Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Canada Folds, Stocks Surge, and America is Winning. Interview with Daniel Turner | Triggered Ep254

00:06:30.000 Capitol Hill surrounding the one big beautiful bill, the BBB.

00:06:34.000 And at the center of it is energy policy and making America energy dominant again.

00:06:40.000 So today we'll get into all of that with power, all that is power, with the future founder, Daniel Turner.

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00:08:24.000 And now guys, let's get into all of the top headlines.

00:08:29.000 Now today, the Senate is having a marathon session to pass the one big beautiful bill by the White House's end of week deadline.

00:08:38.000 Now for the most part guys, Republicans are on the same page, but rhino swamp creatures like Tom Tillis are bitter and he wants to create as many headaches as possible before he retires.

00:08:51.000 He said on Sunday that he's not running for re-election again, so I guess they're doing the usual, let's pretend to be conservative a little bit, but make sure we can get the conservative commentating role at CNN or MSDNC or the lobbyist gigs to be the fake conservative.

00:09:06.000 You know the drill.

00:09:07.000 We've seen this too many times.

00:09:09.000 Tillis is apparently working to keep Biden IRA subsidies.

00:09:13.000 He's aligning with Green New scam lobbyists and apparently doesn't want tax cuts for the middle class.

00:09:20.000 He apparently wants to keep taxing tips and increased overtime pay for American workers.

00:09:26.000 He wants to keep taxing all of that, I guess.

00:09:28.000 And for all the talk about Medicaid cuts, as it turns out, the media and the swamp was lying to you once again.

00:09:38.000 The so-called cuts are for illegal immigrants and other reforms that relate to work requirement.

00:09:46.000 Meaning, if you're able-bodied and healthy, you need to work.

00:09:49.000 I mean, not exactly rocket science.

00:09:51.000 Check out these facts versus fiction, because this is not what the media is telling you.

00:09:56.000 The Medicaid cuts, yeah, guess what?

00:09:58.000 I imagine anyone who has Medicaid is fine with Medicaid cuts if those cuts are only cutting the Medicaid of illegals who've never paid into the system. 0.99

00:10:07.000 Check this out.

00:10:08.000 What do you tell the nearly 12 million people that are on the brink of losing access to Medicaid?

00:10:14.000 Well, again, that's not right.

00:10:16.000 1.4 million are illegal aliens.

00:10:20.000 Then a huge percent of that are the able-bodied working people who will need to go back to work.

00:10:30.000 So we're going to have a work requirement and we'll go from there.

00:10:35.000 We're just going back to the levels pre-COVID.

00:10:39.000 So if you haven't figured it out by now, my father means what he says and he says what he means.

00:10:46.000 And if you try to call out his bluff, it won't end well.

00:10:50.000 Just ask Tom Tillis.

00:10:52.000 Or Canada.

00:10:54.000 Because Canada now says they're rescinding their digital services tax on American tech firms after my father said he was pausing the trade talks.

00:11:04.000 Now, guys, the tax is off the table and trade talks will resume in July.

00:11:11.000 See how easy that is, guys?

00:11:12.000 See how that works?

00:11:14.000 It's almost like if you have strength and you show strength and you make your position clear, you can actually work to benefit the American people and American enterprise.

00:11:26.000 It's amazing.

00:11:28.000 It's amazing.

00:11:29.000 We had the weight of the American economy.

00:11:31.000 We have all of that might and no one ever thought to maybe, I don't know, use it until Trump.

00:11:37.000 In just the last week, the stock market surged to new record highs.

00:11:42.000 We've got a NATO spending deal.

00:11:45.000 Finally, other people will start paying their fair share.

00:11:48.000 Another thing that seems sort of like common sense, but no one ever fought for it.

00:11:52.000 Major rulings from the Supreme Court on nationwide injunctions, and so much more.

00:11:57.000 It's been a great week for all the patriots eager to see this country thrive again.

00:12:03.000 But don't take my word for it.

00:12:05.000 Here's CNN.

00:12:08.000 Yes, you heard that right.

00:12:10.000 CNN with a Chiron, with a banner.

00:12:13.000 Trump on a roll.

00:12:16.000 I'm actually shocked myself.

00:12:18.000 Can't believe it.

00:12:19.000 That Trump's opponents used to lampoon him in his first administration.

00:12:23.000 He was a political novice then, surrounded by a team with which he was unfamiliar, and he was probably as surprised as the rest of us were that he won the election.

00:12:32.000 This time is different.

00:12:33.000 This time he came with a plan and a cabinet with senior advisors comprised of loyalists all well known to the president.

00:12:40.000 And recently he's exhibited a more layered approach to governing on both the domestic and international front, no longer solely guided by winning each day's news cycle.

00:12:49.000 By any objective measure, President Trump has his opponents on the run.

00:12:56.000 You know you're doing well, guys, when even CNN is giving you credit.

00:13:00.000 You're probably doing a lot better than well.

00:13:02.000 Now, Democrats have a little different take on all the success the country is seeing.

00:13:06.000 For example, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Madani has decided that billionaires shouldn't even exist and we should get rid of capitalism.

00:13:17.000 But again, don't take my word for it.

00:13:20.000 Here he is on NBC News.

00:13:22.000 You are a self-described democratic socialist.

00:13:26.000 Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?

00:13:29.000 I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality and ultimately what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country and I I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.

00:13:49.000 But guys, he doesn't stop there.

00:13:52.000 His own campaign policy platform explicitly calls for taxing white neighborhoods more.

00:14:00.000 Huh?

00:14:01.000 Sounds racist.

00:14:02.000 He wants to explicitly tax white neighborhoods more.

00:14:06.000 He wants to, quote, shift the tax burden to more expensive home in richer and whiter neighborhoods.

00:14:14.000 His words, not mine.

00:14:16.000 This is, of course, illegal racial discrimination.

00:14:20.000 But this is where the Democrat Party stands.

00:14:23.000 This is what they believe.

00:14:25.000 This is who they are.

00:14:28.000 Now, in response to this insanity, DOJ Civil Rights Division lawyer Harmy Dillon said in a statement, and I quote, racial discrimination is illegal in the United States, period.

00:14:41.000 I thought we all knew that, but apparently Zohron does not.

00:14:45.000 But according to Zohron, we're all just misunderstanding what he said.

00:14:49.000 Even if it's verbatim quotes, I guess they mean something in whatever magical dialect he is speaking.

00:14:56.000 It's not about race.

00:14:57.000 It's about equity.

00:14:59.000 Here we go again, guys.

00:15:01.000 Equity.

00:15:01.000 Remember, equity is not equality.

00:15:05.000 Okay?

00:15:06.000 Everyone wants equal opportunity.

00:15:08.000 Equity is equality of results, where they level it up. 0.99

00:15:12.000 So someone who works hard, breaks their ass, ends up with the same as someone who does jack crap. 0.99

00:15:18.000 Okay? 1.00

00:15:18.000 And that's what equity has been defined basically by the Democrat Party for years. 1.00

00:15:22.000 So it's not about race, guys.

