The Charlie Kirk Show - The Only Thing Vladimir Putin Cares About

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk show.

00:00:01.000 Where does energy come from?

00:00:03.000 How does a civilization get energy to keep on moving forward?

00:00:06.000 Will we talk about that question and how it pertains to the Ukrainian-Russian situation unfolding halfway across our planet?

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00:01:27.000 I want to dive into just a very simple question that a fourth or fifth grader should be able to answer, which is what is energy?

00:01:35.000 Well, if you look at a textbook definition of energy, energy is what allows us to do work, it gives us the capacity to make things happen.

00:01:45.000 So the left is very focused on progress.

00:01:48.000 They always want things to get better, which I think is in some ways an admirable goal. 0.97

00:01:53.000 Foolish at times.

00:01:54.000 Some things shouldn't try to be improved just for the sake of improving them. 0.99

00:01:57.000 We should perfect beautiful things, we should protect beautiful things, I should say, perfect, protect beautiful things.

00:02:02.000 But movement requires energy.

00:02:04.000 Progress requires energy.

00:02:05.000 And I don't just mean metaphorical energy.

00:02:07.000 I mean literal energy.

00:02:09.000 When you get up in the morning, you need food because your body needs to have the fuel required to think and to act and to move.

00:02:17.000 Now, every civilization has had the issue of energy in a variety of different ways.

00:02:23.000 We need food to eat.

00:02:25.000 As things progressed, you needed the ability to warm your homes, the ability to hopefully develop some form of hospitals or schools.

00:02:33.000 Now, when you do not have abundant energy, then you were basically held hostage to the sun.

00:02:40.000 You weren't really able to do much in the evening.

00:02:43.000 You had to do any sort of gatherings by candlelight.

00:02:47.000 And by definition, you know, in the winter months, you became less productive.

00:02:51.000 It was less efficient.

00:02:53.000 Now, in the 1700s and early 1800s, the development of the combustible engine and the exploration of what is now known as fossil fuels allowed all of a sudden humanity to be able to do less work and more thinking and more leisure time.

00:03:11.000 As we progressed and we found more forms of energy and better ways to use it, coal, nuclear, liquid, natural gas, we grew accustomed to being able to go long distances very quickly and affordably.

00:03:28.000 Now, as the wealthiest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, we should ask ourselves a question: why are we so wealthy?

00:03:34.000 And it's, of course, because of the rule of law, the entrepreneurs, the American story, all those sorts of things, but it's also cheap and affordable energy.

00:03:43.000 Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor?

00:03:48.000 An oil embargo is one of the major reasons.

00:03:50.000 They had difficulty being able to provide the energy for their society and their civilization.

00:03:56.000 So this is something that should not be ideological.

00:03:59.000 It definitely shouldn't be political.

00:04:01.000 That if you want your country, your people, your community to be able to flourish, then it should be a non-negotiable.

00:04:12.000 Now, are there certain forms of energy that in some ways might not be primary in 100 or 150 years, such as coal?

00:04:20.000 Yeah, probably, of course.

00:04:22.000 But there are third world countries that would do anything to be able to have access to coal.

00:04:26.000 And the literature tells us something very clearly of third world countries is you want to get them out of poverty as quickly as possible by giving them cheap energy.

00:04:35.000 Cheap energy allows people to progress quickly.

00:04:37.000 That used to be a goal of the Western progressives.

00:04:41.000 Now it seems not to be.

00:04:44.000 And what we've seen the last year under the current regime is a very focused agenda to basically unravel all of the very positive energy gains of the last couple decades and specifically the last couple years.

00:04:59.000 I'm talking about hydraulic fracking technology, liquid and natural gas development, where it made America, thanks to a lot of the policies of the previous administration, but also the entrepreneurs in the Permian Basin and in the Balkan Shale and the Marcellus Shale, the three largest depositories of liquid and natural gas in the country, it made us energy independent.

00:05:19.000 We could call our own shots.

00:05:22.000 If you are not dependent on another country to be able to move, eat, or be able to take risks or create products, you're free.

00:05:35.000 You see, we talk about energy independence, but rarely do we go a step further and explain why is that important?

