On this episode of RUMBLE, we cover the latest insanity from Capitol Hill surrounding the one big beautiful bill, the BBE bill, and at the center of it is energy policy and making America energy dominant again. Plus, all the insanity out of New York and the Mayor s race, and so much more.
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00:08:24.000And now guys, let's get into all of the top headlines.
00:08:29.000Now today, the Senate is having a marathon session to pass the one big beautiful bill by the White House's end of week deadline.
00:08:38.000Now 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.
00:08:51.000He 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.
00:09:58.000I 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.
00:10:54.000Because Canada now says they're rescinding their digital services tax on American tech firms after my father said he was pausing the trade talks.
00:11:04.000Now, guys, the tax is off the table and trade talks will resume in July.
00:11:14.000It'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.
00:12:19.000That Trump's opponents used to lampoon him in his first administration.
00:12:23.000He 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.
00:12:33.000This time he came with a plan and a cabinet with senior advisors comprised of loyalists all well known to the president.
00:12:40.000And 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.
00:12:49.000By any objective measure, President Trump has his opponents on the run.
00:12:56.000You know you're doing well, guys, when even CNN is giving you credit.
00:13:00.000You're probably doing a lot better than well.
00:13:02.000Now, Democrats have a little different take on all the success the country is seeing.
00:13:06.000For example, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Madani has decided that billionaires shouldn't even exist and we should get rid of capitalism.
00:13:22.000You are a self-described democratic socialist.
00:13:26.000Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?
00:13:29.000I 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.
00:14:28.000Now, 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.
00:14:41.000I thought we all knew that, but apparently Zohron does not.
00:14:45.000But according to Zohron, we're all just misunderstanding what he said.
00:14:49.000Even if it's verbatim quotes, I guess they mean something in whatever magical dialect he is speaking.
00:15:27.000Here's what else he told MSDNC this week.
00:15:30.000Excited to share that with each and every New Yorker.
00:15:32.000You've talked a lot about inclusivity and trying to keep expanding this coalition.
00:15:36.000I wanted to ask about one of your policies that has raised a little bit of eyebrows'cause it's the language that's used.
00:15:40.000It's mentioned in a memo that is on your website about New York homeowners.
00:15:43.000You'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.
00:15:54.000Why did you feel the need to use that language?
00:15:56.000Because 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.
00:16:12.000Why did you feel the need to use that language?
00:16:15.000It 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.
00:16:22.000Nothing can be worked backwards from some kind of racial goal in this city.
00:16:26.000It has to be a system that is actually equitable.
00:16:29.000And what we've seen time and again is that the property tax system is something that is unfair.
00:16:33.000And 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.
00:16:41.000And then what he did instead was to defend it at every single juncture in court and to lose.
00:16:46.000And the reason that he lost is because we know it's inequitable.
00:16:49.000This is something that is a glaring example of city government's inability to meet the moment.
00:16:53.000And the use of that language is more of a descriptor of the neighborhoods as opposed to an intention of the goal.
00:17:05.000And 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.
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00:19:21.000Joining me now, founder of Power the Future, energy policy expert Daniel Turner.
00:20:13.000But $72 a barrel is still a good $15 cheaper than the Biden average.
00:20:19.000And 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?
00:20:56.000Because 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.
00:21:06.000And I'm like, oh boy, like I was thinking about it.
00:21:10.000Should I just buy oil futures and figure out where this thing goes just because it was going nuts?
00:21:16.000But yeah, it really didn't have the effect.
00:21:19.000Now, who knows what happens in the coming weeks and whatever it may be.
00:21:22.000But 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.
00:21:36.000And that just shows you that oil markets are confident that American production is unmatched and will just continue to increase month on month.
00:21:49.000And, you know, I have so much residual anger from the previous administration, probably none more than you and your family does, of course.
00:21:57.000Well, they did try to throw me in jail.
00:21:59.000So it's like, I feel, you know what I mean?
00:22:17.000But 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?
00:22:36.000I put on social media not long ago, at the end of the first Trump administration, Iran was producing around 500,000 barrels a day.
00:22:44.000By the end of the Biden administration, they were up to 3.1 million.
00:22:48.000Well, didn't we send them like $8 billion in pallets of cash?
00:22:51.000I mean, that was actually Obama that gave them a lifeline.
00:22:54.000Then Biden lifted the sanctions and allowed them to do this.
00:22:59.000I mean, we literally created all of this.
00:23:16.000But 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.
