudi
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Arabia. So we should never have to have gone back to begging anyone. I mean, if you're holding the
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assets, why on earth would you beg another, especially a country that is hostile to your
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interests and your values at times? Yeah. Let's not forget most of the 9-11 hijackers came from
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Saudi Arabia. So the culture there is not pro-American, you know? Right. And so, yeah, so he goes over
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there begging after calling the guy a name. So now he's eating crow and it's just so humiliating. Yeah.
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And first of all, as the French leader told him not long ago at the G7, you know, whispering on a hot
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mic, hey, the Saudis don't really have a lot of excess capacity to up their production. Yeah. I
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just want you to know I know that. Right. So then the leaders, chiefs or staffers whisk them away from
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the cameras like, hey, hey, hey, hey, let's move, let's move, let's move. Because you don't want people
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to know you don't have any options. There aren't, there isn't much, supposedly, spare capacity out there.
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He's like, you know, there's not, there aren't many places to go, right? As of right this second,
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there's no sign of big production coming on anywhere to bail us out of this. Yeah. It's not
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coming from anywhere. In fact, there are all kinds of problems like pipeline shutdown or Libya now is
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at less than half of its production because of protests that are happening all around the world
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because of inflation and the climate agenda that no one's reporting on. But things like this, like there's
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so many moving parts like that that can make us have no options. This is exactly why we need
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maximization of our own resources right here at home. I mean, you and I are sitting on top of
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natural gas right now. It's right here. Why on earth are we committing suicide by these, you know,
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get off natural gas and clean burning natural gas and get off Texas oil for all this dirty oil from
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Saudi Arabia and elsewhere where they don't even have environmental standards like we have? Are we
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serious about the environment or not? Yeah. So he's going to Saudi Arabia, begging them for oil.
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And then he is also saying that he might declare a climate emergency here in the U.S. and that that
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will include a pause or a stop on any new drilling for oil. He's already kind of put a stop to that,
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though, over his presidency. Right. So, I mean, what is he talking about and why?
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Seriously, that just makes me just hold my breath in fury. Like I just it's exactly the wrong thing to
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do. I seriously do not know how much he has his faculties, but clearly his advisors are the ones
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putting this together in any way. I mean, I think he's going to make things much, much worse. And
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what's interesting is he's doing this right in front of an election. So I'm actually surprised.
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I don't know if he's trying to placate his base after he's gone everywhere to beg everyone to
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produce oil. He's browbeaten American producers for not producing more. He's browbeaten American
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refiners for not refining more. He's browbeaten the rest of the world for not producing more.
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So his base is probably saying, wait a second, you're out there begging for them to produce oil
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when we've asked you to be as green as possible. Maybe they view it as a betrayal. Maybe he's just
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trying to make them happy. It's hard to say what's going on in his mind, but this will only make
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things much worse than they were before. Yeah. So there seems to be some contradictory
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messaging. It seems like he's trying to play to his climate change, anti-climate change supporters as
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well as try to lower the price of oil. So this is from the Wall Street Journal. So the Biden
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administration is planning to block new offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific
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Oceans. He's planning to allow limited expansion in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's south coast.
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And so he will allow as many as 11 oil lease sales for offshore drilling over the course of five years.
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There is a senior oceans campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity. Brady Bradshaw says that he
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is letting us down on climate leadership. So he's not even happy with what Biden is doing in expanding
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oil production at all. So he's saying that he's going to declare a national climate emergency.