00:05:40.000 Well, then you're not then held hostage by some sort of Middle Eastern theocrat in Iran or Saudi Arabia or whatever, or Vladimir Putin to keep the lights on in New Hampshire in February.

00:05:58.000 CUT 41 is a great setup of Tucker Carlson talking about this last evening when he was interviewed by Laura Ingram, Playtape.

00:06:06.000 Energy matters.

00:06:07.000 You can't run a civilization without it.

00:06:09.000 I don't care what Sandy Cortez claims. 0.98

00:06:10.000 The truth is we have progress.

00:06:13.000 We have lights.

00:06:13.000 We have hospitals.

00:06:14.000 We have airplanes.

00:06:15.000 We are not living in caves because we have cheap energy.

00:06:18.000 That's a prerequisite for civilization.

00:06:20.000 Germany cares about gas from Ukraine and Russia, period.

00:06:23.000 Why wouldn't they?

00:06:24.000 We should care.

00:06:25.000 We're pretending as if we don't need energy.

00:06:27.000 They're going to wreck our economy with this nonsense.

00:06:30.000 We've been rich for so long, we don't fully understand what that means, but it's a disaster.

00:06:34.000 You don't want to be a poor country.

00:06:36.000 And they're on the road to making this one.

00:06:40.000 Even despite all the subsidies and all the best efforts of the current regime, a year ago, 34% of our energy consumption was natural gas.

00:06:49.000 34% was traditional petroleum.

00:06:51.000 About 10% was coal.

00:06:53.000 About 9% was nuclear, which we should expand dramatically, by the way.

00:06:57.000 The French have been way ahead of the curve on this. 0.88

00:07:00.000 And a lot of the nuclear data, by the way, is skewed by incidents like Three Mile Island and other incidents.

00:07:06.000 And renewables about 12.5%.

00:07:09.000 Now, I'm all for exploring renewables of solar and wind.

00:07:12.000 You know, if you hate birds, you should love wind.

00:07:14.000 However, that's fine, whatever.

00:07:16.000 Not the focus of this.

00:07:18.000 But still, if you transitioned every single car to electric overnight, we do not have the raw materials to make the batteries to be able to make 130 million Teslas overnight.

00:07:32.000 We just do not have the ability to do that yet.

00:07:34.000 So the circumstance we have in front of us is we have more liquid natural gas than we know what to do with.

00:07:41.000 We are the world's leader in the development of it.

00:07:45.000 Now, why are we the world's leader in it?

00:07:46.000 Or we were.

00:07:47.000 We're the only country on the planet that allows private ownership of minerals.

00:07:53.000 We were running circles around Russia because we allowed entrepreneurs to be more efficient in the way they explored oil and natural gas.

00:08:01.000 Only country in the world that allows private ownership of minerals.

00:08:05.000 Russia, it's all through oligarchs and state control.

00:08:08.000 Venezuela, all through oligarchs and state-run control.

00:08:14.000 Saudi Arabia, Iran, all the Middle Eastern actors, the same.

00:08:18.000 Now, they're still able to fund their government through it, but a West Texas oil and gas entrepreneur up against some kind of sleazy Russian oligarch, it's not even close.

00:08:31.000 We win every time.

00:08:33.000 But a deliberate strategy from the Biden regime was to get rid of America's energy supremacy, not superiority, not advantage.

00:08:43.000 We were energy supreme.

00:08:46.000 We were able to call all of our own shots.

00:08:48.000 We could tell other countries, yeah, you know what, we can actually fuel our entire civilization.

00:08:51.000 China does not have that advantage, but they're getting it because they're partnership with Russia.

00:08:55.000 Now, what's interesting about the entire green energy craze is it takes rare earth minerals to create batteries, and we're totally dependent on China for rare earth minerals, where we have not even made the own exploration choices here domestically to be able to make the batteries necessary for all these Teslas driving on the road.

00:09:17.000 Now, what are the geopolitical consequences of all of this?

00:09:20.000 Well, it's very simple.

00:09:22.000 Because of ideology in the last 12 months, an intentional decision was made from the top down of the White House here in America to stop new leasing of fracking technology, stop the exploration of liquid and natural gas, inflate the price of oil, and make Vladimir Putin rich and powerful.

00:09:43.000 Energy matters for everything.

