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So, Victor, we have that case of the

Egyptian throwing Molotov cocktails and

Islamic believer, I guess I would say, say, throwing Molotov cocktails at Jewish practitioners.

Practitioners, I think they're more just

protesters.

They're trying to draw attention to the hostages,

so activists, maybe.

And they're targeted by Mr.

Mohamed Soleiman.

And Mr.

Mohamed Soleiman is an illegal alien, if I can use that term.

He tried to come into the country once.

He was refused a tourist visa, and we don't know why,

but maybe in light of what he's done subsequently, somebody knew something that otherwise we didn't know.

And then he came in with his five children and his wife, and he overstayed his tourist visa.

Somebody who's lived overseas for almost three years, I know that one of the stupidest things you can do is overstay your tourist visa because once you do that, you've got to stay put and hide.

Because I know people who have done that.

In other words, the moment you leave the country or try to come back in, they know you, and you're in violation, and you're usually deported.

The family was in Kuwait as well for a long time.

And

the left-wing press, as they always do, they're making a profile of what a wonderful family.

And she was an honors, one of the daughters.

But she couldn't go to medical school in Kuwait because she wasn't a Kuwaiti.

So let me get the disconnect.

They are Arab nationalists or Islamic nationalists who he threw two Molotov cocktails with the intent of burning Jews up.

He had some primitive jerry-rigged flamethrower or something.

He would squirt it.

He didn't use all of them.

He said he'd planned it for a year.

And he planned it till waited till

his daughter graduated.

Seems to me that the family knew what he was doing or what he thought or what he felt.

So they're all here illegally, and now we read post facto

that she's this honor student and this is terrible that she might be deported and she wanted to come here because Kuwait didn't offer her the same chances.

True.

But do you ever connect the dots if you're Mr.

Mohammed Soleiman?

In other words, your Arab country, this wealthy, affluent Kuwait that you were in,

discriminated against you because you were not a Kuwaiti.

So your children wouldn't have that opportunity, even though they were fellow Arabs and Islamic people.

So you come over to the infidel country and you violate its laws, and then you get more opportunity than you would in Kuwait.

But your reaction is to go burn American citizens in gratitude.

Is that what it is?

So the distance between

what we see at MIT when one of these students hijacked the graduation speech or at Harvard when they do it and they scream and yell about Jews in Israel to the actual Mr.

Rodriguez shooting and pumping bullet after bullet into the corpses of two Israeli workers at the Holocaust Museum or the

barbaric attempts to burn up Jews.

I thought we had done, I thought we as a world had already done that in the Holocaust.

So there is sort of an eerie, creepy, macabre idea that you burn Jews, living or dead.

And yet that's why, and I don't know why he chose that mechanism to try to kill people.

But the left had a very funny attitude.

They almost immediately glommed on to the success stories of his daughter and all this, and they're being punished.

And they're not being punished.

They're just saying, if you come into the United States and you do it illegally and you reside illegally, then we just would like you to go back and we'll give your slot to somebody else who wouldn't do such a thing.

And that's what the Trump administration is doing.

And they want to provide a deterrent.

So they tell people from the Middle East, we don't care who you are.

If you come into our country and you break our laws, and that includes overstaying your visa, you're going to have to go.

And maybe that will send a message for others not to do it.

But the larger question is,

where

does this globalize the intifada come from?

So it permeates a Mr.

Rodriguez in Chicago or Mr.

Soliman.

There's all sorts of elements to it.

One is DEI,

and that is Mr.

Rodriguez, who's Hispanic, Mr.

Soliman, who's Arab.

There's a sense that when you come to America, you are placed in one of two binaries, the victimizer class, the victimizing, the oppressed, the oppressor class.

On the oppressor side are so-called whites and Jews and Israelis.

So Mr.

Rodriguez thinks as a persecuted, oppressed part, he can say whatever he wants and do whatever he wants.

And that's what he did, Free Palestine.

He gunned down and killed two young people.

Mr.

Soliman thinks the same thing, that he is an oppressed person.

And all those kids that are pampered and elite and

have it pretty good at these universities feel that they're oppressed because it has nothing to do with class.

