Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - News Not Noise, Live with Power the Future's Daniel Turner | TRIGGERED Ep.231

00:05:23.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:05:26.000 I hope your week is off to a good start.

00:05:29.000 And as it turns out, the hysteria of the so-called ruling class and the media is once again revealing itself.

00:05:36.000 To be nothing more than an attempt to pull us all in panic mode and distract us from the core mission.

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00:05:47.000 Grocery prices are coming down.

00:05:49.000 The price of gas is coming down.

00:05:51.000 Oil went down below $60 a barrel for the first time in a long time.

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00:05:58.000 So tonight, we're going to get into all of it.

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00:08:56.000 And just breaking tonight, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said that there are almost 70 countries who have now approached the administration about negotiating on trade.

00:09:08.000 This is what maximum leverage looks like, folks.

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00:09:13.000 That there are 50, 60, maybe almost 70 countries now who have approached us.

00:09:19.000 So it's going to be a busy April, May, maybe into June.

00:09:24.000 And Japan is a very important military ally.

00:09:28.000 They're a very important economic ally.

00:09:30.000 And the U.S. has a lot of history with them.

00:09:34.000 So I would expect that Japan's going to get priority just because they came forward very quickly.

00:09:42.000 But it's going to be very busy.

00:09:44.000 And if President Trump, again, gave himself maximum negotiating leverage, and just when he achieved the maximum leverage, he's willing to start talking.

00:09:56.000 Remember what this is all about, guys.

00:09:58.000 For decades, we have lost the value that used to make the American dream real for American families.

00:10:05.000 And Trump trade policy is about restoring that American dream From Main Street, here's my father laying it all out in the Oval Office earlier today.

00:10:15.000 Because prices got so high, people couldn't live.

00:10:19.000 I mean, the prices for groceries, the prices for standard groceries, standard things were going through the roof.

00:10:26.000 They couldn't live.

00:10:27.000 And now those prices are coming down.

00:10:29.000 So call them groceries, but that's down, energy's down, and interest rates are down.

00:10:34.000 Everything's down.

00:10:35.000 And the interest rates, the beauty there is when we refinance debt, you know, debts become such a big factor in this country.

00:10:42.000 We're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things.

00:10:46.000 But it's such a big factor because the interest rate's so high.

00:10:49.000 Well, now that's coming way down.

00:10:52.000 So our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down.

00:10:55.000 And despite the nonstop efforts to put this country into a panic by the media and the swamp, There's actually business owners and employees across the country that are excited about the opportunities ahead.

00:11:10.000 Take a look at this.

00:11:13.000 We're going to keep them right where they are.

00:11:15.000 We have plenty of inventory on ground.

00:11:16.000 We've got cars incoming.

00:11:18.000 And more than just holding the line on prices, Orsini said he sees the need for Trump's tariffs, which the president says are a way to help rebuild America's industrial base, including the auto industry.

00:11:29.000 You drive up to Michigan or go to these places where the American cars were being built years ago, it's very dead up there now.

00:11:36.000 A lot of empty buildings, a lot of empty factories.

00:11:38.000 We didn't have to go all the way to Michigan to find a manufacturer hurt by foreign competition.

00:11:44.000 The president of Taconic Wire in North Brantford told us her family business, which produces stitching wire for a range of industries, has lost clients to China for years, and they're already seeing a turnaround.

00:11:55.000 around. We've actually been inundated with our customers calling in now looking to buy wire from us once again now that the tier.

00:12:04.000 Thank you.

00:12:06.000 There's a reason groups like the United Auto Workers, the Steel Manufacturers Association, and others have all praised my father's policy.

00:12:15.000 Here's one beef cattle rancher explaining why he sees this as all good news.

00:12:21.000 Well, the European community has been a big market that we'd love to get to, and certainly Australia is another one that sells lots of beef here in the United States, but we don't get to sell to them.

00:12:35.000 How does this moment in time feel like a game changer for your industry?

00:12:39.000 Well, I think we're happy that the president finally singled us out and said that we do need to increase our beef sales to other countries, and that he's going to try and make an effort to do that.

00:12:50.000 So it'll be a great time for our industry if we can sell more and have a better market and higher prices.

00:13:00.000 Guys, we're doing what the no-show politicians have refused to do for decades, fighting back against the one-sided war that has been waged on American workers.

00:13:09.000 And guys, remember, there's no tariffs if you're onshoring jobs and making things right here in the good old USA.

00:13:16.000 For example, just look at this statement.

00:13:19.000 From a battery company in Texas that reads, quote, No tariffs in Texas.

00:13:23.000 Energy Access Innovations launches a 310,000 square foot facility in Texas, adding that thanks to President Trump's strong leadership, we're investing big in American manufacturing.

00:13:37.000 We're ending the status quo.

00:13:39.000 We're putting the American worker first, and the rest of the world is getting the message, even though they may not always like it. 0.67

00:13:47.000 Here's French President Macron actually telling French companies to stop investing in the United States.

00:13:53.000 we will be able to find out the latest news from President Trump, which is a shock for international commerce, not just for the European Union, France, but for the good work of

00:14:08.000 commerce....

00:14:26.000 that the investment announced these last weeks, they are suspended until we haven't clarified the things with the United States and the United States.

00:14:26.000 Because what would be the message of having great European actors who invest in the economy Well, guys, if that's the game, maybe we should immediately cancel the $5 billion U.S. loan for France's Total Energy's African project.

00:14:40.000 which is a liquid natural gas project in Africa.

00:14:43.000 We're not going to be taking advantage any longer.

00:14:46.000 If they want to play those games, we can play them right back.

00:14:48.000 The reality is we're the bigger consumer.

00:14:50.000 They need us probably a lot more than we need them.

00:14:52.000 And by the way, before Trump derangement syndrome consumed every corner of the Democrat Party, they actually supported tariffs and actually wanted to be tough on China.

00:15:03.000 Don't believe me?

00:15:04.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi, of all people, in her own words.

00:15:10.000 I think it's interesting to note that the average U.S. MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming into the United States is 2%, whereas the average Chinese MFN tariff on U.S. goods going into China is 35%.

00:15:25.000 Is that reciprocal?

00:15:27.000 In terms of jobs, this is the biggest and cruelest hoax of all.

00:15:31.000 The China trade supports 170,000 jobs in the United States.

00:15:39.000 Our imports from China support 10 million jobs at least.

00:15:44.000 The fact is that U.S.-China trade is a job loser.

00:15:49.000 And it's not just Pelosi.

00:15:51.000 Here's Barack Obama back in 2012.

00:15:54.000 I guess according to Democrats, Obama was a MAGA extremist.

00:16:00.000 In which they were flooding us with cheap domestic tires, or cheap Chinese tires.

00:16:06.000 and we put a stop to it and as a consequence save jobs throughout America I have to say that governor Romney criticized me for being too tough in that tire case said this wouldn't be good for American workers and that it would be protectionist but I tell you those workers don't feel that way they feel as if they had finally an administration who was going to take this issue serious My father's been talking about tariffs since the 1980s.