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We're going to shut down all new drilling. But it seems like behind the scenes, well, we do kind of
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just have to open it up a little bit. So I think that's part of what going overseas is about is to
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some degree, they feel like that if they do it overseas and outsource the so-called pollution and
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carbon emissions, that's more acceptable to their base. And the UK is the same way and Germany is the
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same way. They will brag about how green they are at home while paying foreign producers to produce
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filthy dirty oil with no environmental standards. But that's their emissions, not ours. Right. And so
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there's a whole lot of outsourcing and playing and pretending. It's so much pretending. As Germany
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shut down its coal plants, guess what they did? They started importing American coal. Thank you very
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much, Germany. Yeah. But how silly. Yeah. This is so silly. So you're paying, you're actually greatly
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increasing the carbon footprint as you're paying to transport that coal from where it came from
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across an ocean. Does anyone have any idea of the carbon footprint of moving oil or coal across an
00:24:53.440
ocean? Which is a great example of how the Saudis are not as competitive as they claim. All of our
00:24:59.380
lives, we've had to listen to how Saudi can lift oil out of the ground for $2 a barrel. That's their
00:25:05.420
lifting cost. Whereas in the States, you got a frack. It was like $50 or $60 a barrel or even more
00:25:12.020
in some places. So wow, how can we possibly compete? And this is why we buy from Saudi because it's so
00:25:17.060
cheap. Well, they have to actually move it across an ocean, which costs a lot of money. They have to
00:25:23.680
protect it as it moves so that pirates don't take it in the Gulf of Aden or whatever, wherever they're
00:25:28.960
taking it through. So whoever's shipping oil has to ship it and protect it. And then you have to move
00:25:35.320
it again once it hits land. So the lifting cost is not the full story. And lifting costs here have
00:25:41.940
come way down. Like technology gets better and better all the time. Way down. So U.S. oil is
00:25:47.680
plenty competitive. There's no problem there. Any talk about that is nonsense. We are fine. We can make
00:25:54.160
a ton of money as it stands at the current prices. So it's profitable. If they're not producing,
00:25:59.540
it's because they're afraid they'll lose their investment because you don't want to be the next
00:26:03.400
Keystone XL pipeline. Right. You put in six years of time, you know, hundreds of meetings with state,
00:26:09.920
local, federal, tribal governments, six years of study, $6 billion, and then have the federal
00:26:14.940
government just pull the rug out from under you and you lose it all. Yeah. Who wants to be that?
00:26:19.800
Right. So that is why there are some people who said, oh, Biden and his policies have nothing to do
00:26:25.620
with the rising gas prices when they were going up, up, up, has nothing to do with that. But you've
00:26:32.480
talked about how even just like the intimidation, even just the rhetoric can have an effect on the
00:26:38.760
gas prices because of that, because they're basically intimidating drilling or intimidating
00:26:43.800
against drilling, right? Yes. The, whether it's the pipelines or just the finance, like the ESG
00:26:50.920
movement, trying to defund so that you can't get capital in the oil patch. You can't drill without
00:26:56.620
capital. It's that simple. You kill it. You just choke it off or like bragging about leases, which are
00:27:02.880
way up here at the upstream. You also need permits and then you need the midstream, which is pipelines to
00:27:07.700
get it to the market. And then you need refineries in the downstream and the retail where the gas
00:27:12.440
station. So for him to say, there are some leases up here, but then give you no pipelines to move it.
00:27:19.260
Well, what good is that? Right. It's no good at all. It's a waste of it. He hopes that no one
00:27:23.820
understands the complexities of what he's talking about. Yeah. And so, but, and plus 9,000 leases
00:27:29.840
doesn't mean production. So I guess his base is fine with that. But as you just said, this, this guy's
00:27:33.500
complaining at the center, whatever people are paid to complain no matter what there are people who
00:27:38.740
complain no matter what he did. So he needs to worry about the election. The only thing that's
00:27:43.840
going to bring down the prices is if the demand goes down because the supply can't really move much.
00:27:47.660
Which is what is happening now. And he's taking credit for that when really he shouldn't.
00:27:51.180
Yeah. Or, or if China closes down, like shuts down Shanghai or part of its country, or if there's a
00:27:56.740
shutdown or a lockdown, like in 2020 with COVID, that depresses demand. It's a completely artificial
00:28:03.160
depression of demand. And that's what happened. So a ton of US oil and gas producers went out of
00:28:08.560
business because there was nowhere to sell their product. And that's why we have such high prices
00:28:13.040
now. You have so much fewer producers in America because you bankrupted them in 2020 during the
00:28:18.600
lockdown. You tweeted recently that Europe, green Europe is going to come to the United States and
00:28:34.680
be begging for more oil production. When do you think that's going to happen? And do you think
00:28:39.200
that'll be consequential if they beg? Oh, I think they've, I think they've been begging for, oh,
00:28:44.440
quietly for a while now. I think they have no choice, but to beg where, where can they turn?