It's just what part of the binary you can connive and con your way into.

And Donald Trump doesn't care, apparently, about the binary.

He just says, there's a law.

We don't care who you are.

We don't care about the color of your skin.

We don't care about where you came from.

We don't care about who you...

what your religion is.

If you break the law, you're going to pay a price.

That's a welcome message for most Americans.

There's zero sympathy for this.

And it didn't take a nanosecond for social media to start defending this flamethrower in the way that they did Mr.

Rodriguez.

Don't think that when you bring over 300,000

Chinese nationalists and 200,000,000 people from the Middle East and you don't vet them and you put them in these indoctrination centers called universities, that you're not going to get radical people espousing hateful ideas, anti-American, anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and those hateful ideas are going to spread throughout the diaspora community.

And the same thing with Chinese nationals.

If you don't vet them and you bring them there and they go to Asian Studies program or they hear all about the oppressed yellow peril and all the oppressed Americans, then they are going to get a message that distilled that the United States either is culpable for its treatment of Chinese people, it's racist, the Chinese communists said that about COVID.

Anybody who questioned them, they said, you're racist.

And there's not going to be consequences because you're, and we'll discuss later what's happened with Chinese nationals.

So you come over to this country and you get this wonderful opportunity, and what do you do?

You try to kill Jews.

In the case of the Chinese,

you try to start a fungus plague, or you try to pollute the wheat fields to kill people.

And they all come from the University of Michigan, Harvard University.

We now learn that, what, Harvard University has been the party school.

We don't mean Frat Party, we mean Communist Party.

And they're training there at the School of Government.

What would you call Harvard now?

Let me see.

So

they

have a student student who roughs up a Jew, Jewish student.

The police arrest him and apprehend him.

They cut a plea deal.

He's got to serve community service with another person.

And what is Harvard's embarrassment?

No, they give him a Beat the Jew award.

Hey, you, we'll give you $65,000 from the law school.

Hey, you, you get to be a Grand Marshal at the

Divinity School.

And so Harvard should just come clean and say, we have Beat the Jew awards.

If you can hit a Jew and knock him down or push him, we'll give you a nice stipend or we'll honor you at graduation.

And pretty much, and if you're a Chinese nationalist and you're in the Communist Party, or your parents are an architect of the Communist Party or part of the Nama Klantura, and therefore we know that you have a hand in oppressing a million Uyghurs, or putting Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong in a solitary confinement,

or

threatening to invade Taiwan all the time, or

any of these things, dumping product in the United States, manipulating the trade markets, patent infringement,

copyright theft.

If you do any of that,

you've got a good chance to come to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

That's what Harvard is.

But back to the flamethrower again.

Apparently, the Trump administration is going to deport his entire family, and that has also been an outrage for the left media, which seems to me that if he's been planning it for a year, they probably knew about it.

I guess you can't assume that.

He synchronized his activity to his daughter's graduation.

And so what is the alternative?

We're supposed to think the whole family overstayed their visa, and their father is a terrorist who tried to burn up Jewish American citizens, but we're going to overlook the fact that his family and his home, his household were in violation of immigration laws.

Why do we want to do that?

There's all sorts of people waiting years to come to this country.

And so

we're getting to a critical mass where Trump just doesn't care.

He's not going to have to go up for election again.

So the whole Harvard Trump, Harvard Trump, Harvard Trump, Harvard Trump, I'm getting so tired of all my conservative fellow intellectuals.

I'm not an intellectual, but pundits or whatever they are.

And they always write this.

Well, yes, Harvard has culpability, but Donald Trump is

using a blunder bus.

He's using an axe when he should be using a surgical knife.

And it's counterproductive because he says all kinds of crazy things.

He's harming all of these wonderful programs.

No, he's not.

They have plenty of money.

Why don't they just go back to the budget pre-George Floyd?

That's when they spent all this money.

And all Donald Trump is saying, you can't work with these people.

They lie.

They lost the Supreme Court.

They were named in the Supreme Court.

They were the people who the Supreme Court went after because that's what the lawsuit was.

And they lost.

And yet they ignored the Supreme Court ruling.