00:09:46.000 Now, only a civilization that has never had to worry about energy could think that it actually doesn't matter.

00:09:54.000 I want you to dwell on that as we segue into the news out of Ukraine and Russia.

00:09:59.000 This entire situation in Eastern Europe, all of it, comes down to whether or not we unshackle the American energy entrepreneur to explore our own assets and resources.

00:10:13.000 Putin would not be even thinking about going after Ukraine.

00:10:17.000 Not that it's our concern, I really don't care, but it's a top news item for whatever reason if we allowed ourselves to use the assets under our own feet.

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00:11:51.000 So, the question is, why would Biden and their entire team of quote-unquote energy experts, why would they be okay with this?

00:12:01.000 Well, he did run on it.

00:12:02.000 He did run on getting rid of fossil fuels completely, getting rid of oil and natural gas, despite oil and natural gas being one of the primary reasons we've been able to break out of pre-industrial living.

00:12:18.000 And one of the reasons why fossil fuels, liquid natural gas, petroleum is so effective is its ability to be able to do a lot of work for very low cost.

00:12:35.000 It's able to have high degrees of combustion or to be able to have an airplane go a long distance, a massive weight, for all of a sudden a price that people could pay $250, well, they used to be able to, $500 to fly from New York to L.A.

00:12:54.000 And it's easy to act as if this is normal.

00:12:58.000 So when you have Alexandria Casio-Cortez or Leonardo DiCaprio or Greta Thunberg, and you were born into a world where your concerns were not how you were going to fuel your entire civilization, it's easy to fall into the trap of, well, the world's going to end because of this.

00:13:13.000 Well, no, it's not, obviously.

00:13:16.000 But the deeper and more important point is how you grow accustomed and how you grow used to things just always getting better no matter what.

00:13:28.000 That is not the societal norm.

00:13:30.000 The societal norm is not all of a sudden massive human progress year over year over year.

00:13:34.000 Now, technology, which allows human beings to do work easy, easier or in an easy capacity, is a new phenomenon.

00:13:44.000 Now, there's all sorts of different types of technology.

00:13:45.000 Technology is what you do with it.

00:13:47.000 It could be a wheel, it could be a fulcrum, could be a wall, or it could be something as complex as an iPhone or our TriCaster system that allows us to live stream.

00:14:02.000 And the deeper, more fundamental point, though, is how do you fuel technology?

00:14:08.000 And I think there's plenty of good entrepreneurs, Elon Musk and other people.

00:14:11.000 I mean, I have problems with Elon Musk, but he's certainly interesting in a lot of different ways.

00:14:15.000 I think he's trying to do something right in this space that are trying to explore this, but you run into issues and you run into problems.

00:14:23.000 And one of the major problems, and this is one of the tenets of the Great Reset, is they know that if they are able to control energy, Western civilization as we know it crumbles.

00:14:34.000 Private property ownership becomes totally impractical, and farming and ranching becomes untenable.

00:14:41.000 You see, cheap energy empowers everyday people.

00:14:44.000 Cheap energy allows entrepreneurs to travel more distances to sell more products.

00:14:50.000 Cheap energy allows food prices to go down because it doesn't cost as much for you to get your avocados from Mexico.

00:14:57.000 I think that's actually a company.

00:14:59.000 Here's pretty good.

00:15:01.000 When energy prices go up, everything inherently becomes more expensive, and then you have to make choices.

00:15:07.000 Remember, economics is a war on scarcity.

00:15:11.000 Economics is the challenge of trying to deal with scarce resources.

00:15:19.000 Well, when things become less expensive and more abundant, you are winning that war on scarcity by definition.

00:15:26.000 And for a while, we were winning that war on energy.

00:15:28.000 In fact, there was an entire debate when Trump was president that energy was too cheap, that American producers were so worried that it was so cheap to fill up a tank of gas that energy producers were going to go bankrupt.

00:15:41.000 It was when energy was $25 or $30 a barrel.

00:15:45.000 And now it's right near $100 a barrel.

00:15:50.000 Now, in order to achieve the great reset from the World Economic Forum, they need to weaken the United States.