00:28:50.060
We're one of the few countries that has more capacity, right? We just don't have a regulatory
00:28:54.280
regime that permits us to really be confident in moving forward. So, but the world's going to need
00:29:00.180
more. I mean, I don't know what's going to happen to Germans this, this winter when Russia decides to
00:29:06.360
cut off their natural gas as they've done before to show who's boss. They'll do it for two or three
00:29:10.560
days at a time. Okay. Germany, um, you're already paying three to four times as much for energy
00:29:16.700
because of your green agenda. And this has to do with the Nord Stream pipeline? Partially. Partially.
00:29:20.560
Okay. But even before that, they were playing these games with Europe. If there's a, like a UN vote and
00:29:25.920
they want it their way, they'll just cut the gas in the middle of the winter. Yeah. Which is part of
00:29:29.580
why the UN is such a joke. Yeah. So, so Germany is already burning wood to stay alive. Uh, they'll be
00:29:36.760
burning coal. They'll be chopping up their furniture this winter. I mean, I don't know what Germans are
00:29:40.980
going to do. I'm really concerned because they've been relying on Russia and Russia is basically like
00:29:45.940
extorting them rather than relying on the United States. Cause we're not reliable when it comes to
00:29:49.960
oil production, right? That's the whole problem. We used to be more reliable. Yeah. I'm not entirely
00:29:54.540
sure. Well, I have, I have a guess. Okay. Germany's a great story because quickly they had a leader
00:30:00.760
named Gerard Schroeder. Schroeder pushed them into like headlong into, um, renewables before it was
00:30:08.040
ready for prime time. This is the primitive 2005 to the 2007 era. After he gets them reliant on
00:30:15.700
unreliable renewables and on Russian natural gas, therefore imports, he leaves Germany and becomes
00:30:24.400
the leader of the Russian oil and gas company. Wow. The chairman. Wow. So you get your, your country
00:30:31.300
dependent and now you're the big man in Russia. Why is a German running the Russian oil and gas
00:30:38.140
operations? Right. Why, why is he at the head of their company? Come on. Yeah. Um, so that's how that
00:30:44.420
happened to Germany. Wow. That's so interesting. It does seem like the climate change agenda is a war on
00:30:50.380
the working class, either purposely or coincidentally. I mean, it seems like every policy that these kind
00:30:57.260
of left-wing elites push is a war against the working class, but there was a very specific
00:31:01.500
picture of that. There were these climate change protesters who were blocking traffic and this guy
00:31:08.160
got out of his car and he was like, look, I'm on parole. And if I don't, if I don't get to work on
00:31:15.020
time, I'm literally going to go to prison. These climate change activists, they didn't get out of the
00:31:19.540
road. And I have no idea what happened to that guy. It's really unfortunate, but I thought that
00:31:23.340
was such a vivid picture of really what the green agenda is in general. It really is a war on the
00:31:28.620
working class. It's harder for working class, rural people to get to work if the prices are high or if
00:31:34.240
they can't drive at all. Transportation is more difficult when prices go up in general. Um, and so
00:31:41.900
really, as you said, the green agenda seems to only be serving those at the very top and they do not care
00:31:47.460
about the effects of the people on the bottom. The secret is you can, you can pollute as much as
00:31:52.740
you want in the extreme green agenda as long as you can pay for it with carbon offsets. So it's no
00:31:59.920
pinch on them. Yeah, it's no pinch on them. Yeah. If you look at the, at the percentage of a household
00:32:05.780
income devoted to energy, transportation, gasoline, electricity, the less money you make, the more
00:32:15.260
dramatic, that percentage you pay in, in your budget. So it, it's like taxes, even if they're
00:32:21.800
progressive, they always pinch the lowest income people, the worst. So, and, and they, they're the
00:32:28.460
people with the least representation in Washington, I can tell you for sure. And the unions are not doing
00:32:32.800
it. The unions are not going up there and pleading the case of the working class. I think those days
00:32:38.060
are supposed to do. Those days are over, whether it's teachers unions or other kinds of unions.