00:16:32.000 He's campaigned on it every day.

00:16:34.000 He's doing exactly what he said he was going to do.

00:16:37.000 And by the way, this is just phase one.

00:16:40.000 The media wants you to believe that the world is ending, but this evening, the Dow, Nasdaq, they were pretty close to even.

00:16:47.000 I saw some losses, I saw some gains, I saw it go back and forth, but it wasn't the dread, it wasn't the insanity, it wasn't the dump that you heard about all weekend long.

00:16:58.000 Here's Scott Jennings delivering his daily dose of reality on CNN.

00:17:05.000 He's been talking about tariffs for a very long time.

00:17:07.000 He believes in it.

00:17:08.000 And right now, according to the Treasury Secretary, we have over 50 countries who've already come to the table and want to engage with the United States and talk about how we can have a more fair free trade relationship with them.

00:17:19.000 That's a good thing, number one.

00:17:22.000 Number two, this is only part of the deal.

00:17:24.000 The other part of the deal is making the tax cuts permanent.

00:17:27.000 And maybe even, if I were them...

00:17:29.000 Cut the capital gains tax and offer to slash the corporate tax rate and see if you can get any Democrats to join because I'm amused by the Democrats who are all of a sudden free traders and for lower taxes.

00:17:39.000 "Well, if you've got Democrats who'd like to reduce the taxation on corporate activity, let's see how serious they are.

00:17:45.000 Cut capital gains, slash the corporate income tax rate." I find it amusing that everybody talks about the'08 crash and the co-no one ever mentions that in 2022, you know, the S&P was down 20, the NASDAQ was down 33, and I don't remember any of these Democrats being in history.

00:17:59.000 And speaking of delusion, left-wing activists still think they can openly defy our laws and get away with it.

00:18:09.000 Here's an illegal immigrant bragging about being here illegally on national television. 0.95

00:18:15.000 Just last week.

00:18:20.000 Quick words of advice.

00:18:29.000 Deportations are coming.

00:18:30.000 So my father is moving forward on the America First mission and not letting anyone get in the way.

00:18:36.000 Here he is at the White House today with the L.A. Dodgers having a little fun at the Democrats' expense.

00:18:45.000 And others.

00:18:46.000 We have a couple of senators here. 0.77

00:18:48.000 I just don't particularly like them, so I won't introduce.

00:18:53.000 Over the course of this amazing season, the members of this team...

00:18:57.000 I didn't think it was that big a deal, actually.

00:19:10.000 Washington. Over the course of this amazing season, the members of this team gave us some of the most incredible...

00:19:18.000 And we'll get to our guest in just a moment.

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00:20:05.000 And joining me now, founder of Power the Future, Energy policy expert Daniel Turner.

00:20:12.000 Daniel, good to have you with us.

00:20:14.000 How are you?

00:20:14.000 Great to be with you.

00:20:15.000 Thank you so much.

00:20:17.000 So we're seeing oil prices come down, investment into America go up, and a mission to reverse the damage done over decades to strengthen our energy infrastructure.

00:20:28.000 How does the tariff policy tie into all of that, in your opinion?

00:20:32.000 Yeah, oil is really at an important moment right now.

00:20:36.000 Actually, just a couple hours ago, we put out a statement asking for the president to refill the strategic petroleum reserves.

00:20:43.000 Seems like a good time to do it below 60, right?

00:20:45.000 Exactly. Biden drained them during his four years to less than a third.

00:20:51.000 We really have very little oil supply.

00:20:54.000 He promised to refill them at $72 a barrel.

00:20:57.000 He never did.

00:20:58.000 Well, with oil at 60, 61, now is a really good time to refill them.

00:21:02.000 But the tariffs are absolutely going to play a role in this.

00:21:05.000 You look at the previous administration that tried to, made a huge effort to import oil from Iran, from Venezuela, from the Saudis.

00:21:13.000 Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia begging for oil.

00:21:17.000 When we have enough domestic potential here.

00:21:20.000 And so I think that the tariffs will definitely help to spur domestic oil production.

00:21:26.000 We don't need to be looking overseas to bring in crude when we have enough crude on our own feet.

00:21:33.000 We just need the policies and the permissions in place to be able to bring it to market.

00:21:46.000 How will the next four years under President Trump be our opportunity to unleash American energy and make rural America great again?

00:21:54.000 Yeah, coal is why I started Power the Future.

00:21:56.000 It's really where the heart of this organization is because for years we watched coal miners just get devastated during the Obama administration with the war on coal.

00:22:07.000 And just as perspective, America used to be the world's largest producer of coal.

00:22:11.000 We're now fifth.

00:22:12.000 And yet the actual consumption, worldwide consumption of coal has gone up dramatically.

00:22:18.000 So it's not like...

00:22:20.000 We're not producing coal and no one is.

00:22:22.000 It's that our slice of the pie has just gotten smaller and smaller while the pie has gotten larger.

00:22:28.000 And I've struggled with this notion that it's bad for America to produce coal, but it's fine for nine-year-old girls in Indonesia and Malaysia and China to produce coal. 0.72

00:22:40.000 And that's a lot of what these tariffs are pointing out, these globalist policies that say, let's offshore industry because it's cheap to use slave labor.

00:22:49.000 It's cheap to pay children when you don't have to pay insurance and do training and give them safety goggles and helmets.

00:22:55.000 And so we've decimated rural America, rural coal towns, and we've turned a blind eye to the fact that the coal industry is thriving using abominable environmental and human rights policies to, We need coal desperately.

00:23:14.000 We need coal in America.

00:23:16.000 And this is the chance to resurrect a coal industry because it doesn't just produce electricity.

00:23:21.000 We need it for steel.

00:23:22.000 We need it for cement. 0.94

00:23:23.000 We need it for almost everything around you.

00:23:25.000 At one point was touched by coal and having more domestic coal will lower those prices for all goods and services.

00:23:33.000 So coal is crucial and coal miners are crucial to our economy.

00:23:38.000 Yeah, and it sort of feels like all the other things, whether it's lithium or the other things that go into batteries or whatever it may be around the world.

00:23:44.000 I mean, we could have it here, but we won't do it.

00:23:46.000 But we let them do it, and we know the other countries, whether it's India or China or otherwise, they're not going to do anything in an environmentally positive way.

00:23:54.000 I mean, in America, you wouldn't even have a choice.

00:23:56.000 So we could do it, and it's not like our coal reserves are non-existent just because perhaps we started harvesting coal a little bit earlier than a lot of the other industrial nations.

00:24:05.000 We have incredible coal reserves, don't we?

00:24:08.000 Oh, we have centuries of coal reserves in just Pennsylvania and Wyoming.

00:24:13.000 Alaska is basically one large lump of coal.

00:24:16.000 So many of our reserves, we don't even know how much we have because we're not allowed to explore.

00:24:21.000 Same with our oil and gas.

00:24:22.000 People say, how many millions of barrels or billions of barrels do we have?

