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Dec. 12, 2023 - Louder with Crowder
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Free Speech Hypocrite Piers Morgan Hates Alex Jones, Platforms Terrorists!
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🎵 🎵
🎵 Christmas Eve.
See, all these toys are made by these elves.
These elves have that certain knack for toy making.
All except for this, this one misfit.
Herbie!
Aren't you finished painting that yet?
There's a pileup a mile behind you.
What's eating you, boy?
Well, see, that's the problem, I guess.
What?
I just don't like being a boy.
Oh, well, if that's all... What?
You don't like being a boy?
No.
Hermie doesn't like being a boy.
Hermie doesn't like being a boy.
You heard him!
Shame on you, Hermie!
Would you mind telling me what you do wanna be?
Well, sir, someday I'd like to...
Ten minute break!
Not for you!
Finish the job or you're fired!
Later.
You're fired.
Oh, no!
I'm not a dog.
Why is he such a transphobe?
I can't stand wearing men's clothes.
Chop my d*** off with gusto.
Then I might fit in.
You can't have this conversation everywhere without fear of retribution.
And you see it, you know that because you're experimenting with it by talking to people.
So what you're saying is, so for all this time that this has been correct, now this short amount of time, everybody's got to change on the dime.
Yeah.
And come to the other side.
That's going to be hard.
Yeah.
That's going to be hard to change people's minds.
I'm a he and a her.
That's it.
That's about all I got.
When was that term invented?
Body sham?
Yeah.
That was invented by fat white women.
That's real talk.
That's real talk.
That's real talk right there.
Oh So
Glad to be with you and I guess today we are back We're back here on the YouTube and why didn't anyone tell me?
So look hit the share button like it helps with the YouTube algorithm they want you to think that we're dead and if at any point Today and by that I mean at a certain point today with absolute absolute.
I mean, there's no doubt.
Yes, you will see this In which case, head on over to Rumble anyway and download the app so that you get the notifications.
Let's get to the rundown of the show.
We are going to be discussing... Well, we're going to do a deep dive today into EV batteries.
That's something that a lot of people maybe don't know a whole lot about.
Not just not electric vehicles in general, which we know are worse for the environment long term, but specifically what differentiates them from combustion engine vehicles, the battery.
What is required?
What goes into that?
Especially if you're looking at the legislation right now that is suffocating and everyone drives their white guilt mobile.
So we'll be talking about that.
Pierce Morgan is pissed off about Alex Jones being back on X in our rules for thee not for me segment.
And we also have a this week in Biden which is funny but also sad.
So let me ask you this.
Where do you stand on the issue?
Do you Do you still buy into the idea that electric vehicles are better for the environment?
Comment below.
Before we hit this segment later, it's going to be- Just go with me!
Go with me, because it's going to take a little bit of time and a lot of information, and we have the benefit of being able to do that on a slower news day, so this is something that I think a lot of people need the references for as they move forward in life, and it's a lot of fun to drive a Tesla.
Yeah.
But you're destroying Gaia.
Number two, Captain Morgan, how are you?
I'm doing well.
I think it's Gaia.
No.
You would.
Just kidding.
We were talking about pronunciations earlier.
Wishful thinking.
Tomorrow, by the way, we'll run Black and White and the Gray Issues, in which I went to a barbershop.
And just talked.
You'd be surprised as to how conservative and, of course, how much we have in common, but we were talking before the show, I said, is it G-R-A-Y or G-R-E-Y?
Yeah.
And then we got into the whole conversation, color is not spelled with a U, where I was raised in Canada, and it was, so just, you can comment, is it A-Y, is it E-Y, and this will give us some regional insight.
Third chair.
We're glad to have him.
We always thank him for his service, as one must.
And he is going to be at the Funnybone in Columbus, Ohio, December 22nd, 2030.
You can follow him on Instagram, Josh underscore Firestein.
Mr. Firestein, how are you?
Good, good.
I want to say that I am gayer than Gerald.
Yes, well, come on now.
That's not true.
That's not true.
We got the soundbites.
I'm more geo-strata than all of you.
Yeah, I was jealous you went to that barbershop.
I wanted to get a nice line up.
They offered me to do a full- They're like, no man, we'll get you a high fade, it'll change your life.
You want me to leave here looking like House Party?
Come on, man.
Little, little.
You know?
Well, you know what the funny thing is?
People are just, of course, I'm sure that most of the people of color, black people, vote Democrat in this country.
But boy, boy, boy do you realize that they are not the modern, progressive wing of the Democrat Party.
No.
That was my suspicion.
We continue to do these.
And you know what?
You also leave feeling better, having had these conversations.
So we have a few of them there in the hopper, including with two black women.
Surprisingly right wing.
Really?
Yeah.
On every front.
I think a lot of black people don't know they're right-wing.
Yes.
Yes.
They don't.
I mean, she was supportive of teachers having firearms who have concealed carry permits.
She was supportive of school choice.
And then she even asked me, you guys will see, she even asked me about, what do you think about people coming into the country who don't speak English?
I'm like, why do you?
I said, the fact that you have to whisper right now, I said, you had to choose your words carefully, didn't you?
She goes, yeah.
I said, that's what white people have to do with everything.
So just remember that.
You should have said, look at my goatee, lady.
What do you think?
She would correct you and say, it's a Fu Manchu, bitch.
All right, so we have other things to discuss here today.
Yeah, you got to adjust your headphones there because they were... you can adjust them.
Do you feel better?
Do you feel better?
Yeah, a little bit.
No, I know, they're so sensitive.
Yeah, I just wanted to hear you guys a little more.
Thanks, Josh.
Okay, Gerald, I'm gonna put it back down.
You'd rather be back in the trenches.
So from impersonating a little girl to rewriting history and inventing new numbers that aren't, uh, aren't num- they're not things.
Former Vice President Biden has had a pretty busy week.
So let's just go straight to this week in Biden.
If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump and you ain't black.
We're at three national monuments, Grand Staircase and Bears Ears.
And by the way, you know how that happened?
I was in a plane and a little girl came up to me.
She said, Mr. President.
