Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstain challenge Bernie Sanders' climate alarmism, citing Europe's 500-year drought and Pakistan's flooding as natural variability rather than human-caused emissions. They argue that global cooperation with China and Russia is impossible due to conflicting economic incentives, labeling the "deep state" a Trump supporter myth while criticizing Fauci's pandemic tenure. The hosts dismiss democratic socialist energy policies as hypocritical working-class harm, calling climate narratives "complete bullshit" cooked by elites to seize power, ultimately framing extreme weather as structural failures or adaptation successes instead of carbon-driven catastrophes. [Automatically generated summary]
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Rolling Back The Deep State00:10:28
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Here's your host, James Smith.
What's up, everybody?
What's up?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I'm Dave Smith.
He's Robbie the Fire Bernstein, the king of the caulks.
COVID, Jesus.
What's up, brother?
How are you doing tonight?
I'm doing well.
How was the Tim Pole thingy thing?
Oh, it was great.
Yeah, I just got back today.
I was traveling all day to get home.
But it was a lot of fun.
Yeah, if you guys didn't check it out, I was back on Timcast last night.
Went on with my guy, Maj Ture.
Had a great time.
Really, every time I'm down there, I love those guys.
And I always really enjoy doing the show.
So a big thank you to Tim Poole and to Lydia and Ian and the whole team there.
They got an incredible thing, an incredible operation going on there.
It was a lot of fun.
I think I pissed off.
I got more pushback from some of the listeners than I have on previous opponents, on previous appearances, because I was very harsh on Trump, which I didn't plan on doing.
It just kind of came out.
I was just planning on, I didn't really have any idea what we were going to talk about.
I was just like, oh, we'll talk about the Libertarian Party a bunch, I'm sure, because it's me and Maj there.
And then it just, you know, one thing led to another, and I was trashing Trump a whole bunch.
But, you know, I stand by it.
I stand by it.
I know it pisses, it pisses people off who are real hardcore on the Trump train, but I think it's important.
I think it's important to tell the truth.
And that's like they still see Trump.
I don't know, like their identity is wrapped up in Trump winning, which is how he gets you.
Yeah.
That is the flaw of people's logic is that like they think that they're Trump.
And so if Trump wins, it's like, like, I'm not, whatever.
He had some moments.
He was overall pretty terrible.
There's probably some better options in the Republican Party.
It would be nice if we all moved on.
Yeah.
I mean, I look at it like this, that I just go, I remember thinking, I've had, I've had this, you know, I've talked about this before.
I've had this at several points in my career, where you just, you become aware.
I remember this when I first started getting booked on Fox News gigs.
And it was basically said to me, I mean, not exactly, not explicitly, but it was basically said that like, oh, look, there are like some higher ups here who are like looking at you and like, you know, think like you could be like, there's something for you here.
But, you know, you're a little bit too like, it's not that they never even said what the view was or what the thing was, but you know, you know, right away.
You kind of just know.
You're like, oh, I know what I could do to make myself rise up the ranks here.
Like, I know what they're looking for.
And at the time, I was like, really, you know, I was broke and I had no following.
And I was just like, it was kind of, you're like, oh, shit, I would really love to be making big money.
Iraq War II.
That's what we need to do.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, Iraq War III.
Yeah, maybe four, depending how you count Obama's.
Scott Horton calls Obama's Iraq War, Iraq War III.
So that anyway.
And there's just been other times in my career, you start to notice, and it's something you're aware of as you get a bigger and bigger following that.
And I'm not accusing anyone else of doing this.
I'm sure some people do it.
I'm not, but I just don't want it to be interpreted that way.
You get to this position where you realize that if you, rather than trying to lead your audience to what you think is right, if you follow your audience, you can make a lot more money.
Like, in other words, if I just went all in for Donald Trump, I could be way bigger because there's fucking, you know, 70 million diehard Trump supporters out there.
And if you're just telling them what they want to hear, you people want to jump on board.
If you're just going to be here and be like, hey, look, what I'll do is I'll provide Trump supporters with the best arguments for Donald Trump.
Here, come listen to my show.
I'll give you all the arguments you need to go win and convince yourself that your guys, your guy.
You just, and there are these kind of perverse incentives that push you in these different directions.
And I just decided a long time ago that I was like, you know what?
I'm just going to be me and let the chips fall where they may.
That's what I'm going to do because that's what I want to do.
That's who I, that's who like I want to be in this whole thing.
And so I always just feel like there's whatever platform I'm on, my, my job is always kind of like to look, I try my best to with always staying within what I believe is the truth to try to kind of like relate to them, tell them what I think they're getting right, but then tell them what I think they're getting wrong.
And that's what I'll continue to kind of try to do.
So I just, I'm sorry, but Donald Trump did have some good points.
And he certainly the spectacle in the show of Donald Trump.
Well, well, I mean, there's a few things he executed on.
And certainly the spectacle in the show of just, you know, driving all of the worst people insane was beautiful.
And of course, as like, you know, someone said to me, someone posted on Twitter I saw today, and I don't see that many of the tweets, but I did see this one.
It was funny.
They said, they go, Dave's criticizing Donald Trump.
What he doesn't understand is that the deep state was working against Donald Trump or something.