00:24:26.000 We have guesstimates, but there are parts of the country that we've never been able to properly explore and we don't really know how much we have.

00:24:34.000 And those are centuries of known reserves at today's So I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

00:24:41.000 I call the organization Power the Future for a reason.

00:24:43.000 I don't know what tomorrow's discovery will be.

00:24:47.000 But I do know right now we live a really intense fossil fuel lifestyle.

00:24:52.000 And if we punish ourselves now, we're not going to have a better tomorrow.

00:24:56.000 We're going to have a worse off now and poverty and misery.

00:25:00.000 And that's what Biden gave us, right?

00:25:02.000 He promised the green agenda.

00:25:04.000 And what did he do?

00:25:04.000 He made Russia rich.

00:25:06.000 He made Iran rich.

00:25:07.000 And he made Americans poorer.

00:25:09.000 And he drove up the cost of all goods.

00:25:11.000 That was the green agenda.

00:25:13.000 So why would we want to pursue more of those policies which just brought misery worldwide?

00:25:19.000 Yeah, and it seems like with quantum computing, AI, all of the things that really are going to drive so much of the future, if we don't have the power to be able to We'll destroy our middle class and

00:25:48.000 our tech advantage while they make all the power in the world, while they pollute with reckless abandon.

00:25:56.000 Yeah, it's a great point.

00:25:57.000 And these data centers and AI will require two or three times more electricity than we're currently producing.

00:26:04.000 And so if you want to build one of these data centers, you need to go where there's reliable energy and grid infrastructure.

00:26:10.000 And America right now is in a bad position with our grid infrastructure.

00:26:14.000 And the president inherited a mess.

00:26:17.000 So yeah, if you're going to build these centers, you're going to turn to other countries, you know, maybe China, but maybe just one of our allies, maybe just not America.

00:26:26.000 I have no dislike for Canada or I have no dislike for New Zealand, but I want it to be built here.

00:26:32.000 And they're only going to be built here if we have the necessary energy infrastructure.

00:26:37.000 And we're in a terrible position right now because of four years of really regressive anti-energy policies.

00:26:43.000 So the president, his agenda will work, but it's going to take a while to turn around this ship because of how much damage was done to our energy economy and energy infrastructure.

00:26:55.000 Yeah, I mean, is it as simple as just sort of spooling back up what went down, or is it more complicated than that?

00:27:02.000 Is that as simple?

00:27:04.000 It's not like flipping a switch, right?

00:27:05.000 Getting people to get back into mines and to utilize those plants, some of whom have been shut down.

00:27:10.000 Not so simple.

00:27:11.000 I mean, nuclear, obviously another viable option, but that's probably even a longer ramp-up period unless you get really active in the small modular reactor space, etc.

00:27:19.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:27:20.000 You know, this is a complicated issue, and that's why this White House Energy Dominance Council is so important, because we need all of government solution for an issue, for a problem set that comes from every direction, right?

00:27:31.000 The Biden administration punished lenders in the fossil fuel industry.

00:27:35.000 Gary Gensler, when he was head of the SEC, told the banking industry, if you loan to the fossil fuel community, we're going to punish you with higher base points on lending, right?

00:27:46.000 We're going to punish you.

00:27:47.000 They don't want to see fossil fuel investments.

00:27:49.000 So that's one side.

00:27:50.000 On the back end, you've got an entire infrastructure that punished gas stoves, gas cars, gas appliances. 0.97

00:27:57.000 So there's back end.

00:27:58.000 So when people say, well, why is the energy industry suffering?

00:28:01.000 There's not one simple reason.

00:28:03.000 They attacked it from multiple directions.

00:28:05.000 And then you have some of these globalist cronies You referenced it earlier.

00:28:12.000 The XM Bank, which gave this $5 billion loan to a French company that's going to build a natural gas pipeline in Mozambique.

00:28:20.000 The XM Bank doesn't have any money.

00:28:22.000 It's taxpayer-funded.

00:28:24.000 And yet these unelected bureaucrats, talk about unelected bureaucrats, these unelected bureaucrats gave a French company $5 billion to build a pipeline in Africa that's directly going to compete. 0.97

00:28:36.000 With our natural gas industry.

00:28:39.000 So who are these agencies?

00:28:41.000 Who are these entities that are thwarting America's fossil fuel?

00:28:46.000 by look, I got no animosity towards Mozambique, but I'll be damned if I want to have them compete with the energy industry coming from Texas and Yeah, I mean, you had a viral tweet last week showing just that.

00:28:59.000 It was French President Macron telling French companies to stop investing in the U.S. I think that's where I saw the original story and I spoke about it in sort of the intro.

00:29:09.000 What's happened to Europe?

00:29:12.000 I mean, their energy policy is even worse.

00:29:14.000 I mean, they used to laugh when my father said, hey, maybe you don't want to become so dependent on Russia.

00:29:18.000 Then they do.

00:29:19.000 It's a disaster.

00:29:20.000 You have a war now.

00:29:21.000 They wouldn't take it from us.

00:29:24.000 I mean, like all things they mock him on, he always ends up being right in the long run.

00:29:29.000 But they seem to be operating on a totally different planet at this point.

00:29:33.000 They do.

00:29:33.000 And the president pointed out something that was brilliant and really had Europe seething because he pointed out how Europe has bought more Russian fossil fuels in terms of Euro than they have given to Ukraine.

00:29:48.000 To defend against the Russian invasion in terms of Euro.

00:29:50.000 So when Europe looks at us and says, how come you're not supporting Ukraine?

00:29:54.000 How come you're not?

00:29:55.000 You're actually the ones that are financing the invasion of Ukraine because you are buying Russian fossil fuels.

00:30:01.000 Now, yes, they're not buying it directly.

00:30:03.000 They're buying it through intermediaries.

00:30:04.000 There was never an embargo on Russian fossil fuels.

00:30:07.000 They just sold it to other countries, India, South Korea, Turkey, etc.

00:30:13.000 And then they sold it.

00:30:15.000 You know, through a pass-off, back to France, back to Italy, back to Spain, back to Germany.

00:30:21.000 So Europe is a disaster on so many levels, but on their energy policy, you know, they've been doing for 30 years what Biden did in four, and for 30 years it's been a disaster.

00:30:34.000 Their prices have gone up.

00:30:36.000 Yeah. Yeah,

00:31:22.000 I mean, the disdain that they showed my father, I think it was the first term when he was like, wait a minute, you want us to ramp up our spending on NATO?

00:31:30.000 To protect you from the enemy who you're enriching with your pipelines rather than taking it from us?

00:31:35.000 Where we could at least, if we're going to protect you, we're going to spend all that money for, you know, not much upside certainly to us.

00:31:41.000 You could at least do that.

00:31:42.000 And they like laughed at him in the face.

00:31:43.000 And I guess it's because they got away with it for so long.