00:15:57.000 And one of the competitive advantages we've always had over other countries, despite, of course, having, you know, being neighbored by two allies, I guess Canada is still an ally, being neighbored by two massive oceans, having a sizable population, rule of law, private property rights, and a phenomenal constitution, and an aspirational and driven and hustling middle class.

00:16:19.000 All those things are awesome, but we were able to empower normal people to be able to cover large distances quickly and to be able to do hard work quickly because we had energy at our disposal.

00:16:31.000 You can't take risks, I'm talking about big risks, if you do not have the energy and the ability to do that.

00:16:39.000 And they know that.

00:16:40.000 This is part of the agenda, which is they want it to be harder for you to move, create, and to flourish because they need to become a lot easier to control.

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00:18:10.000 I've said for a while, I really don't care about a family border dispute 5,000 miles away in a country that most Americans couldn't pinpoint on a map if they were able, given a million dollars.

00:18:21.000 I think most Americans say, hey, which one's Ukraine?

00:18:24.000 I think that it would be a 10% chance that they'd be able to label it correctly.

00:18:29.000 And I think most people would say, Oh, maybe it's the Belarus, sir.

00:18:33.000 Is it Lithuania or Latvia?

00:18:35.000 Yeah, okay.

00:18:36.000 So, not exactly a primary concern for me.

00:18:39.000 However, it is important to know that geopolitics changing in real time is worthy of commentary and exploration.

00:18:47.000 And if you think Vladimir Putin is like the greatest threat to democracy, which I don't believe, Ukraine is not a democracy at all, period.

00:18:56.000 They jail dissident leaders, they restrict opposition newspapers, and Ukraine is kind of a mishmash of a country anyway.

00:19:03.000 Western part of Ukraine is more kind of legitimately Ukraine.

00:19:07.000 The eastern part tends to be very sympathetic to Russia.

00:19:09.000 But again, that's not my concern or my issue.

00:19:11.000 But what is important, though, is how this impacts America.

00:19:15.000 And it's not about whether or not Putin is going to cross some arbitrary line in the snow.

00:19:20.000 What is important, though, is how we're going to get our energy.

00:19:23.000 That's important.

00:19:25.000 Cut 38, Biden talking about sanctions he's placed on Russia.

00:19:30.000 He says he blocked Nord Stream 2, but he didn't actually.

00:19:35.000 Instead of having a LNG contract where we could have supplied Germany with liquid natural gas from the Permian basin, the Marcellus Shale, if Biden is so worried about climate change, why is he okay with Russia fracking and not America fracking?

00:19:50.000 Same planet, same climate, or is there something deeper at play here?

00:19:54.000 Play cut 38.

00:19:56.000 We're implementing full blocking sanctions on two large Russian financial institutions, BEB and their military bank.

00:20:05.000 We're implementing comprehensive sanctions on Russia's sovereign debt.

00:20:09.000 That means we've cut off Russia's government from Western financing.

00:20:14.000 It can no longer raise money from the West and cannot trade in its new debt on our markets or European markets either.

00:20:23.000 Starting tomorrow and continuing in the days ahead, we'll also impose sanctions on Russia's elites and their family members. 0.86

00:20:30.000 They share in the corrupt gains of the Kremlin policies and should share in the pain as well.

00:20:36.000 Because of Russia's actions, we've worked with Germany to ensure Nord Stream II will not, as I promised, will not move forward.

00:20:45.000 So why is it that Putin annexes Crimea and goes after Ukraine while Biden is in the executive office of the White House?

00:20:59.000 Now, the talking point you hear from a lot of people, it's because we had leadership under Trump and not now.

00:21:04.000 I agree with that.

00:21:04.000 That's fine.

00:21:05.000 I totally agree.

00:21:06.000 Or they say it's because we had strength then and not then.

00:21:09.000 And what they're trying to do is they're trying to convince you we need kind of more drums of war conversation, that we need more tomahawk missile strikes.

00:21:18.000 No, actually, that's not right at all.

00:21:21.000 The only number that Putin looks at is not how many Tomahawk missiles we're sending into Syria.

00:21:27.000 It's not whether or not he thinks we're willing to deploy troops, but he might be a little moved by that.

00:21:33.000 It's the price of oil.

00:21:35.000 Russia is primarily funded.

00:21:37.000 Their whole government is funded through the petrodollar.