00:23:52.000And Biden gave them every lifeline, made us, again, dependent on international oil, oil from Venezuela, oil from the Middle East, oil from the Caribbean.
00:24:03.000It's mind-boggling that for four years, they had a policy that just made the worst actors in the world phenomenally rich.
00:24:10.000And when Iran has money, they don't build schools for girls, right?
00:24:19.000It's this kind of like the blinders have to be off, like big boy pants time looking at geopolitics.
00:24:26.000And 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.
00:24:37.000Yeah, 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.
00:24:50.000The 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.
00:25:10.000We didn't even recognize them at the time, and now we're dependent on them and Iran.
00:25:13.000I 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.
00:25:27.000I mean, they'll do anything to destroy decency and morality within America.
00:25:32.000Yeah, and this is where energy policy has to have its feet on the ground.
00:25:51.000And reality is when we make Iran strong, they fund terrorism, right?
00:25:56.000When we make Venezuela strong, it destabilizes that Region of the world, and it weakens America.
00:26:02.000And after four years of Biden, we were just poorer, weaker, more dependent on foreign countries.
00:26:09.000So, to go back to the first part of your question, where are we?
00:26:12.000I 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.
00:26:21.000There's a confidence in energy markets, right?
00:26:24.000Yes, there's geopolitics and yes, there are still permits and you're waiting for blah, blah, blah.
00:26:29.000But the market itself is confident that we're headed in the right direction.
00:26:33.000And that stabilization of prices ultimately means a more stable economy.
00:26:52.000That's trickle-down economics, reversing bad energy policy.
00:26:56.000Yeah, no, the egg price one was interesting because I talked about it a lot.
00:26:59.000You 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.
00:27:09.000You know, they assume these things are instantaneous.
00:27:12.000And now they're no longer talking about it because about two weeks later, the egg prices did actually go down.
00:27:16.000And it's amazing what you can do with sane and rational policy.
00:27:20.000But their sound bites just sort of disappear.
00:27:22.000They stick with it, stick with it, stick with it.
00:27:34.000And this is the problem with four years of this ideological, fantastical, very, very progressive energy policy.
00:27:43.000And 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.
00:27:53.000A lot of it was criminal in nature, right?
00:27:55.000I 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.
00:28:15.000There's an article just yesterday about how the DNC is almost bankrupt.
00:28:22.000It's almost like when you shut down USAID, all their donors went away.
00:28:26.000It'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.
00:28:44.000I'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.
00:28:52.000And that U.S. taxpayer dollars were being siphoned back to the Democrat apparatus through these radical leftist organizations in government.
00:29:01.000And you've traveled, obviously, the country extensively on the campaign trail and you know Americans, which I don't think the left really does.
00:29:10.000I've always had this understanding that how do we have these big climate movements?
00:29:16.000How do we have these big transgender movements?
00:29:19.000I've never seen any of these people anywhere.
00:29:20.000Like it's like, it's like, and yet they're beyond reproach.
00:29:26.000They'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.
00:29:50.000There'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.
00:30:04.000And I think we know exactly what it is now.
00:30:06.000And 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.
00:30:19.000You know, all these groups, their funding is drying up and you realize, oh, there really isn't a strong climate movement.
00:30:25.000There was a lot of tax dollars going to climate groups to give the impression there's a climate movement.
00:30:55.000So 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.
00:31:04.000And 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.
00:31:25.000And so they lost one of their big acolytes.
00:31:28.000And, 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?
00:32:05.000And 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.
00:32:16.000So 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.
00:32:29.000But I did see something interesting, a tweet from Elon last week talking about sort of the U.S. falling behind China in solar.
00:32:39.000And 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.
00:32:50.000But 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.
00:32:59.000But 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.
00:33:54.000Now, 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.
00:34:05.000But China doesn't make them with solar.
00:35:33.000I 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.
00:35:44.000You know, what is going on and what's at stake there?
00:35:47.000The Inflation Reduction Act was obviously nothing about inflation.
00:35:51.000It was this enormous slush fund to wind and solar subsidies, to people like Stacey Abrams, so they could all apply for grants.
00:35:58.000What's at stake, and this is where the previous administration, as evil as they were, they are clever, right?
00:36:17.000And so they purposely injected hundreds of billions of dollars into Republican states and gave them money for wind farms and solar farms.
00:36:26.000And 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.
00:36:33.000So they are fighting to keep those dollars.
00:36:36.000But how long can we keep this industry on life support?
00:36:39.000So you see Republicans fighting to say, I can't lose my $200 million because X solar farm will shut down.
