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your support. I want to talk now about what we
can expect to see in the campaigns that Democrats will
be We'll be waging to take control of the US
House in twenty twenty six and maybe win some seats
in the US Senate. And according to the Hill dot com,
Democrats are coalescing around a particular issue. No od, oh,
it's not healthcare. They always do that. This is new.
This is a new issue for Democrats, according to the Hill,
All right, now, stay with me here, you ready? Energy
m eh huh yeah, oh, energy, specifically the cost of
your electricity or power bill. See. They they they toyed
around with us a little bit in the last election
from last week, and they feel like they've got a
real winning issue here if they tie it to affordability,
see affordability. See now they are super interested and focused
like a laser on affordability because that is what the
Prophet Mamdani has showed them. And so if you just
say affordability all the time, nobody will remember that you
passed massive spending bills which drove up inflation and drove
up the costs of literally everything. So just say affordability,
and I feel your pain about the high cost of energy.
See it's gold, I tell you gold. Democrats plan to
hammer Republicans over electricity prices in twenty twenty six and
possibly beyond as they try to replicate their twenty twenty
five successes. Candidates who won key races last week in
states including New Jersey and Georgia talked frequently about the
rising costs of electricity and pledged to bring them down.
Now do you bring them down? Though? That's the question, right,
or maybe it's not. As you know, the Prophet Mamdani
piece be upon him. He never had to say how
he's going to bring down electricity rates. Oh, I know,
we can take money from the billionaires and just pay
off your monthly electric bill. How about that? Who's on
board for that? Huh? The issue will be part of
a broader Democrat strategy of centering affordability, but it also
marks a shift for the party in how they talk
about energy and climate issues. See, this is where I
think you might have a problem. And if I may
be so bold as to offer a slogan, it's not well,
it's not even really a slogan. It's it's really just
one word that you could use if you are running
against one of these Democrats, who are you know, preaching
affordability and power bill prices? Here's the word nuclear, or
as Homer simps that we call it nucular. Well, and
George W. Bush nuclear? Where are you guys on nuclear? See?
If whatever plan you're looking to roll out, I mean,
aside from the soak the rich plan and have them
pay for our power bills. If whatever plan you are
pitching as part of your campaign strategy to center affordability,
if it doesn't include the construction of a metric crap
ton of nuclear plants, then you are not actually serious.
You're not serious. Electricity prices rose five point one percent
from one year ago. That outpaced general inflation, under which
prices are only three percent higher than they were a
year ago. Democrats looking ahead to the midterms see this
issue as a winner. Here's a quote from Christina Polizi,
spokesperson for climate politics group Climate Power. She says, electricity
costs are the new eggs. So when everybody was hyper focused,
and by everybody, I mean Democrats in the media, but
I repeat myself, they were focused on the egg prices,
you know, because Orange Hitler and remember Orange Hitler started
talking about the price of eggs, because that was due
to well you bird flu and all of that, they
had to slaughter a bunch of chickens and such, but
also due to inflation. And so then Trump gets in
and you know, on this promise that he's going to
bring down the price of eggs, and they're like, well,
price fixson, going back to the normal price. What's going on.
It's like, well, that's how inflation works. The prices don't
ever come back down. But the prices have dropped. They've
been cut in like half over the last two years
or a year. So they're going to make your power
bill the new eggs. Politzi added that Democrats should try
to keep focus on the issue going forward and blame
Republicans blame the Republicans for the high price of electricity.
Eddie Vale a Democratic strategist, no relation to the Ski
Country place, but Trump slashing all of these clean energy
projects gave an easy link to being able to blame
him for it. So they're going to claim that reducing
the hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy handouts,
that's the reason why everyone's power bill has gone up.
It's not the offlining of coal plants, right, It's not
the decommissioning of the various power plants that are too
dirty that are killing us with all of the carbon dioxide.
Has nothing to do with any of that. It has
nothing to do with the what three trillion dollars in
new spending that the Bided administration oversaw. It's got nothing
to do with that, in the inflation that it caused,
nothing to do with any of that. No, No, it's
that the clean energy projects are are not being funded, which,
by the way, wasn't clean energy supposed to save us money?
That was the pitch, right that once we move to
all the renewables, it'll be so much cheaper, right, Like
this is gonna not just save our lives, but also
it be it'll be cheaper, it'll be cost competitive, and
all this like this was the way of the future.