Can you take care of Biz's ears?
I thought she said, can I take care of her ears?
I said, what honey?
She said, Biz's ears, it's really important.
And guess what?
She was dead right, and we did take care of it.
It's been 65 years since the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
65 years.
On my watch, instead of Infrastructure Week, America's having Infrastructure Decade.
Decade.
Over a billion, three hundred million, trillion, three hundred million dollars.
If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
Guys, come on.
To be fair, I don't want a dog pile on the guy.
The Bears Ears thing, it's a classic.
Mr. President.
I'm taking care of bears here, everyday.
I'm taking care of bears here, every way.
Woo!
So, here's something else.
I don't ever want to hear him say Pwesident again.
Pwesident!
Mr. Pwesident!
That was so creepy.
Oh my gosh, it's Fifty Shades of Grey.
Better not talk for him, unfortunately.
This administration also refused to invite families of American hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas to the White House Hanukkah reception.
This is a Hanukkah reception that the White House is hosting tonight to celebrate the fifth night of Hanukkah, hosted by the President and the First Lady.
And what one of the family members of the families that have their family members that are missing in Gaza still believed to have been abducted by Hamas on October 7, they told me that they had reached out to the White House because several of the families were in town this week, had asked for an invitation to this event, but that they ultimately did not get invited.
Now, despite this, former Vice President Biden, he did discuss his efforts, touted them, I guess.
He likes to tout his efforts to free the hostages.
It comes from CNN.
He said that he spent probably up to 20 hours working on it.
Oh jeez.
So you spent the equivalent of when we have an evening livestream, one day of work.
But he's on it.
Up to, and not limited to, 20 hours.
20 hours.
What am I, a machine?
He probably didn't actually spend 20 hours.
He spent like 15 and he's like, but up to.
Come on.
Maybe.
He never wrote 20 hours?
I took a nap.
I've been a public servant for a long time.
I never wrote 20 hours.
Dreamt about it.
He just made up a number.
He just made up a number and he did.
He's gonna work 20 hours on anything?
He didn't even consider the fact that it's not that impressive.
I work 20 hours!
200!
That's a lot.
I work 20 hours.
That's almost half of the requirement for a job to be considered full-time.
He doesn't know what a full work week is!
20 hours over two months!
He spent less time on it than if he were doing seven minute Hamas hostage abs.
There's more than 20 hours of porn on his son's laptop.
It's two months, 20 hours.
Dude, there's more than 20 hours of porn on his son's laptop.
That's just with his niece.
Don't touch it.
You know, come on a second.
Can we just also, it's bothering me.
Can we bring up that earlier clip about the 65 years, the hollock, do you have it?
Okay, bring this back up.
It's been 65 years since the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the holocaust.
65 cents a deadliest day.
That means that Biden's been working on the problem for years.
And That works out to 300 billion trillion Jews saved.
That's a lot.
Or killed.
That's a lot!
I don't know.
We're depending on which way his 20 hours tilts in the 65 years.
65 days, Mr. President.
65 days.
So if you're watching on YouTube, head on over to Rumble.
Hit the like button.
This is just, it's embarrassing.
Alright.
I feel bad for him.
The worst wife ever.
Is Jill Biden.
Yes.
Jill Biden is the worst wife ever.
It's your job when that guy is around.
He's gone around the bend.
Help him out.
Yeah.
Well, there was that one lady that drowned like three of her kids, but that was pretty bad.
No, no, no.
Jill Biden is still worse.
I think she was.
I think she was unmarried though.
Yeah.
Well, okay.
So there you go.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Trying to catch me.
Terrible mom.
Joe Biden, where are you?
Help him.
He's embarrassing himself.
Do you think she loves it?
She's like, this is for all those affairs you forced me to have with you.
You look like an idiot.
You took a dump on the Pope's floor, you moron.
That was a good year.
I get the sense that she's like, she's one of those ladies, Camp David.
She's not just like, I'm not having a martini lunch.
I'm having two!
Oh boy.
And, uh, just a few cabana boys.
When they're shooting him up with amphetamines, you think she's like, hey, let me get one of them thangs.
Yeah, bring it over.
Let me get one of them thangs and we talk to one of these interns.
That was her coke.
She has a cabana boy Mad Max blood bag.
Just so that she can feel alive.
Can you put some 44 year old woman blood in me?
Give me some of that fresh menopause blood.
That's what she said.
She looks significantly younger than him, too.
Yeah, of course she does.
Which is his thing.
Also, every black guy looks significantly younger than me, I found out.
Yeah, dude.
It's not until you see those gray hairs on their beard, you're like, wait a second.
Wait a second.
You're over 50!
You're not 30!
I'm 72!
You still can dunk, bro!
Still got hops.
Alright, this brings us to Pierce Morgan.
Look, let me ask you what your opinion is on Pierce Morgan.
I'm not a fan.
I know that now he's trying to rebrand himself as this, you know, free speech advocate by hosting a bunch of different people, but when push comes to shove, he really does show his true colors.
When push comes to... I'm sorry!
When pussy boy comes to being a red colt.
I do not talk with the red coat because they hate my country.
So, he's a red coat.
He's a red coat at heart.
And yesterday in an article at the New York Post, Pierce Morgan was whining about Elon Musk letting Alex Jones back on X. And if you're on YouTube, you didn't see us yesterday with Alex Jones here on the show.
And we're really happy, really proud of the fact that, you know, Mug Club, you guys, helped re-platform him.
And if you want to continue this, you know, you have the Nashville Manifesto, Alex Jones being re-platformed.
None of this happens without your support.
LightOathCreditor.com slash Mug Club.
And you get a free copy of Beautiful Differences, my children's book, that we have You know, tens of thousands of printings.
Once they're gone, they're gone.
Between now and Christmas.
That's it.
Okay.
Pierce Morgan!
Asshole.
What? Go ahead.
Pffft!
Hahahahaha!
Lump- Lumpy pillows.
Hahahahaha!
So the title is Elon Musk couldn't have been more wrong about Alex Jones.
He's not a free speech hero.
He's a hate speech monster.