They still use racial preferences in terms of graduations, theme houses,

admissions, hiring, retention.

And they still get Chinese and Middle East money, and they don't really account for it all.

They still bring in people from the Chinese Communist Party to the Kennedy School.

I think even the graduation speaker had some ties with the Communist Party.

And they still,

until they were slapped down, were charging 50, 55 percent on our federal grants as the taxpayers' grants.

That was their surcharges.

They still do the anti-Semitism.

They still, they don't even, it's not that they don't enforce

rules against anti-Semitism.

They reward people who hit Jews.

with scholarships and honorific titles at graduation.

So Trump knows all that.

So he just says, I'll just act as crazy as they are and bring attention to it.

And that's what he's done.

And anybody who wants to defend all that is going to have a hard role.

And that's not even getting into the other things that the Education Secretary and Trump are saying.

95% of the faculty are left-wing.

And, you know, everybody knows it.

And it's sort of like, I don't know, Saddam Hussein election.

95% say they liked a great leader.

That's what Harvard is.

95% will always vote in a predictable fashion, and they call it democracy.

Well, Victor, since you've mentioned the two Chinese nationals that brought in the fungus that would cause blight on staple crops like wheat and I think corn and rye,

that's part of the news today, that the administration has captured them.

And so I was that that is very dangerous.

If you look at it comprehensively, meaning

the Chinese are bringing in things to affect our crops that might destroy staple crops.

They've implanted things into solar panels so that they can cut them off.

So if you started looking at all these little things, it's not really very funny, actually, because they could do some serious damage to us.

You want to think of anything the Chinese have have done to us?

Well, they're trying to bring a fungus.

It was kind of scary when I read this story because I used to watch the episodes of The Last of Us about the cordyceps, end of the world, and it infects everybody.

And it was kind of a fungus mold, you know.

And here it is in real life.

Maybe they watched the same show and thought they could infect people.

But I did used to watch it until it turned into a psychodrama about gayness and all the other stuff.

And they killed the prime character.

But my point is,

they were associated with the University of Michigan.

I think they had access to research labs, and they were trying to implant this and destroy.

And do you think that they

cooked this up themselves?

Or do you think, as the Stanford Review pointed out in a series of articles, that the 300,000 students take an oath that their first loyalty

went abroad is to the the mother party.

So when they go back or before they come, they report into handlers.

What have you learned?

What are you going to learn?

And the Chinese then suggest that they should do things.

What's your expertise?

Oh, I'm studying wheat rust or I'm studying, oh, well, maybe we could do this, or maybe we could do that, or maybe we could spy here, or maybe we could buy land near a military base.

So they're always probing.

And they're the most insidious, dangerous government in the world right now, even more dangerous than Iran.

Because it's an Orwellian, Huxley, totalitarian system.

It's scary.

And they hate us.

They hate our guts.

And they have so many people here that are foreign nationals that are embedded in every aspect of life.

And there's so many of them that even if 95% of them are fine, wonderful resident aliens, 5% means several thousand.

And

they have mastered the DEI.

During COVID, as I said,

anybody mentioned that Donald Trump called it the China virus in the sense like the Nile virus or

you know, Lyme disease, Lyme Connecticut.

And they said he was racist.

This is part of the old history.

The most racist country in the world.

So think of the logic.

If you're Chinese and you come over here, you can be an upstanding American citizen.

If you don't look Chinese and you immigrate to China, trust me, you will never be accepted as a full-fledged Chinese citizen.

So they are a racist, racially essential country.

And they killed over a million people by letting this virus out of their lab and then covering it up.

To the degree to which the Chinese People Liberation Army was involved, I don't know, but they were controlling the lab.

So there's so many layers of culpability without even getting into the Chinese balloon or dressing down Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan and Anchorage and humiliating them, et cetera, et cetera.

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So Victor, we have ICE agents all over the United States, lots of operations being run, but one in particular in Minneapolis for

against drug trafficking and

was it money laundering?

That was their targets on this.

And there were protesters out there.

Apparently, there was information given that they could, and they attacked the ICE agents.