00:15:24.000 It's about equity.

00:15:25.000 I don't believe it.

00:15:27.000 Here's what else he told MSDNC this week.

00:15:30.000 Excited to share that with each and every New Yorker.

00:15:32.000 You've talked a lot about inclusivity and trying to keep expanding this coalition.

00:15:36.000 I wanted to ask about one of your policies that has raised a little bit of eyebrows'cause it's the language that's used.

00:15:40.000 It's mentioned in a memo that is on your website about New York homeowners.

00:15:43.000 You've said that you've wanted to shift the tax burden from quote, overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and white neighborhoods.

00:15:52.000 Can you clarify that?

00:15:54.000 Why did you feel the need to use that language?

00:15:56.000 Because some people, whether it's the accurate description of the pure demographics or not, it has been used by people in the media, which you've seen the New York Post headlines and others, to sow and foment divisions in this city.

00:16:12.000 Why did you feel the need to use that language?

00:16:15.000 It was more of a description of the neighborhoods that are currently being undertaxed as opposed to the intention of where we would tax New Yorkers.

00:16:22.000 Nothing can be worked backwards from some kind of racial goal in this city.

00:16:26.000 It has to be a system that is actually equitable.

00:16:29.000 And what we've seen time and again is that the property tax system is something that is unfair.

00:16:33.000 And it is something that even Eric Adams acknowledged when he was running in 2021, something that he promised to rectify within 100 days of becoming the mayor.

00:16:41.000 And then what he did instead was to defend it at every single juncture in court and to lose.

00:16:46.000 And the reason that he lost is because we know it's inequitable.

00:16:49.000 This is something that is a glaring example of city government's inability to meet the moment.

00:16:53.000 And the use of that language is more of a descriptor of the neighborhoods as opposed to an intention of the goal.

00:16:58.000 So another question on the tax issue.

00:17:00.000 I'm sorry, I'm a tax person.

00:17:03.000 I may not be the child.

00:17:05.000 And since we're talking about equity and woke madness, yesterday, New York City also closed out the month of June with yet another Pride March.

00:17:16.000 And in the words of my father, guys, they're not sending their best.

00:17:21.000 Here's a small sample of how it went.

00:17:48.000 Gloria, she'll nix it on the floor. 1.00

00:17:52.000 I'm so take a day, no fascist USA.

00:17:55.000 Oh, my God is our life.

00:18:01.000 Wild stuff, guys.

00:18:03.000 Wild stuff.

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00:19:21.000 Joining me now, founder of Power the Future, energy policy expert Daniel Turner.

00:19:27.000 So Daniel, great to have you back.

00:19:29.000 Really appreciate you doing this.

00:19:31.000 Yeah, it's great to be with you again.

00:19:32.000 Thanks for having me on.

00:19:33.000 So I guess first off, what's your big picture view of where we stand from an energy independence standpoint?

00:19:41.000 I mean, investment into America is up and we're on a mission to reverse the damage done by Biden.

00:19:47.000 How do you see it right now, where we stand?

00:19:50.000 I think in five and a half, six months, it's remarkable how much has happened.

00:19:55.000 And proof of that is where oil prices are relative to geopolitics.

00:20:01.000 Normally, when there's the slightest activity in the Middle East, oil prices go through the roof.

00:20:07.000 And oil prices were up.

00:20:09.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:20:09.000 We went from about $62 to $72.

00:20:13.000 But $72 a barrel is still a good $15 cheaper than the Biden average.

00:20:19.000 And the reason why markets, oil markets didn't go crazy with what's happening in the Middle East is because oil futures say, yeah, that's a lot of turmoil, but America's outlook is positive, right?

00:20:33.000 We have development coming online.

00:20:35.000 We just hit our highest ever oil and natural gas production levels.

00:20:39.000 And so oil markets see what's happening domestically and they say, yeah, that's an issue, but it's not that big of an issue.

00:20:45.000 We'll weather this storm.

00:20:47.000 And that's energy dominance in a nutshell, that the world can be on fire, but America is still safe.

00:20:54.000 I guess that makes a lot of sense.

00:20:56.000 Because I was thinking when I saw the stuff last week going on with Iran and I saw Israel take out one of the big gas bases and they were like, hey, it's 30% of gas production in the Middle East was coming from there.

00:21:06.000 And I'm like, oh boy, like I was thinking about it.

00:21:10.000 Should I just buy oil futures and figure out where this thing goes just because it was going nuts?

00:21:16.000 But yeah, it really didn't have the effect.

00:21:19.000 Now, who knows what happens in the coming weeks and whatever it may be.

00:21:22.000 But it feels like any other time in history, you'd have been at 110 oil, going up to sort of those all-time highs of 130, 140, whatever it peaked at.

00:21:34.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:21:35.000 And we're not seeing that.

00:21:36.000 And that just shows you that oil markets are confident that American production is unmatched and will just continue to increase month on month.

00:21:47.000 And that's exactly what's happened.

00:21:49.000 And, you know, I have so much residual anger from the previous administration, probably none more than you and your family does, of course.

00:21:57.000 Well, they did try to throw me in jail.

00:21:59.000 So it's like, I feel, you know what I mean?

00:22:02.000 It's a little different.

00:22:02.000 You know, they basically created enough to try to kill my father, create enough hate out there that people would try to kill him.

00:22:08.000 So, you know, yeah, I probably hold a little bit more of a chip on my shoulder than others, but I understand the overall sentiment.

00:22:15.000 Deservedly so.

00:22:17.000 But my anger is that if you're these advisors to Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State, the Energy Secretary Granholm, how do you pursue four years of policies that just made Iran that much stronger and richer? 0.87

00:22:36.000 I put on social media not long ago, at the end of the first Trump administration, Iran was producing around 500,000 barrels a day.

00:22:44.000 By the end of the Biden administration, they were up to 3.1 million.

00:22:48.000 Well, didn't we send them like $8 billion in pallets of cash?

00:22:51.000 I mean, that was actually Obama that gave them a lifeline.

00:22:54.000 Then Biden lifted the sanctions and allowed them to do this.

00:22:59.000 I mean, we literally created all of this.

00:23:05.000 I mean, we allowed this to happen.

00:23:06.000 And again, I don't want to be an interventionist in the Middle East.

00:23:11.000 I know that's happened.

00:23:12.000 I'm not for regime change.

00:23:13.000 I've seen what happens with that.

00:23:14.000 Usually doesn't ever work out well.

00:23:16.000 But we had them on the ropes during my father's first administration, and these guys gave them every lifeline they needed to create more headaches than we could have ever imagined.

00:23:25.000 Exactly.

00:23:26.000 And that's where I have a little bit of a, I see a lot of conflict of people.

00:23:32.000 They don't know what to do in this situation.

00:23:33.000 I agree with you.

00:23:34.000 I don't want boots on the ground.

00:23:35.000 I don't want regime change.

00:23:36.000 My whole life, we've been involved in wars in the Middle East.

00:23:39.000 But I also look at it from the Israeli point of view and say, what did you do to us, America?