So that brings us to this week's installment of Rules for Thee, Not for Me.
All right, let's start off with Rules for Thee. So after 30 paragraphs whining about Alex Jones,
Pierce concluded his article by saying to Elon, I always love it how these people write these open
I know.
Elon's certain to read it.
All you've done by showing this monster mercy is reward him for his repellent treatment of already devastated families experiencing the same awful grief you felt when your son died.
Well, thank you for telling him how he should feel regarding the death of his son, you pompous prick.
Jesus.
Think about that.
Like, hey, you know what?
That's kind of one of those things.
Just shut up.
You don't get to tell someone that they're being a hypocrite or get to determine how they should behave because of a loss.
The ultimate tragedy that I can't even imagine in their family.
So that's just, that's the conclusion.
But we'll work backwards.
This is also the guy, Pierce Morgan, who I guess you could say sparred with Count Dankula about this issue, Alex Jones, on his show just yesterday.
Yeah, I think he's completely right in doing it.
Why?
Elon Musk's company.
So if he wants Alex Jones back on the platform, then he absolutely can.
Is there a line, though, on free speech at all for you?
For me personally, no.
Nothing?
Anything?
No.
I think that Alex Jones should be able to go on Twitter.
If they want him there, then that's fine.
They can have him there.
Do you think what he said about the Sandy Hook massacre was justified, though?
Justified.
He has the right to say it.
I wouldn't say it was justified.
These were statements which you repeatedly made which led to actual intimidation, harassment, death threats and rape in the street.
Going up to these people and confronting them, these parents.
You think all that is fine?
I don't think it's fine.
I never said it's right.
I said he has a right to do it.
Does he have a right to do it?
Yeah, agreeing that someone has a right to do something.
You think he has a right to do that?
Yeah, I think he has a right to do it.
Agreeing that someone has a right to do something isn't the same as agreeing with what they say.
If we're saying, oh, this guy's not allowed to say his conspiracy theories or whatever you want to call them because some crazy guy out there might do something mental, then nobody can talk about anything at all.
Well, you can.
There are limits to free speech, as are everything else.
Even First Amendment America has a number of limitations to it.
Really?
Okay, good.
Name it, Pierce.
Let me guess.
You're going to use that old hack argument of yelling fire in a crowded theater, trying to grift off of the right wing as a free speech warrior when you don't understand the First Amendment?
And I understand why you don't understand the First Amendment.
Because you come from a country that doesn't have one, that's why we left.
You don't lose your First Amendment rights.
Even after defamation, to be clear, you get charged with defamation.
But you don't lose your right to speak.
It is completely inalienable.
He doesn't understand that.
And he also lies, just to be clear.
That's not why Alex Jones was removed from Twitter.
He was removed from making fun of Oliver Darcy.
A journalist from CNN who could be mistaken for, not saying is, an actual terrorist.
So that's why he was removed.
This idea, I mean he spent something like 16 minutes over the course of years on Sandy Hook, apologized for it, said that it was, he screwed up!
Said he screwed up.
He never called for violence or called for people to harass anybody.
Pierce Morgan doesn't understand what freedom of speech is, which is why when he goes out there and acts as though he's a platform hosting people of different points of view, It's a lie.
It's a lie.
You don't have to have Alex Jones on your show.
You absolutely do not.
And I don't think that that means you're anti-free speech.
The problem is when you are writing in a major publication You are calling for someone to be removed based on faulty information.
So hit the like button if you agree with Count Dankula there, even if you understood maybe 20% of what he just said.
I did love that it was fun to try to decipher that.
Listen, you're closer to the TV, even though that's not going to help you hear better.
I'm not saying it's right.
It's not right.
For example, it's not right for you to be a total prick.
It's not right for you to do it, but you have the right.
You have the right to be a giant pussy boy, but it doesn't mean that it's right.
Is it right and do you have the right?
You have the right to be a bull to the piss bag.
I don't make it right, but you have the right.
And I love his point.
He said, look, if you're worried that some random guy is going to go do something crazy because you talk about something that we can't talk about anything, that's the natural extension of this.
He's like, if Alex can't go out and make these comments, he can be sued.
Fine.
But he's not driving people to go do something.
He didn't say show up at these people's doorsteps.
He didn't say go to their homes and follow them in their businesses and make, wait a minute, I'm sorry.
I'm talking like a Congresswoman saying, get in their faces in public and make sure they don't have a comfortable life so that they can hear it.
That's not what happened with Alex Jones.
No.
And if you extrapolate this out, then there is no speech.
I'm not talking about free speech.
There is no speech because somebody might do something crazy because they don't like it.
Yeah.
I never thought that the voice of reason in a political talk show would be someone named Count Dankula.
Count Dankula!
Dude, it's so awesome.
Look, I'm one of them already.
I look at both sides, right?
Like I see one side, you're a prick.
On the other side, you're an asshole.
But I can see both arguments to be made.
You gotta meet in the middle.
I'll agree on that, I guess.
Meet in the middle like the buttons that are between your suit hanging on for dear life.
Clang on together.
I can hear you getting fatter.
You have the right to be a hot bastard.
Doesn't mean it's right.
Now, here's what's so interesting.
He wants Twitter to not allow Alex Jones on the platform.
Twitter, they benefit from Section 230, right?
It's treated as a platform, largely like a public utility.
They enjoy those benefits where they're not held liable for what people say on their platform, as opposed to a publisher.
And just to prove how little he understands the concept of the First Amendment, and it's rivaled only by his ignorance on the Second Amendment, this brings us to Pierce Morgan's Rules for Me.
He hosted Alex Jones on his very own program this year.
Here's a clip.
You're never gonna get our First Amendment, and I'm glad you had to move back to England to live under your Islamic takeover when they're arresting people for being against transgenderism.
All right, Alex.
So in other words, he doesn't want someone like Alex Jones to be able to speak with a bullhorn in the town square.
Right.
But he, which is basically a video version of New York Post, New York Times, he wants to host him.
Hey, you actually can be liable if you're hosting that person.
You're a publisher.
You're not a platform.
You are not a utility.