00:21:43.000 And so when the price of oil goes above 60, Putin is running a surplus.

00:21:48.000 When the price of oil goes to 80, he's swimming in Russian rubles.

00:21:54.000 When it goes to 100, he becomes a very wealthy country, like very wealthy.

00:21:59.000 So he's able to take risks.

00:22:00.000 And guess what?

00:22:02.000 If he were to invade, the price of oil will go even further up.

00:22:07.000 You see, Russia ran some very serious structural deficits.

00:22:11.000 They locked down their country because of COVID and all that.

00:22:14.000 This is all economics.

00:22:17.000 And yet we're supposed to believe that it's some sort of like Russian kind of conquest to go reunify eastern Ukraine.

00:22:23.000 I'm sure that's part of it.

00:22:26.000 But the Washington Post said, quote, Russia warned that America will fully feel the consequences of the United States sanctions on the Kremlin after it deployed troops into two pro-Moscow separatist regions of eastern Ukraine.

00:22:40.000 The West is bracing for Russia to retaliate against the measures, which Moscow said would hurt global financial and energy markets, obviously.

00:22:48.000 Putin knows that since we are not exploring our own energy, there are no new substantial new leases happening, that we destroyed the Keystone XL pipeline, which is one of the most inexplicably foolish things that a president has ever done.

00:23:02.000 Putin holds the cards.

00:23:04.000 So if you actually think Putin is like the worst person ever, which I think he's a thug and he's awful, but not exactly even in the ballpark of the threat to American future as Xi Jinping, then why wouldn't you want to take his cards away?

00:23:19.000 And this really is an interesting contradiction of the American left, is what do they care about more?

00:23:26.000 Do they hate Putin more or do they love green energy more?

00:23:30.000 Can't have both.

00:23:33.000 If you want to go fully green, Putin becomes super rich and powerful, and you're going to live under whatever type of Europe he wants you to live in.

00:23:41.000 Or you have to deploy a bunch of troops and go to war, okay?

00:23:44.000 Or you can say, you know what, this green energy thing, it's a nice thought experiment.

00:23:50.000 Alexander de Casio-Cortez, really great.

00:23:52.000 Thank you for expanding our horizons.

00:23:55.000 Go become a novelist.

00:23:57.000 Thank you.

00:23:58.000 We're going to live in team reality.

00:24:01.000 You can't have both.

00:24:02.000 It's a binary choice.

00:24:03.000 You can either have Vladimir Putin continue to do this stuff in Eastern Europe, or you can have cheap and affordable energy.

00:24:13.000 It's that simple.

00:24:14.000 They're tied together.

00:24:16.000 And the Biden regime recently ignored a law requiring a report on how many jobs were lost in the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation.

00:24:25.000 Quote, the Biden administration continues to flout a law that requires it to produce a report on the number of jobs lost by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, in addition to describing how its action may have impacted energy markets.

00:24:38.000 So while you're telling everyone about how Ukraine is this wonderful democracy and it's not, it's a super corrupt country.

00:24:45.000 And yes, Russia is a super corrupt country.

00:24:47.000 Here's a good rule of thumb, everybody, okay? 0.71

00:24:49.000 When two corrupt countries want to go to war, probably a good opportunity for us to kind of watch.

00:24:54.000 Usually, that's not a, don't put that in like the Ten Commandments of foreign intervention.

00:25:00.000 But Ukraine is not exactly Spain.

00:25:04.000 Okay? 0.89

00:25:05.000 Ukraine is very corrupt. 0.95

00:25:07.000 Yes, Ukraine is a smaller and weaker country. 0.98

00:25:10.000 Okay.

00:25:12.000 But they have their own long track record of abuses, including paying the president's son $55,000, whatever it is, $80,000 a month, and having this entire kind of corrupt organization behind it.

00:25:30.000 The White House's messaging has been all over the map.

00:25:33.000 Instead of actually getting to the heart of the issue, Biden is talking about why we need more troops there.

00:25:38.000 So here's the thing.

00:25:39.000 You want green energy?

00:25:41.000 Then your sons and daughters have to go to Eastern Europe to go fight Vladimir Putin.

00:25:46.000 That is the great bargain from the current regime.