00:23:44.000 Like for four years of Biden, what did you do to us?

00:23:47.000 Like you created this monster.

00:23:48.000 They were, as you said, on the ropes.

00:23:50.000 They were bankrupt.

00:23:52.000 And Biden gave them every lifeline, made us, again, dependent on international oil, oil from Venezuela, oil from the Middle East, oil from the Caribbean.

00:24:03.000 It's mind-boggling that for four years, they had a policy that just made the worst actors in the world phenomenally rich.

00:24:10.000 And when Iran has money, they don't build schools for girls, right? 1.00

00:24:14.000 They create bombs and fund terrorism. 0.59

00:24:17.000 And this is what the consequence is.

00:24:19.000 It's this kind of like the blinders have to be off, like big boy pants time looking at geopolitics.

00:24:26.000 And I don't understand how if you're Jake Sullivan, you live with yourself knowing that this is a turmoil you created through just deviant energy policies.

00:24:36.000 It's my opinion.

00:24:37.000 Yeah, but I mean, I think you're giving them the benefit of the doubt that they have any kind of moral compass and it's not just about whatever radical ideas.

00:24:44.000 I mean, they killed every American. 0.81

00:24:46.000 We're never going to stop fracking.

00:24:48.000 We're never going to do this.

00:24:49.000 We're never going to do that.

00:24:50.000 The second he got into office, the first executive order was killing Keystone Pipeline and all of that stuff, again, which shut down a lot of our own energy producing abilities and forced us to actually import from Venezuela, not exactly, you know, not exactly a beautiful democratic regime.

00:25:10.000 We didn't even recognize them at the time, and now we're dependent on them and Iran. 1.00

00:25:13.000 I mean, it's sort of nuts and so self-defeating, but I mean, that seems to go hand in hand with all of the other democrat policies we're seeing out there, whether that be the violence out west, whether it be the trans activism. 0.52

00:25:27.000 I mean, they'll do anything to destroy decency and morality within America.

00:25:32.000 Yeah, and this is where energy policy has to have its feet on the ground. 0.99

00:25:38.000 And we don't see that, right?

00:25:39.000 Of course, we all like to have ideals.

00:25:41.000 There's an ideal Christian, there's an ideal father, there's an ideal, there's ideals for everything.

00:25:47.000 But your energy policy can't be based on ideals.

00:25:50.000 They have to be based on reality.

00:25:51.000 And reality is when we make Iran strong, they fund terrorism, right? 0.98

00:25:56.000 When we make Venezuela strong, it destabilizes that Region of the world, and it weakens America. 0.81

00:26:02.000 And after four years of Biden, we were just poorer, weaker, more dependent on foreign countries.

00:26:09.000 So, to go back to the first part of your question, where are we?

00:26:12.000 I mean, it's only been five months, five and a half months, and it's remarkable that the president has created such a resiliency within the markets.

00:26:21.000 There's a confidence in energy markets, right?

00:26:24.000 Yes, there's geopolitics and yes, there are still permits and you're waiting for blah, blah, blah.

00:26:29.000 But the market itself is confident that we're headed in the right direction.

00:26:33.000 And that stabilization of prices ultimately means a more stable economy.

00:26:38.000 Inflation has come down.

00:26:39.000 Prices of food have come down, right?

00:26:41.000 We don't talk about eggs anymore because that has trickled down and it does trickle down.

00:26:46.000 Biden used to say, trickle-down theory, blah, blah, blah.

00:26:49.000 It does trickle down.

00:26:50.000 It really does.

00:26:50.000 And ask about egg prices.

00:26:52.000 That's trickle-down economics, reversing bad energy policy.

00:26:56.000 Yeah, no, the egg price one was interesting because I talked about it a lot.

00:26:59.000 You know, my father got sworn in on January 20th and about, you know, at 12 A. You know, 12 noon and at 12.05, you know, the Democrats go, see, egg prices still aren't down.

00:27:09.000 You know, they assume these things are instantaneous.

00:27:12.000 And now they're no longer talking about it because about two weeks later, the egg prices did actually go down.

00:27:16.000 And it's amazing what you can do with sane and rational policy.

00:27:20.000 But their sound bites just sort of disappear.

00:27:22.000 They stick with it, stick with it, stick with it.

00:27:24.000 No longer available.

00:27:25.000 We'll move on to the next soundbite, not ever acknowledging that the policies work to actually effectuate real change.

00:27:32.000 Yeah, 100%.

00:27:34.000 And this is the problem with four years of this ideological, fantastical, very, very progressive energy policy.

00:27:43.000 And a lot of it, I think, is being investigated or needs to be investigated by the DOJ, by Representative Comer and House Oversight, because it wasn't just bad policy.

00:27:53.000 A lot of it was criminal in nature, right?

00:27:55.000 I testified before Congress just a couple of weeks ago about the amount of money that these green groups appropriated or were given through grants, through the Biden EPA, through the Biden Department of Interior, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to leftist groups that have just funneled back into the Democrat machine.

00:28:15.000 There's an article just yesterday about how the DNC is almost bankrupt.

00:28:19.000 Their donors have dried up.

00:28:22.000 It's almost like when you shut down USAID, all their donors went away.

00:28:26.000 It's almost like again, I'm not saying I don't necessarily see the link, but it ain't coincidence that you shut down billions of funding to the USAID, who's working with all these leftist groups, and all of a sudden the Democrat Party fundraising apparatus is struggling to raise money because we all knew it was probably happening.

00:28:44.000 I'm not saying I even have the evidence here, but like, you know, it does seem like a causal effect that probably tells you everything you need to know about what exactly was going on.

00:28:52.000 And that U.S. taxpayer dollars were being siphoned back to the Democrat apparatus through these radical leftist organizations in government.

00:29:00.000 Yeah.

00:29:01.000 And you've traveled, obviously, the country extensively on the campaign trail and you know Americans, which I don't think the left really does.

00:29:10.000 I've always had this understanding that how do we have these big climate movements?

00:29:16.000 How do we have these big transgender movements? 1.00

00:29:19.000 I've never seen any of these people anywhere.

00:29:20.000 Like it's like, it's like, and yet they're beyond reproach.

00:29:26.000 They're like, you know, I always say with the trans movement, especially the radical trans movement, you know, again, I'm fairly, hey, if you're old and you want to do whatever you want to do, that's fine.

00:29:34.000 I don't want to hear about it.

00:29:35.000 I don't want to pay for it.

00:29:36.000 Stay the hell away from my kids. 0.86

00:29:37.000 You know, live and let live.

00:29:40.000 But they're such a small percentage of the population, and yet they hold such incredible political power.

00:29:49.000 And that doesn't happen.

00:29:50.000 There's no other group that has 0.02% of a population or whatever it is that controls that much power, that is able to instill that much political fear without there being something else going on.

00:30:04.000 And I think we know exactly what it is now.

00:30:06.000 And that's my point is this taxpayer funding that has dried up because of the Doge effort, because of just really good stewardship by people like Administrator Zeldin, by the White House itself.