By the way, I was about to say Elon Musk.
Sorry.
Piers Morgan has also hosted Sahil Shaheen, the Taliban spokesperson.
Jeez.
Waheed Asif Shida, an Islamist extremist leader.
Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-Semitic Labor Party leader.
Lorenzo Gillyard, THE Kansas City Strangler, murdered 13 women.
I like how we say THE as though there are multiple and we have to distinguish.
No, no, no, this isn't the fake, you know, Johnny come lately Kansas City Strangler.
It's THE.
Or like a football player telling their college, THE Ohio State.
Right, exactly.
I was THE murderer.
This guy just wants to peddle and smut.
This guy just wants to have all of the clicks, all of the clickbait, all of the eyeballs and ears while just claiming that he's being a neutral observer as he offers his...
So why is he so upset that Musk is letting Alex Jones back onto X?
I'd love to hear from you.
term platform, remember there's a platform and publisher.
He's a publisher and he's availing his audience to these people so that he can hopefully, you
know, take another stab at relevancy after the lowest rated show on CNN after Larry
King, which is an accomplishment.
So why is he so upset that Musk is letting Alex Jones back onto X? I'd love to hear from you.
You can comment below. I have a theory and it could be that he's scared Alex might drop
some more truth bombs and hot takes like this.
And I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms.
It doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there on the street begging for them to have their guns taken.
We will not relinquish them.
Do you understand?
That's why you're going to fail and the establishment knows, no matter how much propaganda, the republic will rise again when you attempt to take our guns.
How many chimpanzees can dance on the head of a pin?
You've got a lot lower gun crime rate because you took all the guns.
Let me try exactly my point.
But you've got hordes of people burning down cities and beating old women's brains out
every day.
Let's try again.
How many gun murders were there...
Oh, you're gonna ban your fests now?
...in Britain last year?
How many chimpanzees can dance on the head of a pin?
I need to know the answer!
Listen Alex, I'm not going to play into your trick questions.
Three.
Everybody knows it's four.
I can answer how many monkeys jumping on a bed.
One fell off and bumped his head.
That's the problem with American healthcare, isn't it?
Because, see, that monkey would have to go to an insurance company.
It just appears... Stop.
I'm sorry.
Fraud.
Fraud.
There we go.
I cut you off, Josh.
What were you about to say?
I said he should have asked how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
Well, it depends on the owl you ask.
I'm friends with the owl.
Was it the spotted owl?
We don't ban the owl.
Gosh.
Let's not talk about the bro-ing owl, the ground owl.
No, I didn't say it.
Hey, I need to mention this.
It's still the 12 days of Christmas at CrowderShop.com and we are announcing, I guess we have the winner right now.
The winner of the 75-inch Samsung Crystal UHD 4K TV is...
Heather Cahill from Midwest City, Oklahoma.
Ah, nice!
I think it's Cahill, but you know, we'll just go with Cahill.
What did I say?
Cahill.
What is it?
Cahill to fish.
I'm sorry, Cahill.
Cahill?
Alright.
I think it's Cahill.
Heather Cahill?
I don't know where that's at.
Starting today, I guess every purchase at creditoshop.com gets you entered to win a
PS5.
That's the most current iteration, I hope.
Yes, it is.
It would be a really lame 12 days of Christmas to give out the third one back.
You get a GameCube!
Yeah!
Or maybe that's retro now.
No, it's not cool.
It was never cool.
It was always the worst.
No, I'd be stoked for a GameCube.
Would you?
Yeah.
What the?
He'd be stoked for half an eaten can of sweet potatoes, so we can't use him as a...
That's day 13.
It's your story.
It's your story.
All right.
Anything else?
No?
Okay.
Let's go into this EV battery deep dive.
I guess that's what people call it.
We used to call these meat segments and everyone says deep dive.
We're like, let's unpack this.
I don't need to unpack this.
That sounds pretentious.
All of the references are available at lightearthcrowder.com.
We'll have the link in the description so that you can go through all of these sources.
I think that's important for you.
And again, my question earlier is, how much do you know about EV batteries?
What is required to process them, manufacture them, what goes into them?
And I think that there are a lot of, if you've driven some like Teslas, they're cool.
They're fun to drive.
That's a different issue.
And I think that there are a lot of Teslas out there that are... First off, it's a more American car than a lot of American car manufacturers are creating.
Cool, they're fun.
The torque is a lot of fun.
I also have a realistic view and understanding that these are significantly worse for the environment, just to be clear.
Specifically, when you get to the issue of batteries.
So, you've heard it ad nauseum that we all need to switch to EVs immediately or you are going to die.
This is so serious now.
We're in the hottest year ever measured.
We're seeing these extreme climate-related weather events just causing havoc all over the world.
And scientists who've been spot on and dead right in their past predictions, we've seen it play out.
We need to give them careful attention to what they're saying would happen if we don't phase out fossil fuels.
So we've got to do it by 2035.
In the next 15 years, we will eliminate in the state of California the sales of internal combustion engines.
Battery, electric, plug-in, hybrid, electric, fuel cell, electric.
It's electric.
And there's no turning back.
How adults who are in position of responsibility can be avoiding responsibility for taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis.
And the reality is...
That we didn't edit that, that actually happened.
So is any of this true, aside from they're electric?
Former Vice President Biden was right about that.
Are electric vehicles the savior to humanity that we believe them to be?
And we've already gone through, think about Alex, not Alex Jones, we've already gone through Al Gore's predictions.
Turns out some of them are wrong.
For example, Florida is still there.
That's a big one.
It's going strong!
Is there something more nefarious behind the scenes?
That brings us to this installment of Climate Claims.
Okay, so we've already done some segments here on electric vehicles, right, and how
they're powered.
You can go and search the channel, or probably best to go to Rumble or Mug Club.
Wanted to laser in on a point here.
The main difference, obviously, between supposedly eco-friendly electric vehicles and other eco-holocausting vehicles is that they use a battery instead of gas, instead of a combustion engine.
That's really the differentiating factor, right?
They both have frames, windows, tires.
So what makes the EV better for the environment, allegedly, is the battery.