This was progress, we were told by the progressives. And
I mean, if you can't trust the progressive to tell
you what progress looks like, who can you trust? Really,
they want to build more green power and that will
do the trick. So we need to maybe borrow a
couple trillion more build and subsidize more green energy projects
and that will bring down the prices of electricity or something. Again,
just I humbly submit to you. Simply respond. If you
are on the campaign trail, you're in a debate or
something with somebody who is complaining about the price of energy,
ask them nuclear you like, can we add some some
more nuclear? Because if we add some more nuclear, like
that provides massive amounts of stable, low cost energy to
the consumer, Like that would be fantastic. No, right, Oh,
and the reason why we don't have as we haven't
built a nuclear plant in America, like I think in
my entire life. So why not build some more of
those plants and then you don't have to worry about
any CO two emissions either. It's like a win win. No. Yeah,
we are still living with these terrible decisions from the
from the sixties and seventies brought to us by the
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from Russ Sadly, I think the Democrats' energy play may
actually work. Too Many voters just want somebody to say
they hear their problems, and even fewer remember anything beyond
the current news cycle. Not many people will even think
about decades of opposing nuclear, regulating everything and attacking fossil
fuels as being the cause for higher energy prices. Yes,
that is the challenge that Republicans have to meet, and
the affordability issue is a very large one right now. Now,
we don't know over the next year, something may change
and become the issue for the midterm election. But as
it stands now, all of these campaigns and parties and politicians, yeah,
they're all shifting their focus to this affordability argument because
prophet mam donni pieced upon him like he used this
and just kept saying affordability. Ben Shapiro talked about this
in an interview recently, where you just keep saying affordability, affordability,
and you don't offer any real, actual pragmatic solutions that
are realistic. But people don't care. Obviously, voters don't care.
They just want to feel heard. You know, Oh, I'm
suffering from affordability too. Oh my gosh. So Republicans are
going to need to do something about this. They're going
to need to, you know, get the economy humming along.
And you can't play the Biden gaslighting game by telling
people that things are actually much better than they are.
People know the economy based on their own personal situation,
and people's purchasing power has diminished, and there are many,
many reasons for it, as Russ has said, regulation but
also you know, profligate spending, the massive spending bills that
the Biden administration pushed through along with Democrats and you know,
celebrated by the media. All this stuff was needed, all
of this was going to benefit us, and you know,
people like me were saying, this is going to bankrupt
us even more and it's going to create all of
this inflation. And it did, and here we are, and
now that inflation is just baked into all of these costs.
Let me go over and chat with Jim. Welcome to
the show. Hello Jim.
Speaker 2: Hey, Yeah, I've been listening to you on the energy issue.
Or am I not mistaken that the people who have
shoved quote unquote renewable energy or green down our throats
for decades. Are the left that are going to now
talk about affordability.
Speaker 1: Correct, And they're going to say that the way to
affordability is through the renewables, Except.
Speaker 2: That's the most expensive way to pre create electricity.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 2: So the logic there is.
Speaker 1: No whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me just stop you right there.
You said the L word logic does not apply in
any of this.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So telling the truth isn't going to work, correct.
Speaker 1: What The only thing I think that is going to
work to combat an argument on affordability or or the
lack thereof, is for people to actually believe that they
are advancing, they are making more money, they have more
disposable income, that there are a lot of jobs out
there for them. House prices are coming down. This it's
a very big lift. But again, it's it's the economy.
Speaker 2: You know, Well, it was the economy back when Donald
Trump won m H.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always the economy. But the thing is that
the yelling affordability in the next breath, yelling renewable. That's
like saying that, well, congratulations, inflation is up at twenty
two percent, but we're printing more money.
Speaker 1: Well, see you are you're relying on people to have
some modicum of education. But because the left took control
of the school systems, they don't know that, they don't
recognize the inherent contradiction in these positions.
Speaker 2: So well, my ultimate favorite contradiction is the amount of
oil based lubricants it takes to run a single one
of those big, umongous windmills.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, once again you're applying logic to politics,
and those are usually incompatible. Yeah, Jim, I appreciate it.
I appreciate it, all right, Man, take it easy. That's
that's Jim there. Yeah, And this is the challenge, Like
you've got to drive prices down incomes up, house prices down, right,
people have to feel enthusiastic about their economic position. That's
and that's going to be on Trump and the Republicans.
And they got you know, they got one year to
do it. And I won't even mention the tariffs. Well,
I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to
do it. I want to shift to climate because it's
connected here, right, Is the climate grift collapsing? Is the
headline by David Strom at hotair dot com. Is the
climate grift collapsing. Okay, well, first off, no, okay, it's not.