00:30:19.000 You know, all these groups, their funding is drying up and you realize, oh, there really isn't a strong climate movement.

00:30:25.000 There was a lot of tax dollars going to climate groups to give the impression there's a climate movement.

00:30:30.000 The same with the trans movement. 0.59

00:30:32.000 How many articles have been written about just the No Kings protests?

00:30:34.000 And you realize it's all paid or funded by left-wing orgs that got taxpayer money.

00:30:40.000 So I don't think that's a good question.

00:30:40.000 But they were very effective.

00:30:42.000 They were very effective.

00:30:43.000 I saw the protests last weekend.

00:30:45.000 I mean, I woke up on Monday after a weekend of No Kings protests and like, we have no king.

00:30:52.000 It's actually shocking.

00:30:55.000 So it's the one of those that, you know, they were very effective at accomplishing exactly nothing, but I guess their stated purpose was to do that.

00:31:02.000 So it worked out well.

00:31:04.000 And the climate movement, you know, they have had a really bad start to the year because it's been miserably cold and wet in the Northeast where they're most active, New York, D.C. That's starting to change.

00:31:15.000 You know, it's not even a heat wave.

00:31:17.000 Summer is kicking in finally, about a month late.

00:31:20.000 And I'm excited for the climate people because they lost Greta, right?

00:31:24.000 Greta is now on Kill Israel. 0.71

00:31:25.000 And so they lost one of their big acolytes.

00:31:28.000 And, you know, it's like when you have a kid on the JV team and you watch him get really good and then he goes to varsity and then he's like, you know what?

00:31:35.000 I don't want to play anymore.

00:31:36.000 I'm going to go to join the theater.

00:31:37.000 And you're like, I invested so much in you.

00:31:39.000 They invested so much in Greta and she left their cause.

00:31:42.000 So the climate people, they finally have something to celebrate because it's hot again.

00:31:47.000 And they're going to be out now in full force.

00:31:49.000 But I know that it's fake.

00:31:51.000 I know where their money came from.

00:31:52.000 I've testified about this.

00:31:54.000 I know it's all grift.

00:31:56.000 It's all lies.

00:31:57.000 And it's all meant to move the needle on progressive issues because Congress doesn't have the will to vote for progressive issues.

00:32:03.000 So they have to create astro turf.

00:32:05.000 And I think the best thing that the administration can do right now is to continue to delegitimize these groups by drawing up their funding and exposing them for the frauds that they are.

00:32:16.000 So with that, you know, obviously a lot of the green stuff and the green energy and the wind farms and all the nonsense, you know, it's been so heavily subsidized and it's a cottage industry and a couple of people are getting rich while the American taxpayer is subsidizing it.

00:32:29.000 But I did see something interesting, a tweet from Elon last week talking about sort of the U.S. falling behind China in solar.

00:32:39.000 And again, I'm going to actually defer to Elon on pretty much anything technological because he's forgotten more about any of these topics than I would ever possibly know.

00:32:50.000 But I think on our side, we've definitely been sort of pushed that, hey, solar is this sort of, again, a green sort of decoy to push nonsense.

00:32:59.000 But this is someone who clearly understands energy and understands the importance of that for U.S., what our energy grid needs to be able to win the AI race and the supercomputing race right now.

00:33:13.000 Is there something to that?

00:33:14.000 Because I definitely agree that our side has been pushed against all of these technologies with seemingly good data.

00:33:22.000 But is the solar thing, if China's going all in on that and you see their production, he put up a chart.

00:33:26.000 Maybe we'll put it up on the screen here if we can find it.

00:33:29.000 But it does seem like it's a possibly big deal from someone who I'm going to defer to on anything technological.

00:33:37.000 Yeah, I disagree with Elon completely.

00:33:41.000 And the reason why is because any place that has really relied upon solar, it has been an abject failure.

00:33:48.000 We also hear that China is building the equivalent of a coal-fired plant every week.

00:33:53.000 They're not dependent on solar.

00:33:54.000 Now, they're manufacturing a ton of solar because Western nations like ours in the previous Biden administration are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year buying these crappy solar panels.

00:34:05.000 But China doesn't make them with solar.

00:34:07.000 They make them with coal.

00:34:08.000 They fund their economy.

00:34:10.000 They run their economy with coal.

00:34:12.000 Spain has gone all in on wind and solar until the wind stopped blowing at eight o'clock at night and their grid was offline for two days.

00:34:20.000 And now when they are looking at the after action and they say, oh, they're blaming this person and this was a small mistake.

00:34:26.000 There was no mistake.

00:34:28.000 This was absolutely inevitable because the sun is always going to set.

00:34:31.000 So I appreciate that Elon likes to think about the future.

00:34:35.000 Maybe one day solar will be there, but Elon's not going to be able to stop the sun from setting.

00:34:40.000 And that means there's going to be, or from just having a dark day.

00:34:44.000 And that means there's always going to be the need for reliable baseload energy.

00:34:48.000 And no one in the energy space considers wind and solar baseload.

00:34:52.000 They are intermittent at best.

00:34:54.000 They're very, very expensive.

00:34:56.000 What we need is energy that works regardless of the weather.

00:34:58.000 And that's natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydro.

00:35:03.000 And that's what funds and runs an economy.

00:35:05.000 China knows that.

00:35:06.000 Western Europe doesn't.

00:35:08.000 And that's why Western Europe is in absolute decline.

00:35:11.000 And we were in the previous administration until thank God the president was elected for the third time.

00:35:18.000 You see that?

00:35:19.000 Elected for the third time and got back into office and reversed these awful policies.

00:35:24.000 So, you know, we're seeing this back and forth on the Hill about the Inflation Reduction Act subsidies.

00:35:30.000 What is at issue and what's at stake?

00:35:33.000 I mean, obviously, anything that the Hill calls something, it usually has the opposite effect of what, you know, it's always a misnomer, but a convenient marketing ploy.

00:35:44.000 You know, what is going on and what's at stake there?

00:35:47.000 The Inflation Reduction Act was obviously nothing about inflation.

00:35:51.000 It was this enormous slush fund to wind and solar subsidies, to people like Stacey Abrams, so they could all apply for grants.

00:35:58.000 What's at stake, and this is where the previous administration, as evil as they were, they are clever, right?

00:36:04.000 They are clever.

00:36:06.000 They're good at marketing and not much else.

00:36:07.000 I agree with that.

00:36:08.000 Bingo.

00:36:08.000 And they knew that Republicans, just as much as Democrats, would get addicted to free cash.

00:36:15.000 It's like heroin for a politician.

00:36:17.000 And so they purposely injected hundreds of billions of dollars into Republican states and gave them money for wind farms and solar farms.

00:36:26.000 And now when that money dries up, you're going to have a Republican governor or senator who's going to get the blame and they don't want that.

00:36:33.000 So they are fighting to keep those dollars.

00:36:36.000 But how long can we keep this industry on life support?

00:36:39.000 So you see Republicans fighting to say, I can't lose my $200 million because X solar farm will shut down.

00:36:46.000 Well, ex-solar, we're suddenly done.

