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Brad Meltzer is on the show to talk about the latest in the solar energy emergency, and all the new gun laws being passed across the country. We also have an update on the current emergency going on, and a look at the upcoming primary election in California.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today, we talk to Brad Meltzer, who is on the program. We also have
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an update on the current emergency going on. And you might say, well, which one of the 27
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Biden emergencies are you talking about? Well, none of them. I'm talking about, of course,
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the emergency in the solar energy realm that is justifying all sorts of executive action.
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We'll get into that today as well. And all of the new gun laws being passed around the country
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Los Angeles, San Francisco, and California. We are going to know a lot about the direction
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of our country by this time tomorrow, depending on what the left does in California. Their primary
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is today. And it looks pretty grim for Democrats. Now, the Democrats are throwing around a poll right
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now that shows some interesting things about Kamala Harris. I'll get to that here in a second. But I
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want to also show you the poll numbers just to show you the direction of America. The support for late
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term abortion is 15% in the country. 63% say our country is on the wrong track. Only 16% of America
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thinks that we will avoid a recession. 62% think Biden is unfit. 74% want a balanced budget. 68% want a
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keystone pipeline restored. 67% want Biden to be more moderate. 73% want drilling and gas open. 61% think
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more spending will increase inflation. 69% of the people think fetus is viable at or before 16 weeks.
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77% thinks that the SCOTUS leak was only to subvert the ruling. 82% want tougher prosecution and
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sentencing to solve crime. 65% say we need enforcement, not new gun laws. And 53% think Biden
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uses violence for political advantage. Now think of that. You think that America doesn't get it. She's
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waking up. Those numbers are astonishing. Now the Mark Penn poll that comes out shows that
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Kamala Harris is slightly beating DeSantis. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And I'm sure that is that's good.
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Just, you know, questioning average Americans. I think Kamala Harris is somebody that everybody can get
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behind. So let's look at what California's, uh, Californians have to decide. They're holding their
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primary elections today. Um, and, uh, some high profile incumbents are up for reelection.
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52 house races, um, a senator running in two separate races and a competitive showdown for Los
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Angeles mayor. The guy who looks like, do you know anything about him, Stu? The guy that looks like
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he may win, uh, just became a Democrat. He's a lifelong Republican, I guess. Uh, and he is now,
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uh, uh, uh, running to take over, uh, the mayoral, um, office in Los Angeles. Um, he's a major real
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estate developer. He just recently joined the Democratic Party, received a rare endorsement from,
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uh, Elon Musk, has spent more than $34 million on his campaign. That's 10 times more than his main
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opponent. Uh, his opponent is a six-term Democrat, Karen Bass. And, uh, he has tapped in to the idea
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that Democrat, Democratic leaders have taken California and pushed it into the ocean.
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That would be remarkable if he would win, uh, in the primary today. Yeah. Elon Musk kind of throwing
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his weight behind him was a big, uh, got a lot of attention there. Although Karen Bass was one of
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the people, if you remember, discussed as one of the potential vice presidential picks, uh, when Joe
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Biden limited the field to only one of the two genders and one skin color. And when he did that,
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he decided to, uh, Karen Bass was one of the finalists, but no one really knew kind of who she
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was. And, uh, but she's turned that sort of increased notoriety into this run, which may be
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successful. I mean, you'd think Los Angeles would pick the most crazy progressive option possible, but
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they've had to deal with the results of these policies for a very long time. And I think
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someone who, who's on the Democratic side is still a D on the ballot, but is endorsed by someone like
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Elon Musk might be something they're interested in and changing it up a little bit. So it's what we
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talked about with Michael Schellenberger yesterday, who's running as an independent,
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you know, someone who is different and, and maybe could change the dynamics of the state in a way that
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I think people in California would really like. I have to tell you, I think that there is, um,
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there tomorrow at this time, we could see a very different, uh, look at what is coming.
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I mean, we think it's going to be good for Republicans. If this happens in California,
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because there's another story coming out of San Francisco, uh, and, uh, it, it looks like,
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uh, the prosecutor is going to be thrown out. Now, this is, this is somebody whose parents were
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members of the weather underground. Uh, they were in prison during his childhood. Uh, he went to Yale,
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earned a road scholarship and, uh, then became a, um, uh, DA with the help of George Soros,
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embraced black lives matter, called for a new approaching to policing. And that's why you have,
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the reign of criminals, uh, there in, uh, in San Francisco. So now, and remember, this is,
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this is where, uh, you know, Kamala Harris was the DA in now, and now it looks like, uh, there is a
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real chance that he goes night, night in California, another shockwave, another shockwave.