And you're like, listen, I challenge you to find a content creator who has done more on the deep state's opposition to Donald Trump.
Like, I mean, I'm sure there's some who have done as much, but Rob, me and you, who out there, I'm not saying there's some people that have bigger audiences or something like that, but who out there has spent more of their time talking about how much the deep state was in opposition to Donald Trump?
It's like, yes, that's not news to me.
But I'm just saying that Donald Trump, he kept Fauci on the job throughout all of 2020.
I'm sorry, my standards are just a little bit higher than that.
I just, that, that is unforgivable.
And if you're a Trump supporter, okay, fine, be a Trump supporter.
I'm not even telling you not to be, but don't fucking tell me I'm not right about that.
At least like be honest enough.
If you can't be honest enough to go, yeah, that is pretty goddamn inexcusable that he kept Fauci on the job the entire time.
Like that, if you can't admit that, then you're guilty of the same thing that you hate about the other side, that they're so blinded behind their guy and their ideology and all of this.
Come on, he could have fired Fauci.
There's absolutely no reason why he couldn't have done that.
And he could, and you could say, well, then the media would have criticized him.
It's like, yeah, as if they weren't criticizing him already, right?
So he could have done that.
And all he had to do was really go ask some of his friends.
Could have asked Rand Paul, hey, what do you think about this Fauci guy?
Hey, I know you're a doctor.
What do you think about this guy?
You know, like he's, it's all he needed.
I'm not, I wasn't expecting him to be perfect, but I needed a little bit better than what he had.
I think that the deep state comment of that people go, Oh, look, but the deep state, that's what I mean.
Like, Donald Trump does a very good job of remaining the underdog.
And so, these people want to see him win so they can get back at the and their intuition is right that there are forces that are attacking them.
It's the deep state, it's the ultra-left, it's the liberals, it's all that stuff.
But Donald Trump's not the guy to defeat it.
In their head, they're like, Donald Trump's the underdog, and he's been wrongfully harmed by these people, so I need him to come back with the vengeance.
And that's the way that, like, we kind of write the wrong.
But well, I never do it.
And the thing is that I think they also feel a lot like, well, everyone else is out to get us, and he was our guy.
So, if you're out to get him, then you're out to get the only guy who's our guy.
And my thing is that I'm like, no, I'm criticizing him because I don't think he defended you enough.
Like, I'm criticizing him because I think you deserved better.
So, anyway, whatever.
I've made this point enough between the sticks debate and the uh the Tim Pool show, but it was a great time.
It was a lot of fun.
I really love the team down there.
All right, anyway, so this is uh, we're gonna bang out an episode here, and then I got to go watch a uh Nate Diaz pay-per-view.
Hell yeah, I'm so happy it's Tony Ferguson now.
I always wanted to see Tony Ferguson, Nate Diaz.
Yeah, it's so weird.
Man, I've never seen anything like this in a UFC event.
God intervened for us, he stepped in and he said, Let me get you better matchups, dude.
I was going down, and I'm like, uh, I was on Amtrak going down to Tim Pools yesterday and just watching all this shit about what's going on.
Like, for there was the fight, I was behind on that.
There was this huge melee in the fight at the press conference, and then that got canceled.
And then it's like, Hamza missed weight.
There's a whole thing.
I was texting Rogan and get the insights.
I'm like, dude, what the fuck's going on here?
What's happening?
Is the car going to be canceled?
Like, what's going on?
And he did, he told me what was going on a bit before it was announced.
And then I was like, oh, all right.
Okay, that's kind of interesting.
That's kind of interesting.
Now it's Nate Diaz versus Tony Ferguson.
I do feel like, um, whatever.
We're not going to go too far into MMA.
I have an MMA podcast, you know, MMA rep. I think it's, it's just really fucked up what Hamza did to Nate Diaz.
Like, the guy was willing to take the fight that is like, by all accounts, like the toughest, most nightmare matchup, most difficult fight.
World Government For Liberty00:15:35
He's willing to take it.
He trains for it, shows up for it.
And then you kind of rob him of like, it's almost like the trade you make when you take a guy who's like a 17 to 1 favorite against you.
The trade you make is kind of like, okay, I'll take this nightmare matchup.
But the deal is that I get the like, if I pull this off, I just did the greatest thing ever.
And it's almost like he was robbed of that.
You know what I mean?
Like he was robbed of the chance to go out and beat this guy.
And now he's got to switch opponents last minute.
So anyway, it's kind of, it sucks in that regard, but I'm still excited to go watch the fights.
Kamzad looks like he's been robbed of his dignity.
He just doesn't look like the same guy anymore.
It looks like something happened backstage where he saw the devil and he just is not the same guy.
Well, it is interesting.
Anyway, we'll go see.
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What we wanted to talk about today, you Rob sent me.
I have not watched this, but Rob, you mentioned that Bernie Sanders gave a big speech on the Senate floor about climate change.
I think this is really important.
And this is one of the things we're going to start focusing on a lot on the show because as we predicted and as is really coming true, it seems like, man, this climate change stuff is-I mean, obviously, it's been a big deal for a long time, but I really think this is as the COVID thing collapses.
This is now where all of that energy is going to go.
So it's all of the old stuff.