Okay, battery, good.
Fossil fuels, bad.
So what goes into one of those batteries?
What's needed to make one?
All right, well, let me list the important raw materials.
And I know that there are more, but these are sort of the main ones here.
Lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, manganese, also the names of the planeteers.
So how are we supposed to access all of these so-called eco-friendly materials?
Now, that looks rough, but it's because you don't understand it.
So let's go to lithium first.
Lithium, very important mineral, especially for Britney Spears.
75% of all lithium is located in the lithium triangle.
So that's Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Courtney loves small intestine.
Now, extracting lithium It's not easy.
It's not easy.
The process itself pollutes the surrounding air, water, and it consumes a significant amount of fresh water in the mining process itself.
Mining companies also use millions of gallons of fresh water, and in one of the driest places on earth, locals are scared of what that will do to their already scarce water supplies.
And they worry they won't get their fair share of the white gold rush unfolding in their own backyard.
Don't let them incite us, because we know when to get up.
So, 2.2 million liters of water are needed to produce one ton of lithium.
That's 21 million liters, just to give you an idea, per day, on average.
21 million eco-friendly liters per day.
day.
That we're running out of water.
I'm just, I'm using those as the premises here for the arguments that the left is making, these politicians are making, to try and force you to lithium cobalt batteries.
All right, this should be pretty concerning.
Because the largest lithium mines, they're smack dab in the middle of the desert where water is already hard to come by.
Which brings us to another problem, where a lot of the lithium needs to be mined.
So, another major source of lithium is in Afghanistan, which is, some would argue, a
distinctly non-eco-conscious country under the control of a particularly non-eco-conscious
Taliban.
I'm putting that work in.
The United States government estimates that the amount of lithium in Afghanistan could even rival that of the lithium triangle that we just mentioned there in South America.
So, let's be clear here.
A lot of lithium comes from remote deserts with no water, from a failed state controlled by radical warlords who, by the way, even worse, are rumored in some instances to also be transphobic.
And another little hiccup here, I don't know if you know this, they don't build Teslas in Afghanistan.
So there's the matter of getting all of this shipped to a country with processing and manufacturing facilities where, you know, hopefully they don't burn people alive in cages because of a speech impediment.
Now, this brings us finally to the fact that there isn't enough lithium to meet the coming demand.
So, this comes from CNBC.
Again, all references available at lottothecoder.com, link in the description.
The experts are forecasting that by 2025, we will be at a 40,000 to 60,000 ton deficit.
By 2030, that'll be 768,000 tons of a deficit that we'll be seeing.
Let's go to another mineral.
Again, we're just talking batteries here.
Cobalt.
Rare mineral.
It's mined from pits, trenches, using tools like shovels, pickaxes, rebar, and of course the process involves this toxic dumping.
It's ruining some landscapes, soil fertility, water quality, killing off fish from some rivers that serve as a major source of food for local populations.
Now, where?
When we talk about cobalt, most of our cobalt resources, around 60% according to estimates, are concentrated In mines in Central Africa, specifically the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Now, I need to be clear about something here.
I'm using the term Democratic Republic kind of loosely.
Just pick one.
The most important source of cobalt used in EV batteries is actually from a country
that has been democratically, republically at war for 25 years.
Never give a monkey an AK.
That's just good family fun.
Sorry, here's the war stuff.
Women and children are doing so-called artisanal mining.
But don't be fooled.
This is no quaint cottage industry.
At barely 10 years old, children lug heavy sacks of cobalt to be washed in rivers.
From as early as four, they can pick it out of a pile.
And even those too young to work spend much of the day breathing in toxic fumes.
Yeah, sorry, we had the wrong clip.
That's my fault.
So that was another thing.
Remember I told you earlier that it was largely mined with shovels and pickaxes.
I forgot to mention, you just saw that.
Yeah, that's also done by children.
A lot of them.
Of the 250,000 people in the Congo who mine for cobalt, 40,000 of them are children.
Let me give you some stats here.
Their wages are typically less than $2 a day.
It's been reported repeatedly that children working these mines are drugged to dull their hunger, they're starved if they don't collect enough cobalt, they're often beaten and extorted by soldiers dispatched by the government, but they have weekends off and they are their own boss.
So that's good.
Oh.
♫ Captain Planet, he's our hero. Gonna take pollution down to zero. ♫
Alright, tool man.
You got your fingers on the button now?
Okay.
Yes.
So, actually, there's a company, Glencore.
It's a mining company that provides Tesla with a lot of the materials they need, including cobalt.
They topped the list for human rights abuses in 2022.
Think of all the companies that exist in the world.
You're number one.
Yeah.
Well, they're up there.
They're up there.
Well.
I believe they're technically, depending on the list that you use, if it's a pound-for-pound list, but you know, the point is, they're bad.
So when you talk about protesting GAP because of sweatshops, and then you say buy EVs, it's not even close.
Because you're dealing with these rare earth minerals that need to be mined in ways that are impossible to do without, largely to meet the demand, slave labor of children.
Luckily, Hollywood has picked up a story and is going to be bringing awareness to the masses.
It's the hard knock life for us. It's the hard knock life for us.
Okay.
That was South African.
It was a chimpanzee with an AK when you eat him.
To be clear, people tuning in late, it was an actual chimpanzee with an AK.
It was.
Literally.
Yes, yes.
So now you know where the material for these EV batteries, right, where we get the actual material.
Okay, but who actually controls the means of production?
So if you get the raw material, okay, now we need to go to production.
All right, let me give you a hint.
China.
China now accounts for over 70% of global EV battery production capacity, and with over 20 years of consistent commitment to African nations, it has placed itself in the right position to access the resources needed to continue this trend, leaving the U.S.
to play catch-up.
So, the Chinese government, just to be clear, tiny people but large ambitions.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that they control 70% of the production worldwide according to researchers of lithium production world 70% of the lithium production worldwide China In 2020, all global companies, to give you an idea, some context here, all global companies combined, they acquired about 6.8 million metric tons of lithium.
In 2021, Chinese firms alone acquired 6.4 million metric tons of lithium.
