 Fox News published an op-ed by Daniel Turner, who condemns Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because she is apparently pressuring Democratic presidential candidates to embrace her quote-unquote anti-labor policy proposals, namely the Green New Deal. Now, I know what you're thinking. Wait a second. I thought that AOC was pro-labor. Well, you'd be correct, but this individual actually makes the opposite argument and this person claims that he actually is the true pro-labor advocate. Now, of course, this is incorrect. This individual is absolutely loathsome and motivated by money because he is literally a fossil fuel show, but rather than reading to you that op-ed, we're gonna play a clip of him talking about his op-ed on Fox News. And what you will see is propaganda in its purest form. This is disgusting. This is deceitful, and I have a lot to say about this. Okay, so what you did was you looked at, they're talking about helping the working man, the blue collar employee, but are their policies really helpful to them? Yeah, exactly. And if you work in the the blue collar industry, the people that Joe Biden claims to represent, what do you think of these this cabal of people running for the 2020 nomination and the policies they are presenting? If you are a blue collar worker, I work for an organization that advocates for fossil fuel industry. If you're in coal, oil, gas, fracking, every one of these candidates is saying, not only are we going to make your job impossible, a lot of them will become illegal under a green new deal. Well, let's talk a little bit about Joe Biden, former vice president. He has suggested let's ban offshore oil and gas drilling. So how's that going to help the little guy? Exactly. And these are hundreds of thousands of people. These are not ethereal ideas. These are people who are going to lose their jobs. Their jobs will become illegal. When someone like Bernie Sanders says, by the year 2030, we will not have fossil fuels. Well, more than 10 million people directly and indirectly work in the fossil fuel industry. So what do you think of of Senator Sanders saying that to you that your job becomes illegal? And this nonsense of what we promise green jobs in the future. President Obama promised green jobs and they never materialized. How about the fact that the United States is now energy independent, thanks to in large part fracking? Guess who wants to get rid of that? Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, on day one that she said she will make it illegal on federal lands. Bernie wants an outout ban on it completely. Why did they say fracking is bad? You know, fracking has this. It's like the boogeyman of people who do not understand how the energy industry works. Does it go back to the they turn on the faucet and they were able to light it on fire? And a lot of those things were all Hollywood stunts that were done for movies. But think right now in America, we have over a million seven fracked wells. Everywhere in this country, a million seven fracked wells. That's a lot of people who are depending upon this industry and a lot of people who live side by side in harmony with this industry because it is safe and it is reliable. We have this terrible hurricane that is bowing down on America. We have Iran seizing tankers in the Straits of Hormuz. And look at the price of oil right now in America. Look at the price of gasoline in America. It hasn't been this cheap in very long time. And that's because we're energy independent. And that's because men and women, these blue collar people, the Democrats claim to want to represent are working in these blue collar jobs every day and they deserve respect. OK, so fracking is helping to keep the price down. You get rid of fracking. The price of our gasoline goes up. Exactly. And with this promise of we're going to invent all this green technology that will be the panacea. But it's been proven to not sustain our life the way we currently live it. Daniel, famously, I think Bernie Sanders was cosponsoring AOC's Green New Deal or one of the supporters. He's since come out with his own with a price tag of close to 16 trillion dollars. Who's that going to impact? Yeah, exactly. This is just an absolute cash giveaway to really green cronies. If you remember Barack Obama passed this huge green stimulus and he gave Selindra half a million dollars. Half a billion dollars. Didn't create a job. Didn't produce anything. So if Bernie's going to do this on the scale of 16 trillion, maybe we should all just quit our jobs and form a fake Selindra. Shameless. Absolutely. Shameless. Now we're going to talk about who Daniel Turner is. He kind of alluded to the fact that he is with an organization that represents coal, oil, gas, fracking industry and whatnot. We'll tell you a little bit more about him because this individual is absolutely motivated by money and he's quite literally a shill in the purest most literal definition. But he essentially says that the Green New Deal is terrible because this will lead to these types of jobs being made illegal. So what happens to all these people in that industry? Now if you follow politics and you know about the Green New Deal, you know that part of the Green New Deal is a just transition. We create new jobs and move people away from those dirty jobs onto clean green jobs. And if you don't think that those people want to do that, then you obviously haven't talked to them because think about this with coal miners for example. Long time exposure to coal dust causes a plethora of health issues. Black, long cancer. So I mean to think that these people wouldn't want to move to a new job that pays just as good if not better is absolute madness. And not only should we phase out these jobs because it's leading to us killing the planet, but it's literally killing people. These are dirty jobs that aren't healthy. So you know I shouldn't be taken seriously though because he's the true labor activist. You know AOC, people like myself, Bernie Sanders, they're not the actual advocates of labor. It's this person who definitely is looking out for the little guy. And Steve Ducey also claims to care about the little guy because they talked about Biden's proposal to ban offshore drilling. And Steve Ducey asked hilariously so, how is that going to help the little guy? So it really is the little guy that they care about. You know which is why they're absolutely doing this segment at the behest of the fossil fuel industry who last year mind you had its most profitable year since 2013 and leads Forbes profit growth list in 2019. You know by caring about them, you're