And in many ways, of course, like they were pushing the Green New Deal back in 2000, what is it, 18 when they first proposed that.
They've been pushing the climate change stuff for a while before then.
But right now, this really seems to be what they're ramping up.
That this is the new thing of how the government is going to really crack down on liberty and really gain more control over the economy and the population.
And so I think it's really important to kind of take this stuff on as best we can.
Again, I have not watched this, but you know what?
Hey, let's do it.
I'm sure there'll be a lot here to talk about.
Let's check in with our good friend Bonisandos.
Industry is pushing to make it easier for them to pollute the environment and destroy our planet.
But before I do, let me put my opposition to this disastrous side deal into a broader context.
Mr. President, as the father of four kids and the grandfather of seven, I very much wish that I did not have to say what I'm going to say.
But the most serious challenge facing our country and the entire world, far and away, is in fact the existential threat of climate change.
That is not the opinion of Bernie Sanders, who failed physics in college.
That is what the scientific community is telling us in a pause it there already.
All right, I don't know, but the first thing that just jumps out to me there is: don't you remember throughout all of COVID when, like, if you weren't a scientist, you weren't allowed to say anything about science?
Remember all the articles?
Joe Rogan is not a scientist, so he's not.
Okay, so Bernie Sanders failed physics.
So why does he get to say anything, right?
Even when, because even when we would be like, you know, well, look, there's all these scientists who disagree with Fauci or blah, blah, blah.
They'd be like, yeah, you're not a scientist.
It's always a one-way street.
You know, CNN would have an article.
Do you ever see people were sharing that?
They made like one of those like screen graph like things with like half the screen was a CNN article that said Joe Rogan, not a scientist, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then the other half was they go, what's his name?
Fucking Microsoft guy.
Bill Gates?
Yeah, you go.
Bill Gates supports vaccines.
So, you know what I mean?
So, it's like when you're on the side of them, it doesn't matter if you're a scientist.
Bernie's, all right.
So, Bernie Sanders is very sad to tell you this, you know, because he's got kids and grandkids.
His kids are only 85, so they got a long life ahead of them.
His grandkids are only like 47.
But so, okay.
Yeah, you know, I, he says he's sad to tell you this, but isn't it a little bit convenient that Bernie Sanders believes there's this huge existential crisis?
And yet, what's the solution for it?
The thing he's always wanted, right?
Like more government control, more socialization, you know, more socialized economic policy.
It's just, it's just kind of weird.
I don't know.
Like, we never do that.
People who support freedom, maybe we got it.
Maybe we got to borrow a page from them.
Like, maybe we got, I got to, at some point, just be like, look, I am so sorry to announce this, but with this inflation crisis, we just have to repeal the income tax.
You know, I mean, it's like, this is not easy for me to say.
But right now, we just have to do this.
I'm sure this is what I always wanted to do, but at this point, we just don't have any choice, right?
Like, I mean, with people, they're being hurt with higher prices.
And so we can't have the government taking some of their money anyway when they're already strapped.
We just have to repeal the income tax.
God, it kills me.
You know, maybe this is what we got to get better at.
It's like selling a crisis, and that's why we need liberty because of some crisis.
I don't know.
Maybe it won't work.
If you just want a little bit bigger picture on the entire global warming thing, let's just say there's two things to fear in life: a giant economic collapse or the planet coming to an end.
I'm a lot more fearful of the giant economic collapse.
If you want to put another thing I'm afraid of on the table, it's government stepping in to prevent what they claim is a disaster and then taking control of critical industries.
I would say that's a lot more scary to me than this idea that the planet's going to come to an end.
Yeah.
And again, the idea, because the thing is also with like, look, it may not be exactly maybe you wouldn't feel that way, or maybe I wouldn't disagree, I wouldn't, or I would disagree with you if there was like a meteor hurling toward Earth.
And when they said the planet's coming to an end, what they meant was the planet's coming to an end.
You know what I mean?
Like they meant like, oh, this thing is going to destroy all of us.
I think then probably we would all be on board with like, yes, priority number one is doing whatever we can to stop that so that we all don't die.
But that's not what we're talking about here.
It's just not.
They're just using this language.
And that you're like, okay, the planet warming a couple degrees perhaps has some negative consequences.
But yes, an economic, you know, like depression, which is what the policies they advocate will lead to, or, you know, like real deal tyrannical government.
Like, yeah, we have seen that.
We have seen that, not just in this country in the last two and a half years, but like we've seen that in the 20th century, in Nazi Germany, in Stalin's Russia, in Mao Zedong's China.
Like this is really something very real that really is something to be terrified about.
So yes, you have to, you have to balance all of these things out against each other.
So, all right, go ahead.
No, I agree with it all.
It's that they're going off that this is the worst threat ever.
And can we actually get the big scientific debate?
Because they're always referencing that every single scientist seems to agree on it.
And then whenever I do my own homework, it seems like they don't have a, they don't have a direct correlation between man-made carbon and I will say a significant, like there might be an increase, but it's not like a one-to-one.
Well, this is what they use, right?
They'll have like one study that shows there's like the famous study where 97% of scientists or whatever, but then when you look into it, it's like they're not even all climate scientists.
And it's just, but yes, there is that, there is no question that there is widespread consensus that man-made activity is having an effect on the climate.