So one year, 6.8, the whole world.
Next year, 6.4, pretty close, just China.
No.
So Chinese mining and battery companies, they've also invested about $4.5 billion.
I almost said million.
The good old days.
$4.5 billion in lithium mines in the past two years.
And China themselves are behind it.
A lot of Africa's lithium projects in countries like Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mali.
And China is on track right now, as Well, they're on track to get more of it.
And by the way, they're on the right track, because according to the World Bank, they report that global production is predicted to rise by 965% for lithium, and then about 585% for cobalt by 2050.
So they've carved out a stronghold in the African mining market, the Chinese government, in exchange for development aid, and this is particularly prevalent, something that you see in Congo.
Back in 2008, the Democratic Republic of Congo struck a big deal with Beijing.
China's state-owned firms would build hospitals and roads in return for revenues from copper and cobalt mines.
Thirteen years on, critics say few of the promised benefits have materialised.
Surprise!
Aww.
No, not China.
Yeah, not China.
Maybe keep their word!
Yeah, you mean that China wouldn't be treating Africans well?
Oh, come on.
Pinky promise.
Let me give you an example.
2008, there was this infrastructure for resources swap, I guess.
I guess kind of like a Chinese gift.
You'd have to call it white elephant now.
You can't call it Chinese gift.
It's a red elephant.
In this case, you know what?
Let's just call it the old China screw job.
China acquired a 68% stake in SICO Mines, a copper and cobalt disjoint venture with Congo's state mining operation, I believe it's pronounced Jekamine.
Jekamine.
I don't know how you pronounce it, but you guys, it's a French word I'm pronouncing, but you can correct me to say it the right wrong way in English.
This is according to AP News.
So China's also unbelievably active with their investments in Zimbabwe, a country with huge resources as it relates to lithium.
Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years, and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, located 300 kilometers south of the capital Harare, has about 11 million metric tons of lithium resources alone.
In Zimbabwe, there are more than 80 state-owned Chinese enterprises, which have amassed a total of $10.4 billion in investments and contracts in the country from 2005 to 2020.
Meanwhile, the U.S.
has fallen behind, and relations with the nation have been shaky.
Now I know that some of you are going to say this next part is ethnocentric, but it has nothing to do with the fact that, you know, that these are small Chinese people.
And everything to do with the fact that they employ slave labor and, you know, as they see their economic boom there in China, total disregard for basic human rights.
Their domination of these mineral markets is a big problem!
For a place like the United States.
So in 2022, the United States imports of lithium-ion batteries climbed up to 637,000 tons.
That's a 99% increase from 2021.
Wow.
How many Dustbusters do you need?
Five.
And a Tesla.
Yes.
So, currently, to give you an idea, and this, if you assume that all countries are equal in the way they treat the environment, now of course statistically they're not, The United States relies 100% on imports and secondary scrap materials for its cobalt consumption.
90? No. 95? Incorrect. 100% on imports and secondary scrap materials for its cobalt consumption.
China refines 72% of the world's cobalt, while the United States refines 0%. 0%!
Again, you have to keep in mind that that means these products also, aside from the energy, the incredibly energy intensive process to mining them, to process them, it has to be sent across the ocean to the United States because we refine zero percent.
So the United States, for example, we have about one main cobalt mine, at least that would be of note, stopped construction in late March 2023.
This was in Idaho.
Why?
This is a news report to focus on their real passion.
Whatever people think of Idaho, the first thing they think of is the potato.
Real cool.
He's not happy to be there.
And keep in mind, before we even get to transporting it, all of this mineral production, this comes from the country that far and away leads the world in CO2 emissions.
Rebecca!
Get that guy!
Jim Planet, he's our hero.
Gonna take pollution down to zero.
We're back up the graph.
Yeah!
Look at that!
That's China!
Geez!
They're the red one?
Number one!
Where are you, Greta Thunberg?
I should be in China right now!
How's not my job?
Because I'm white!
Yeah, they can't criticize China at all.
No, you can't criticize China?
At least they had, how dare you in Mandarin.
She needs to learn it.
It probably takes 19 times longer.
It does, yeah.
So here's a question I guess that you probably would have.
Why would American companies not want to mine for these precious commodities?
Alright, a couple of answers here.
Number one, and this is also a very important point, because anytime you get to eco-friendly proposals, there's sort of a few issues that you have to deal with.
Okay, is this actually better for the environment?
Assuming you believe that the earth is warming to a catastrophic degree, and that we would be able to stop it through government intervention, right?
Let's assume you believe all those things, okay?
You have to ask, is it actually better for the environment?
This being presented as an alternative, is it?
Then you have to say, is it something that is sustainable?
And then you have to ask yourselves, okay, what would be the rate-limiting factor to getting this accomplished?
And that's how you end up, for example, with inefficient solar panels being proposed and wind farms in the United States to replace what they consider non-renewables, but then they can't actually be built or installed, for example, solar panels in the Mojave Desert, due to an endangered insect.
Because the same environmentalists prevent you from doing exactly what it is they told you you need to do.
First answer here is regulation.
The United States does have vast lithium reserves.
Now we're just, not cobalt, but lithium.
Including huge amounts in Maine, California, Nevada.
So Maine, for example, the Plumbago Mountain has 1.5 billion dollars worth of lithium ore.
California, the Salton Sea, which is one of the creepiest places on earth, if you've ever been there, contains 500 billion dollars, potentially, of lithium.
Nevada, the McDermott Caldera, That's on the border with Oregon.
It contains 1.5 trillion dollars worth of lithium.
That's a lot of lithium!
Unfortunately, environmental concerns, now keep in mind, the environmental concerns that come from the same people who demand electric vehicles Which is why we have a demand for lithium and cobalt in the first place end up creating regulations that prevent the United States from ever actually getting their hands on their own lithium.
So the United States, to give you just a really quick fact, takes 10 years to get a permit.
You have any idea how much carbon dioxide is going to be released from China in those 10 years?
And then, of course, you also have a lot of local communities who are completely opposed.
