00:22:31.960And now the fact checkers are saying it's a lie that he ever said he wasn't going to ban fracking.
00:22:38.580I mean, it is, you know, I wish George Orwell or Aldous Huxley were still alive to see the absolute fluidity with which CNN and the Washington Post,
00:22:53.240they are able to tell the exact opposite lie on the flip of a switch without even the hint of any recollection to what they were saying yesterday.
00:23:05.520Secondly, you know, when the John Kerry's of the world tell these poor, dirty, little working class people learn to code, you know, one of the ironies is almost inevitably the politicians who are doing this, they don't know how to code.
00:23:36.420And one of the things the left loves to virtue signal, they love to show how virtuous they are by being willing to give away your job, never their job, never, never a penny out of their pocket, never anything out of their life.
00:23:49.800But your job, they are so virtuous, they will obliterate your life.
00:23:55.000Look, if you actually respect people, you say you ought to be able to choose what you want to do with your right life.
00:24:23.340And a third point, you know, you talked about inevitable.
00:24:28.900And I have to say it brought to mind Avengers Endgame.
00:24:34.840And, you know, Carrie doesn't quite have the massive Thanos hands and fingers, but you could see the inevitable and the fingers snapping.
00:24:42.840And it actually, what is interesting, and Endgame is curious, have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys?
00:24:56.160Whether it's Thanos or go to Watchmen.
00:24:59.740You know, where the view of the left is people are a disease.
00:25:06.400They buy into the Malthusian line that there are too many people in the world, that people are bad, and everything would be better if we had fewer people.
00:25:14.780I mean, Thanos wanted to eliminate 50 percent of the life forms in the universe with one finger snapping.
00:25:20.300And, you know, Senator, I don't want people to think that you're being hyperbolic here or that you're – I mean, this has been the explicit view of very prominent leftists for a long time.
00:25:28.960You're talking about the sort of Malthusian theories that people are going to destroy the world.
00:25:33.220You saw this with the population bomb in the latter part of the 20th century where we were told by the top genius scientists that if we didn't have hopefully voluntary suppression of the global population but, if necessary, coerced suppression of the global population, we'd inevitably have starvation, famines everywhere.
00:28:41.600You know, I'm not a physicist, but they're just kind of a problem with that.
00:28:45.800We're going to continue to have energy needs, but what they're doing is hurting the environment, destroying jobs, and they're doing it for power and money.
00:28:55.180Every time you hear this, it's about power and money.
00:29:00.640The Keystone Pipeline, by the way, Keystone Pipeline, Biden just stopped.
00:29:06.620Keystone Pipeline would bring oil from Canada down south to the U.S.
00:29:09.940Without the Keystone Pipeline, you know what's happening?
00:29:13.200We're just driving it on trucks and trains.
00:29:16.140A dirtier way to transport it that's more expensive.
00:29:19.240So it doesn't actually – every step they're taking hurts the environment.
00:29:25.040Here is a data point that the listeners of Verdict will know because you all are engaged and educated, but it's worth underscoring because no Democrat will ever acknowledge it, which is what country had the single greatest reduction in carbon emissions last year in 2020?
00:29:48.120By far, it's not even close because our energy production is so much cleaner.
00:29:54.160And so literally what the Biden folks are doing is destroying the cleanest energy in the world to shift to dirtier energy because it makes California environmentalist billionaire donors happy.
00:30:07.480And that's – that doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:30:11.020You know, the tell on this, of course, is that the solutions that the left propose, they always remain the same.
00:30:19.280And their reasoning for why we need those solutions changes sometimes to the complete opposite.
00:30:24.160So, you know, very famously in the 1970s, we were hearing about the threat of global cooling and a new ice age.
00:30:30.500And today's environmentalists try to write this off and say, well, that was just a sort of media phenomenon, not within the scientific community.
00:32:01.500Let me comment on what you just said there because it was very insightful.
00:32:07.140But it's even worse than that, which is the Democrats that purport to be motivated by a climate crisis, by their actions, have made clear they don't actually give a damn about the climate.
00:32:37.060And this is where media narratives are exactly opposite.
00:32:40.320To be honest, if you look at which parties care about actually clean air and clean water, the record of success, every major environmental law in the past 50 years has been passed with a Republican president.
00:32:53.320The EPA was created with a Republican president.