00:36:48.000 We're suddenly all Keynesians, right?

00:36:50.000 If the government just builds this and funds it forever, then there are jobs.

00:36:54.000 And now we say, well, we can't stop funding it because the jobs will disappear.

00:36:58.000 These are government entities that would never have survived in the free market.

00:37:02.000 They are on total government life support.

00:37:05.000 But Biden knew that Republicans would fight for that life support because they don't want the black eye of saying they cut government funding.

00:37:13.000 So Biden got Republicans addicted to heroin, taxpayer-funded heroin, and now they need their next hit and they are going to fight for it tooth and nail.

00:37:24.000 And it's the most disgusting part of Washington, D.C. We're keeping alive an industry that would fail if not for government because they want to get reelected.

00:37:34.000 And it's just, it's what you hate about D.C. Yeah.

00:37:37.000 And with $35 trillion plus dollars in debt and the interest clock on that and what that means, I mean, you do eventually hit a point of no return.

00:37:46.000 I mean, where basically your entire GDP goes to paying off the interest on what you've been borrowing to subsidize.

00:37:52.000 So, you know, it's never comfortable.

00:37:54.000 And that's the unfortunate part of our system is, you know, both sides will work to preserve themselves rather than do what's right for the American public.

00:38:02.000 And that's really scary.

00:38:04.000 Yeah.

00:38:04.000 And we do this with energy, of course, but we do this with healthcare.

00:38:07.000 We do this with education.

00:38:09.000 We do this with any time this government funding spending.

00:38:13.000 And it just keeps growing and growing.

00:38:15.000 And what we create is this total dependency on government.

00:38:19.000 You know, there are certain services that, of course, are never going to be quote unquote profitable.

00:38:24.000 And you understand that government funds it.

00:38:26.000 I would worry about a profitable military, right?

00:38:28.000 Like that's probably not a good thing.

00:38:30.000 So I understand the military is just an absolute cost, but our energy production should not be that way.

00:38:36.000 Solar panel manufacturing should not be that way.

00:38:39.000 And when Biden finally lost, I remember saying, like, there's going to be a tough moment because we're going to cut the funding to this solar panel factory in Wisconsin.

00:38:49.000 And people are going to say, look at Trump cutting those.

00:38:53.000 He said he loves energy workers, but the government can't fund forever a solar panel manufacturing company.

00:39:00.000 It can't.

00:39:01.000 So we have to cut it off.

00:39:03.000 But there's a political risk there.

00:39:06.000 And if you're the senator from that area, you're not going to allow that political risk because now you're not going to win re-election.

00:39:13.000 And again, it's what you hate about government.

00:39:17.000 They create these systems so that they are in perpetuity dependent on government.

00:39:22.000 And we never have progress.

00:39:24.000 We never have growth in those markets.

00:39:27.000 We never cut spending.

00:39:29.000 It's going to be very, very difficult to cut these subsidies.

00:39:32.000 But God, I hope they do it.

00:39:34.000 The president wanted to in his first proposal.

00:39:36.000 It's the Senate that's put them back in.

00:39:38.000 The House bill was so much better.

00:39:40.000 The Senate's putting this spending back in because they don't want the political fallout.

00:39:46.000 Interesting.

00:39:47.000 You know, Daniel, you've talked a lot about the war on coal and how it decimated American cities and towns.

00:39:53.000 How will the next four years under President Trump be our opportunity to unleash American energy and make rural America great again?

00:40:01.000 Yeah, the AI executive order that the president signed was fantastic about that because it does open up new coal plant production and new coal-fired power plants.

00:40:14.000 The steel merger, right, with Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel is huge because you can't make steel without coal, right?

00:40:20.000 You can't make cement without coal.

00:40:22.000 You can't make a lot of things without coal.

00:40:24.000 So this idea that we can live without coal is just so naive.

00:40:28.000 And so people don't realize it's not just the energy you produce, but the byproducts of burning coal, the ash, the potash, all of these things.

00:40:36.000 I mean, one of the biggest things in concrete, et cetera, et cetera.

00:40:40.000 So it's not even just, hey, is there a better way of getting energy?

00:40:44.000 You still actually have to do these things to be able to get all of the materials that you need to have a thriving economy, infrastructure, construction, et cetera, et cetera.

00:40:55.000 Yeah.

00:40:55.000 And that's why you look at studies, for example, the amount of coal needed to create the infrastructure to make something like a solar panel, to create the steel for the machinery to mine the rare earth elements and metals and minerals that go into that, to create the steel that are the frames of the soil.

00:41:14.000 The amount of coal that goes into the infrastructure to create a solar panel, that solar panel will never offset in its life.

00:41:20.000 So why are we creating solar panels, right?

00:41:22.000 And that's why coal is so important.

00:41:24.000 It's the grandfather of all energy.

00:41:26.000 And until we know how to make these products without coal, well, then why would we stop using coal at all?

00:41:33.000 We're just, you know, we're wasting a lot of resources to create a product that is never going to be offset in the lifespan of that product.

00:41:42.000 So the president's put forward just common sense, you know, situations, solutions that will bring, that will revitalize a lot of coal.

00:41:51.000 Yeah, and what's good about it as well, because I do care about politics and electing the right people, what's good about it is that it will take a state like Pennsylvania and never make it in question again, because Pennsylvanians will wake up and say, yeah, why have we been electing these people who despise us, who despise steel, despise coal, despise natural gas?

00:42:12.000 How the hell is this guy our senator?

00:42:13.000 How is he our governor?

00:42:15.000 Right?

00:42:15.000 McCormick is a great step in the right direction, but Pennsylvanians and then hopefully more states will follow suit.

00:42:22.000 There are a couple of little swing states.

00:42:24.000 My great state of Virginia.

00:42:25.000 I'm in rural Virginia.

00:42:26.000 It's very red, but sadly the rest of Virginia is blue because it's DC suburbs.

00:42:31.000 I'm worried about the next governor here, but Virginians should be in the same situation.

00:42:36.000 How are we going to elect someone who despises our industry, whether it's ag or coal?

00:42:41.000 We have coal in Virginia.

00:42:43.000 We have natural gas in Virginia.

00:42:45.000 I'm hoping that the president's policies will, again, trickle down this understanding to more base Americans to say, I want to elect the guy who respects me and my job.

00:42:55.000 And we are enough to outnumber them.

00:42:58.000 At the same time, you have this effort to cut off these lefty groups' funding, we're headed in a great direction.

00:43:04.000 So I agree with you, but I also feel like that should have happened 10 years ago.

00:43:08.000 This is not a new war on these jobs, on rural Americans, on blue-collar workers.

00:43:14.000 I mean, that's been going on forever.

00:43:15.000 I mean, you know, learn to code, guys.

00:43:16.000 No, ironically, AI is going to make all the journeymen, white-collar journalists and lawyers.

00:43:23.000 I mean, they're the ones that are actually going to be, they're going to have to learn how to weld.

00:43:28.000 But it's been going on for so long.

00:43:31.000 The attack has been very real, and yet it still hasn't necessarily gotten to those people yet.