Like, there are towns, entire towns in Maine that have passed laws preventing nearby mining due to fear of water pollution.
Kind of like Ted Kennedy, remember?
He said, we need wind turbines, but not on Cape Cod out in front of my house!
Both Biden, to his credit, and Donald Trump have tried to onshore some lithium mining, but they have had incredibly difficult... they've had an uphill battle to fight.
So, for example, the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, it was approved by then-President Trump.
It's still tied up in litigation.
Okay, so the first answer is regulation from the same people who demand that we use these to artificially manipulate the market to begin with.
The second answer here is the cost.
Which goes hand in hand with regulation.
Obviously red tape makes it more expensive.
But the cost in the United States is prohibitive.
Largely because of this legislation.
So China...
They have made it financially impossible for us to do so at this point.
And this is where the idea of global enterprises and companies that are too big to fail, who, you know, get to curry favor with governments, right?
Multi-trillion dollar companies end up creating policies and taking actions that harm you, the American consumer.
None of this, to be clear, none of this is dictated by the free market.
So China has made it pretty much impossible to do so.
So Bryce Crocker, the CEO of Australia's Javar Mining, This is a company, did I say, is it Jevoir?
Jevoir.
Jevoir.
I don't know.
Is it French?
Do they try and sound French?
Like, Jevoir?
Jevoir.
Jevoir.
Jevoir Mining.
All right.
Sounds like a cologne that you'd get.
This company, they own that, they own that Idaho mine, the rights to that Idaho mine.
They blamed the cratering cobalt prices caused by developments in China and the Congo.
So China controls such a huge portion, basically a monopoly on the production, they can make it impossible for other countries to enter the market.
So considering all this, it's really not a surprise that China is moving to increase the sale of cheap electric vehicles in the United States of America.
And this presents what you might refer to, you know, The Goldilocks problem that the United States has when it comes to electric vehicles?
If the United States, for example, wants to rapidly increase production of electric vehicles, can only do so relying on Chinese imports.
But if the United States moves too slowly, low-cost Chinese EVs, they're going to make their way, like BYD is actually, oh that's right we have a clip, BYD.
If they do it, if they try and do it fast, the United States, They have to do it through China.
If they do it slowly, they get devoured by China.
Companies like BYD, they're going to flood the U.S.
market.
If we work together to build a brighter future for today, you can make history tomorrow.
Make history.
Then he made with a 19 year old.
He was on vacation.
What else does one does?
There's no joke, that's just a real commercial that actually happened.
By the guy who said we was taping the Revenant, when he was filming the Revenant, he said we had to go there because there was no snow.
Global warming.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Is that you?
In that Chinese EV advertisement?
The irony, it's lost on you.
And this brings us to the idea.
Let's assume that there was nothing wrong with the mining of lithium and cobalt.
Let's assume that the Chinese government was honest and they weren't releasing record numbers of carbon emissions into the air.
Let's assume that it then did not have to be transported to the United States or anywhere else in the Western world because we have a dependency on basically a monopoly that is reinforced by international corporations and the communist Chinese government.
Let's assume all of that and still believe that EV batteries, good.
Combustion engines, bad.
Okay, that brings us to the battery's been made.
Sure, you know, you break a few child slaves, but the batteries are made.
That's a good thing now.
Once the battery is produced, how long does it even last?
Well, let's look at the end.
Again, Tesla's cool cars.
A lot of fun to drive.
Let's look at the Tesla Model 3, their warranty, actually, as an example.
Eight years, 100,000 miles.
But the fine print, it allows for 30% degradation.
That means the ability to only hold 70% of its original charge before being considered defective.
At least, though, once your battery is dead, good news is you can recycle.
Sorry.
Turns out it costs more to recycle a lithium battery than it is to just mine More lithium to make a new battery.
Just toss some Democratic Republic of Congo bodies at it!
Should I put this in the blue bin or the green bin?
Just throw it as a Zimbabwe child.
It's fine.
It's the same net result.
So, how do we find ourselves here?
And where does that go?
About 5% of lithium batteries are being recycled globally.
5%.
Meaning that the majority of them, the vast majority, if you do the math, 95% are just sitting around somewhere being a pollutant no matter what you try.
See, we're creative, but that's really more of an arts and craft.
It's a hobby.
It's not sustainable.
It'll catch fire.
As an alternative.
I would've went with Energizer, but... Okay, fine, whatever.
The problem is, I like my batteries to go, but I don't want them to keep going and going.
I guess you go, you stop.
You stop.
It's unnatural.
So there are entire swaths of EVs that have been abandoned in what they call electric vehicle graveyards in China.
Look, it's like staring into a crystal ball.
Because it's all a money grab and it's a ridiculous scheme and a Ponzi scheme type situation in China, they just pumped these things out without doing proper market research, without actually seeing if it was viable or not.
And so the end result is fields and fields of thousands of hundreds of thousands of abandoned vehicles that are now going to rot.
Now this is where it gets insidious.
These cars are electric vehicles.
I prefer my equally eco-unfriendly diesel graveyards.
That's not really an important point, it just comes down to personal preference.
I'm a diesel graveyard guy.
I'm a people graveyard guy.
Sometimes I drive past a diesel graveyard and I go, can I hold my breath?
No.
What am I, a pearl diver?
So, what's the worst, I guess, and yeah, I would say ironic part about the whole EV charade.
I'm using it appropriately.
I'm not pulling an Alanis Morissette.
It's all powered by fossil fuels anyway.
Coal, natural gas, petroleum.
They account for about 60% of all electricity production in the United States of America.
Renewables, they're way too far away from replacing coal, other sources of energy.
Since 2004, the world has invested $6.7 trillion into this energy transition.
And what do they get for the money?
Fossil fuels still supply 84% of the world's energy.
Down a total of less than 2%!
Since 2004!
20 years, 2%!
In that same time, China, India, doing this!
On the graph!
So stupid.
Doing what?
Just... that!
That's what it's doing!
Gotta fix your hair now.
Thank you.
That happens every time I do the CO2 emission graph.
One of my favorite characters.
So let's bring this home here.
And again, all of the references are available.