But he says peak climate is behind us. This is
what he this is his assessment. Okay. He believes that
we are now moving past the catastrophism and the hysteria
that climate change is going to kill us all. And
he sites the new found position of one Bill Gates,
Microsoft founder purveyor of climate alarmism, and he wrote the
other day there is a doomsday view of climate change
that goes like this, In a few decades, cataclysmic climate
change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us.
Just look at the heat waves and storms caused by
rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise
in temperature, he says, Fortunately for all of us, this
view is wrong. Bill Gates says, this has Bill Gates
seen the light. Has Bill Gates reversed himself based on
studying and researching and looking at the evidence. Or maybe
he's looking at AI and the power needs of AI,
and so we're going to need AI a lot more.
We're gonna have to make a lot more power, and
so maybe we are going to have to do the
old Indiana Jones swapping out the totem for the bag
of sand thing you know, and swap out climate A
for for AI for power generation. So here's the shift.
This is the thing. And to Jim's point in the call,
like you do have to just sit back and admire
the audacity, the shamelessness, you know, of being able to
just completely abandon something that you held a belief, you
held a position or an argument to just immediately drop
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Here's a text from somebody with the last name that's French.
The majority of energy companies who built solar and wind
projects received huge tax right offs to do it, Otherwise
it would not have been cost effective. An example is
Duke Energy in Warsaw, North Carolina. Warsaw or Waxaw anyway,
Duke got twenty million dollars tax right off on that
one project. It's a Democrat scam. Yeah, always has been.
From Dennis Pete. You are killing me with the prophet Mamdani,
Peace be upon him. Very funny, uh, Jeff, is affordability
like votainer? No, it is not. Votainer is actually a thing. No. Now,
I would love votainer to be a campaign slogan. If
somebody were to run on a platform of normalizing the
word votainer, I would vote for that person, no matter
their politics. That's how in the tank I am for
the campaign to legitimize the word votainer. Yeah, pretty deep
in the tank, is what I'm saying. Yeah, so, David
Strom says or sorry, No, this is from Bill Gates.
Bill Gates writing at gatesnoes dot com, which I guess
this is website, saying that the view of cataclysmic climate change,
this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences,
particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not
lead to humanity's demise. People will be able to live
and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.
Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies
and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down
much further. Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of
the climate community to focus too much on near term
emissions goals, and it's diverting resources from the most effective
things we should be doing to improve life in a
warming world, like AI. Everybody, Am I right? Or am
I right? Right?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay, he didn't say that last part about AI. But
that's what this is about, David Strom, and he and
I share the same sort of opinion on the climate change.
I don't deny climate change. Climate changes, right. I equate
it often in an analogy to your oven or your refrigerator,
or your air conditioning unit or your heating unit. Right.
You have a temperature that you set it at, but
it does not stay at that temperature. It goes above it,
and then it goes below it. And then when it
goes too low, if you're trying to heat the place,
if it drops too low, it'll then fire up and
raise that temperature back up. It'll go a little bit
above and then it'll cut off, and then it'll come
back down. And that's the idea. It's not a constant level.
And this is one of the things that kills me
about the climate alarmists. Is they think that there is
some optimal temperature for the entire globe and that if
somehow or other, you know, we can capture all the
cowfarts that will maintain this static temperature. But I don't
know if you're aware of this or not, but the
globe is a pretty big place. Like it's really big.
Like you couldn't even walk around it in like a week.
It's really really large. And so I think it's a
fatal conceit. It's this hubris of man to think that
the stuff that we are doing is going to destroy
this entire massive rock floating through space. That's not to
say that I think we should go out and actively,
you know, pollute and make our air dirtier and all that.
There are all sorts of reasons why we shouldn't do that.
But this idea that like, oh, if you don't think
global warming is as catastrophic as I say it is,
then you're a climate change denier. I'm not a denier
in climate change. I am just looking at the balance sheet, right,
I'm looking at the trade offs, pros and cons, costs, benefits,
all of that stuff. And if you're going to tell
me that we have to impoverish America and the developed world,
and we have to keep in poverty the third world. Meanwhile,
bad actors that don't give a fly in fig Newton
about the planet. They get to just race ahead building
a coal power plant a day in China. Well, the
no like that. That's not a good, that's not a
cost benefit return, you know. So he says, I don't
know whether to whether and to what extent human beings
are impacting the climate. But I don't think that the
hypothesis that we are impacting the climate. I don't think
it's insane. What I do think is insane are the
claims that the science and data says that we are
doomed or even particularly threatened. The data sucks, it's manipulated,
The models are ridiculous, and the science is following the money,
and the money is huge, as in trillions of dollars
a year. Climate alarmism has been a gold rush for
many and a power grab for everybody in the transnational
elite or folite as I call them. The more horrifying
the stories they can concoct, the more money and power
they can grab. There are far more pressing problems in
the world, including hunger, disease, poverty, and the enduring lack
of resilience to natural disasters. You know, spending trillions of
dollars on cutting CO two emissions every year, that's not
going to solve any of these problems that he just listed, right,
and it doesn't make any impact on human well being,
either now or in the future. A few hundred million
wiping a few hundred million dollars that we could spend
wiping out mosquitoes in tropical climates. That'll actually do more
to improve human life spans and well being than a
few trillions spent on reducing CO two by some marginal percentage.