And I thought what was interesting in this particular ICE operation is that one, they attacked the ICE agents, and two, the news media wanted to make it about illegal immigration when it was money laundering and drug trafficking.

And so I was wondering your thoughts on that.

I think they do it because in 2020,

from late May following the death of George Floyd to early September when Kamala Harris said, and these riots are, these demonstrations are not going to end, nor should they end.

They're going to go all the way to the election and they're not going to stop.

They really contextualize that.

Remember, Snopes and all those people said she wasn't talking about violence, sort of like that guy on CNN when the fire is behind his head.

It's a largely peaceful demonstration.

They knew that after $2 billion worth of damage, 35 dead, 1,500 police officers injured, 14,000 arrests,

that most 99.9% of those arrested were let go by those left-wing Blue City Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Washington, D.C.

prosecutor, Soros-funded prosecutor.

So that's what they think.

They can do anything.

They can rough up an agent and they'll be a cause celeb.

Striking a federal agent or law enforcement is a felony.

And

all it would take is a federal prosecutor, because that's a federal offense,

to hit an ICE agent.

a regional federal prosecutor to take one of those young, spoiled, brat, wealthy, elite kids who dresses up like he's Batman or something with all of his mask and all that with his spaghetti arms, and he talks really tough.

All it would take is say, you know, you just committed a felony and we're going to prosecute you and then sentence him to five years in prison.

And

just say, you know, we have a president.

You guys thought that was a suitable for punishment on January 6th when they walked parading, illegal parading in the Capitol.

Well, this is much worse, but, you know, we're going to go after you.

And it would stop it.

It would stop it.

Cold.

And the thing about illegal aliens is it's always

in the abstract.

They're never hit as most Mexican-Americans are here in Fresno County.

They're never hit by somebody who's intoxicated, who's here illegally.

And I was just reading today a local media site.

There were two this week.

And it's the same old story.

Somebody is drunk.

Somebody hits somebody in an area that's 55 to 60 percent Mexican-American, Hispanic.

It's usually an Hispanic citizen.

The person who hit her is drunk or him, and they flee the scene in the accident.

And then somebody has to chase them down.

Nobody does that unless you're illegal, and they don't care.

But these people who are protesting, their parents, themselves, their children, they're never,

they're always excluded.

They're never one of these women who have been raped or killed or tortured or a child that's been a victim of one of the 500,000.

I don't know what Joe Biden's legacy will be.

I don't think it'll be much, but what he did will live beyond him.

And his worst thing he did to this country was let in 12 million illegal aliens, 500,000 criminals, known criminals.

And those are landmines, and they're buried deeply within the American fabric.

And for the next 20 years,

they're going to be like landmines that are going to go off unexpectedly, lethally, suddenly.

You're just going to be going around in an area and all of a sudden somebody's going to be drunk and want a stop sign.

Somebody's going to give you bad fentanyl.

Somebody's going to shoot you and they're going to be illegal.

Because that's the size of the city of Oakland, 500,000 people that are criminals that he let in.

And we still don't know why he let them in.

Nobody, he can't explain it.

Who let them in?

Mr.

Mayorkas, we know, was a pathological liar and impeached.

And the Democrats and the Senate stopped him from being convicted.

But it was the worst thing of all the bad things that administration did, and it's going to live for a long time.

Billions of dollars, and there's going to be hundreds of people killed, if not thousands, over the next 20 years by opening the country to 12 million people you have no idea.

That means, remember everybody, that you kicked out 8,500 of your best soldiers because they didn't get a vaccination while you welcomed in 12 million people who trapes across the border with no worry about their vaccination.

Remember, everybody, that two years ago, the process to get a real ID started, where you had to show a passport or a birth certificate or a proof of residence to get a real ID to be able to fly.

When you were doing all that, they were flying people all over the United States that had no idea at all, illegal aliens, that had a little app that said they were a refugee or whatever.

No, you go to the Phoenix airport, it said

residents here or immigrants here, and they had no, you just saw them walk by.

And so

it's, what he did was terrible, it was horrific, Biden.

And it's going to, as I said earlier, Donald Trump had a record,

he had a record deportation day that got all these people angry when they announced there was 800 people that were deported or scheduled to be deported.