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Uh, some of the others that are happening around the country. Do you have any of them? I know in
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Iowa, uh, there's a couple of, a couple of shockwaves, um, in, uh, Montana. Um, a second congressional
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seat that has just been gained loud in the latest redistricting. Um, Ryan, is it Zinke who served as the
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Interior Secretary under, uh, President Trump is expected to win the GOP nomination as the
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Republican leading district? That's really good.
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Yeah, there's a, there's a bunch. I think there's 16 primaries today, 16 states, uh, or 16, um,
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sorry, I'm reading the wrong headline there. Let's see. We've got New Jersey. You got, uh,
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flipping through here. Uh, Mississippi is today. South Dakota is today. Iowa is today. New Mexico
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is today. Montana is today. So you got, I don't know, six or seven states there. Um, a bunch of
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races, uh, that are, you know, there's, I don't think there's anything like headline grabbing like
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there was in Pennsylvania and Georgia. Those are the states that were kind of big news. We, I don't know
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if we did, I think we did mention yesterday, Dr. Oz did officially win that, uh, McCormick, um,
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conceded that race. Yeah. So he will be going up, uh, uh, uh, against, uh, you know, Fetterman in that,
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uh, primary in Pennsylvania. Um, but I mean, you know, it's like, we're getting into this. This is,
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you watch the way the left is acting right now. And that tells you exactly how well they think this
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is going to go. And they do not, they see what I think we all see, which is a potential potential
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for a historic wave election. This is it. I mean, this is a, there is a real opportunity here. Rarely
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do you see a president after only two years fall to the depths of 34% approval rating. This is being
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handed to Republicans on a silver platter. It's just a matter of if they knock it over or not.
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So here is the problem, uh, that I see Stu is, I don't know if you saw the, um, executive order
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that went out. The emergency powers was used now, uh, for this climate emergency, which hasn't
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officially been declared, but that was the, that was last week's episode on the Wednesday night special
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that they are going to declare a climate emergency, which will give the, the president all kinds of
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unlimited power. Uh, and, uh, yesterday, did you see that he enacted the defense production act?
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Yeah. On solar panels. Was it? Uh, so he says we're having an energy crisis and a global warming
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crisis, and we've got to get the solar panels, uh, done. Now it surprisingly, and I'm sure he didn't
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know this helps China, but, uh, he's got that one done for us. And now it's in a fascistic sort of way.
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The government has declared, the president has declared the defense emergency act where he can
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go in and, and say, producers, you have to produce these things. I don't care what you say.
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The government is now telling you, do these things for energy. Yeah. The, uh, absolutely terrible new
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press secretary was asked about this. This is clip one, by the way, um, which, and, you know, she is
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not prepared for any of this stuff. She doesn't seem to have any idea what's coming. Everything is a
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surprise. And the only way she responds to this stuff typically is reading it. She was asked about
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this solar emergency that we were just learning about. Uh, this is yesterday. What emergency is
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the president using to invoke the defense production act? Cause historically it's been
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in the 1950s, uh, for the Korean war and during COVID it was enacted. What emergency is it? What's
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the real emergency in the solar industry for the defense production act? Um, so let me, uh, I was
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going to say first the president, you know, when he takes the defense production act is to make sure
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that he's delivering for the American people. Uh, it is an important tool that he has used a couple
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of times and it has been incredibly effective, effective. What's the emergency in the solar
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industry? Has it been used since Korea war to get to, to a place where we do have a clean
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energy arsenal. And so this is a very important part of the president's, uh, this is a very
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important part of the president's, uh, uh, agenda and getting to that clean energy, uh, uh, system
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that he's been talking about since he walked into the administration. So this is that, and this
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is a way that we feel that we can act to get moving in that way. Now, that's just not how this
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works. That's not how any of this works. You don't just come up with an agenda and start doing
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forcing companies to make the products you want. That's not how this country operates.