But having an effect is such a meaningful term, right?
But then they kind of like extrapolate from that that there's a consensus that the world's going to be over.
And that's just not true.
That is just absolutely not true.
You know, all right, let's keep playing from the speech and see what else we got here.
The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, is very clear and it is very foreboding.
If the United States, China, Russia, and the rest of the world do not act extremely aggressively in cutting carbon emissions, our planet will face enormous and irreversible damage.
Okay, let's pause it right there.
Yeah.
So, so here's the problem, right?
Which I think anyone could see is that if we're really saying, hey, we want to have a conversation about science, it's like, well, how would you feel?
Like, look, just imagine that I said to you, like, the latest study put out by Kellogg's determines that everyone needs to eat frosted flakes every morning.
Would like honestly, let's just imagine that.
Yeah, they are.
Okay, I haven't had frosted flakes in 20 years, but I used to love them.
But, you know, if that were real, right?
I know it's a silly example, but if that were a study that was put out, wouldn't your like your knee-jerk reaction be to say, okay, there's a conflict of interest there.
I'd like to see a study from someone not related to Kellogg's who says we need to eat frosted flakes every morning, because obviously, of course, you're so incentivized to do this.
Now, okay, that's a goofy example, but I'm just making the point that, okay, yes.
So the UN has a study that said that we absolutely need China, Russia, India, and the United States of America to all come together and all take this collective action.
We really need to do this almost on a world governmental level.
Hmm.
So, my point is that this is the same thing as Kellogg saying you need to eat frosted flakes.
Of course, the United Nations is that they have a real conflict of interest here if they are recommending world government when they are the world governing body.
So, like, I'm sorry, that just doesn't like, no, I don't want.
Look, I mean, for people who listen to this, you know, already how, you know, when the government tells you the science is settled and they're relying on government scientists, well, if you've lived through the last two and a half years and you still think that that's enough, just go, okay, yeah, but they also told us the science was settled when they said that, you know, masks, the cloth masks save lives.
And when they told you that if you get the vaccine, you won't get COVID or spread COVID.
I mean, all of these things, they told you the science was settled on that.
So take any UN study like this with a grain of salt.
Anything you want to add to that, Rob?
Yeah, basically everything he's saying is it's la-la land.
Firstly, good luck.
Good luck with getting China and Russia on board.
How's our relationship with Russia right now?
If the start of your argument is that all of us have to work together, well, that's not even an option.
So I guess there's really no reason for us to do any reductions because you've already started off by saying, hey, we need to be living in la-la land in order to fix this.
Then, your next claim that it's got to be a reduction of carbon emissions, from the best of my understanding, the marginal harm of carbon decreases as there's more of it in the atmosphere.
So, in other words, the reduction that you're talking about probably doesn't have an impact.
If there even is a substantial, and there is not a substantial, but if there is a problem because of carbon, I don't even think we can reduce our carbon levels to the extent where it makes a difference.
Because once you're over a certain level, the marginal damages decrease.
So, we could actually increase the amount of carbon and we're not going to have any problems because we're already over like the, it's like the opposite of like the margin of utility and diminishing returns.
Right.
One more thing to note, and this is the last thing.
No, go also have scientific studies that like we've actually lucked out because of carbon because it also dims the amount of light that comes into the like into the world.
And like, they well, some scientists say that we would have had a cooling period and we managed to avoid the cooling period.
And then I've also heard that the amount of light that would be reaching the atmosphere would actually be more harmful.
I've heard people say that we end up the carbon leads to more trees.
Like none of this, and then the idea that it's irreversible.
Wait, so you understand the technology that might exist 100 years from now, that it's irreversible.
How do you make that is an absolute claim?
Yeah, it's in it, it's that that's a great point at the end.
That yeah, it's ridiculous to claim you understand what's going to happen.
You're talking about what's going to happen in 50 and 100 years.
And just imagine someone 100 years ago, you know, 100 years ago was 1922.
Imagine someone in 1922 telling you what technology would be like today.
Imagine the attempt to predict in 1922, the attempt to predict iPhones and that we'd be doing a live show like this over the internet with our computers and cameras and microphones and shit.
You know what I mean?
Like, imagine the attempt to try to predict that.
It requires just as much hubris for you to attempt to predict what's going to happen in 50 years and 100 years from now.
But I think that the most important point in all of this, by the way, in the entire climate change discussion is the thing that you said first.
I think this is the biggest point in all of this, and it's worth repeating because you absolutely nailed it.
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You go, look, none of this matters unless you get China and Russia on board, right?
I mean, particularly China, but Russia too, India too, right?
So, unless they all agree to have drastic reductions in carbon emissions, none of this matters.
And this, by the way, is not just like what the libertarian, you know, climate people say.
This is all the mainstream climate scientists will acknowledge this, that even if America went completely carbon neutral, it will have no effect on preventing these changes, or at least not any substantial effect on preventing the damage of climate change or whatever, right?
So, okay.
What are the chances that we are going to convince Russia and China to stop burning fossil fuels?
0.1 is probably too high.
What do you think?
We're going to convince them.
And look, understandably so in some way, like that we're going to be like, well, hey, we burned all these fossil fuels forever until we got to our economic point.
But now that we're here, we've decided you can't do it anymore.