That's a drop in the bucket.

You need 8,000, 8,000 people came in each day under Biden for four years.

Do the arithmetic, 250,000 roughly a month, 3 million a year.

After four years, $12 million.

To deport all the people that Joe Biden let in illegally, Tom Holman would have to increase by a magnitude, by a factor of 10 the deportations.

And if he were to do that, he would start back at square one where we had a pre-existing illegal alien population of somewhere between 12 and 20 million.

So it's kind of like the debt.

It's such a staggering sum that you don't even have

an iota of idea.

You don't even know how to approach the problem.

It's so gargantuan.

It will affect the entire generation of young people, I'm sure.

We won't remember much about Joe Biden, but we will remember that he destroyed the border and tried to destroy his own country.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about the Ukraine war.

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So Victor, the Ukrainian war, the Ukrainians have attacked a Russian base with drones and did a lot of damage, and that is inside of Russia.

And Donald Trump has recently had a meeting with Putin, and he came out of that meeting, and it sounded like he was trying to say things went okay in a meeting that didn't go so well, if you ask me, because he said, Well, I didn't solve the Ukrainian war, but

we had a good talk.

So I was wondering your update on the Ukrainian situation.

Well, the larger background is that the slugfest on the Eastern Front,

the Russian army has been

infused by new recruits.

They're making more artillery shells basically than all the NATO countries put together.

They have a warped but wartime economy, and

they're in it to win.

So they are pushing incrementally westward.

And I think they're 30 or 40 miles beyond where they were two years ago.

And the Ukrainians don't know quite how to stop them.

The United States is still giving them aid, and the Europeans, they've had over $450 billion in total from foreign aid.

They're fighting very heroically.

but

it's now into year four.

We're getting to like World War II, and the dead are probably more than dead, wounded, missing, or more than a million point five.

Nobody ever mentions that except Trump.

He's the one that's always said this is such a waste of human life, but nobody ever, Biden ever mentioned that.

His attitude was give them what it takes.

So 12 million people have left Ukraine as refugees.

The country is depopulated.

It's suffered 12,000 casualties, probably lost 300 or 400,000 dead or wounded or more.

And it's slowly being ground down.

And no one wants to put, you remember the British, when we had the Zelensky flare-up in the White House, all of the Europeans, Sturmer and Macron, they went like this.

We're European, da-da-da-da-da-da, and

we're going to fight 48,000 troops there.

And

that will last about some guy having cappuccino in Amsterdam or Florence and said, not this big, no nick porkus.

I'm not going over there.

We'll talk a lot.

So that just dissipated.

So then they started.

So the Ukrainians have a million drones.

They're very sophisticated.

They're probably the most sophisticated and biggest drone supplier in the world.

And they're making them so cheaply that they're kind of...

They're retarding somewhat the advance on the ground.

But they came up with a brilliant idea.

How do we destroy or impair the bomber fleet, the nuclear bomber fleet that is equipped to carry those huge 20,000-pound bombs, but it's carrying these cruise missiles.

So they fly from Arctic bases or far eastern bases in the Urals, fly near the Ukrainian border and maybe even into it, and launch these missiles.

that are designed to create terror and kill civilians.

So they came up with an idea to get truck drivers who would be not culpable because they wouldn't know what was in their truck.

And they put crates and then they had them designated to four or five of these remote, secure, and maybe even stealthy hidden bases.

And then when they got near there, they pushed some type of

electronic prompt and the tops came off and these little bosses started coming out and flew out.

And they were programmed each with a programmer.

And they apparently went after these huge planes.

They're kind of outdated.

They're big.

And they blew up.

They say 41.

Nobody's confirmed that.

They say 35%

of the Russian strategic force.

Nobody's confirmed that.

They say five bases.

Nobody's confirmed that.

But they did do a lot of damage.

They say $7 billion.

Nobody's confirmed that.

And so it really shocked the Russians that there's no place in Russia that will not be in danger from Ukraine.

Everybody on the left and all of neoconservatives, they all got excited.

Max Boot was just giddy.