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You have to have an agenda. That's fascistic, right? Yes. Yes. That is fascistic. And on top,
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this is the great reset. He's just moving forward with it. Now, remember what he just said,
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what that reporter just said, the president, uh, has used this now two times in his first term,
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the last time it was used was during war in Korea. This is not something you used to and take it
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lightly. This is defense production. And he's now saying we're trying to defend ourselves against
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global warming. And this is extraordinarily dangerous. Now, just like now in theory, you have
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a president who, when you have a president that bumbles and doesn't know what he's talking about
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as much as Joe Biden, you have a press secretary that comes in and cleans it up. We saw that with
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Jen Psaki occasionally, and she was not a great press secretary by any means, but now they need to have
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people come in and clean up the words of the press secretary who had absolutely no idea, apparently,
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that you can't just use the defense production act to forward your policy agenda. That's not what
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it's for. So they did come in later and clean up and said, the emergency that justifies this is the
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drought. So in theory, what we're seeing is we have a drought in the West. And what we're going to do is
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force companies to build solar panels, which if we did it at, in a scale that no one can possibly
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imagine might shave off one tenth of a degree Celsius over the next 50 years. But that's how
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they're going to deal with the emergency drought. Unbelievable. Incredible. Wait until we have a food
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emergency, an energy emergency, the climate emergency, a monkey pox emergency. This is how you lose your
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nation to fascism. No matter what Antifa says, this is a fascistic move. This is the best of the
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Glenn Beck program. We welcome now Alex Berenson. Hello, Alex. How are you, sir? Hey, Glenn. Good to
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talk to you. Good to talk to you. Thank you for coming on. I think what you're doing here is
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extraordinarily important. Whether you agreed with the, you know, the vaccine or not, it doesn't
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matter. What's the truth on that? And is the government shutting people up in collusion with
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these drug companies? And that's what you're looking for, correct? Well, so so yeah, I mean,
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look, I'm a big believer in free speech. Um, and you know, I, I, uh, I think that used to be
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something that, you know, people on the left generally agreed about, uh, you know, and I think
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actually, you know, the ACLU famously, you know, they would, they would support neo-Nazis and they
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would defend anybody's right to speak. And, um, and, and, you know, I, that's where I stand on this.
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Okay. That people should have the right to speak even as long as they're not, as long as they're
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not saying, you know, as long as they're not telling somebody, you know, go murder, you know,
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my, you know, the president or there, there, there can be limits. Okay. But they're correct. Very
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narrow. Okay. So, so that's where I come from on this issue. And it's, and it's incredibly
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disappointing to me that my former colleagues at the New York times and other places, uh, you know,
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on the left don't seem to agree about this anymore. So yes, Twitter banned me in August of
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2021 for a, for a tweet that begins the, the, it doesn't stop infection or transmission. And I was
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writing about the vaccines. Now, I don't think anybody in the world at this point disagrees with
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that. The vaccines do not stop infection or transmission. Um, so, so, so, so I in December
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sued and said, um, you know, you violated my free speech rights and, um, you breached your contract
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with me and specifically Twitter knew who I was. And I had been in communication with a pretty senior
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executive there who for more than a year in 2020 and 2021 told me that what I was doing was okay.
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So, and suddenly in July of 2021, everything changed and it changed when in a week, when Joe Biden said
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that the social media platforms were killing people, that was his words, he said, they're killing
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people. Wow. So, so something changed to, in terms of Twitter's posture towards me in July, 2021
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and August, 2021. So, so, so in late, okay, so wait, wait, wait, when did you say, when did you say
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that it doesn't stop transmission? When did you make that tweet? In August, in August, but I had been
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in August. Okay. I would say I had been aggressively skeptical about the value of the vaccines almost
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since they were initially released. And we could, we could talk about why I felt that way, but that's
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a whole nother conversation. But by the way, I wasn't saying, Hey, the vaccines are a part of a
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depopulation campaign. I didn't talk about stuff like that. I just said, I don't think these things
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work as well as, as has been claimed. Okay. And, and because as you, as you mentioned to your
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listeners, I used to cover the pharmaceutical industry for the New York times. So I'm very
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skeptical of the way they run clinical trials. I'm very aware of the games they play, which again,
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is something that people on the left used to understand. They used to understand that these
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companies, you know, they're nobody's friend. Okay. They're, they, they, they may sometimes make
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good products, but they're in it for the money. Can I, can I ask you a question? How shocking is it
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that you and I, me and you agree on freedom of speech, that you have the right to question
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anything? Uh, and that we would agree that it's not part of a depopulation plan, et cetera, et cetera.