They're not going to do that.
They're both first off with Russia.
I mean, obviously, as you alluded to, Rob, we're not on best terms with Russia right now.
The last thing they're going to do is like handicap themselves economically.
Right.
So their big power play right now is that they've cut off like oil to the rest of Europe, right?
So like there's not, that's not going to happen.
China's not about to do that.
So once you recognize that that's not going to happen, then you realize that, oh, okay, so the only thing we can do here is punish regular American people for nothing.
The whole conversation's over at this point.
The debate's over.
It's just about like, okay, we got to live with this.
This is going to happen.
And, you know, that's it.
And I know this is broken record at this point, but you just can't have this conversation without mentioning nuclear.
And just to go bigger, like, I believe I have a lot of faith that if we just continue to grow, there's going to be technological innovations that will get us out of this pickle.
They'll either figure out how to suck carbon out of the atmosphere to launch us into space, or they'll just figure out if we actually had free markets where people just created value and whatever was the best energy source, we would just have these small nuclear reactors.
That's what would exist.
And so what we really need is for someone to go out there and go, listen, we need totally free and open markets that the best energy solution that currently is the most economic will win.
And guess what?
We'll probably get to a point in time in which these green energy technologies are actually figured out and efficient.
It might be 100 years from now when we actually need them.
But to try and jump ahead in time when they don't actually work, what you're really doing, and it's just so classic government is that it doesn't compete with the current energy options that we have.
So they're going to make the current energy options that we have worse so that it can compete with the thing that which, well, then what are the ramifications of that?
So we're all spending more money on energy.
What's the economic ramifications of that?
How are we going to have economic growth in this country if you're raising energy costs?
How's that going to happen?
Yeah.
Well, I think the other thing there that's very interesting, especially for someone like Bernie Sanders, is that for a guy like this who supposedly his whole issue is the working class and income inequality and regular people, and yet they advocate this policy, which is the most anti-poor, anti-working class, anti-middle class policy.
I mean, just think about what we've seen in the last year with the price of gas going through the roof.
Who is this crushing?
Is it crushing millionaires?
No, but is it crushing the guy making 60K a year with a family?
Yes.
That's who it's destroying.
And so it's so like unbelievable how much it exposes the hypocrisy of these democratic socialist types to not even feel that like, oh yeah, like, you know, a pretty important thing here is to keep energy prices as low as possible.
But that really matters to the actual working class.
You know, so many of the like the it's one of the great ironies of modern democratic socialists, you know, those types in, you know, modern America and modern first world countries in general, is that they're so out of touch with the working class that they claim to champion.
Like, in other words, if you were to go, let's say you were to survey blue collar working class Americans and ask them, what is a bigger priority to you?
What's more important of an issue?
The rise in the price of gas or climate change.
Just go run that poll and tell me what your results are.
What do you think?
What do you think they're really concerned with?
And yet, what is Bernie Sanders, the supposed champion of the working class?
What are his concerns?
It's unbelievable how the enormous disconnect there.
And that's like the thing.
Like, if you actually wanted to champion the working class, you'd be very concerned about anything that added any artificial increase to the price of energy.
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Because this is like the most basic thing.
The price of housing, the price of energy, the price of, you know, education, all of these things.
These are the most, you know, healthcare.
These are the most basic things.
At least he's got an argument on healthcare.
I don't think he's right about it.
But on this, he's just like, yeah, screw it.
You know, screw those guys.
We got to, the most important thing is that all of us ban the form of energy that we rely on right now.
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An Uninhabitable Future00:15:25
All right, let's keep playing from Bernie's speech.
In fact, the world that we will be living, leaving to our kids and to future generations will become increasingly unhealthy and uninhabitable.
That's not Bernie Sanders.
That is the virtual unanimous conclusion of the scientists who studied this issue.
Okay, so again, this is what Bernie Sanders does.
This is such an example of pure, like bullshit political, you know, what's the term that I'm looking for?
Alarmism, just of the worst kind, of the absolute worst kind, and just completely dishonest.
He goes, the world that we leave our children and grandchildren will be uninhabitable.
And that is not Bernie Sanders.
That's the conclusion of the scientists.
I would love to find one scientist who under scrutiny will argue that the world will be uninhabitable for our children and grandchildren.
What do you mean?
They can't live here anymore?
That's what you're telling me.
Uninhabitable means something.
That means that we can't live there, right?
So you're telling me the human species is going extinct in the next one to two generations?
And that's what all of the scientists believe?
Bullfucking shit.
That is not true.
That is just not true.
There are some scientists who think that like the temperature is going to raise by a degree or two, and that there might be like some sea level rises.
I think there are some scientists who would argue that there might be like some of the coastal areas right now will no longer be, you know what I mean?
Like you won't be able to live there, but the earth will be uninhabitable.
Like that's just fucking insane.
This is like, it's like the most outrageous alarmism that of anything.
I don't even know if there's another thing that I could compare that any other politician has said that is more like just more removed from reality than that claim.
Whoever thinks the border's fine.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's keep this moving.
Let's keep playing.
But the truth is, we don't need the scientists or another study to tell us what's happening.
We see it with our own eyes here in the United States and all over the world.