But that's not my point, he says, Well, what is
his point, Pete, glad you asked? I will tell you
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more transparent. David strowm at hot air dot com where
I left it in a cliffhanger before the break there.
You know what is his point of this piece that
he wrote is the climate grift collapsing. He says, O
obviously rational arguments have made no impact on the climate
quote unquote debate over the past few decades, and they
surely won't now with the people who lie awake at
night wondering what Greta Thunberg would do. These are not
rational people. Here's the thing. People are losing interest in
the issue, and the stasis in European economies is giving
members in the transnational fau elite, at least on this
side of the Atlantic, it's giving them pause. Right. We
see you, Germany, We see what's happening. You guys shut
down all your nuclear reactors and now you're buying oil
from the Russians while you while you're chastising them for
launching their war against Ukraine, giving them the leverage to
turn off your oil if you get too far out
of line. So yeah, that's not a good spot to
be and know. And meanwhile, the price of heating your
home in Germany has become prohibitively expensive. So we see you.
What was good for business aka the climate grift is
now not so good for business. See. Energy crises in
Europe will soon enough lead to the fall of governments
and the rise of populism, as has happened in the
US with Trump. The idiocy of climate alarmists has been
obvious to anybody who paid attention for years, and it's
infuriating that people like us have to fight against disastrous
policies for years or decades before we are proven right.
We don't even get thanks or credit for being right,
and the idiots don't get punished for being perpetually wrong.
It's like COVID, it's forgiven. Forget with these foletes. Imagine
if we had built one hundred more nuclear power plants
or two hundred since the eighties. Imagine. But no, the
fearmongers stopped us, and the result is that we have
spent decades trying to restart an industry that we killed
for no reason other than alarmism. See it's not until
the damage is done and is obvious and the bill
is outrageously high. It's only then that people who made
all of those mistakes, who led the charge on all
this garbage, it's only then that they move on. Now
his colleague at hot air dot com, Stephen Moore, former
Trumpet senior economic advisor, co founder of Unleash Prosperity. He
says some conservatives have snuffed that Gates has shifted his
position on climate change because he and Microsoft have invested
heavily in energy intensive data centers. Yes, that is why
I believe Bill Gates is now saying what he's saying.
What Gates has done, though Stephen Moore says is courageous
and praiseworthy. There are not many people of his stature
who will admit that they are wrong. I don't know.
I didn't see that he admitted he was wrong. But
but okay, I guess he's changing course and maybe others will.
We'll fall in line behind him now that you know
the permission structure is erected, and maybe you know the
preference cascade kicks in. Okay, right, that might be good.
Countries should be encouraged to grow their economies, said Gates,
even if that means a reliance on fossil fuels like
natural gas. Oh my goodness. Economic growth is essential to
human progress. And here's the other thing. Economic growth is
also how you guard against the disasters that Mother Nature
inflicts upon human beings. That's how you save people's lives.
When you become wealthy enough and advanced enough that you
can build systems and housing and infrastructure to protect as
many people as possible from the climate change, which, by
the way, this is based on some modeling, so m yeah,
I'm not really I'm not really putting all of my
eggs or any eggs actually into this basket, but New
York Post has a headline climate scientists claim the Gulf
Stream could be near collapse. The Golf Stream predicting a
new ice age. So yeah, because the polarized caps are
melting and then the cold water goes into what's called
a marine hot pocket, which sounds delicious, and it goes
in there and then it cools down the Gulf Stream
and then that's going to cause an ice age. So
all this time we've been worried about the global warring
and it's actually an ice age, which actually people were
predicting like back in the seventies, but then they change
it to global warring and now they're back onto Like
I feel like I am trapped in like I'm trapped
in an enclosed space with somebody who just keeps looking
at the hourly weather forecast telling me I need to
put a jacket on and take it off. All right,
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