He was the one they remember coined the word for the Mueller team, hunter-killer team.

Oh, that hunter-killer team are going to finish off Trump.

Well, he had the same kind of,

oh, this has changed everything.

It hasn't changed anything.

It's told the Russians that no one is safe, but they haven't translated.

And by the way, I see that if you're in a war, an existential war, and they are sending things into your country and killing it, you have a right to retaliate against their homeland.

You have a right, and it's strategically logical, but there is a little qualifier.

Number one,

this country that you are destroying, its nuclear

bomber fleet, has 6,000 deliverable nuclear weapons.

And your patrons, the United States and Britain and France, are nuclear powers.

And this area along the border, how noble your resistance, it's very much like General Mannerheim's in 1939 and 40, as I said,

in Finland, has the ability of escalation.

So do you really think that after losing a third of their bomber treat, if that claim is true, they're going to sit there, the Russians?

And there was a rule in the Cold War that when you have a proxy war,

and this is sort of a proxy war, that the superpower rivals do not use the proxy to attack directly the homeland of their rival.

And the Locus Classicus is 1962, in which Castro

was given missiles and the Russians were supplying them, which could hit cities in the United States.

We didn't really were told that we had been doing it earlier with Turkey.

We had Atlas missiles that were pointed at Russia with a proxy.

But this was more flagrant because Castro was right near us.

It was a revolutionary society.

And Kennedy said that.

You don't put missiles in a proxy, Mr.

Khrushchev, and they went to DEF CON, I don't know what they did, DEF CON

one

they went to the

four, I guess it was.

They went to almost the, excuse me, four.

They went to almost the send the bombers out.

This was the, you know, this was sort of,

I don't know what it was.

It was all, it was like all of these movies, The Day After, or,

you know, Slim Pickens and a B-52.

So Doctor Strangelove.

So what I'm getting at is there's going to be a retaliation.

And they've already said that they have the right to use tactic.

And we always say, they're not going to do that.

They're afraid of us.

We could stop.

Yeah, but there's going to be a retaliation and they're going to, or they're going to completely lose faith and lose all deterrence.

And so

after this happened, they sent brilliantly designed

marine drones that took out some of the foundations of the Kersh Bridge, which is the only link to supply their troops in Crimea from the mainland.

I mean, you can do it, but this is the most effective.

And I don't know the extent of the damage.

It seems structural, but it was still standing, but it might not be usable.

So the whole point is that they are escalating to relieve pressure off the front.

So Russia is grinding them down.

Ukraine does not have the manpower to last.

They are afraid they're going to collapse, and the front's going to be torn wide open, and the Russian columns will be in Kiev.

So they've come up with a brilliant counter-response, and that is unleashing hundreds, if not thousands, of these characteristic brand drones to hit things all over

bridges bases and to call this russian juggernaut off

and

the more that they do that the more russia who has more resources and wherewithal is going to retaliate and no one except trump is saying this is a complete waste of human life and we're going to negotiate the only thing that trump i don't think grasped when he inserted himself is he saw zelensky as kind of showboating showboating and performance art with the Europeans.

He didn't like that.

So he thought the culpability was on Zelensky because after the Kiev victory, he thought he was going to, he kept saying, We're going to get Crimea back, we're going to get Donbass back.

And Trump said, No, you're not.

Obama gave him away.

You're not going to, that's been there 11 years.

But what you didn't see was

Putin, that wasn't the issue.

Putin already said that he took Crimea and the Donbass in 2014, and they were his.

So Trump's idea, well, you can institutionalize what you have and tell the Russian people you lost a million Russians because you've got them institutionalized.

And then, no.

And then Putin said Trump said, well, we'll keep them out of NATO.

You can go back and tell the operator you had to go in there to make sure they weren't in NATO.

And they said, they're not going to be in NATO anyway.

Nobody in Europe, you didn't want them in NATO.

We got to get up more than that.

And then they went back and said,

oh, well, maybe we'll make a rare earth thing and there'll be kind of a DMZ and everybody gets to exploit it and we'll have a commercial corridor.

It'll be kind of as defensible as the DMZ in Korea, but this time it'll be open for profit.