The American people today and people throughout the globe are seeing the devastating impact climate change is having on their communities and their families with their own eyes.
That is what they are seeing right now as I speak.
And please.
This is as dumb as something bad happening and some lady was cooking something and you decided she was a witch.
Like there have been weird weather occurrences for our entire life.
There is no one-to-one evidence that anything that occurring now is directly because of current carbon.
As far as I understand, we've had fucking heat waves.
We've had hurricanes.
I mean, everything that's ever happened on our planet has happened.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's not.
No, could you just real quick?
Because he sits here and makes the claim that Americans are, we're watching this happen.
We don't even need scientists because we're watching this happen, which would also kind of lead to the question that I was asking before, where it's like, well, I mean, then why isn't climate change like the number one issue that people care about?
I mean, like, why are like as if, look, obviously people really care about things like inflation and education and all of these other things that, you know, that they care about.
But do you really think like if people's children were not going to be able to live, if people's grandchildren were not going to be able to live, I think that would rank pretty high.
I think even your average American, who I know all of the political class looks down on so much as these fucking, you know, dumb rubes.
But I think even they would care if their children weren't going to be able to live.
So here's what they're actually saying.
And Brian, if you could pull this up, climate, if you just Google Image Ed, climate related deaths by year.
Just real quickly, just so people can understand what people are watching around them.
So let's look at the climate related deaths and where they're going in America.
Like how many people are dying over climate-related issues?
Because it's so much worse than it's ever been before, right?
Like, this is this huge problem that's going to make the world uninhabitable.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
Hey, there's an interesting graph.
Hmm.
Wow.
Yeah, I think.
Oh, so, so, look at this.
It's the polar opposite of what they are telling you.
They're telling you that soon the earth is going to be uninhabitable due to, I mean, one would have to think climate-related deaths, right?
So, but what's actually going on?
What's actually happening with climate-related deaths?
If you're talking about the threat to humanity that the climate poses, oh, yeah, it's doing better than ever before.
By the way, one of the great successes of modern civilization is that people aren't dying because of climate-related issues anymore.
We've virtually eradicated the problem.
Now, you could argue that this is because of technological advances, to which me and Robbie would respond, exactly.
Fucking zachly.
That's the point.
So, who's to say that even if the climate gets a little bit worse with vastly superior technology in 20, 50 years, you're telling me it's a certainty that what that number is going to go like this and still right back up?
I don't think so.
I don't think there's any evidence at all that this is even a mild concern for the future of humanity.
I think people are intuitive to know enough to just realize the planet's going to plan it.
And so, if you're in California right now and it's getting hotter, you're like, Well, can I have some electricity?
Because then I can survive that.
And then, if it gets even hotter, you know, you'd request even more electricity.
And guess what?
If it got hotter than that, what are you going to need?
Even more electricity.
Yeah, yep, no, that's exactly right.
That's a great way to put it where it's like, oh, yeah, where it's like, oh, look, we've had like very hot summers.
It's like, okay, well, you know, it'll really make that okay.
Some nice AC.
Oh, okay.
Well, what do we need for air conditioning?
Okay, well, now let's get into it.
What do we need?
What do we have right now that can actually supply?
And don't get it twisted.
We have everything we need to supply energy to every American.
And you know how we do that?
We don't do it with wind and solar.
I mean, for some, sure.
But if you want to supply everybody, here's how we do it: with coal and fossil fuels, coal, gasoline, and nuclear, if we want to go that route.
That's what we do it with.
Fossil fuels and nuclear.
And we can supply fucking, we can have all the energy we need and stop creating this pretend crisis.
It's so funny.
There's so many real crises in America, and they have to create a pretend one.
All right, let's keep playing a little bit.
And please understand, and maybe the most important point I want to make this morning is that everything being equal, what is happening right now will become worse and worse and worse.
This is not, oh boy, we had a torrential rain.
Oh, boy, ain't it hot.
Everything being equal, what we are seeing today will become worse in years to come.
Let's just take a brief look at what's happening right now in the United States and around the world.
The past eight years have been the hottest years in recorded history.
Right now, the western half of the United States is experiencing its worst drought in over 1200 years.
Right now, in California, Nevada, and Utah, they are experiencing record-breaking heat waves.
Historic rainfall and devastating floods took place over a five-week stretch this summer in eastern Kentucky, eastern Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, Death Valley, California, and Dallas, Texas.
These are supposed to be a once in a thousand year torrential rainfalls, and we're seeing them coming all together within a few weeks.
Can we just pause it real quick?
By the way, it is, I'll tell you one of the things that's really brilliant about the whole fucking climate change alarmism worldview is that like, if there's a drought, that's proof of climate change.
If there's torrential downpours, you know what that's proof of?
Climate change.
You know, it's like, no matter what the weather is, like, if there's any extreme weather, they get to go, yep, this is why.
Well, look, let's just say this.
And I know there are, there's a bunch of scientists out there who have made the argument that this is complete bullshit, that the idea of blaming any of these like recent weather patterns on climate change that makes no sense.
I'm not really equipped to make that argument, but I would recommend people go look it up because it is out there.
And I tend to think they're right and that Bernie Sanders, as he mentioned, the guy who failed physics, probably didn't get this right.
But look, to the point we were making before, which really just is all the response to this that you need.