00:31:47.000 No one ever, you know, held them in check. 1.00

00:31:50.000 I guess they were just used to America being the big idiot, no different than Ukraine funding. 0.99

00:31:54.000 They're all for defending Ukraine as long as they're not the ones writing the check. 1.00

00:32:00.000 The second they're the ones that have to write the check or bear some sort of responsibility towards that, all of a sudden the notion of defending Ukraine isn't as popular in Europe as it is when America's just going to be the big dumb idiot that comes and funds it all for them. 1.00

00:32:14.000 It is. 0.98

00:32:14.000 And the best thing that this president has done, and now he's doing it for a second time, is restore that sense of American pride and unabashed, unashamed confidence of our dominance. 0.98

00:32:27.000 It's not enough that we just win the Olympic golds.

00:32:30.000 It's not enough that we wave our flag or people think we're brash or loud when we're touring the Coliseum.

00:32:36.000 We are the greatest country on the planet.

00:32:38.000 We are the richest country and the most powerful.

00:32:40.000 And we deserve to live that in every aspect.

00:32:43.000 And that includes in our trade policies.

00:32:45.000 And I think the Europeans, they like us because they know we'll always pick up the tab, right?

00:32:50.000 Everyone has that one friend that you invite to dinner because you assume they'll be generous.

00:32:54.000 Or everyone has that one friend that you say, hey, why don't you bring the wine?

00:32:57.000 Because you know they'll buy really good wine.

00:33:00.000 And then everyone has the one friend that's never going to chip in.

00:33:03.000 Exactly. And that's who we've been for Europe for a very long time, literally since World War II.

00:33:09.000 And I think we're done playing that role.

00:33:12.000 And this is the first president in a long time ever, really, since World War II, that said not only should we not play that role, the Europeans should be thanking us for our contribution in the world.

00:33:23.000 President Trump's given Americans a lot of confidence and a lot of moxie, and we've needed that for generations. 0.87

00:33:32.000 There's fluctuations in the market.

00:33:34.000 There's a little bit of uncertainty.

00:33:36.000 But hold fast, boys, because we are poised for greatness right now.

00:33:40.000 And it really is thanks to the president having the confidence in the American people and these industries that has restored that confidence back to ourselves.

00:33:49.000 Daniel, more broadly, what's the opportunity here to reshape our energy sector and hold our adversaries accountable?

00:33:55.000 Biden was granting oil licenses to Maduro, literally, while killing American projects and even Canadian projects, but at least they are regimes that are recognized by the United States, unlike Venezuela.

00:34:08.000 Now my father is doing the opposite.

00:34:12.000 Talk about what you see as the impact of that.

00:34:14.000 What are the other things that perhaps they're not thinking of doing just yet that they should add into the quiver?

00:34:20.000 Yeah, there's a question I'll have for God if I ever get to heaven, which is why is sometimes the oil found under the feet of the worst actors in the world, right?

00:34:30.000 America is blessed.

00:34:31.000 We have enormous oil reserves, and we're the good guy.

00:34:34.000 And Canada has a lot of oil, and they're the good guys.

00:34:37.000 But a lot of folks that have oil are bad.

00:34:39.000 And unabashedly, they're bad regimes, they're bad governments.

00:34:43.000 And that's Russia, that's a lot of the Middle East, that's definitely Venezuela. 0.51

00:34:48.000 And there's a reason why those regions were quiet from 2017 to 2021, and it's because they were pretty much bankrupt.

00:34:55.000 When these petro-state economies, when 70-80% of your economy comes from one resource, well, when that resource isn't flourishing, I think?

00:35:06.000 perform poorly.

00:35:07.000 America, it's a smaller percentage of our GDP, but also American producers like to produce on volume, not on price point.

00:35:15.000 So if you have multiple wells at $50 a barrel, that's better than having one well at $100 a barrel.

00:35:21.000 But it's different if you're a Venezuela or the Saudis or the Iranians or the Russians.

00:35:27.000 So the best thing for world peace, the best thing for American energy is to produce, to produce as much as possible to lower price points It's good for American families.

00:35:38.000 It's good for the purchasing of goods and services.

00:35:40.000 But it also bankrupts our enemies.

00:35:43.000 It's something I've never been able to understand of the four years of the Biden administration.

00:35:48.000 Joe Biden, who prided himself on being this foreign policy expert, he made Russia rich.

00:35:53.000 He made Venezuela and Iran rich.

00:35:56.000 And those countries, when they have money, Venezuela sent us their criminals, Iran attacked Israel, and Russia invaded Ukraine.

00:36:04.000 World peace is possible through great energy policy.

00:36:09.000 The president did it in his first term.

00:36:11.000 He's starting to do it again, and the world will go quiet when bad people are bankrupt.

00:36:17.000 So what about the threat of 25% secondary tariff to anyone buying oil from Venezuela?

00:36:24.000 They're buying it and or distributing it back, so it looks like it's not coming from Venezuela.

00:36:28.000 I'm sure that could be applied to whether it's Chinese aluminum that gets sent to Mexico and then it's shipped across the border under NAFTA, pretending it's Mexican as opposed to actually Chinese, just with an intermediary.

00:36:41.000 Is that a direct message, do you think, to China, the secondary tariff system?

00:36:46.000 Do you think that applies?

00:36:47.000 Should it rise beyond energy and should it?

00:36:49.000 Absolutely. And that's the biggest vulnerability of the CCP is they do not have a domestic oil supply.

00:36:56.000 They import around 20 million barrels a day, and they are desperately trying to find secure oil supplies as part of their belt system.

00:37:06.000 They're making huge pipelines over to Pakistan.

00:37:10.000 A lot of the Pakistan-India violence is fomented by China because China wants reliable oil supplies.

00:37:18.000 China's lack of oil infrastructure is a huge vulnerability that the president So punishing people who are buying oil From the no-no list, and that includes now Venezuela, that will really hurt their economy.

00:37:32.000 The Chinese economy today took a nosedive, and that's really good, right? 1.00

00:37:37.000 That is very, very good that if China as a country begins to suffer, because China is our biggest enemy by far, and energy policy can be just what Reagan did during the Cold War, President Trump is doing it.

00:37:51.000 But rather than military spending, he's energy deregulating, and it will have the exact same effect.

00:37:58.000 Yeah, and that's what was so frustrating to me about the Biden policy is all the sanctions they did on Russia basically just pushed Russia into China's arms.

00:38:09.000 You know, they saw it.

00:38:10.000 They needed an outlet that made it easier and more reliable.

00:38:13.000 Those aren't people that necessarily loved each other for very long.

00:38:16.000 But in doing that, with the sanctions, you jacked the price of energy up so high.

00:38:21.000 Russia was like net neutral in the war.

00:38:23.000 They could fund a war. 0.51

00:38:24.000 They could build up their industrial base, even if it was mostly building weapons.

00:38:27.000 And they did that because of the U.S. sanctions increased the price of oil so much they were just playing in the delta.

00:38:33.000 Yeah, and our also domestic policy that cut off our responsible access to land, permitting, removing millions of acres from Alaska, the heartland, the Gulf, the Atlantic, the Pacific.