00:43:38.000 How do we help effectuate that change?

00:43:40.000 How do we help make them understand that this is a real threat and there are sort of unintended consequences beyond the soundbites?

00:43:48.000 I hate to add more to the Trump family's plate.

00:43:51.000 Keep doing the rallies.

00:43:54.000 It is the best way to hit.

00:43:55.000 And that's why the president's success is so big, because he went to places that not everyone went to and people went and they brought their friends and it turned into a party and people said, I love this.

00:44:07.000 It was like going to it.

00:44:07.000 And I've been to so many, not as many as you.

00:44:10.000 And it was like going to a tailgate and, but your team didn't, you know, as a Notre Dame fan, every tailgate, you know, we're going to lose, right?

00:44:17.000 So it was like going to a tailgate, but you know, you were going to win in the end.

00:44:21.000 And that, go to rural America, send the vice president to more and more rallies and talk to folks.

00:44:27.000 And folks come and they bring their friends and they bring their neighbors.

00:44:30.000 And suddenly you get voters who haven't voted before because there's someone who's talking our language.

00:44:36.000 I think that is the most important.

00:44:38.000 Get the hell out of DC.

00:44:40.000 I keep hearing criticism like, you believe Secretary X is still traveling?

00:44:44.000 Good.

00:44:45.000 He shouldn't be in the office.

00:44:46.000 If you're the secretary of any cabinet, you don't need to sit behind a desk.

00:44:50.000 You have teams of people who execute desk decisions.

00:44:53.000 You should be out.

00:44:54.000 Talk to people.

00:44:55.000 Be out.

00:44:56.000 And when I see Doug Bergum in Alaska, when I see Chris Wright in Texas, that is how we win this.

00:45:03.000 We constantly are out talking to people.

00:45:05.000 The president's social media team is brilliant at that.

00:45:09.000 That's how we win them.

00:45:10.000 Talk to people because people have felt like they've been ignored for so, so long.

00:45:15.000 They have, unfortunately.

00:45:17.000 So, Daniel, I also saw the Department of Energy is scrapping climate mandates on appliances like dishwashers and stoves.

00:45:23.000 What were the mandates and how much harder did it make it even just to do your laundry at this point.

00:45:32.000 Yeah.

00:45:32.000 I mean, to go back in time to even a Seinfeld episode about the low-flow shower heads, right?

00:45:38.000 We've been talking about government policies that will save you energy.

00:45:42.000 And the experts agree that if we all get these new light bulbs, the average household will save 400.

00:45:48.000 When have we ever seen those savings mount, right?

00:45:51.000 Oh, by the way, I've seen it with some of these fluorescent bulbs.

00:45:53.000 I go to my cab, I go to some of my rooms, and I turn on the lights, and it's like, I got to still break out like the iPhone flashlight just to be able to see in these, it's insane.

00:46:02.000 And I'm like, you couldn't get an incandescent bulb for, you know, we create solutions that aren't solutions.

00:46:10.000 They're actually failures.

00:46:11.000 And you end up having to spend more and you turn on five other lights just to be able to light a room at this point.

00:46:15.000 It's nuts.

00:46:16.000 It is.

00:46:16.000 And we do this to every appliance, whether it's washing machines and dishwashers and furnaces.

00:46:22.000 You know, as we're talking, I am ripping out my entire HVAC system because the type of coolant I have, Biden made illegal.

00:46:30.000 And now it's no longer in stock.

00:46:32.000 And even though it is only a 15-year-old system, they were like, yeah, we had a leak, lost all the coolant, new system. 0.65

00:46:40.000 I am $17,000 poorer in about two hours when I write the damn check because of the Biden administration, because this is what it means when the EPA makes decisions.

00:46:50.000 Like, we have decided this is no longer legal and you have to suffer the consequences. 0.97

00:46:55.000 And when we do this with appliances, we do this with cars and tailpipe emissions.

00:46:59.000 All we do is we burden manufacturing, we burden salespeople with new rules.

00:47:07.000 These rules don't increase the economy. 0.92

00:47:09.000 They don't make life better.

00:47:10.000 They just cost and they cost. 0.99

00:47:13.000 And so getting rid of all of these stupid regulations, whether it was what your tailpipe emissions should be by the year 2050 or how much water you're allowed to use per gallon. 0.99

00:47:24.000 We don't have a water crisis in America. 0.99

00:47:26.000 And suddenly we have to create dishwashers that don't work.

00:47:30.000 How many times have you put your hand in a dryer and things are damp, but your smart dryer tells you, nope, it's dry.

00:47:36.000 And like, there's no override. 0.99

00:47:38.000 You keep turning the damn thing on. 0.98

00:47:39.000 It's still damp. 0.99

00:47:40.000 You turn it on, turns off.

00:47:43.000 What is this nonsense that all we're doing is using more electricity?

00:47:46.000 We're using more water because we're flushing the toilet twice.

00:47:49.000 We're using more water.

00:47:50.000 Well, I don't have to wash my hair, but you do because the low-flow shower had me.

00:47:54.000 I got to wash my hair a lot.

00:47:55.000 The amount of product it takes to keep this thing from turning me into Ronald McDonald's is actually quite impressive.

00:48:02.000 But yes, I don't want to have to subsidize my hair washing with a bucket of water that I have to fill up over the weeks and months prior to taking a shower.

00:48:09.000 It's insane.

00:48:10.000 And this is where, again, government getting in the world, getting the weeds of issues that they don't know anything about.

00:48:16.000 And they do this on energy.

00:48:18.000 They do it on appliances.

00:48:20.000 They do it across the board.

00:48:21.000 And it's just made life burdensome.

00:48:23.000 There isn't one area that we can look at at the end of the Obama years or the end of the Biden years that say life is marketably better.

00:48:31.000 Five and a half months into the second Trump administration, blue-collar workers can say, as we saw with Secretary Besent the other day in an interview, blue-collar workers have seen their largest wage increase in 50 years.

00:48:43.000 In these first five months of the Trump administration, largest wage increase.

00:48:47.000 That's a real concrete thing that if you're in that world, you can say, holy crap, like my life is that much better in such a short time because of this president.

00:48:57.000 You can't look at anything after four years of Biden.

00:48:59.000 It's all theoretical.

00:49:00.000 The climate is going to be better.

00:49:02.000 Children are going to be smart.

00:49:04.000 No, they're not.

00:49:05.000 Nothing was better.

00:49:06.000 It was just worse, expensive, harder, and more miserable for the average American.

00:49:13.000 And that's why we finally got our act together in 2024.

00:49:18.000 Yeah, no, I think, I mean, Lee Zeldon, it feels like, has been one of sort of the unsung heroes heading up the EPA.

00:49:25.000 I mean, I assume he's all over these things as it relates to the appliances and all of the other stuff.

00:49:29.000 Because, I mean, I see every day, you know, the Left's trying to kill him.

00:49:31.000 But, I mean, he's actually taking on real issues that affect real Americans each and every day.

00:49:36.000 I assume they're all over that.