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But pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical companies should always be questioned. They're very dangerous
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if they're not questioned. That's, that's right. And, and, you know, I mean, everything from the price
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of insulin to the price of EpiPens. I mean, these companies don't act in the public interest. They
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act in their own interests and, you know, that's kind of what a capitalist system is, but we need
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to know that and question it. So, so I had been questioning the vaccines with Twitter's full knowledge
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and, and essentially approval for, for months and months. And then in July, 2021, everything changed.
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And, and, and these companies at that time, uh, Twitter and Facebook, especially were under
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tremendous pressure from the federal government about vaccines and vaccine uptake. So I sued in
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December and in, in April, uh, about a month, uh, just over a month ago, the, a federal judge in,
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uh, California, um, and he's not a Trump judge. He's a Clinton judge, by the way, uh, said that some of
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my claims could go forward and that Twitter was going to have to provide information to me about
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what they'd been saying about me, but also about what other people, including in the federal
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government, including drug companies, including everywhere had been saying about me. And so I'm
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going to get a look at how this censorship process works. And that is unique. I mean, even the Trump
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lawsuit was dismissed. These lawsuits are almost always dismissed. And so what, whatever it is,
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and I don't know what they have in there. I'll find out. That's why it's called discovery.
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Um, and maybe, you know, maybe nobody said anything to them. We will find out, but I'm in a unique
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position here and I'm pretty excited about it. Um, you know, from the point of view of being a reporter
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and from the point of view of, you know, being able to tell other people about this. So I, so I have
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the lawsuit and I'm raising money right now with this, with a go fund me campaign because it is
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expensive, but I'm not going to run out of money. People have donated a lot of money to this.
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How can, if people want to join you on this fight, how can they donate money?
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Uh, they can go to go fund me, put in my name, which is Berenson B E R E N S O N. Uh, and,
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and it should come up. It says fight social media censorship. That's the name of the campaign
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fight, social media censorship. So I know people don't like, do you think Alex yours? Sorry.
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Right. I know. I know. I know. Um, Alex, why do you think that this, it did go for a forward
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where Trump's didn't, et cetera, et cetera. Why do you think the judge singled yours, your case out?
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Um, I think, I think he looked at the facts and he said, uh, you know, this guy was in
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communication with Twitter for more than a year and he was writing all this stuff. But in 2020,
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before the vaccines came out, well, you know, I sort of first came to people's attention
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because I was saying things like, look, the school should not be closed. Kids are not at risk.
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And, you know, the teachers unions hated that Trump got in trouble for that. And that's now
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accepted wisdom. Okay. I was, I was pretty early on that. And I was arguing, Hey, we don't have very
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good evidence that masks work. They don't really seem to work very well. This is mainly theater.
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You know, I would say that's largely accepted wisdom now. So, so I was prominently questioning
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all of the non-vaccine stuff. And I have, again, I have these communications with Twitter
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showing that they knew what I was doing. And, and I would say they were even encouraging me to do it.
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So because of the facts pattern that I have, where things changed dramatically in 20, in July of 2021,
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I think we got a judge who was willing to look at the facts and say, this guy's got a real case here.
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He's got a real case that Twitter violated its own contract with him. I'm going to let this go forward.
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Alex, can you, you know, back in the 1850s, 1860s, Abraham Lincoln had what he called the wide awake
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club. And it was for people who were wide awake about slavery, et cetera, et cetera. Why do you suppose
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so many people, and I would say on both sides are just fighting this, this political fight,
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and especially on the left right now, where you have some really fascistic things happening
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that the left has always been against. Why have so many people fallen asleep?