00:38:48.000 So his domestic policy was driving up prices, and then his foreign policy was encouraging people to buy Russian oil and gas.

00:38:56.000 So again, you look at this administration, there was no policy.

00:39:02.000 It was total incoherence.

00:39:03.000 It was whatever the previous guy did was bad, so we're going to do the opposite.

00:39:08.000 And there was such a lack of humility to say, well, actually, those policies were good, so let's just continue them.

00:39:15.000 They didn't care that they were causing turmoil.

00:39:18.000 They didn't care they were causing suffering and death.

00:39:21.000 Well, I mean, this stuff wasn't like rocket science, right?

00:39:25.000 They weren't taking something that was a novel concept and trying to run with it.

00:39:28.000 They weren't recreating.

00:39:29.000 I mean, it almost feels like what they did was intentionally just destroy our energy sector and all the consequences associated there with.

00:39:35.000 I mean, we had all these things and all of a sudden we become dependent on Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of Terra and Venezuela, as I mentioned earlier, a regime they hadn't even recognized officially.

00:39:51.000 While, by the way, telling the American people very clearly at the debate that they would never do such things, even though it ends up being executive order number one.

00:39:58.000 Exactly. The very first day, he shut down a lot of our oil and gas.

00:40:02.000 He shut down Keystone Pipeline.

00:40:04.000 And these things will take a while to come back online.

00:40:07.000 Something fascinating about the energy industry is that you can turn it off on a dime, and Biden did.

00:40:12.000 But to get it back online takes time.

00:40:14.000 Just think of the physicality of moving these rigs, right, or drills, assembling them, the man hours, the manpower, the millions of tens of millions of dollars in financing.

00:40:33.000 I tell people all the time when they're anxious, like, when are we going to see it?

00:40:36.000 I say, well, President Trump was inaugurated in 2017, and by early 2018, mid-2018 is when it kicked in.

00:40:44.000 By 2019...

00:40:46.000 Banner year for everything.

00:40:48.000 Hotels, restaurant, retail, travel, because people were flush with cash, and oil was at $51 a barrel, and gas nationally was around $2 a gallon.

00:40:57.000 It's going to take a little while.

00:40:59.000 The president's working as hard as he can, but just the physicality of this industry getting ramped up takes some time, and that's the damage that Biden did.

00:41:08.000 It's lasting damage that's going to take a while to dig out of this ditch.

00:41:12.000 Yeah, so realistically speaking, how do you get Keystone Pipeline going again?

00:41:17.000 I mean, you have this, you know, monster thing.

00:41:19.000 It takes years to complete.

00:41:20.000 By the way, tens of thousands of good, hard-working jobs for good blue-collar Americans.

00:41:25.000 I mean, you know, what is the time to spool up something like that?

00:41:30.000 Obviously, they're still producing, you know, oil and gas in Canada and some other places, and those are all piping to that pipeline.

00:41:36.000 You know, how long does it take to get that going?

00:41:38.000 Because that's, you're right, people sort of, we live in this instant gratification society.

00:41:42.000 I saw it, you know, at 1202, you know, on Inauguration Day, where they're like, well, the price of eggs hasn't come down yet.

00:41:48.000 I'm like, well, I mean, he's been president for like...

00:41:50.000 A minute and a half.

00:41:51.000 What do you mean?

00:41:53.000 These things, you can't just turn off four years of insanity and expect results, and yet it sort of feels like we've been programmed that way.

00:42:00.000 Everything's sort of at the tip of our fingers and we can get instant gratification on a phone in two seconds, but that's not how it works in the real world.

00:42:08.000 It's not, and Keystone is a...

00:42:11.000 Important example that is not going to change anytime soon.

00:42:15.000 There needs to be a legislative fix. 0.90

00:42:17.000 My organization, Power of the Future, is trying to find one.

00:42:20.000 And here's what Joe Biden did, and I've written extensively about this.

00:42:25.000 Keystone didn't just cancel a pipeline.

00:42:27.000 Keystone set a precedent to the industry that any long-term project that will last longer than an election cycle is now at risk.

00:42:37.000 And no knock to the president at all or to the future of this country, but if you're a multi-billion dollar project, are you going to invest again in a pipeline that's going to take six years knowing that in 2028 Gavin Newsom is going to run for president saying, and when I'm elected, I am going to shut down that pipeline.

00:42:57.000 I'm not going to put $8 billion on the line on that.

00:43:00.000 So Joe Biden did something so pernicious and so bad.

00:43:03.000 He didn't cancel a pipeline.

00:43:05.000 He set a precedent that now anything that's going to last a presidential cycle...

00:43:11.000 Who's going to take that risk?

00:43:12.000 And that's really bad for the future of our country.

00:43:16.000 We can overcome this.

00:43:17.000 I think there needs to be legislative fixes.

00:43:19.000 But Keystone is an example of the institutional damage done by Joe Biden.

00:43:25.000 He got his talking point.

00:43:26.000 I shut down that pipeline.

00:43:28.000 But he scared the crap out of industry going forward because even though we're confident that the future is going to be bright, no one knows what's going to happen in 2028.

00:43:37.000 And if you are...

00:43:38.000 Job is to protect your shareholders.

00:43:41.000 Are you going to bet $8 billion on 2028 and the board is going to vote?

00:43:45.000 No, we are not.

00:43:46.000 That's the damage Joe Biden did to this country.

00:43:49.000 Yeah, well, I actually feel that way about a lot of things.

00:43:51.000 I mean, I think my father's doing incredible work with some of the executive orders and getting things rolling, but you don't want something that can just be undone with the stroke of the pen.

00:43:57.000 You talk about sort of the legislative option.

00:43:59.000 You know, how with a, you know, let's call it a three-seat majority in Congress, I don't know what you need in the Senate to get something like this done.

00:44:06.000 But are there any Democrats that would go along with this?

00:44:09.000 Do you lose some of the rhinos to sign something into law to enable this pipeline to be there so that people know it can't just be undone by a president?

00:44:18.000 Yeah, there are a couple who I think you could sway, and as you get closer to 2026, there are a couple who are going to be up for re-election, and they want to keep their seat.

00:44:26.000 So you take a little guy like John Ossoff in Georgia, who's right now, his voting record on energy is atrocious.

00:44:33.000 He voted against every cabinet member of the big three, Energy, Interior, EPA.

00:44:38.000 He's voted against every energy proposal, but you assume he's going to want to be re-elected, and so you have to peel him off, right?

00:44:46.000 John Fetterman seems to be voting pro-energy.

00:44:50.000 I think you could get to the 60 mark.

00:44:52.000 I hate, though, that we have to tie it into elections.

00:44:55.000 You have to shame these Democrats into saying, this is good for the country.

00:44:59.000 And if you represent New Mexico, second largest energy producer in the country, two Democrat senators, atrocious records when it comes to energy.

00:45:07.000 Martin Heinrich, an atrocious record.

00:45:10.000 And he's the ranking on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

00:45:15.000 It's remarkable.

00:45:16.000 I didn't realize they were second in the country.