00:49:37.000 And, you know, can some of these things be undone as easily as they were, you know, probably auto-penned into existence?

00:49:45.000 Yeah, and that's what's really important about this Congress, why we still have both houses getting its act together as soon as this one big, beautiful bill is codified and the president signs it.

00:49:55.000 There's real work that needs to happen.

00:49:57.000 So Lee Zeldon's allowed to undo a lot of damage that was done by the previous administrator because that's how the bureaucracies work.

00:50:05.000 But what he's not going to be able to do is prevent the next guy.

00:50:08.000 God forbid we lose in 2028.

00:50:10.000 I don't think we will.

00:50:11.000 But God forbid, who knows what the Chinese will launch on us in 2028. 1.00

00:50:16.000 Exactly.

00:50:17.000 Right.

00:50:18.000 COVID-2.0.

00:50:19.000 But if we're not going to be able to do that.

00:50:20.000 But that's not an unfounded fear.

00:50:24.000 I mean, you had Chinese nationals in the last couple of weeks getting caught bringing agroterrorism to America, bacteria that could destroy our entire crops and plants. 1.00

00:50:34.000 I mean, these are actual real threats and things that we actually have to think about.

00:50:38.000 They are.

00:50:39.000 And if we lose in 2028 and the wrong Gavin Newsom becomes president in 2029, all of Lee Zeldon's good work undoing will just put right back in place.

00:50:48.000 And we're playing ping pong.

00:50:49.000 I'd say it's worse than that.

00:50:50.000 I mean, I'd say you could actually have a serious problem at midterms where you just effectively hamstring this presidency and cut it short.

00:50:57.000 And that's 18 months from now.

00:50:59.000 What we need is the Congress to step in and codify some of these things.

00:51:03.000 So very concrete example.

00:51:04.000 What are greenhouse gases?

00:51:07.000 That's up for the administration to decide.

00:51:09.000 Some say it's methane.

00:51:10.000 Some say it's carbon.

00:51:12.000 Some say it's carbon dioxide.

00:51:14.000 What percentage of greenhouse gases?

00:51:16.000 It's up to the administrator.

00:51:18.000 If you're a Biden or an Obama administrator, that percentage gets smoke.

00:51:22.000 If you're a Zeldon administrator, you use common sense and those numbers change.

00:51:26.000 Congress can end all this nonsense right now with a Republican House and Senate and say, we will determine what a greenhouse gas is and we will determine what percentages are allowed.

00:51:37.000 And the next administrator's hands are tied.

00:51:40.000 That's the way the bureaucracies should work.

00:51:42.000 Bureaucracies should not set policy.

00:51:44.000 They should execute what the Congress wants. 0.98

00:51:47.000 But the Congress is too damn chicken weak to do that. 0.97

00:51:52.000 So they punt it and they pray the administrators do their bidding. 0.97

00:51:55.000 No congressman voted for the Green New Deal.

00:51:58.000 No senator voted for the Green New Deal, But they got Biden in and they implemented it through bureaucracy.

00:52:03.000 That can't happen anymore.

00:52:05.000 But we need Congress to act and codify across the board a lot of these rules.

00:52:11.000 So, Daniel, in the months and years ahead, what are some of the key benchmarks for energy policy?

00:52:17.000 What are the things people have to be focusing on and pushing and calling their congresspeople about?

00:52:23.000 Electricity production is absolutely essential.

00:52:26.000 I mentioned earlier the president's executive order on artificial intelligence.

00:52:31.000 AI is poised to use two or three times more electricity than we're currently producing, right?

00:52:37.000 So you see a lot of governors very excited.

00:52:39.000 We gave permission for a new data center.

00:52:42.000 That data center is going to need a boatload of electricity.

00:52:45.000 And unless we're building a modra nuclear, the president's done an executive order on that.

00:52:50.000 We're building a coal plant.

00:52:51.000 We're building a natural gas plant.

00:52:53.000 All that means is that data center in time is going to be a burden on the community.

00:52:58.000 And so what we have to do is we have to elect at the local level politicians, I mean your county commissioners, your governors who are saying, how do we produce enough electricity for our state so that we're not relying on other states?

00:53:12.000 Great example of this is when the tariff dispute first started with Canada and the premier of Ontario said, well, you know what?

00:53:19.000 We're not sending electricity to Michigan, Minnesota, New York anymore.

00:53:24.000 Most people were like, see what President Trump did?

00:53:27.000 My response was, why the hell are those three states buying electricity from Canada to begin with?

00:53:32.000 How come you're not producing enough electricity in your state to be reliant? 0.96

00:53:36.000 And if you're the governor of New York, wouldn't you stay up at night saying, holy crap, I'm the governor of New York and my state is not self-sufficient?

00:53:45.000 That's where we should be doing on energy policy.

00:53:47.000 Is your state totally reliant on just your state?

00:53:51.000 Because if we're hoping that someone else bails us out, we're in bad shape.

00:53:55.000 Yeah, so I'm a big believer, but what are your thoughts on sort of SMR technology?

00:53:59.000 For those who don't know, that small modular reactors, it's basically small reactors, nuclear reactors that can be sort of grouped together to be able to, if you have a big data center in a state, you can actually sort of power it separately off the grid, not affect anyone.

00:54:16.000 It's a technology that's advancing, but there's this sort of really bad, I guess the Democrats and others have done a really good job sort of vilifying nuclear power, even in these cases where they're making things that the enrichment levels don't get to the point where it can actually be all that dangerous, like you see from a Three Mile Island or a Fukushima or anything like that.

00:54:37.000 It's very different, and yet it still seems to get lumped in to the same things because we don't want another Chernobyl. 0.66

00:54:43.000 It's like, well, that's not even possible, but it doesn't matter.

00:54:45.000 But there's still so many obstacles for that seemingly great technology.

00:54:49.000 Yeah, there are.

00:54:50.000 And that's because the climate movement's biggest weapon is fear.

00:54:53.000 And that's why they make these apocalyptic movies about climate change, about nuclear reactors, about nuclear fallout.

00:55:01.000 They have to scare the crap out of the average American that we are always on the brink of catastrophe, of climate catastrophe, of energy catastrophe.

00:55:10.000 These small modular reactors are so easy to assemble and get online.

00:55:15.000 It's why the president is supporting them.

00:55:17.000 The big old power plants of the past take decades, right?

00:55:20.000 And the building required and the effort and the permitting.

00:55:24.000 These modular nuclear ones can get online an awful lot faster.

00:55:28.000 And I remind folks all the time to play into wonderful stereotypes that 80% of the French electricity comes from nuclear.

00:55:35.000 And if the French aren't afraid of nuclear power, right, why in the hell is any American afraid of nuclear power?

00:55:41.000 We should be having small modular reactors literally across the board.

00:55:45.000 They should be in neighborhoods.

00:55:46.000 Electricity should become so abundant that it is an afterthought in your monthly expenses.

00:55:52.000 But under Biden, electricity bills nationwide have gone up 30%, in some places more.

00:55:58.000 In New York, in the whole Northeast, that's up to 37%, right?