As long as you recognize that it's completely unrealistic and impractical that China is ever going to fucking go carbon neutral or that we can force Russia to go carbon neutral or India to go carbon neutral.
Once you recognize, it's like, well, we're not going to be able to stop the carbon emissions on any meaningful level.
And then you look at that chart that I just showed you where like, okay, despite all this crazy weather that you're talking about, what's happening with climate-related deaths?
Oh, yes, they've been plummeting.
Okay.
So what's the answer then?
Be as wealthy as we can and develop as much technology as we can.
That's the answer.
And you know what creates that?
A free economy.
So that's it.
You can almost look at it this way.
Look at how lucky we are that while one area is having a drought, the other area is flooding.
If we only have the technological resources to harness the flood to equal out the drought.
Yeah, well, right.
But again, it's just like, I don't know what to tell you.
If a problem is getting like the problem is getting better and better.
The amount of people who are dying from climate-related issues is going way down.
So, okay, why is that?
And it's obvious why it is.
It's because of technological advances.
And so if that's the case, then what's the solution here?
Okay.
Has California looked into if maybe all these Mexicans just brought bad luck?
You know, there was a bad luck.
There was a lot of bad luck Mexicans in Mexico, but we can't be sure whether they were the ones who immigrated up or it could have been the homeless also, all the ones that immigrated because of the good policies over there.
They might have brought their bad luck with them too.
That is true.
But all of the people who gave you, you know, the people who turned the richest state in the country into the state with the most poverty and the most homeless encampments, they're really, don't worry, they're going to do great by your energy grid.
All right, let's keep playing.
Within a few weeks.
Right now, Europe is experiencing its worst drought in over 500 years.
And let's remember, when we talk about drought, it's not only, boy, is it hot, it impacts agricultural production and the quantity and quality of food that we eat.
Mr. President, a massive heat wave in Spain and Portugal killed more than 2,000 people in July.
Historically hot weather in London and China literally melted bridges, airplane runways, and rooftops.
Let me repeat that.
The extremely hot weather in London and in China this summer literally melted bridges, rooftops, and airplane runways with all of the consequences that that has.
I'm sure.
I'm sure any melting bridges in China has nothing to do with bad construction.
Yeah, I mean, like, are you claiming that it was 400 degrees outside?
Like, what is this idea, right?
Like, okay, I don't know.
This is just so.
Was there a volcano we didn't know about?
Yeah, like, okay, so there were probably some structural problems there to begin with.
It was like when that crane fell a couple of years ago in New York City because they hadn't inspected it.
He would be up there going, because of the global warming, we have cranes collapsing in New York City.
Yeah.
This is which is shit.
It's like you just point to anything.
Yeah, I feel like there's probably a little bit more going on to that story than what Bernie Sanders says.
All right.
Let's play a little bit more.
I don't know how much more of this we're going to get through.
Mr. President, record-breaking forest fires in Europe have already burned 1.6 million acres of land, 56% more than the previous record set in 2017.
And that is a size that is over eight times bigger than New York City.
Record-breaking drought in China has caused parts of the Yangtze River to completely dry up.
The Yangtze River is the third largest river in the world.
It is the source of drinking water for 400 million people.
Catastrophic rainfall and massive floods have been going on for weeks in Pakistan, killing at least 1,200 people and displacing another 10 million as one third of Pakistan is now underwater.
And if all of this is not sobering enough, frightening, you might as well just be giving a speech about, and last year there were 10 million deaths in this city and there were 40 million deaths in this city.
It's like people die.
And we must get healthcare to every because people die every single year.
It's like, yes, we know there's a thing called weather.
It's not just fall all the time.
That's the way the world fucking works.
I mean, he's literally giving a chicken little speech.
Hiding Climate Consequences00:08:06
Yeah.
Like it's just literally the sky is falling.
Everyone's dying.
Oh, okay.
All right.
I think it'd be worth playing his dumb campaign ad because the ending just shows why he's getting this whole thing wrong.
All right, fine.
So let's let's switch from this.
Let's play the campaign ad and then we'll wrap up the show after that because I think we've gotten enough of the point of this speech.
Oh, I'll just throw one point in before we transition.
The end of this is I believe that Manchin, and I don't believe that Manchin's an honest player.
He's in the cold game.
I'm sure he got some sort of a good deal for himself.
And so I'm sure Bernie Sanders' instincts here are somewhat accurate to say, hey, why is this thing happening for Manchin?
However, I do believe that it has to do with some sort of a new pipeline.
And so to be in this climate right now and to be opposing any sort of new investment in U.S. energy or pipelines does not seem like a winning proposition.
Yeah, agreed.
Agreed.
All right, let's see.
Let's play this commercial.
I also have not watched this.
I don't have to tell anybody that the world is on fire.
As temperatures soared 20 degrees above, it's just like so weird, like that you're just allowed to get away with this, like the world is on fire.
Like, no, it's you don't.
Yes, you would have to tell someone because it is, it is not.
Okay, let's keep playing.
More than 100 daily records will be set after one of the worst heat waves in Western climate change right now, causing devastating harm all over the world.
In Pakistan, the government says floods across the country.
Pause it because I just can't appreciate how funny that is.
I don't have to tell anyone right now that the world is on fire.
