The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Leftists pretend to care about Big Government after Danielle Smith makes a good ban.

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, I absolutely hate concern trolling, and I want to show you a very obnoxious example of it

00:00:07.420 that I just saw a bit ago on X. There's this post between Maxwell Fawcett and The Breakdown

00:00:14.160 whining about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith banning solar and wind energy installations

00:00:20.720 on prime agricultural land, and they're saying that this is the nanny state. This is taking away

00:00:27.760 choice from farmers. Not really, because the only reason that farmers are choosing to actually turn

00:00:34.380 their land into solar and wind installations is because of massive subsidization over time.

00:00:40.900 Do you think farmers are doing this because they prefer not to farm, or is it because the government

00:00:46.880 pays massive subsidies and higher energy costs to people who end up providing solar and wind energy,

00:00:53.840 even if it is very inefficient? It is not efficient energy, but people will take money if you offer it

00:01:00.620 to them. This is why people in Iowa end up turning corn into ethanol. It's because the government

00:01:07.140 subsidizes it. So in the midst of Maxwell and The Breakdown, who's Nate Pike, complaining about this,

00:01:14.960 acting like they really care about freedom and they don't like big government, they love big government.

00:01:20.080 Both of them are left-wing. Maxwell Fawcett is borderline a socialist, and these people are

00:01:26.480 saying, oh, why is big bad Danielle Smith trying to prevent farmers from making their own choices?

00:01:31.720 I'm sorry, but Danielle Smith is obviously not trying to take away choices from farmers.

00:01:37.000 She's trying to counteract the effects of subsidization that is ruining agricultural land

00:01:43.420 in favor of inefficient energy sources. So no, this is not the gotcha that you think it is,

00:01:49.680 guys.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 15, 2025