The link is in the description, livewithcredit.com.
I highly encourage that you go and research this more because this is, it's a con.
It's a con.
By the way, I have no problem if you like electric cars.
They're cool.
I get it.
They're fun to drive.
In some cases, they make more sense.
In most cases, they don't.
But as it relates to the environment, as it relates to governments stepping in and punishing you, raising the prices of energy that you need in the name of the environment, it's a lie and they are.
Invariably, as government does.
When they intend to solve a problem, more harm than good.
Let's walk through it.
Okay, the ingredients that are required, these minerals, cobalt, lithium, right, now this of course relies on dirty mining, United States reliance on authoritarian owners of mines, the use of child slave labor, and then these batteries rely...
Entirely on minerals that are procured through all of these practices that we've discussed.
Countries run by places like the Taliban, the communist Chinese government that use child slave labor to make inefficient, uneco-friendly vehicles, all so that you can roll down your suburban street in your white guilt-mobile.
Captain Planet, he's our hero Gonna take pollution down to zero
So someone tries to tell you, you need to go electric They forced you to go electric into a car with a giant lithium battery.
By the power of yours combined, he's a dick.
That's been this installment of Climate Claims.
♪♪♪ Alright.
You mean I can't, I can't feel like I'm doing my part?
What do you mean?
By buying an electric vehicle?
Nope.
No.
You can.
I just, I just won't be.
You can feel a lot of things.
That's true.
I just won't actually be doing my part.
Yeah.
So when Elon Musk said he's done more than any human being on the planet to help the climate... Probably not.
Probably not.
It depends on your goals.
Well, hold on, hold on.
If you want to not help the climate... Yeah.
But also, it depends on if you're a child in one of these countries.
Probably not loving the demand for cobalt in the mining process.
But, you know, it'll solve the population problem, because the life expectancy isn't great.
Plus, according to that video, they can add to their resume, artisanal mining.
Yes, they can.
That's what they called it.
They called it artisanal mining.
It's a cottage industry.
Just use buzzwords.
Like it was an Italian BMT.
Artisanal.
I wonder if there's a hierarchy, too, or someone who mines manganese is like, well, I'm artisanal mining adjacent.
One day, to be in the cobalt mine.
I'm stuck in manganese.
No one ever thinks about manganese.
No.
I'm like the middle child.
I don't know.
Does lithium catch fire when it touches air?
I mean, it can.
It's flammable.
I know you can't bring it on an airplane in a certain capacity.
Yeah, if it touches air it goes on fire.
Ah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't let the terrorists know that!
All you have to do is blow on it and you get your virgins?
Yeah, you ever puncture a phone battery and it starts swelling up?
It's because it's lighting on fire.
Ah, really?
Inside the phone?
Yeah, that's why you see phones explode when someone stabs the battery with like a knife.
It'll explode.
I thought, I just thought it was a prank.
I thought people were putting blasting caps on phones.
It was a thing.
I didn't know that.
Oops.
I think it was crazy.
Glad I have it in my pocket all the time.
I feel bad for the one person out there who finds like the last remaining blasting cap on railroads and loses a hand.
Because they don't do the PSAs anymore, don't play with blasting caps.
But I'm sure there are a few still around.
Or don't play with railroads.
Who's out there?
You didn't play with a railroad.
It's a rite of passage.
Ah, come on, I did!
Come on, dude!
Yeah, that was my thing, I would do the little... Watch, here goes the train, it's gonna derail!
Yeah, that's exactly it.
Yeah, you know, it happens.
He's too busy tying girls up on them.
Yes, exactly.
And then saving them.
Exactly.
Josh Whiplash.
Do you want to see a video of a lithium battery, like, going up in flames?
Do I want to?
Yeah.
Do you have to ask?
Yes.
Practice my stabbing.
Yeah, you're exposing it to air.
There you go.
Whoa!
Huh.
That is cool.
That can't be normal.
That is neat.
That is normal.
Really?
Yeah.
Like if I have my phone in the wrong position in my pocket with a bobby pin, I'm gonna look like the Rocketeer?
The bobby pin punctures the battery in your phone, but I think it'd take a lot to... Well, the back of the phone is supposed to be really strong compared to the front of the phone, right?
I mean, that guy stabbed it like four times.
That's true.
Well, you know what?
No one's saying it's impenetrable.
What if it's like Ben Carson?
And Ben Carson hits that instead of a belt buckle?
That's true.
There you go.
Then you're gonna have some roasted chestnuts, my friend.
His mother should thank her lucky stars.
Tesla fires are really hard to extinguish because you basically create a blowtorch with batteries.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we should be dropping these on the tables.
But, let's be fair, you know, a combustion engine fire is no picnic either.
No!
Yeah, but you can put it out.
Either way, someone's shouting, Either way, that receiver from the Raiders is going to prison.
And when he called 9-1-1, what did he say?
TV's are good!
What happened to you?
Cell phone.
Lung cancer?
No.
It's a support group, they're going in a circle.
What happened to you?
Cordless Dyson vac fucked me.
How about you?
LG Zero.
And you, Marlboro.
That's the wrong room, that's room C-17.
Alright, we have, by the way, we have, every now and then we'll do these meat segments
where it's, I get it's more of an evergreen, but it's just something that hopefully can
help you have these discussions.
as you move forward. So many people are fooled by this, and it's not that hard
to poke holes in it, it's not that hard to dissect. You don't have to be a genius, you
don't have to be a climatologist to understand that the economics don't make
sense, and the energy required doesn't make sense, let alone, and
this is where when people say, oh man, I look at every issue individually.
No, no, the ism, the ideology does matter because
these nations on whom you are depending, they of course have an ideology, and you can't simply
replace it without any semblance of right or wrong yourselves.
You need to look at these issues critically, you need to look at issues individually, but I do think it's important to have a worldview.
Otherwise, you can be led astray by any of them.
That's the only reason.
I would say this, if you have to put a finer point on it, the only reason that people are driving these electric vehicles, thinking they're helping the environment, is because they have no worldview, and so they buy everything, hook, line, and sinker, just like they did with COVID.
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