00:32:41.940
Yeah. Um, so this is not high priority for most voters, whether working class or otherwise,
00:32:48.280
I'm sure there is a difference between those with PhDs and those with just, you know, a high school
00:32:53.460
degree. There tends to always be a difference in the priorities and the political agenda of those
00:32:58.340
two groups. But it, this ranks like climate change ranks at the very, very bottom. Most people are
00:33:05.340
worried about the economy. They're worried about gas prices. They're worried about safety, you know,
00:33:10.000
things that actually affect their everyday lives, their ability to live. And so what is this group
00:33:16.820
at the top? What are our bureaucrats going to do? Um, if there is a lot of pushback about this,
00:33:23.980
or if their PR campaign that they have just been pushing relentlessly for years, maybe even decades now,
00:33:30.760
if it doesn't work, like, is there any hope that they're going to say, okay, nevermind,
00:33:34.900
whatever, we don't care about this anymore? Or are they just going to keep pushing and pushing?
00:33:40.620
I keep wondering where that breaking point comes. Yeah. Where, where people realize this agenda is
00:33:45.900
not possible. Like, I can't survive this agenda. I will be broken financially. I will be ruined
00:33:53.380
if I pay for everything they want us to pay for. The, you know, AOC wants a $90 trillion
00:33:59.480
Green New Deal. Yeah. If she could pin it her way. Um, we don't have it. So when does it finally
00:34:07.040
break? I feel like this war has really done a lot to put it in focus. We've really been pinched hard
00:34:15.780
for the first time because you have a major oil producer at war indefinitely. So NATO is all backing
00:34:23.480
up because they're all part of the puzzle. And I think that combined with this money printing
00:34:30.540
and the green agenda is, is the perfect storm for people to say, I've had enough. Yeah. And it's just
00:34:37.820
not possible. Right. Like these plans, if you really study them carefully, none of the, none of the
00:34:43.120
green plans, like the Paris Climate Accord, the clean, um, power plan or any of them work to stop
00:34:49.920
climate change. Right. And it doesn't make our environment cleaner either. We have some of the
00:34:53.780
cleanest air in the world in America. It's amazing actually because of technology. It doesn't do
00:34:58.140
anything for that either. So why are we doing this? Right. And we can't afford it. It almost seems like
00:35:04.280
the, the Democrats don't fear the electorate. Which is troubling. Yeah. It almost feels like
00:35:10.560
they don't care because look, I mean, Biden's doubling down. Right. Right. This week he's doubling down.
00:35:17.260
He thinks you haven't been squeezed enough for the transition. Yeah. So, and as you said, I mean,
00:35:24.660
the New York times poll said like 1% of our 3% of Democrats said climate's their most important
00:35:31.620
issue. Like 1% of the rest of America, if you average it out. So clearly he's not looking at polls
00:35:37.420
and putting his finger into the air and saying, what do they want to hear? Like a Bill Clinton.
00:35:42.320
Yeah. You're too young to remember that alley, but I barely remember it. I was like in like ninth
00:35:46.480
grade or something, but yeah, but Clinton could be, you know, a Democrat today and a Republican
00:35:51.100
tomorrow. And so it's nothing like that. It's, it's full speed ahead with the agenda.
00:35:56.780
And, um, it seems he's not the only one. I think that, that Trudeau is the same.
00:36:02.360
Yes. Macron is the same. Yes. They just don't care. And they call everyone else totalitarians
00:36:08.660
when really, of course they are the ones who are the tyrants.
00:36:21.680
It does seem like there was a breaking point in Sri Lanka that kind of had something to do with
00:36:26.040
all of this and in the Netherlands as well with the trucking protest. And I know that's not
00:36:31.200
necessarily having to do with fuel, but it does have to do with the kind of climate change agenda.
00:36:36.660
And the people have just had enough and the government of the Netherlands, of the Netherlands,
00:36:40.180
they were like, we don't care. We're going to shoot you until you get off the roads.
00:36:46.640
And like, as if this were Venezuela, confiscating your assets and they're even going to ban them.
00:36:51.820
There's, there's talk of banning the farmers from ever farming again to make it crystal clear.
00:36:59.540
This era of agriculture is over because it's too, it's too energy intensive and climate unfriendly.
00:37:05.420
So they don't have the fertilizer, uh, giving them that they need to make their crop. And
00:37:10.640
amazingly, this country, the Netherlands is half the size of Indiana, right? But it's the second
00:37:16.100
biggest food producer overall in the world. Yeah. I mean, like that blows my mind for its exports.