And now we don't want that.

So what Trump has to deal with is there's a magical point where Putin will stop, but nobody knows where it is because he's got to go back to his generals and his oligarchs and said, I got a million of your people killed for this noble reason and it was worth it.

And I don't know how many miles from or beyond Kyiv that worth it is defined, but it's somewhere.

And so you either have two choices.

You either sit down with Putin and you threaten him.

And if you're Trump, you say, that's enough.

You've taken enough.

Here's the deal.

You can brag that you got them out of NATO.

But if you continue, we're going to boycott with a secondary boycott all your oil.

Any country that ends up with your oil, we're not going to trade with it.

And the Europeans are not either.

Europeans talk a great game and they say Trump won't do it.

They're the ones that won't do it because they're dependent on countries, oil and gas, that trade with Russia.

But that's the only pressure you have on Russia.

Aaron Powell, it would seem that Putin wants mostly to make them a subject state.

I mean, that's what it would seem to me that you don't have any argument with Putin because he's after making them a subject state going all the way to Kiev.

But I also you can comment on that, but also I wanted to go back.

You almost said that you think Russia might use tactical nuclear weapons

in this situation.

So that's

a whole new turn.

We'll see if Putin does that.

To devastate an entire portion of the battlefield just to show everybody you're crazy.

Everybody says they'll never do it.

It's never been done since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I'm not sure they're really serious, but they are getting to the point where they should be taken more credibly.

The thing about Ukraine that people don't realize, and I'm not at all trying to suggest that Putin has a case, but

the western part of Ukraine was not Russian.

It was Polish, Polish, Polish, Polish.

In 1939, Poland had been created by the Versailles Treaty.

And Hitler said he was going to destroy the Versailles Treaty and with it, Poland.

And he said,

I would like to get rid of the Danzig corridor that connected Poland with

Gdansk or Danzig, a corridor, through Prussia, through German land.

And Stalin said, I would like to push our Ukrainian province westward and gobble up eastern Poland.

And

Hitler said, well, let's make a deal.

I'll invade on September 1st, 1939, and as soon as you deal with the Japanese and you get your army back, you come in from the east and you get all of the eastern Poland and you'll call it Western Ukraine.

And I'll take

northern Poland, and we'll destroy it.

And that's what they did.

But here's the key: after the war, because Germany was defeated, they lost all of eastern Pomerania and East Prussia, and the Russians got Kalingrad.

There was no more East Prussia, and they created Poland there.

But the Soviets were supposed to give up

Western Poland,

what was now for five years, Western Poland.

And that's when Stalin reportedly said famously, how many troops does the Pope have?

None?

Well, we're going to take all the Polish speakers and the Roman Catholics that have been here for a thousand years, and they're gone.

And Roosevelt and Churchill said, but you can't do that.

Because you'll be just like Hitler.

You have to get back what you stole when you were part of Hitler's pact.

And he said, yeah, you want Poland, take it from the Germans.

But I stole this part of Poland.

So Western Ukraine was stolen, and then it was ethnically cleansed.

Then we go into the Khrushchev period.

There was tension, Ukrainian nationalism.

You saw it during World War II.

And as a SOP to Ukraine, he said, we're going to make this border and I'll make you an autonomous province.

It didn't mean anything because it was part of the Soviet Union.

So then when the Soviet Union dissolved, there was independent Crimea.

That had gone all the way back to Byzantine times, that that was an independent Black Sea state.

And

it actually had, it had Tartar, it had everybody there.

And for a while, it was a part of the Byzantine Empire.

So then Crimea declared its independence.

You know, between 1991 and 1993, there was an independent nation of Crimea.

Because they were 60% Russian, 40% Ukraine.

But they felt they had a unique culture.

And they did.

So then it was the question: who was going to steal it first?

The Ukrainians said, you're too weak, the Russians will absorb you.

And the Russians said, we're not going to let the Ukrainians absorb you.

And Ukraine struck first and invaded and absorbed it and made Crimea part of Ukraine.

And what's the point of all this?

The point of all this is the border has been shifting for thousands of years around Ukraine.