00:45:18.000 I knew they had a big industry, but that's amazing.

00:45:21.000 Colorado, Michael Bennett, John Hickenlooper, two Democrats, atrocious voting record on energy.

00:45:27.000 How do you shame these people into saying these are your constituents?

00:45:31.000 These are your men and women who you claim to represent, and yeah, you can hate them.

00:45:36.000 I'm sure my two Virginia senators definitely don't like me, but by God, how do you continue to...

00:45:43.000 To beat up this industry.

00:45:45.000 And on the industry side, what Power of the Future wants to do is shame them back.

00:45:50.000 These people have no right representing us in Congress if they continue to vote so poorly to undermine our economy.

00:45:59.000 So what have you seen from the Energy Secretary so far that you think will be perhaps game changing?

00:46:04.000 What can we do right now?

00:46:06.000 His announcements on liquid natural gas have been great.

00:46:10.000 That's a huge reversal of where we were and building these liquid natural gas terminals, which requires pipelines, which requires infrastructures and jobs.

00:46:19.000 We have so much natural gas in this country that in a lot of places they're just burning it because they can't bring it to market.

00:46:26.000 And that's ridiculous because it is valuable.

00:46:29.000 We should be using this and giving it to our allies, quite frankly, as well.

00:46:34.000 We also should be driving down Yeah.

00:46:45.000 Secondly, he's trained in the nuclear space, right?

00:46:47.000 He is a nuclear engineer.

00:46:49.000 And I think you mentioned micro reactors, micromodules.

00:46:53.000 That's essential.

00:46:54.000 I don't, when I say electricity should be almost free, I don't mean it in this communist sense, like the government.

00:47:01.000 But electricity should be an afterthought because we have so many natural resources to produce electricity.

00:47:08.000 No one should ever struggle to pay an electric bill.

00:47:11.000 Companies should be able to build all the manufacturing plants they want because electricity is so inexpensive.

00:47:17.000 So there's a lot that Chris Wright is doing to take us in that direction.

00:47:21.000 And that's going to be great for families, great for industry.

00:47:25.000 Yeah, no, I mean, like I said, I'm sort of really fascinated by sort of the small module reactor space.

00:47:30.000 It's something you can do, you know, relatively quickly.

00:47:33.000 You can, you know, it doesn't have sort of the big infrastructure of these massive plants that you do, you know, I don't think we'd be dumb enough to build them on fault lines anymore, like perhaps we did in the 50s, and maybe we just didn't know.

00:47:43.000 So I think you can actually do nuclear really safely.

00:47:46.000 But it does seem that it needs to contain things that sort of burns not hot enough to create sort of the fallout that you've seen in the bad examples of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, whatever it was, that it seems like a really viable option that can be just on property for these data centers or whatever else it may be.

00:48:04.000 We should, absolutely.

00:48:06.000 Especially in rural communities that aren't ever going to have an infrastructure built.

00:48:10.000 They're not going to build pipelines. 0.91

00:48:11.000 They're not going to build rail cars to bring them coal.

00:48:13.000 They should be building small micro-reactors, without a doubt.

00:48:17.000 And I tell people who are nervous about nuclear two examples all the time.

00:48:21.000 The French have about 80% of their electricity generated from nuclear.

00:48:25.000 If the French aren't afraid of nuclear to play on stereotypes, then we should not be. 0.98

00:48:30.000 ...afraid of nuclear.

00:48:31.000 And secondly, there are how many hundreds of thousands of 18-year-old Iowa farm boys who are on aircraft carriers and in submarines that are powered by nuclear.

00:48:40.000 And no one ever says, we can't have kids next to nuclear reactors.

00:48:44.000 We have no problem sending in 18- and 19-year-olds to work on Navy ships that are nuclear-powered without an afterthought, because clearly nuclear is safe.

00:48:54.000 So not only is our military nuclear safe, why aren't our...

00:49:00.000 Across Pacific, across Atlantic, cargo containers nuclear-powered.

00:49:03.000 Imagine cruise ships that could be nuclear-powered.

00:49:06.000 Imagine the cost of a cruise.

00:49:07.000 I'm not a cruise-goer.

00:49:09.000 I've never been.

00:49:09.000 I wouldn't go.

00:49:10.000 It's just not my forte.

00:49:11.000 But I got to tell you, it's a huge industry.

00:49:13.000 Imagine how cheap it would be to go on a cruise if it was nuclear-powered because the biggest bulk of their expenses is diesel.

00:49:21.000 It's amazing.

00:49:22.000 So nuclear should be used a lot more aggressively.

00:49:25.000 Again, the French are doing it. 1.00

00:49:26.000 There's no reason why the Americans can't.

00:49:28.000 Yeah, I mean, it's sort of interesting, actually.

00:49:30.000 I was going to ask you, basically, how has climate change alarmism really hurt actual energy innovation?

00:49:37.000 But, like, perhaps nuclear is the best.

00:49:40.000 I mean, it would stymie that kind of thing.

00:49:42.000 You're right.

00:49:42.000 Every tanker, every major ship would probably benefit from a nuclear reactor engine that would run for decades, doesn't have any issues, yada, yada, yada.

00:49:51.000 We have submarines and people can go under for a year, and yet they're burning literally gallons a minute of fossil fuels.

00:50:02.000 It seems like a great viable alternative.

00:50:04.000 But I'd love your thoughts on that generally, but then also just the general climate change.

00:50:09.000 I'm starting to laugh because I think one of the great discoveries of the Doge initiative and really...

00:50:21.000 Peeling back the layers of this poison onion that we call the federal government.

00:50:25.000 I don't even think climate activism is real.

00:50:28.000 I think the whole thing is taxpayer funded.

00:50:30.000 You look at these billions of dollars of grants that were funneled through USAID, that were funneled through the EPA.

00:50:37.000 I've always known, and I fight the climate activists for a living, I've always been curious as to their funding, right?

00:50:44.000 They always seem to be disproportionately... 0.83

00:50:46.000 Wealthy. And I know people like John Kerry and Michael Bloomberg write multi-million dollar checks.

00:50:51.000 But there are too many climate groups with too much money.

00:50:56.000 To make the math math, right?

00:50:58.000 It never added up.

00:50:59.000 And now Doge has...

00:51:00.000 Well, by the way, that's just like every election cycle.

00:51:02.000 It's like, how does every Democrat congressperson running for Congress have 10x the Republican?

00:51:07.000 And you realize it's now all these NGO kickbacks probably to ActBlue. 0.93

00:51:10.000 I guess we'll find that out in the not-too-distant future if the Republicans have the guts and, you know, I'll say, have the balls to look into it. 0.50

00:51:16.000 But you're 100% right.

00:51:17.000 Yeah, there was a PAC that announced, I think, I reckon September of last year, that announced $80 million, a climate PAC, $80 million for Kamala and for Democrats to promote climate awareness.

00:51:30.000 And if you've been in the campaign space, and I know clearly you have, and I have, an $80 million...