It just cuts to kids like, we yay.
This is fucking great.
Never felt more alive.
I love summer.
I'll tell you, I'm a real summer person.
Let's keep playing.
God damn, that's funny, Rob.
Now killed more than 1,300 people.
In the western part of our country, we're looking at a major water shortage.
By the way, just pause for a second.
I go, just to point it out where they said it's in India or whatever, it's killed more than 1,300 people.
Just to be clear, that they'll use climate-related deaths as a measuring stick when convenient.
Yet they'll leave out that chart that I just showed you guys about climate-related deaths.
So I'm just saying, like, if you're going to use climate-related deaths when convenient, also keep in mind that this was a major problem in humanity that has been virtually eradicated.
That's the science, if you want to look at the actual data.
Okay.
All right, let's keep playing.
Pakistan, flooding, one-third of Pakistan is engulfed by historical flooding.
Hundreds of towns and villages in the province of Sindh still remain underwater.
And on and on the coast.
A warming atmosphere is creating serious problems in the Arctic Circle and on the continent of Antarctica.
And in the midst of all of this, what do you think the United States Congress is now talking about?
We're talking about a side agreement made with Senator Manchin, which would increase fossil fuel production, including the major pipeline to West Virginia and Virginia, which will have emissions the equivalent of 27 million cars.
Tonight, the deadly double threat, scorching California, a still out-of-control wildfire in the northern end of the state in an unrelenting heat wave.
A key ice shelf that sits in front of the Thwaites Glacier could break up much sooner than expected within five years.
The fuse has been blown and the doomsday glacier is coming for us all.
How insane is that?
So my view is that that legislation, if they want to bring it up, let's vote on it.
Don't put it into a must-pass bill like the continuing resolution.
That is outrageous.
In the small town of We, two were killed as this explosive blaze, fueled in part by hot weather, can tore across roughly a hundred homes.
Once again, by the way, once again, climate-related deaths.
This is what they'll invoke when they want to create their drama ad without giving you the bigger picture that climate-related deaths have been plummeting.
So, all right, let's keep playing.
After village underwater, only the tops of trees and buildings visible.
People who are still here are completely surrounded, living as castaways in their own homes.
Waterborne diseases are now spreading.
Survivors are also facing a lack of resources and food.
So, let's go forward together.
Let's work with the environmental groups.
Let's work with community organizations.
And let's tell the world that the future of this planet is more important than the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.
No air conditioning?
I don't have one.
Too many money.
Too much money.
All right.
So, that's the moment.
Right there at the end, the guy, you're showcasing a guy who doesn't have enough money to afford energy.
Isn't that what you would want to hide in trying to make an ad, which is against expanding our energy capacity within the United States government within your own ad, you can't even hide the consequence of your own policy, which is look, even in the current environment, people can't afford the resources that they need.
The solutions to be, how do we make it cheaper?
And then your example is that there's a problem in Pakistan.
Guess what?
I bet Pakistan.
I don't know what happened there.
I honestly don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
You're not going to guess that they probably don't have the same resources that we do because they don't have the same energy infrastructure or wealth to deal with those kind of disasters when they happen.
If anything, it's another example of, oh, we better make sure that we have the energy reserves and wealth that we need so that when the weather happens, that's going to happen, we're prepared for it.
Imagine showing someone at the end going, I can't afford my energy bills.
I mean, imagine, imagine just being like, oh, yeah, like this is the real problem.
Is like, there's people out there who can't afford their energy bills.
By the way, I'm completely against gasoline and natural gas and coal and nuclear, but I just hate that there's people out there who can't afford their energy bills.
He's like, he's grouping it in as if he's protecting that guy also when you're basically advocating.
I mean, maybe it's too much to say you're advocating for that guy's death, but you're advocating for that guy to have a harder life.
What you're advocating.
What you're advocating will lead to that guy's life.
Look, this is all I'm saying.
The whole thing comes down to that fucking climate-related deaths number.
That's what the whole thing comes down to.
They're trying to use in this whole thing, basically saying that, like, yeah, look at this horrible climate stuff will lead to more people dying.
And what's the problem with that?
Just the opposite is happening.
And to explain how dumb that is, let's just say that you were the best financial advisor on Wall Street and you had 100% returns last year.
And then some guy took the three down trading days and focused on those down trading days.
And look at the money he lost.
It's irrelevant over the course of the year.
Look at how well I did.
Yes, I had three days where I made bad trades.
It's literally irrelevant to point at single catastrophes amidst a downward trend and go, oh, look, that is one and the same.
That is what you're doing.
Yeah.
So at least if nothing else, I hope that like if there were people when this COVID thing came out that was out of nowhere, and this was the excuse for lockdowns and all this other shit.
And maybe it took people a little while.
You know, it took them like a few months.
And for some other people, more than that to realize, oh, shit, this whole thing is bullshit.
Just know going in with this climate change stuff as they're trying to push all of this that this is complete bullshit.
It's complete bullshit.
It's literally just stuff that's that's cooked up by like um globalist elite, you know, elites who want to increase global elite power.
And these democratic socialists are happy to go along with it because they know that there's more, you know, it brings them closer to what they ultimately want, which is nothing good.
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All right.
That's our show for today.
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