00:25:50.000 Solar panels everywhere, no more oil and natural gas, and troop deployments all across the planet.

00:25:56.000 You see, if you actually thought this was a concern and the price of oil was actually going down, Putin would say, wait a second, I'm not going to go invade Ukraine.

00:26:06.000 I can't balance my budget.

00:26:08.000 I can't even feed the people.

00:26:10.000 And Russia is kind of a largely socialistic state.

00:26:13.000 It just is.

00:26:14.000 But instead, they want us to go send troops to Eastern Europe.

00:26:17.000 Play cut 31.

00:26:20.000 The United States will continue to provide defensive assistance to Ukraine in the meantime and will continue to reinforce and reassure our NATO allies.

00:26:28.000 Today, in response to Russia's admission that it will not withdraw its forces from Belarus, I have authorized additional movements of U.S. forces and equipment already stationed in Europe to strengthen our Baltic allies, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

00:26:44.000 Look, George Washington warned against having permanent alliances.

00:26:50.000 Now, the NATO defenders, and I think NATO's probably been an okay project the last 30 to 40 years.

00:26:54.000 It certainly has its flaws, and it's kind of a joke recently.

00:26:58.000 But there are no permanent friends or allies.

00:27:01.000 There are only permanent national interests.

00:27:05.000 And right now, it's in our long-term interest to cooperate with Russia as a bulwark against China.

00:27:13.000 Instead, the entire national security apparatus has it backwards.

00:27:18.000 Like, oh, we can fight both of them.

00:27:21.000 We can't even fight our own domestic wars, and you think we can saber rattle against Vladimir Putin.

00:27:27.000 While we also are restricting our own energy supply.

00:27:29.000 Okay.

00:27:31.000 I want to get to some more sound here, which Jensaki says the following in Cut 32.

00:27:38.000 So there's a bit of a different tactic, a bit of a different approach, and that's probably why President Biden and not his predecessor was able to rally the world and the global community in taking steps against Russia's aggression.

00:27:52.000 So she says that Biden has done a great job of uniting our allies in some sort of international coalition against Russia.

00:28:02.000 It's just interesting how Putin feels so invigorated to do this under this regime and not the one prior.

00:28:11.000 I mean, Biden made this a big point of his campaign.

00:28:13.000 This was like a center point of his campaign.

00:28:17.000 Play cut 28.

00:28:19.000 With regard to being weaker, the fact is that I've gone head to head with Putin and made it clear to him we're not going to take any of his stuff.

00:28:27.000 He's Putin's puppy.

00:28:30.000 It's interesting, he didn't invade one sovereign country or one area under Trump.

00:28:36.000 Whether or not he invaded a sovereign country or not, it's up for debate because these are separatist regions.

00:28:43.000 It all comes back down to energy like so many other things.

00:28:46.000 But they want you to believe that we can power our entire economy on wind farms and solar panels.

00:28:54.000 Being an entrepreneur and running a business are not for the faint of heart.

00:28:57.000 There's a lot of stress when everything is on your shoulders.

00:28:59.000 If you're not careful, that stress can take the toll on your body, raising your blood pressure, making it hard to sleep, draining you of vital energy, and making you more irritable.

00:29:07.000 I discovered magnesium, and it's amazing.

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00:29:11.000 And do you know 75% of people are magnesium deficient?

00:29:14.000 The number might be even higher among business owners and C-level professionals.

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00:29:24.000 This deficiency can lead to higher levels of anxiety, irritability, trouble sleeping, and low energy.

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00:30:48.000 So, what if I told you that Xi Ji Ping and Vladimir Putin are actually cheering for the Great Reset?

00:30:57.000 Now, they're not cheering for the Great Reset in their country, but they would love nothing more than any of their rivals, their competitors, or their enemies to basically forsake their national sovereignty and become part of some sort of woke, weak globalist project.

00:31:12.000 And Putin and Xi Ji Ping can figure out what to do while they're the only two remaining nationalistic countries that have any sort of strength.

00:31:21.000 The Great Reset focused primarily on Western countries is all about private property confiscation and Western value deterioration and owning nothing.

00:31:31.000 We've gone through that list multiple times.

00:31:33.000 But one of the currency is a big part of it, obviously, but energy is the one that's the most obvious.