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You know, it's a, it's a great question. It's funny. I, Tucker Carlson, who I talked to from time to
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time, he has a theory about this. I think there may be some truth in it, which is that, you know,
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we're living, especially on the left in sort of a post-religious world, you know, a world where,
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where a lot of people don't believe in God. And so they're searching for something else to take the
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place of that faith. And so politics for some people has become that, and look, that could happen on the
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right or the left. But I think when you, when you, you know, when you don't have any sort of acquaintance
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with, with spirituality, or with God, I think it can be easier for that to happen for you. I think
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that's one reason. I also think, you know, there's now, I mean, to some extent, you know, you're an
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example of it, you know, on one side, and a place like MSNBC is an example. On the other side, there is
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this, there are so many places where people can go just to hear their own side. And so, and that's one
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reason I really want to be back on Twitter. I think it would be important for me to be back on Twitter is
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people say, Oh, just go on truth social. And I said, I don't want to talk to people who just
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want to hear who already agree with me. I want to talk to people. Exactly right. I don't want that
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either. Right. And let them try to convince you. That's how, that's how it gets better. And that's
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what the last has forgotten there. It's important. I mean, it's, it's, uh, it's a religious idea from
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the scriptures, uh, uh, opposition in all things. There must be opposition in all things. We need
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each other. We don't, we're not successful without somebody going, wait a minute, that doesn't make
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any sense. It's that give and take that, that I honestly think what made us who we are, uh, and gave
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us the great technology and the life-saving drugs and everything else. If you're not allowed to think
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you're back in the dark ages, if you're not allowed, if you're only listening to one side,
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and I would go a step further. If you are the kind of person that if somebody makes a great case,
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you don't say, well, now, wait a minute. I never thought of it that way. Hang on.
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And it would admit that that changed your mind or it might change your mind. Then you're, you're,
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you're playing the same game that is going to get us in trouble. Yes. And by the way,
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it's not just politics. That's true of science too, right? The notion that these people don't
00:26:57.820
want to be challenged, that Fauci doesn't want to be challenged or, or the, you know,
00:27:02.020
the epidemiologist can't be challenged. It's crazy. And, and it, it, you know, it's led to a lot
00:27:08.580
of trouble the last couple of years. Science. Uh, you know, you, you were, you know, you said
00:27:14.060
that, uh, you thought that, uh, Tucker Carlson had a, uh, may have something to that point,
00:27:19.320
but that's actually Nietzsche. Uh, and he's, and he was absolutely right. When there is no God,
00:27:24.820
you will replace it with something. And I think we're replacing it with politics or politicians
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or science. Um, and we have developed a religion. You will bow to these gods and you will say nothing
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or you're a heretic and we'll burn you at the stake or drive you out of society.
00:27:44.020
Yep. Uh, you know, somebody of all the emails, I've got so many emails from so many people the
00:27:49.300
last couple of years. The one that struck me more than any other was somebody who emailed me. He said,
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you know, I thought before all this started that the two most powerful emotions were love and hate.
00:28:00.300
He said, but I was wrong. The most powerful emotion is fear. And it's true. If you scare people and,
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and the left has done, I mean, look, the right does it too, but the left has done just a tremendous
00:28:10.880
job of scaring people about COVID about Donald Trump, about, you know, about lots of stuff.
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When you scare people, they stop thinking and we can't stop thinking.
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Amen. It is great to talk to you. And I wish you the best of luck.
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Um, and again, if you, uh, if you want to help out and you, you want to donate, uh, just,
00:28:32.540
just, um, go to, um, what, what, what is the, it's go fund me. What is it again?
00:28:38.700
Go fund me, put in my last name, Berenson, it should come up. And I also have this sub stack,
00:28:43.960
which is a newsletter, which you can subscribe to for free. Um, you know, I, I, I want as many
00:28:49.020
people to subscribe as possible. Basically, uh, it's called unreported truths because that's what it is.
00:28:55.220
And you can find it on sub stack, which is a platform that, that still believes in free speech.
00:28:59.900
You might be the last place left that really believes in free speech. There's stuff from
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the left. There's stuff from the right. There's great stuff on sub stack. And I'm, and I'm proud
00:29:07.320
to be a part of it. Alex, thank you so much. Alec Berenson, his last name is spelled B E R E N S O N.