00:36:50.000If the government just builds this and funds it forever, then there are jobs.
00:36:54.000And now we say, well, we can't stop funding it because the jobs will disappear.
00:36:58.000These are government entities that would never have survived in the free market.
00:37:02.000They are on total government life support.
00:37:05.000But Biden knew that Republicans would fight for that life support because they don't want the black eye of saying they cut government funding.
00:37:13.000So 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.
00:37:24.000And 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.
00:37:34.000And it's just, it's what you hate about D.C. Yeah.
00:37:37.000And 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.
00:37:46.000I mean, where basically your entire GDP goes to paying off the interest on what you've been borrowing to subsidize.
00:37:54.000And 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.
00:38:09.000We do this with any time this government funding spending.
00:38:13.000And it just keeps growing and growing.
00:38:15.000And what we create is this total dependency on government.
00:38:19.000You know, there are certain services that, of course, are never going to be quote unquote profitable.
00:38:24.000And you understand that government funds it.
00:38:26.000I would worry about a profitable military, right?
00:38:28.000Like that's probably not a good thing.
00:38:30.000So I understand the military is just an absolute cost, but our energy production should not be that way.
00:38:36.000Solar panel manufacturing should not be that way.
00:38:39.000And 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.
00:38:49.000And people are going to say, look at Trump cutting those.
00:38:53.000He said he loves energy workers, but the government can't fund forever a solar panel manufacturing company.
00:39:47.000You know, Daniel, you've talked a lot about the war on coal and how it decimated American cities and towns.
00:39:53.000How will the next four years under President Trump be our opportunity to unleash American energy and make rural America great again?
00:40:01.000Yeah, 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.
00:40:14.000The steel merger, right, with Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel is huge because you can't make steel without coal, right?
00:40:22.000You can't make a lot of things without coal.
00:40:24.000So this idea that we can live without coal is just so naive.
00:40:28.000And 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.
00:40:36.000I mean, one of the biggest things in concrete, et cetera, et cetera.
00:40:40.000So it's not even just, hey, is there a better way of getting energy?
00:40:44.000You 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.
00:40:55.000And 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.
00:41:14.000The amount of coal that goes into the infrastructure to create a solar panel, that solar panel will never offset in its life.
00:41:20.000So why are we creating solar panels, right?
00:41:26.000And until we know how to make these products without coal, well, then why would we stop using coal at all?
00:41:33.000We'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.
00:41:42.000So the president's put forward just common sense, you know, situations, solutions that will bring, that will revitalize a lot of coal.
00:41:51.000Yeah, 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?
00:42:45.000I'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.
00:43:55.000And 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.
00:44:07.000And I've been to so many, not as many as you.
00:44:10.000And 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?
00:44:17.000So it was like going to a tailgate, but you know, you were going to win in the end.
00:44:21.000And that, go to rural America, send the vice president to more and more rallies and talk to folks.
00:44:27.000And folks come and they bring their friends and they bring their neighbors.
00:44:30.000And suddenly you get voters who haven't voted before because there's someone who's talking our language.
00:45:32.000I mean, to go back in time to even a Seinfeld episode about the low-flow shower heads, right?
00:45:38.000We've been talking about government policies that will save you energy.
00:45:42.000And the experts agree that if we all get these new light bulbs, the average household will save 400.
00:45:48.000When have we ever seen those savings mount, right?
00:45:51.000Oh, by the way, I've seen it with some of these fluorescent bulbs.
00:45:53.000I 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.
00:46:02.000And I'm like, you couldn't get an incandescent bulb for, you know, we create solutions that aren't solutions.
00:46:32.000And even though it is only a 15-year-old system, they were like, yeah, we had a leak, lost all the coolant, new system.
00:46:40.000I 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.
00:46:50.000Like, we have decided this is no longer legal and you have to suffer the consequences.
00:46:55.000And when we do this with appliances, we do this with cars and tailpipe emissions.
00:46:59.000All we do is we burden manufacturing, we burden salespeople with new rules.
00:47:07.000These rules don't increase the economy.
00:47:13.000And 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.
00:47:24.000We don't have a water crisis in America.
00:47:26.000And suddenly we have to create dishwashers that don't work.
00:47:30.000How many times have you put your hand in a dryer and things are damp, but your smart dryer tells you, nope, it's dry.
00:47:55.000The amount of product it takes to keep this thing from turning me into Ronald McDonald's is actually quite impressive.
00:48:02.000But 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.
00:48:23.000There 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.
00:48:31.000Five 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.