00:56:02.000 It should be a huge issue in my home state of New York.

00:56:05.000 I know your home state as well.

00:56:07.000 It should be a huge issue in the gubernatorial race. 0.99

00:56:09.000 Electricity prices for New Yorkers are up 40%, and the utilities are saying we're going to have to raise it even more.

00:56:15.000 Why?

00:56:16.000 Because they shut down Indian nuclear, Indian Point Nuclear.

00:56:19.000 They shut down five coal-powered plants and nothing came online.

00:56:24.000 And if you're in New York and you're thinking about these things and you think it's bad now, just understand that these utilities are also probably going to run at a loss right now to influence an election, to get another lunatic Democrat in there, and then they'll hit you once it no longer matters.

00:56:38.000 I mean, that's the other game that we forget that people are playing.

00:56:41.000 These guys will hold back, just like Biden pumped trillions into the economy to try to make it seem like the economy was artificially strong, to help Kamala Harris win, et cetera, et cetera. 0.84

00:56:50.000 If you think it's bad now, it's only going to get worse, but they're going to drag it out till those election cycles, till they can get their chosen puppets in place.

00:56:58.000 And then once it no longer matters and those people are going to be for them and do whatever it is, hey, they'll jack the price up 50, 60%.

00:57:04.000 Who cares?

00:57:04.000 We got what we wanted.

00:57:05.000 We'll deal with the problem for now.

00:57:07.000 And in four years, we'll do it again to make it seem like they made some sort of progress.

00:57:10.000 You can elect another Democrat and then we'll screw you over again the next minute. 1.00

00:57:14.000 And a lot of times these utilities, they just want to do their job and they get these policy mandates from governors that say, guess what?

00:57:22.000 By the year 2030, 50% of your utility has to be renewable.

00:57:27.000 And you say, well, we don't have any renewable.

00:57:29.000 So what am I going to do?

00:57:30.000 What am I going to do?

00:57:31.000 I'm going to have to buy these carbon credits or these offsets and we're just going to write blank checks.

00:57:36.000 And that's what they do.

00:57:37.000 And then pass off that expense to the people.

00:57:40.000 They're just going to charge you more, right?

00:57:42.000 So again, this goes back to an early question you asked about the solar in China.

00:57:47.000 We've expanded solar dramatically under Biden.

00:57:49.000 It was our best talking point.

00:57:51.000 We've invested more in solar than at any point in American history.

00:57:54.000 How has it worked out?

00:57:55.000 Right.

00:57:55.000 Show me one place that you have more solar, that you have cheaper electricity or a more reliable grid.

00:58:01.000 Just one.

00:58:01.000 And you can't show me a place in the world that they have gone solar, that they have more electricity at a cheaper price and a more reliable grid.

00:58:10.000 It doesn't exist.

00:58:12.000 And so why do I want to double down on this if it's been nothing but expensive?

00:58:16.000 And that's a huge problem.

00:58:18.000 And this is where electricity decisions, a lot of them are made at the local level.

00:58:22.000 There's a lot President Trump can do with federal policy, but at the local level, the issues that people don't always go out and turn out for, like county commissioner, that's where you've got a mayor, huge.

00:58:35.000 Oh my God, as two New Yorkers, New Yorkers, although I'm Queens, you're Manhattan.

00:58:40.000 My family is from Queens, so I got a long lineage back to Queens.

00:58:45.000 I kind of grew up in the city, but like, yeah, I too have escaped as a political refugee from the People's Republic.

00:58:51.000 Our mayor race is, this is a huge issue, right?

00:58:55.000 If you can't afford to run your utilities in your apartment, your building, your data center in New York City, your Wall Street office, right?

00:59:04.000 If I can't afford the electricity, ultimately I'm going to move.

00:59:08.000 What is the mayor's plan to increase electricity production in New York?

00:59:13.000 And you ask them that and they will be stonefaced and they'll say they have no migrants.

00:59:19.000 But I'm also watching the socialist candidate last week.

00:59:22.000 I talked about it.

00:59:22.000 The socialist candidate in New York City, anti-capitalist, open borders, absolutely insane.

00:59:30.000 He's actually making gains.

00:59:32.000 He's making gains and he's funded by the affluent, the rich white people in New York City. 0.83

00:59:39.000 I mean, it's really mind-boggling to me how these people keep funding this nonsense. 0.92

00:59:46.000 And again, the hardworking Americans are the ones footing the bill and getting screwed by it. 0.81

00:59:51.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:59:51.000 His policies are so insane. 0.98

00:59:54.000 And a lot has come out in the last couple of days about him, how he's never really had a job.

00:59:58.000 I tweeted, of course, he hasn't had a job.

00:59:59.000 He's a socialist, right?

01:00:01.000 Like, you don't have to actually do things.

01:00:03.000 AOC never, well, she was a bartender, right?

01:00:05.000 Now she's an expert on everything.

01:00:07.000 Just ask her.

01:00:08.000 And there's nothing wrong with being a hard scrabble someone.

01:00:11.000 I ran out of college.

01:00:12.000 My first job out of college was, I was a bartender.

01:00:14.000 I moved to Colorado.

01:00:15.000 I was a bartender for a year and a half.

01:00:16.000 I worked at a bar, you know, to do, but like, you know, there's nothing wrong with it.

01:00:21.000 I think it's great, but I'm not going to let necessarily that person make trillion-dollar decisions if they don't have some sort of other standing to do so.

01:00:29.000 And that's why when the socialist mayor candidate in New York says that he wants to open free government-run grocery stores, you say based on, again, like your energy policy, it should all be solar.

01:00:39.000 Based on what?

01:00:40.000 Based on your idea, your deeply held beliefs.

01:00:43.000 And your deeply held beliefs are fine, but they're not based in reality.

01:00:47.000 And reality is a whole country tried government-run supermarkets.

01:00:51.000 It was called the Soviet Union.

01:00:52.000 Didn't really work that well.

01:00:54.000 But like all socialists, he's going to say, ah, but they just didn't do it right.

01:00:57.000 That wasn't real socialism.

01:00:59.000 I will implement it properly.

01:01:01.000 Just like the green people, what Spain did was wrong. 1.00

01:01:04.000 We here are going to do it a lot better.

01:01:06.000 There you go.

01:01:07.000 Sure.

01:01:08.000 We always look at failure based upon socialist ideas and say, when I have power, I'm going to run it a lot better. 1.00

01:01:15.000 Rather than just take the damn ring and throw it in the fire where it belongs and kill it once and for all. 0.99

01:01:20.000 They never do that. 1.00

01:01:21.000 They're like, I'll make it work.

01:01:23.000 Sure, you will.

01:01:24.000 Daniel, thank you very much.

01:01:26.000 Where can everyone find you on social, everything like that?

01:01:30.000 Powerthefuture.com is our website.

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01:01:35.000 Or if your wonderful listeners have a question, Daniel at powerthefuture.com.

01:01:39.000 Shoot me an email, especially if it's about energy, and I'll answer as best as I can.

01:01:44.000 But thanks, Don, for having me on.

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