00:51:36.000 It's like a big ad buy, right?

00:51:38.000 It's like a third-party group that no one's ever heard of them.

00:51:41.000 Where did they come from and how did they get $80 million?

00:51:44.000 I think the entire climate left is one gigantic farce.

00:51:49.000 Their data is clearly farcical. 0.99

00:51:50.000 I've always believed them to be a bunch of liars and a bunch of global frauds. 0.95

00:51:54.000 They hide behind climate because it scares people. 0.95

00:51:57.000 You're able to control them the way they hide behind COVID to scare people and control them.

00:52:03.000 But now I realize their money is mostly taxpayer funded.

00:52:06.000 And I think the climate movement is dying its last death because their money is slowly drying up.

00:52:11.000 And I'm with you 100%. 0.98

00:52:13.000 The GOP definitely, and I'll say it with you, needs the balls to go after these guys and say, your act blue is all a bunch of fraud. 0.99

00:52:20.000 Your climate money is all a bunch of fraud and grift. 0.98

00:52:23.000 There's a lot of stolen money stolen from the taxpayers to scare the crap out of kids and young people and elderly that climate change is going to get you.

00:52:32.000 We can have a healthy conversation about the environment, about CO2, about land and air.

00:52:38.000 And I'm talking to you on a small farm in rural Virginia.

00:52:42.000 I breathe my own air and have my own land and have my own well water.

00:52:46.000 No one has to tell me to be an environmentalist because I'm a farmer.

00:52:50.000 I am environmentalist.

00:52:51.000 But the environmental left is a gigantic lie.

00:52:54.000 And now we realize it's taxpayer funded and they are dying slowly.

00:52:58.000 And that is a great thing for America and for freedom.

00:53:02.000 These are evil, bad people, genuinely evil and bad people with an evil agenda.

00:53:07.000 And to see them gasping for breath because their oxygen of taxpayer money is drying out is a great thing.

00:53:17.000 She says she hates nuclear because of the amount of radioactive waste.

00:53:21.000 But Daniel, I'm sure you can talk to this a little bit more.

00:53:23.000 This is not the 1970s.

00:53:25.000 I mean, the amount of energy you can produce with, let's call it, little to almost no waste today in a modern reactor.

00:53:34.000 The reality, we haven't built modern reactors for...

00:53:37.000 So, you know, perhaps that doesn't exist.

00:53:39.000 So, I mean, talk a little bit about that just so people understand, you know, perhaps what they've been sold is not at all what's actually real currently.

00:53:49.000 It's not.

00:53:49.000 And look, there are always going to be scales of good or bad or strong or weak.

00:53:57.000 There's always going to be trade-offs.

00:53:59.000 And I will expose all of my bad on fossil fuels and on nuclear if the environmental left will expose theirs.

00:54:06.000 And that's the big argument that we're having.

00:54:08.000 We can't have fossil fuels.

00:54:09.000 We can't have nuclear.

00:54:10.000 Let's use wind and solar.

00:54:12.000 As if wind and solar are these flawless...

00:54:15.000 Angel scent technologies that have no drawbacks, that have no environmental impact, that have no bad consequences.

00:54:23.000 Is there radioactive waste from nuclear?

00:54:25.000 Absolutely. Are there emissions from fossil fuels and coal?

00:54:31.000 Absolutely there are.

00:54:32.000 But the amount of electricity and the amount of energy produced scaled to their downfall, to their drawback, to their emissions or their waste is not even in the same ballpark of the amount of damage of wind and solar to the environment and to the economy for the little itty bitty bitty tiny bit of electricity they produce.

00:54:54.000 So if you want to maintain the current lifestyle that you have, we are never going to achieve it with wind and solar.

00:55:01.000 Just get rid of that completely.

00:55:02.000 It's a total lie.

00:55:03.000 The last four years showed it because the price of everything went up 30-40% because they tried to push us towards wind and solar.

00:55:13.000 Of course it does.

00:55:14.000 But we don't live in a perfect society.

00:55:16.000 What we need is the greatest amount of electricity produced at the least amount of risk.

00:55:21.000 For the greatest number of people.

00:55:23.000 And risk does involve getting raw materials and manufacturing from our enemies.

00:55:28.000 And wind and solar are manufactured by our enemy, Communist China, with raw materials that Communist China controls. 0.93

00:55:35.000 So it's not even a comparison.

00:55:37.000 Well, made in a not so environmentally friendly way either.

00:55:40.000 I mean, if people understood what goes into making these turbines, it's like, you know, the amount of...

00:55:45.000 The amount of waste that they generate for whatever turbines they could, you know, meet the specs of a nuclear reactor, probably not even close.

00:55:53.000 No, and with child and slave labor, and I don't find that very environmentally friendly, right?

00:55:59.000 There's a reason why we make solar panels in China is because they are very carbon intense.

00:56:04.000 You have to burn a lot of coal, by the way, and China doesn't have any scrubbers.

00:56:08.000 They don't care about groundwater contamination.

00:56:11.000 So then the solar industry says, well, if you tariff us, we're not going to be able to have solar panels.

00:56:16.000 Well, I'm tired of you outsourcing your slave labor and your environmental practices to the third world. 1.00

00:56:22.000 We have to stop doing that.

00:56:24.000 If you want to make solar panels, make them responsibly here in America, and then people will realize that they're useless, that we shouldn't just stick with fossil fuels, which are great.

00:56:33.000 Yeah, Daniel, I guess we've seen how much of a sort of green news scam this all really is. 0.62

00:56:37.000 You look at California, and even just breaking ground there is a challenge.

00:56:43.000 What's the EPA doing to overhaul that?

00:56:45.000 I've seen a lot of the things coming out of Lee Zeldin over there.

00:56:47.000 I mean, it seems like he's just getting rid of all of the nonsense, you know, and I'm sure there's plenty of nonsense.

00:56:53.000 I'm sure there's plenty of good stuff that he's keeping.

00:56:55.000 But what's the EPA doing that you're seeing to overhaul?

00:56:58.000 Yeah, Lee Zeldin, he is the cabinet member, I think, who's come out swinging the hardest.

00:57:05.000 And he's been remarkable in a very short period of time.

00:57:11.000 And I think because he realizes...

00:57:13.000 As he took the role, how much damage the EPA was doing, hiding again behind, we just want clean air and clean water.

00:57:22.000 When it comes to California particularly, there's a legislative fix that I know the administrator is following that will no longer allow California to have a waiver for EPA.

00:57:32.000 So a little known fact, without getting too nerdy, every time the EPA passes a rule, we're going to change the standards on this, on fuel, on emissions, on whatever it is.

00:57:42.000 California has a blanket waiver.

00:57:44.000 California doesn't have to listen to the EPA.

00:57:46.000 And the reason why is so that people like Gavin Newsom can then go on TV and say, well, the EPA administered that rule and we have had no effect on our economy because they don't get punished by the EPA the way other states do.

00:58:00.000 How did they get away with that?

00:58:01.000 How does that work?

