guy discovers federal government exists, has minor existential crisis about it

Someone doing their best impression of a thoughtful policy analyst, circling the same point about federal power and climate regulation for what feels like an eternity. Starts confident, devolves into increasingly vague hand-waving about 'tools' and 'authority,' never quite lands the argument, just keeps saying 'I mean' and hoping you'll fill in the blanks. Vibe: guy who read one Wikipedia article about EPA regulations and is now improvising a TED talk in real time Key topics: federal government power accumulation, climate regulation, vague references to automobiles and water, the word 'amassed' repeated like a nervous tic Transcript: I mean, this is an interesting insight for us to hit on this, because I mean, what he has done is he has given up power. So the federal government, over the course of a generation, has amassed a variety of tools, accrued power with which it can regulate climate issues, which it can oversee and begin to, you know, and that relates to automobiles, it relates to water, air, yes, everything. I mean, they have a kind of a broad, or they have amassed an amount of authority here.