00:31:41.000 Remember the gas shortage in May of last year and gas prices have gone nothing but up since.

00:31:45.000 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, remember she said, if you drive an electric car, fuel shortages, it won't affect you.

00:31:51.000 Play Cut 45.

00:31:53.000 Obviously, we have the acute issues with the coronal pipeline ransomware attack, but looking more holistically in a macro view, how does this speed up the efforts at DOE to move in more of a renewable direction since this is going to have an impact on people at the pump?

00:32:08.000 Yeah, I mean, we obviously are all in on making sure that we meet the president's goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

00:32:20.000 And, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.

00:32:27.000 And this is what she's just, it's just so hard to watch.

00:32:30.000 So where does electricity come from, then, Jennifer Granholm?

00:32:34.000 Oh, it just comes from the bolts.

00:32:36.000 Yeah, it's the holes in the wall.

00:32:39.000 Yeah, you know, energy shortage is not like, you know, we just rub our hands together and the lights go on.

00:32:44.000 Right.

00:32:46.000 Cut 46, Jennifer Granholm, who doesn't get nearly enough press, threw her head back and laughed when asked if there was a plan to bring back gas prices down. 1.00

00:32:54.000 Play Cut 46.

00:32:56.000 Durgis, Michigan, it is $2.89 a gallon.

00:33:01.000 I guess that's better than in California.

00:33:04.000 What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?

00:33:10.000 Oh my God.

00:33:12.000 That is hilarious.

00:33:14.000 I must have missed the joke.

00:33:15.000 Now, if you really want to get into the environmentalist part of this, and any environmentalist can come on the show at any time, and I'm just going to ask some very simple questions.

00:33:22.000 What are you going to do with the batteries?

00:33:25.000 All these electric car batteries, where are you going to put them?

00:33:28.000 Because they're really bad for the earth.

00:33:31.000 Like they're really bad.

00:33:33.000 So we're kind of new in this curve because electric vehicles haven't been around for that long.

00:33:38.000 And so five years from now, we're going to have millions of electric car batteries we're going to have to get rid of.

00:33:42.000 Where are you going to put them?

00:33:44.000 Have you ever, have you done any sort of kind of analysis of how corrosive battery acid is to the earth?

00:33:52.000 Or is that just kind of you're just factoring it in?

00:33:54.000 Oh, I know. 0.92

00:33:54.000 They'll dump them in Alabama because we hate those people. 0.92

00:33:57.000 Sure. 0.78

00:33:57.000 Got it. 0.78

00:33:58.000 Remember, Trump exposed NATO for paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy.

00:34:03.000 He was right about this.

00:34:04.000 He was totally spot on.

00:34:06.000 I know a lot of people listening didn't like Trump's tone or demeanor or whatever, but his focus on energy superiority and supremacy was just a basic instinct.

00:34:18.000 It's not ideological.

00:34:19.000 It's like, okay, wait, if you can't fuel your civilization, how are poor people going to become rich?

00:34:24.000 Cut 47.

00:34:27.000 Well, I have to say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.

00:34:43.000 So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.

00:34:48.000 And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

00:34:57.000 So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia.

00:35:03.000 And I think that's very inappropriate.

00:35:05.000 I got to tell you, the setting, he was at a NATO lunch, and this is supposed to be usually they do a photo op and, oh, look at the beautiful building and all this.

00:35:13.000 And he just goes off for like 10 minutes on how NATO is allowing Putin to become rich and basically like, wait a second, if this whole thing's supposed to be against Russia, why are you guys like buying natural gas from them?

00:35:25.000 Of course, they were silent and leaked on him, and they didn't like those kind of questions.

00:35:29.000 It feels good to say you're for the environment.

00:35:32.000 It feels good to want to go put solar panels and wind farms everywhere.

00:35:37.000 But does it feel good when all of a sudden we're now going to be dependent on the Middle East or Putin or wherever for energy that we have right here?

00:35:46.000 The civilization that channels and uses energy the best and most efficiently wins.

00:35:52.000 And we're currently doing a pretty poor job of that.

00:35:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:56.000 Email us your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

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00:36:03.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:36:04.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - February 24, 2022

The Only Thing Vladimir Putin Cares About

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