definitely showing how much you care about the little guy as this coke affiliated fossil fuel lobbyist explains why you know these pro labor policies that are being proposed by people like AOC, these are actually anti labor. Sure, Dan. I mean this is gaslighting 101, like he's peeing on our legs and telling us it's raining. This is bullshit. Now of course I talked about the just transition to clean green jobs and he addressed that. You know he said, why should we believe that after Bernie Sanders eliminates these jobs and makes them illegal that these new clean green jobs will materialize? Because Obama also promised green jobs and he never delivered. So checkmate. Yeah, well Obama also opened up the Arctic for drilling and he had a secretary of state that sold fracking around the world so I wouldn't necessarily consider him the best ally. And furthermore the thing about the Green New Deal is that as Bernie Sanders phases out these old jobs he simultaneously creates new ones. It's not like he's gonna say let's ban all of these dirty jobs and then 10 years down the line you better make these new jobs available or I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna wag my finger at you. No, he's doing all of this at once. The Green New Deal is a package deal. There's all these components to it that both get rid of these fossil fuel jobs. It phases them out but then it introduces these new types of jobs that we transition these coal workers, fossil fuel workers to in a very quick period of time because we don't have much time left to act. We have to save the planet within 11 years. So the fact that he is just brazenly lying to you you'd think that at some point he'd feel bad but when you're motivated by money when capital is everything to you I guess you don't feel bad. I guess you can sleep even though you are running into freelance foreign industry that is literally killing the planet that we live on. He then attacks Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for wanting to ban fracking which literally threatens our drinking water and it causes earthquakes. It causes literal earthquakes. So to not want to eliminate that is absolutely unacceptable but they just make it seem as if that's common sense. What? They want to get rid of fracking? That's preposterous. No, the opposite is true. If you don't want to get rid of fracking then you are absolutely wrong here. Do you want someone to frack in your backyard? Would you do that? Would you allow that? Or near your home? I don't think so. See if it affected you? Then you would have a very different sense. But here's what he said that just it almost made my head explode. So first of all he said this about Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal. He called out the cost which is 16 trillion didn't want to tell you that it pays for itself within 15 years but he said that all Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal is a giveaway to Green Cronys. Oh my god, okay. Only a fossil fuel shill would be able to say something like that with a straight face and this individual is a literal fossil fuel shill because Daniel Turner is the founder and executive director of Power the Future which claims to be an advocate for energy workers and pushes back on quote radical green groups and the ideologues who fund them but you see even though they claim to be pro-labor this organization doesn't really advocate for worker rights it's dedicated seemingly to increasing the profits of fossil fuel companies they're not advocating for you know healthcare for fracking employees and individuals who work for these fossil fuel companies I mean they don't do any of that so to claim that their pro-labor is pretty comical in fact they literally peddle the same misinformation that multinational corporations within the fossil fuel industry spread but yet he is doing all of this under the guise of being pro-labor which is just hilarious now they promise that they're not against renewable technology per se and also they claim that they're not a lobbying organization and that they're totally funded by private citizens and not the fossil fuel industry but there's just one big problem with all of these claims that's bullshit because as Desmogh points out the FAQ page of Power the Future claims it is not a lobbying shop but more like a communications group that wants to call out the facts about the energy industry Power the Future claims not to be funded by corporations but the corporatized are strong Turner previously worked for two different Koch groups the Koch Institute and the Youth Targeted Generation Opportunity there's no mention of this on the website but by targeting environmentalists Turner is still serving Koch interests despite declaring that it does not lobby Power the Future's about page says that its non-profit designation is a 501c4 this tax designation means a lot there are two main types of non-profit organizations 501c3 and 501c4 organizations with c3 status are charities and are allowed to do minimal lobbying typically less than 10% of its budget c4s on the other hand can do unlimited lobbying on issues and legislation relevant to their social welfare missions despite claiming not to be a lobby group Turner created a front designed to do unlimited lobbying and they're doing this under the guise of being pro-labor Fox News to say that they're pure propaganda I've said this a thousand times it's just you can't not state that enough this is just downright embarrassing and the worst part is that they claim to care about the little guy how does banning offshore drilling help the little guy because we need to have a planet to live on in fact it's not just the little guys who need a planet to live on it's everyone so unless you plan on using all of that money Daniel Turner and Steve Ducey to build lifeboats for yourselves once climate change basically engulfs portions of the United States and mass migration becomes an issue I don't know what to say you're just you're at a time when we have 11 years to act you're still trying to defend the one industry that is causing the planet to become uninhabitable and destroyed I don't know what else to say you are just an existential threat to humanity at this point and this is destructive it's disgusting and it's immoral I again I don't know how they sleep at night but I mean I guess that the money is more important to them than having a habitable planet to live on I guess they think that we're gonna live on the moon or Mars or something in some fucking bubble not gonna happen we've got one planet we don't take care of it we all die period end of the story that's that