00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:53.000Now, 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.
00:03:11.000As 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.
00:03:28.000Now, as the wealthiest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, we should ask ourselves a question: why are we so wealthy?
00:03:34.000And 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.
00:03:43.000Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor?
00:03:48.000An oil embargo is one of the major reasons.
00:03:50.000They had difficulty being able to provide the energy for their society and their civilization.
00:03:56.000So this is something that should not be ideological.
00:04:22.000But there are third world countries that would do anything to be able to have access to coal.
00:04:26.000And 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.
00:04:35.000Cheap energy allows people to progress quickly.
00:04:37.000That used to be a goal of the Western progressives.
00:04:44.000And 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.
00:04:59.000I'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.
00:05:22.000If 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.
00:05:35.000You see, we talk about energy independence, but rarely do we go a step further and explain why is that important?
00:05:40.000Well, 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.
00:05:58.000CUT 41 is a great setup of Tucker Carlson talking about this last evening when he was interviewed by Laura Ingram, Playtape.
00:07:18.000But 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.
00:07:32.000We just do not have the ability to do that yet.
00:07:34.000So the circumstance we have in front of us is we have more liquid natural gas than we know what to do with.
00:07:41.000We are the world's leader in the development of it.
00:07:45.000Now, why are we the world's leader in it?
00:07:47.000We're the only country on the planet that allows private ownership of minerals.
00:07:53.000We were running circles around Russia because we allowed entrepreneurs to be more efficient in the way they explored oil and natural gas.
00:08:01.000Only country in the world that allows private ownership of minerals.
00:08:05.000Russia, it's all through oligarchs and state control.
00:08:08.000Venezuela, all through oligarchs and state-run control.
00:08:14.000Saudi Arabia, Iran, all the Middle Eastern actors, the same.
00:08:18.000Now, 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.
00:08:46.000We were able to call all of our own shots.
00:08:48.000We could tell other countries, yeah, you know what, we can actually fuel our entire civilization.
00:08:51.000China does not have that advantage, but they're getting it because they're partnership with Russia.
00:08:55.000Now, 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.
00:09:17.000Now, what are the geopolitical consequences of all of this?
00:09:22.000Because 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.
00:09:46.000Now, only a civilization that has never had to worry about energy could think that it actually doesn't matter.
00:09:54.000I want you to dwell on that as we segue into the news out of Ukraine and Russia.
00:09:59.000This 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.
00:10:13.000Putin would not be even thinking about going after Ukraine.
00:10:17.000Not 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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00:12:02.000He 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.
00:12:18.000And 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.
00:12:35.000It'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.
00:12:54.000And it's easy to act as if this is normal.
00:12:58.000So 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.
00:13:16.000But 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.
00:13:47.000It 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.
00:14:02.000And the deeper, more fundamental point, though, is how do you fuel technology?
00:14:08.000And I think there's plenty of good entrepreneurs, Elon Musk and other people.
00:14:11.000I mean, I have problems with Elon Musk, but he's certainly interesting in a lot of different ways.
00:14:15.000I 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.
00:14:23.000And 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.
00:14:34.000Private property ownership becomes totally impractical, and farming and ranching becomes untenable.
00:14:41.000You see, cheap energy empowers everyday people.
00:14:44.000Cheap energy allows entrepreneurs to travel more distances to sell more products.
00:14:50.000Cheap energy allows food prices to go down because it doesn't cost as much for you to get your avocados from Mexico.
00:15:01.000When energy prices go up, everything inherently becomes more expensive, and then you have to make choices.
00:15:07.000Remember, economics is a war on scarcity.
00:15:11.000Economics is the challenge of trying to deal with scarce resources.
00:15:19.000Well, when things become less expensive and more abundant, you are winning that war on scarcity by definition.
00:15:26.000And for a while, we were winning that war on energy.
00:15:28.000In 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.
00:15:41.000It was when energy was $25 or $30 a barrel.
00:15:45.000And now it's right near $100 a barrel.
00:15:50.000Now, in order to achieve the great reset from the World Economic Forum, they need to weaken the United States.
00:15:57.000And 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.
00:16:19.000All 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.
00:16:31.000You can't take risks, I'm talking about big risks, if you do not have the energy and the ability to do that.
00:16:40.000This 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.
00:16:51.000Now, Putin knows this, and he is using the green energy movement to his advantage to try to reshuffle the geopolitics of the world.
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00:18:10.000I'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.
00:18:21.000I think most Americans say, hey, which one's Ukraine?
00:18:24.000I think that it would be a 10% chance that they'd be able to label it correctly.
00:18:29.000And I think most people would say, Oh, maybe it's the Belarus, sir.
00:18:36.000So, not exactly a primary concern for me.
00:18:39.000However, it is important to know that geopolitics changing in real time is worthy of commentary and exploration.
00:18:47.000And 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.
00:18:56.000They jail dissident leaders, they restrict opposition newspapers, and Ukraine is kind of a mishmash of a country anyway.
00:19:03.000Western part of Ukraine is more kind of legitimately Ukraine.
00:19:07.000The eastern part tends to be very sympathetic to Russia.
00:19:09.000But again, that's not my concern or my issue.
00:19:11.000But what is important, though, is how this impacts America.
00:19:15.000And it's not about whether or not Putin is going to cross some arbitrary line in the snow.
00:19:20.000What is important, though, is how we're going to get our energy.
00:19:25.000Cut 38, Biden talking about sanctions he's placed on Russia.