00:32:55.980If you look at you look at states like Texas with Republican leadership that clean the air and clean the water substantially improve.
00:33:03.280Look, all of us, we've got we breathe.
00:33:07.260Look, we have a responsibility to be good stewards of the environment.
00:33:11.460I want the world to be cleaner and better after we've left it than when we came.
00:33:15.740So if you look at separate the rhetoric of Democrats from their actions, the actions they're taking make the environment dirtier.
00:33:27.780If you're shifting from clean energy production in the U.S. to dirty energy production in Russia, if your criterion that matters more than anything is cleaning the environment, that is a stupid thing to do.
00:34:51.540In terms of big policy shifts, I think over the next four years, we're going to see a big, big shift towards embracing communist China.
00:35:02.360We've had multiple confirmation hearings for Biden cabinet nominees.
00:35:06.280One after the other after the other has been moving back towards China.
00:35:11.620So, for example, Tony Blinken is the new secretary of state.
00:35:15.120Blinken was asked if he would commit to maintain the entities list, the sanctioned companies in China who are participating in genocide, participating in repressing the Uyghurs, participating in big brother control of society.
00:35:53.500It mass parades as a telecom company, but it is the Chinese communist government uses Huawei to intercept communications from other countries and to engage in espionage.
00:36:12.860Alejandro Mayorkas, who Biden has nominated to be the head of DHS, Department of Homeland Security.
00:36:18.620When he was at DHS before, he personally arranged for a visa for a senior vice president at Huawei and for other big Democratic donors because Tony Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother, arranged it.
00:36:37.700And he was basically in charge of making sure there were favors for big Democratic donors, including taking care of Huawei.
00:36:44.840There is a pattern across this, and I'll tell you this week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, we had a confirmation hearing for Biden's nominee to UN ambassador.
00:36:56.540And Linda Greenfield Thomas, she is a career Foreign Service officer.
00:37:04.460We've talked before on the podcast about Confucius Institutes.
00:37:09.260Confucius Institutes are owned and controlled and paid for by the Chinese communist government.
00:37:16.980They have been opened up at U.S. universities all across the country, and they serve as hubs for espionage, hubs for propaganda.
00:37:24.740There's actually been pretty wide bipartisan agreement that Confucius Institutes are really bad and really harmful.
00:37:30.220So a couple of years ago, I wrote legislation that passed, had big bipartisan support passed into law, clamping down on Confucius Institute.
00:37:41.540The bill I wrote has ended up shutting down dozens of Confucius Institutes across the country.
00:37:47.000Well, a little over a year ago, Biden's UN ambassador nominee gave a paid speech at a Confucius Institute.
00:38:00.720I questioned her at the hearing about it, and it's interesting.
00:38:03.460She backed away from it and said, oh, it was a mistake, and she was horrified, just horrified to see what the Confucius Institute was doing, to which I responded, well, did you keep the money?
00:38:17.880And she was like, well, yeah, of course I kept the money, but I was horrified.
00:38:23.040And I will also note the speech she gave.
00:38:29.200So she handed the speech over to the Foreign Relations Committee.
00:38:32.100It's handed over to context that it's deemed confidential.
00:38:37.040She doesn't say one critical word about China.
00:38:39.440So she goes to Confucius Institute and gives this puff piece praising China, praising the Belt and Road Initiative, which is billions of dollars that China is investing in infrastructure in the developing world, trying to make developing countries captive economically to China.
00:38:58.500And not only that, her speech says America should be more like communist China.
00:39:03.380We ought to have similar policies to what they have.
00:39:06.520This is who Joe Biden has picked to be the representative for the United States of America at the United Nations.
00:39:12.960We are in the midst of and getting ready to see a massive pivot back towards China, and that's really bad for the country.
00:39:21.520In a way, I'm sorry that I have to say this.
00:39:27.240You know, we're talking about this kind of crooked establishment, and you see it in stories as disparate as the GameStop sort of kerfuffle.
00:39:35.120And you see it all the way in foreign policy, which you're seeing a return to this old consensus.
00:39:41.340It's pretty ugly, and they are exercising political power right now.
00:39:45.880We will have to discuss how we can exercise our freedom and push back against that power.
00:39:50.440We'll be discussing it in Miami on Friday, February 5th.
00:39:54.140I've got a whole bunch of mailbag questions.