00:29:22.100
I want to talk to you about a growing fascistic movement with actual teeth attached to it. This
00:29:39.100
isn't like, Oh, he's a fascist. I will show you what they're doing. Uh, that is literally fascistic
00:29:46.940
in nature, literally, uh, by the actual dictionary definition of the word fascism. Um, let me start
00:29:55.680
with this. If we were building nuclear power plants and we were encouraging hydrogen use for our
00:30:04.480
automobiles, I would be so deep into it. It, uh, it is the answer between nuclear power, which is the
00:30:14.520
cleanest and safest form of energy the world has ever seen. Stu, can you back that up? The safest form
00:30:24.620
of energy in the history of the world? Yes, I agree with that analysis. Okay. Thank you for those
00:30:32.400
stats. Um, you just said it was the safest. He's a good guy. Yes. Yes. Glenn confirmed number one on
00:30:39.480
the list. I, I don't know what stat you want to book. Number one is because I know you're into these
00:30:45.540
things. Yeah, no, I know you're into these things and I know that you, uh, you know, that you have
00:30:50.100
looked through the history. Everybody thinks it's so dangerous, but it is not, it's not dangerous,
00:30:55.800
especially in the United States. So if we were pursuing this and opening these, uh, baby
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up and letting them run at full capacity at night and when nobody's using electricity, making hydrogen
00:31:09.460
for our cars, it would be a miracle. It would be a miracle. It would be everything we're looking for
00:31:17.600
good for the planet, safe, effective, and we could move on with our lives. We would be world leaders
00:31:26.800
again in almost everything. If we just did that, but that's not what we're doing. Instead, we are doing
00:31:34.680
solar panels and wind power. Let me tell you about solar panels. If solar panels were something that
00:31:46.080
would work, I'd be all for solar panels. I am your, this broadcast is being powered now by solar,
00:31:55.540
wind, wind, and, uh, natural gas, natural gas, only if we get into trouble and we don't have enough
00:32:05.080
power for the broadcast, but it has taken me 11 very long and expensive years to get the solar panel
00:32:15.920
system up and hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is not something the average American or the average
00:32:25.320
company can do. I'd love to have the blaze be the first green, uh, network that was all solar energy
00:32:35.400
and wind power, but it's impossible to do. It's too expensive and it's not reliable. I can't tell you
00:32:47.180
how, if you are listening to this broadcast today, you're hearing delays. And the reason why you're
00:32:54.180
hearing delays is I don't have internet. I am here, um, on an isolated kind of mountaintop,
00:33:02.400
and I don't have all of the electricity, all of everything coming in. I have to create everything
00:33:09.160
myself. So we're having to use all kinds of different technology. And let me tell you,
00:33:14.900
when you come off the grid, when you start to do things differently, you almost have to reinvent
00:33:23.160
everything. Right now, uh, my farm, we bought our diesel fuel for our tractors. We spent filling
00:33:34.140
that tank up that underground tank. We've, we spent, uh, as much money filling it up once this spring,
00:33:43.960
as we spend filling it up all summer long into the fall last year. This cannot last, but is Biden
00:33:58.380
doing anything about it? No. Instead, what he is doing is fascistic. Yesterday, he invoked the defense
00:34:05.980
production act, not for oil, not for diesel, not for anything, but for solar panels. Do you know how
00:34:17.580
long and how much money it will take to get solar panels, enough of them into play to defray any of
00:34:28.680
your costs for heating? By the way, if you live in Seattle, fat chance, good luck to you. You live
00:34:37.120
where it's cloudy and snowy. Good luck. I have these gigantic solar panels to be able to put this
00:34:46.460
broadcast in my house, uh, online and you still have to change all the light bulbs. You have to change,
00:34:51.780
uh, everything. It is literally, I'm my, I'm my grandfather. You don't need that light. Why do you
00:34:57.720
have that light on? Grandpa? It's, I mean, it's really not costing us. Put the light off. I've become
00:35:04.320
that guy because you just run out in the winter. You have to go out and you have to scrape all of
00:35:10.360
the ice and the snow off of your solar panel. This is not something America is prepared to do,
00:35:18.020
but because we have a global warming crisis and a power crisis that is growing,
00:35:26.900
yesterday, Biden invoked something for the second time in his term that hasn't been used since the
00:35:36.660
Korean war. It is the defense production act. And here's what it does. It allows the president to
00:35:45.520
have emergency powers to tell companies exactly what they can and cannot do. That is the definition
00:36:09.820
Is this what we want? A guy who has destroyed everything he has touched now running our companies
00:36:19.980
and our businesses and telling us what we can and cannot produce. That's what he did yesterday.