00:48:43.000In these first five months of the Trump administration, largest wage increase.
00:48:47.000That'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.
00:48:57.000You can't look at anything after four years of Biden.
00:49:37.000And, you know, can some of these things be undone as easily as they were, you know, probably auto-penned into existence?
00:49:45.000Yeah, 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.
00:49:55.000There's real work that needs to happen.
00:49:57.000So Lee Zeldon's allowed to undo a lot of damage that was done by the previous administrator because that's how the bureaucracies work.
00:50:05.000But what he's not going to be able to do is prevent the next guy.
00:50:24.000I 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.
00:50:34.000I mean, these are actual real threats and things that we actually have to think about.
00:50:39.000And 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.
00:50:50.000I mean, I'd say you could actually have a serious problem at midterms where you just effectively hamstring this presidency and cut it short.
00:51:18.000If you're a Biden or an Obama administrator, that percentage gets smoke.
00:51:22.000If you're a Zeldon administrator, you use common sense and those numbers change.
00:51:26.000Congress 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.
00:51:37.000And the next administrator's hands are tied.
00:51:40.000That's the way the bureaucracies should work.
00:52:53.000All that means is that data center in time is going to be a burden on the community.
00:52:58.000And 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?
00:53:12.000Great example of this is when the tariff dispute first started with Canada and the premier of Ontario said, well, you know what?
00:53:19.000We're not sending electricity to Michigan, Minnesota, New York anymore.
00:53:24.000Most people were like, see what President Trump did?
00:53:27.000My response was, why the hell are those three states buying electricity from Canada to begin with?
00:53:32.000How come you're not producing enough electricity in your state to be reliant?
00:53:36.000And 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?
00:53:45.000That's where we should be doing on energy policy.
00:53:47.000Is your state totally reliant on just your state?
00:53:51.000Because if we're hoping that someone else bails us out, we're in bad shape.
00:53:55.000Yeah, so I'm a big believer, but what are your thoughts on sort of SMR technology?
00:53:59.000For 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.
00:54:16.000It'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.
00:54:37.000It's very different, and yet it still seems to get lumped in to the same things because we don't want another Chernobyl.
00:54:43.000It's like, well, that's not even possible, but it doesn't matter.
00:54:45.000But there's still so many obstacles for that seemingly great technology.
00:54:50.000And that's because the climate movement's biggest weapon is fear.
00:54:53.000And that's why they make these apocalyptic movies about climate change, about nuclear reactors, about nuclear fallout.
00:55:01.000They 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.
00:55:10.000These small modular reactors are so easy to assemble and get online.
00:55:15.000It's why the president is supporting them.
00:55:17.000The big old power plants of the past take decades, right?
00:55:20.000And the building required and the effort and the permitting.
00:55:24.000These modular nuclear ones can get online an awful lot faster.
00:55:28.000And I remind folks all the time to play into wonderful stereotypes that 80% of the French electricity comes from nuclear.
00:55:35.000And if the French aren't afraid of nuclear power, right, why in the hell is any American afraid of nuclear power?
00:55:41.000We should be having small modular reactors literally across the board.
00:56:16.000Because they shut down Indian nuclear, Indian Point Nuclear.
00:56:19.000They shut down five coal-powered plants and nothing came online.
00:56:24.000And 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.
00:56:38.000I mean, that's the other game that we forget that people are playing.
00:56:41.000These 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.
00:56:50.000If 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.
00:56:58.000And 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%.
00:58:01.000And 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.
00:58:18.000And this is where electricity decisions, a lot of them are made at the local level.
00:58:22.000There'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.
00:58:35.000Oh my God, as two New Yorkers, New Yorkers, although I'm Queens, you're Manhattan.
00:58:40.000My family is from Queens, so I got a long lineage back to Queens.
00:58:45.000I kind of grew up in the city, but like, yeah, I too have escaped as a political refugee from the People's Republic.
00:58:51.000Our mayor race is, this is a huge issue, right?
00:58:55.000If 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?
00:59:04.000If I can't afford the electricity, ultimately I'm going to move.
00:59:08.000What is the mayor's plan to increase electricity production in New York?
00:59:13.000And you ask them that and they will be stonefaced and they'll say they have no migrants.
00:59:19.000But I'm also watching the socialist candidate last week.
01:00:15.000I was a bartender for a year and a half.
01:00:16.000I worked at a bar, you know, to do, but like, you know, there's nothing wrong with it.
01:00:21.000I 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.
01:00:29.000And 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.