00:37:21.500
Uh, I, next to the U S I could not believe how productive they are. It's because they're so
00:37:26.920
innovative. Like they have to be, they're small. Yeah. Um, but yeah, to just pretend to be so tyrannical,
00:37:33.260
right? It's Western country. I mean, it's really hard not to jump to conclusions that, okay,
00:37:38.220
it, it would seem like the purpose is famine. The purpose is depopulation. The purpose is a
00:37:42.720
smaller population that they can then control. And I know I'm kind of getting a little bit off
00:37:46.360
the reservation here, but it's hard to imagine that there are innocent and humanitarian reasons
00:37:53.520
to cut off the food supply and to see someone's assets that is providing food for the country and the
00:38:00.700
world. It's really hard for me to come up with an innocent reason for that. Right. I mean,
00:38:05.000
you know, look at the perfect storm again, war against two major wheat producers. I mean,
00:38:10.880
wheat is a staple. It's kind of like one of the foundational, um, items that humans eat to stay
00:38:15.780
alive or what? Um, and they export all over the place, all over the world. And then all of these
00:38:21.760
food plant, um, disasters that happen in the U S mysteriously, mysterious fires.
00:38:26.480
Mysterious. I mean, what do you, I mean, I think the most logical and least conspiratorial idea is
00:38:32.400
that the FDA completely has failed. And so that was part of it. But I mean, there are some other
00:38:38.980
theories as well. Well, like there were two instances of planes hitting the property of food
00:38:44.740
plants. And journalists aren't interested in it at all. They're not curious at all. I post something
00:38:49.260
about this. I'm attacked as a conspiracy theorist. I'm like, look, I didn't say what caused it. I
00:38:54.120
simply pointed out there were two, what looked a whole lot like kamikaze attacks. Okay. Like
00:39:01.160
nine 11, like attacks hitting one hit a plant and one hit the, they're like, Hey, it just hit the
00:39:06.540
parking lot. Jackie, it just hit the parking lot. Oh, pardon me. Um, well, yeah, maybe he wasn't that
00:39:11.900
great of a pilot. Like I don't, I don't know all the circumstances there. I simply pointed out that
00:39:16.940
two planes hit the property, all these fires, all these explosions. Then there were like millions of,
00:39:22.100
um, uh, turkeys and chickens put down for flu. Then you saw the thousands of cattle that died
00:39:27.140
of heat in, um, Kansas as if that was the first time he did ever hit Kansas. Um, no baby food.
00:39:33.820
We're being warned about dog food shortages. So you want to have dog food to eat. Um, so it's like,
00:39:39.760
uh, like a controlled demolition. I've never seen so many events come together at once at once.
00:39:46.080
And then, I mean, you've got the open border, you've got civil unrest, you've got crime in
00:39:51.020
the street. I mean, there's so many factors and it feels like for a lot of people, even if they're
00:39:56.640
in safe communities, that the walls are kind of closing in and that our government really does
00:40:01.420
not care. Instead, they are more concerned with making sure that men can go into women's bathrooms.
00:40:06.180
I'm, I'm, I'm very concerned. Like my overarching feeling as I, as we had this conversation
00:40:11.240
combined with the whole abortion fanaticism, uh, which is a population control measure,
00:40:17.940
um, is that there, I know for sure that there's a group of the elites, David Rockefeller being like
00:40:26.340
one of the most outspoken who thinks there are too many of us on the planet. And that's,
00:40:30.840
that's the real problem here. Well, that's what the world economic forum talks about every year at
00:40:34.420
Davos. They talk about how there are too many people, even Jane Goodall, which is, who is not like
00:40:38.520
some rich mogul, but obviously she's an activist. They believe in this like Malthusian myth where
00:40:43.840
Elon Musk, I mean, with all of his flaws, he's one of the only people I saw that he posted this thread
00:40:48.720
or someone posted like a population density. And actually, if all of us wanted to live as densely
00:40:54.440
as people did in Manhattan, we could fit in like half of New Zealand. So the world is like almost
00:41:00.060
empty of humans. If you look at it that way, we can actually fit on earth many, many, many,
00:41:05.020
many more millions of people. If we wanted to, we have the resources for it. We have technology
00:41:10.120
for it. It all goes back to how you see human beings as a credit or a debit, as an asset,
00:41:14.820
or as a liability. The people at the top see human beings as a liability, as people that they,
00:41:21.460
if there's too many, they can't control them. And if you're looking for centralized power,
00:41:25.380
the more people there are, the more autonomous people are, the harder it is for them to obtain
00:41:30.960
control. There's a whole theological conversation you could have about how those people view who is
00:41:36.280
in charge, where morality comes from, and what human beings are worth. Christians believe we're
00:41:42.280
made in the image of God, that we have souls, that we're valuable, that we should be autonomous in that
00:41:45.840
way. And they believe that we're basically all balls of matter that don't matter.