00:36:29.740
He also did something else. He waived all of the solar tariffs yesterday. This is a massive win for China.
00:36:40.140
China makes all of the most of the solar panels. Okay. They do most of the technology. Why?
00:36:50.020
Because no matter what anybody tells you, solar energy is very dirty for the earth. You can't really
00:36:58.820
make them here in America because the EPA would lose their mind. But in China, you can do whatever you
00:37:07.300
want. So now they have not only most of all of the minerals that are needed to make these solar panels.
00:37:15.340
They can make them with slaves and they can make them in hell holes that doesn't they don't care about the
00:37:22.400
environment at all. But we had some really bad tariffs against these solar panels. And so now we have to get rid of
00:37:34.300
those. So now the Chinese have us by the, you know, what on solar panels, Russia has us by the same things
00:37:49.500
now on, on energy, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, um, and Russia have all of the control of the oil. And are they
00:38:02.040
helping us? Of course not. Of course not. Meanwhile, we leave all of our resources, all of our minerals,
00:38:11.820
all of our companies, all of the brains that we have, all of the brawn that we have,
00:38:17.280
all of the oil and natural gas resources in the ground.
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America, is America, is this who we want to become? By the way, this is not the only emergency.
00:38:33.260
I'm telling you, I will be shocked if by the end of the year, we don't hear coming out of the
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president's mouth, a declaration of a, of a national global warming emergency that will give him all
00:38:50.120
kinds of power. They are already setting it up. That's what they're using here for this directive,
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We're going to have a food emergency by the end of the year as well. I don't know if you've been
00:39:11.160
following this, but please do. We're about now eight weeks away from knowing for sure what's going to
00:39:18.580
happen. Uh, yesterday we had, um, Russia bomb one of the ports where a lot of the Ukrainian wheat
00:39:29.980
leaves. NATO, the United Nations, and we have even hinted that if they block the Russian wheat,
00:39:40.440
steal, uh, sorry, the Ukrainian wheat, steal the Ukrainian wheat, destroy the Ukrainian wheat,
00:39:45.600
or stop, uh, boats from picking it up and shipping it to the rest of the world, that will be an act
00:39:52.340
of war. Well, we are 12 weeks away from that. Sorry, eight weeks now. And the former NATO chief
00:40:01.480
yesterday said, you are going to see another front open in the Ukrainian conflict. It will
00:40:08.680
include escorting grain tankers in and out of Odessa. He said, I think that will be taken by
00:40:17.980
the United Nations, by NATO and the United States and our allies, but it will be a new front in the
00:40:24.720
war that will emerge over the next few weeks. When that happens, anything that goes wrong with that
00:40:33.640
wheat, if Russia doesn't let it out of Ukraine, if we lose a ship of that wheat, wheat prices will go
00:40:44.340
through the roof and starvation will happen in Africa. What happens to our military when all of Africa
00:40:54.720
is on fire because they're starving to death? Why is our government taking on diesel right now and
00:41:04.360
saying, no, we got to get away from this petroleum stuff. Why are they doing it when starvation is
00:41:11.520
around the corner because of war? We cannot as Americans stand by while the world starves and we
00:41:21.860
have the ability to do something about it. But for the very first time, we have seen now Germany
00:41:28.680
send an airlift of baby food to Texas this week. And you're about to see the most charitable,
00:41:39.100
the most giving, the most powerful nation on the planet not have the ability to help feed starving
00:41:46.960
people all around the world. And I love the fact that the Biden administration is saying,
00:41:52.920
this is not going to affect the United States and, and, you know, the, the hunger here in the United
00:42:00.480
States. Are you out of your mind? We're not going to be starving here in the United States. But if you
00:42:06.660
think that a third of the world could be starving to death, and we're going to be paying normal,
00:42:12.860
even half rational prices for food, you're crazy. Oh, and by the way, it won't just be Africa. It will
00:42:23.540
also be Central America. It'll be parts of Mexico and South America. So don't worry about any problems
00:42:35.260
on our border. This is what's coming. And it's coming this fall. Please, America prepare.