00:58:03.000 How did California get some sort of sovereignty that the other states don't have the benefit of?

00:58:07.000 Exactly. The reason why is because they know that if California had to follow these rules, their economy would tank.

00:58:14.000 So California gets a waiver so that their economy can stay somewhat afloat and that they can also then claim that these new EPA standards don't punish their state.

00:58:23.000 It is absolutely absurd.

00:58:25.000 We wrote about it in a white paper at the beginning of the end of last year in preparation for this new administration to say California's waiver needs to be completely repealed.

00:58:35.000 But it has to be a legislative fix.

00:58:37.000 And I know that's something the administrator is working on with Congress, because California gets to thwart a lot of the rules the rest of us have to live by.

00:58:46.000 It's absurd, right?

00:58:48.000 It's kind of like, again, the XM Bank funding this pipeline in California.

00:58:52.000 There are structures in D.C. that punish us.

00:58:57.000 There are structures in D.C. With our own money.

00:59:00.000 With our own money that perpetuate deceit and fraud and lies, whether it's about climate, whether it's about global trade or foreign aid, right?

00:59:11.000 There are these structures that do so much damage to our country and to our economy.

00:59:16.000 And these structures are what the president is taking on.

00:59:21.000 But, oh, that's why these people are so damn angry.

00:59:24.000 So angry they're setting things on fire, which is what they normally do when they're angry anyway.

00:59:28.000 So it's not surprising.

00:59:30.000 Yeah. I mean, I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but the people who used to love Teslas are now having more fun.

00:59:36.000 Because they're environmentally friendly, have no problem literally burning lithium batteries to the ground, lighting tires on fire, setting entire dealerships up.

00:59:45.000 I mean, it's sort of amazing.

00:59:47.000 I mean, again, I'm not surprised by the hypocrisy of the left anymore because I know it knows no bounds, but it's definitely wild to see.

00:59:54.000 It is, and it's because they are uncovering a lot of the lifeblood of the left.

01:00:01.000 When you go around this country and you talk to people and you kind of get this sense, we don't really have a lot of liberals here.

01:00:10.000 Like, yeah, San Francisco and pockets outside of Boston and Beacon Hill and the Upper East Side, etc.

01:00:16.000 There are pockets of liberals.

01:00:17.000 But the country as a whole is fairly conservative.

01:00:21.000 It's fairly normal.

01:00:22.000 It's fairly Christian.

01:00:24.000 And yet you look at some of these organizations and you say, How do they have so much power?

01:00:30.000 How do they have so much momentum? 0.99

01:00:31.000 How do they give this impression that there's this large bastion of angry, crazy, pink-haired, trans climate? 1.00

01:00:39.000 And now you realize the whole thing is funded by the taxpayers. 0.99

01:00:42.000 Yeah, you know what?

01:00:43.000 You actually nailed it.

01:00:45.000 I never thought about it from the climate side, but I noticed that a lot, certainly on the trans thing. 0.95

01:00:49.000 I was one of the early guys calling out the trans women in sports because it was just ridiculous. 0.82

01:00:53.000 I have athletic daughters. 0.98

01:00:54.000 I was like, this is insane.

01:00:55.000 I don't even understand.

01:00:57.000 And, you know, this is like 2017, 2018.

01:01:00.000 You know, before it became that big, but that was like Twitter 1.0 when it was totally dominated by the left.

01:01:05.000 And even then, I'd say this, and people are like, oh, I hate Don Jr. so much, but he's 100% right.

01:01:10.000 Like, they literally couldn't believe they agreed with me on something.

01:01:13.000 I'm like, so then when I see this thing become this, you know, it was beyond reproach.

01:01:18.000 You must, you know, gender affirming care is the greatest thing in the world, and men playing women's sports is totally normal, and there's no advantage. 0.91

01:01:24.000 And then I was like, No one actually believed this, because when it was a 90-10 conversation left to right, they didn't believe it then.

01:01:32.000 They certainly don't now, and yet I think we now, I imagine most of the funding for that was coming from as well.

01:01:38.000 Yeah, and it's not just NPR, right?

01:01:40.000 It's not just PBS, which we know are taxpayer-funded.

01:01:43.000 But look at some of the earliest investigations of Doge, where how many journalists?

01:01:48.000 What was it, 4,600 or so were on the payroll?

01:01:52.000 Right, whole news organizations.

01:01:54.000 Oh, yeah, I mean, literally, $8 million.

01:01:57.000 I mean, some of the most leftist things, it's just like, here's a grant for money to do our bidding as the Democrats.

01:02:03.000 I mean, it's not like there was even a pretense of objectivity anymore, right?

01:02:06.000 These are hardcore left, what was it, Politico?

01:02:08.000 It got like $8 million, whatever.

01:02:10.000 It was like, it's more than they would make in the free market by a lot.

01:02:14.000 And yet, here's a grant from the government to keep doing your stuff.

01:02:17.000 And then you realize, the second those grants were in there, you understand now why they hated Trump so much, because they realized that's a threat to that future grant and whatever other agenda they were pushing. 0.99

01:02:26.000 And the big risk now, which is where, and this is where the president has a backbone and will not back down, but something the Biden administration did realize is that even Republicans like free money and free crap.

01:02:39.000 And as the president tries to take away the free crap and the free money, you're going to see some Republicans cave and say, well, Mr. President, we do need our green tax credits here because without that, they're all a little bit on the dole.

01:02:53.000 Biden gave out so much money for so many years that he got Republicans hooked on it. 0.80

01:02:57.000 And that's going to be a problem when it comes to energy projects and climate projects, because every Republican governor, for the most part, likes free money from the federal government.

01:03:08.000 And this is where it's going to be a huge clash as the president tries to rein in this insane budget that we have.

01:03:14.000 There's a lot of free money getting passed around and it has to come to an end.

01:03:18.000 It's poisoned the economy and it's also made Republicans weak.

01:03:27.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:03:28.000 Listen, I like to call balls and strikes and call out our side when they're doing it right.

01:03:32.000 I think you're probably 100% right with that.

01:03:33.000 So, hey guys, that's Daniel Turner.

01:03:35.000 Daniel, let the group know.

01:03:36.000 A lot of people are really interested in this conversation where they can see what you guys are doing, where they can get involved.

01:03:41.000 A big part of this thing is like, you know, we can talk about it, but other people have to help spread that message and educate themselves and make sure others get educated so that we can actually do something about it.

01:03:50.000 Yeah, thank you.

01:03:51.000 It's great to be on and with your listeners.

01:03:52.000 It's Daniel Turner and the organization is Power of the Future.

01:03:55.000 We fight for rural American energy workers, especially fossil fuel workers, and fight against the climate crazies who have poisoned this country.

01:04:04.000 And I'm glad to share this message with you.

01:04:06.000 So thank you very much.

01:04:07.000 Well, thank you very much, man.

01:04:08.000 I really appreciate you being on.

01:04:09.000 I look forward to having you back in the not too distant future as more news about all of this stuff breaks.

01:04:14.000 Thank you.

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