00:41:50.840
It is very hard for you and me to put on the lens of a person who sees humankind as an accident in
00:41:59.120
the history of the universe. Yeah, just a massive cells, after all, is what they call them in the
00:42:04.280
womb. And that's really, I mean, what are we right now? Yeah, what are we right now? We're massive
00:42:08.240
cells. And so imagine how differently they see stories about crime, right? You and I see a horrible
00:42:15.080
story about a crime. And we're probably thinking that human being is broken. I'll bet they didn't have
00:42:23.300
parents who love them. I'll bet they don't have a support system. I bet they weren't taught and poured
00:42:27.260
into with faith, love, hope, all of that. You can see what's missing, what's broken. That is a human
00:42:33.220
being there. And no matter how bad they are, they can't fall lower than any of us can fall. When you have
00:42:40.420
these beliefs that we hold, to us that they're still a human being, God made them, and God loves them, no
00:42:46.500
matter how much we don't enjoy them right this second. And that has to be addressed. We need to love people
00:42:52.000
from the, you know, from this stage, this, the young stage up. There's a problem societally with
00:42:56.740
the breakdown of the family. Imagine how they see it. That's not what they're seeing. Yeah. They're
00:43:02.700
saying, look at all these, you know, riots in Sri Lanka, crimes in LA, breaking into my Porsche.
00:43:11.320
You know what? They're just clumps of cells. Yeah. We need less. I know what we'll do with these
00:43:16.580
people. Yeah. We don't need them anymore. Yeah. We don't need them anymore. So the least we can do
00:43:20.660
is not feed them so they don't reproduce is rip their children from their wombs. Yeah. Is, um,
00:43:27.520
and allow the crime to flourish too. You allow the crime to flourish. You open the border. It
00:43:31.980
creates chaos. It creates crime. It creates unrest and it creates murder and it creates violence. So
00:43:37.080
that takes care of that problem. That also is a form of depopulation, the allowance and the
00:43:41.740
endorsement of murder and these soft on crime policies. I mean, it does all, they at least have
00:43:48.140
these things in common. At most it is purposeful and it is all pushing towards the same goal. So
00:43:55.040
well, the chaos means that we need someone, some strong man to come in and take control and restore
00:44:00.380
order. And I feel like it's, it's about that too. It's about making everyday people feel vulnerable.
00:44:06.880
Yeah. So they want to welcome in tyranny. Yeah. Um, so they can feel safe again, just basic safety.
00:44:13.780
Um, and so it can also be nefarious in that sense. But what I'm certain of is that, uh, less food
00:44:19.540
means less people. Yeah. And, and there are just too many things happening in too many different places
00:44:25.340
and too many people in charge who higher price of fuel, less food, less people. It is connected.
00:44:33.520
I say to everyone, be prepared to be self-reliant. Yeah. Stock, stockpile food,
00:44:40.020
non-perishables, emergency food, MREs. Yeah. Your fishing gear, your hunting gear. Yeah.
00:44:46.640
Grow vegetables, grow fruit trees. Do you know your neighbors? Are you a part of a church? Are you part
00:44:51.840
of a community? Yeah. Are you part of any kind of group of people who can rely on each other? That is
00:44:56.840
also something that I, they have tried to tear apart definitely during COVID. But for many years before
00:45:01.760
that, people were more isolated than ever before. Right. Well, we have to do everything that we can
00:45:06.780
to push back against that through self-reliance, but also reliance on one another. Yeah. Um, so yeah,
00:45:11.720
that's part of all this. Thank you so much, Jackie, as always. This was wonderful insight. I really
00:45:16.500
appreciate it. No, so happy to be with you in any time. Thank you.