00:19:30.000He says he blocked Nord Stream 2, but he didn't actually.
00:19:35.000Instead 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?
00:19:50.000Same planet, same climate, or is there something deeper at play here?
00:21:06.000Or they say it's because we had strength then and not then.
00:21:09.000And 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.
00:21:18.000No, actually, that's not right at all.
00:21:21.000The only number that Putin looks at is not how many Tomahawk missiles we're sending into Syria.
00:21:27.000It's not whether or not he thinks we're willing to deploy troops, but he might be a little moved by that.
00:22:26.000But 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.
00:22:40.000The West is bracing for Russia to retaliate against the measures, which Moscow said would hurt global financial and energy markets, obviously.
00:22:48.000Putin 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.
00:23:04.000So 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?
00:23:19.000And this really is an interesting contradiction of the American left, is what do they care about more?
00:23:26.000Do they hate Putin more or do they love green energy more?
00:23:33.000If 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.
00:23:41.000Or you have to deploy a bunch of troops and go to war, okay?
00:23:44.000Or you can say, you know what, this green energy thing, it's a nice thought experiment.
00:23:50.000Alexander de Casio-Cortez, really great.
00:24:16.000And the Biden regime recently ignored a law requiring a report on how many jobs were lost in the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation.
00:24:25.000Quote, 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.
00:24:38.000So while you're telling everyone about how Ukraine is this wonderful democracy and it's not, it's a super corrupt country.
00:24:45.000And yes, Russia is a super corrupt country.
00:24:47.000Here's a good rule of thumb, everybody, okay?
00:24:49.000When two corrupt countries want to go to war, probably a good opportunity for us to kind of watch.
00:24:54.000Usually, that's not a, don't put that in like the Ten Commandments of foreign intervention.
00:25:12.000But 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.
00:25:30.000The White House's messaging has been all over the map.
00:25:33.000Instead of actually getting to the heart of the issue, Biden is talking about why we need more troops there.
00:25:41.000Then your sons and daughters have to go to Eastern Europe to go fight Vladimir Putin.
00:25:46.000That is the great bargain from the current regime.
00:25:50.000Solar panels everywhere, no more oil and natural gas, and troop deployments all across the planet.
00:25:56.000You 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.
00:26:20.000The United States will continue to provide defensive assistance to Ukraine in the meantime and will continue to reinforce and reassure our NATO allies.
00:26:28.000Today, 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.
00:26:44.000Look, George Washington warned against having permanent alliances.
00:26:50.000Now, the NATO defenders, and I think NATO's probably been an okay project the last 30 to 40 years.
00:26:54.000It certainly has its flaws, and it's kind of a joke recently.
00:26:58.000But there are no permanent friends or allies.
00:27:01.000There are only permanent national interests.
00:27:05.000And right now, it's in our long-term interest to cooperate with Russia as a bulwark against China.
00:27:13.000Instead, the entire national security apparatus has it backwards.
00:27:31.000I want to get to some more sound here, which Jensaki says the following in Cut 32.
00:27:38.000So 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.
00:27:52.000So she says that Biden has done a great job of uniting our allies in some sort of international coalition against Russia.
00:28:02.000It's just interesting how Putin feels so invigorated to do this under this regime and not the one prior.
00:28:11.000I mean, Biden made this a big point of his campaign.
00:28:13.000This was like a center point of his campaign.
00:28:19.000With 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.
00:28:30.000It's interesting, he didn't invade one sovereign country or one area under Trump.
00:28:36.000Whether or not he invaded a sovereign country or not, it's up for debate because these are separatist regions.
00:28:43.000It all comes back down to energy like so many other things.
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00:30:48.000So, what if I told you that Xi Ji Ping and Vladimir Putin are actually cheering for the Great Reset?
00:30:57.000Now, 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.
00:31:12.000And 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.
00:31:21.000The Great Reset focused primarily on Western countries is all about private property confiscation and Western value deterioration and owning nothing.
00:31:31.000We've gone through that list multiple times.
00:31:33.000But one of the currency is a big part of it, obviously, but energy is the one that's the most obvious.
00:31:41.000Remember the gas shortage in May of last year and gas prices have gone nothing but up since.
00:31:45.000Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, remember she said, if you drive an electric car, fuel shortages, it won't affect you.
00:31:53.000Obviously, 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?
00:32:08.000Yeah, 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.
00:32:20.000And, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.
00:32:27.000And this is what she's just, it's just so hard to watch.
00:32:30.000So where does electricity come from, then, Jennifer Granholm?
00:32:46.000Cut 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.
00:33:15.000Now, 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.
00:33:22.000What are you going to do with the batteries?
00:33:25.000All these electric car batteries, where are you going to put them?
00:33:28.000Because they're really bad for the earth.
00:34:06.000I 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.
00:34:27.000Well, 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.
00:34:43.000So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.
00:34:48.000And 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.
00:34:57.000So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia.
00:35:03.000And I think that's very inappropriate.
00:35:05.000I 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.
00:35:13.000And 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?
00:35:25.000Of course, they were silent and leaked on him, and they didn't like those kind of questions.
00:35:29.000It feels good to say you're for the environment.
00:35:32.000It feels good to want to go put solar panels and wind farms everywhere.
00:35:37.000But 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?
00:35:46.000The civilization that channels and uses energy the best and most efficiently wins.
00:35:52.000And we're currently doing a pretty poor job of that.
00:35:55.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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