It doesn't excuse what Putin did, but people should remember in World War II, the Russian army, the largest encirclement in history probably in military affairs was outside of Kiev.

And the Russian army lost about 660,000 troops.

Half of them were captured, and they starved mostly.

The German army starved them to death.

And then the next year, Monstein, von Monstein destroyed Sebastopol, and the the Russians lost another 100,000.

When the Germans came into Ukraine, the Ukrainians welcomed them.

And a lot of the people who were,

when Putin keeps saying they're Nazis, Nazis, everybody gets angry because he's more of a Nazi than they are, at least.

But he's going back to World War II when the Ukrainian people sided with the Germans and wrongly thought they were going to be liberated.

What the Germans said was basically,

you're still Slavic inferior peoples, but we'll let you kill Jews for us.

And Ukrainians were very prominent in the Pomgroms and Babayar killing Jews.

So it's such a quagmire, but when we get all these people in the United States saying,

my God, Ukraine is a perfect democracy and it's noble and this,

it's more complex than that.

And as I said earlier,

If Netanyahu had

did what Zelensky did, we wouldn't give him a dime.

Zelensky outlawed political parties, he stopped all habeas corpus, he outlawed opposition newspapers, he canceled elections.

If Netanyahu said, I'm in war with Hamas right now, and there's going to be no other opposition parties, and Israelis lose the right of habeas corpus, and I'm going to shut down the anti-Netanyahu papers, which is most of them,

and we're not going to have any more elections coming up.

We wouldn't supply him with anything.

And if he said,

if he said what, Zelensky?

No.

Zelensky said, no, cease fire.

Do we ever tell Zelensky, be careful what you do?

You might hit a civilian.

No.

And we ever say, be proportional?

No.

But we say to Netanyahu, you got to be proportional.

No collateral damage.

And the ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire.

It's a weird situation.

As I said, when I

rode a bike on the Stanford campus, I went from

watching these beautiful homes of these professors.

They're not very big, some of them, but they're worth three or four million bucks.

And they had this house doesn't tolerate racism or no racism here.

And they have pictures of George Floyd, and then all of a sudden they came down, and then their Ukraine flags came up.

So it was

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So Victor,

we had an Olympic fighter that everybody knew was male, and he won the gold medal in boxing.

And it just came out that the Olympic committee also knew that he had a Y chromosome, and that's the new leak that came out this week.

And so I felt

mystified by this.

Did they think they were going to run a chromosome test and find out he was female?

Was there any question that he did not have testicles and a phallus?

No.

He looked male.

He sounded male.

He was born male.

He was but

I guess the International Olympic Committee has that rule that your chromosomes have to be a certain way and they don't go by American transgender rules.

So they were, it was like shock there's gambling in Casablanca.

He was, he was, he was a male and he beat the crap out of that poor Italian boxer.

And the whole trans thing is just

I don't know.

It's there's so many

inconsistencies and it's not about trans.

It has nothing to do with trans.

This whole issue, if it had anything to do with the transgender in sports, we would right now be talking about a lot of women who have transitioned

and have had operations to remove their breast.

They're taking testosterone.

That happens.

And maybe some of them have even had surgical

testicles and penises put in.

I don't know.

But and then they would be competing in male sports.

That's not happening.

That is not happening.

I can't think of anything where a trans

male who was biologically female has won a major event against men.

So what are we talking about?

We're talking about biological males, most of whom were in terms of male competitions mediocre, transitioning into female sports and dominating it because they are not females, even though they claim they are.

They have a muscular skeletal

system and testosterone that gives them an advantage.

And so we're talking just about one thing.

If men want to compete in women's sports and they go through a ritual to allow them to superficially look like women, that makes them full women.

And that's not true.

Because if it was true, then women who want to look like men and are full men would be as strong and successful in males for it.

And that does not happen.

And so the whole thing is absurd.

Our grandfathers, our parents, anybody in a normal place would say this is absurd.

And Donald Trump says he has an executive order, but

when he says he's going to cut off federal funds, of course, people say, you mean you're going to stop highway construction and kill innocent children because of this?

So it's very hard to know what the appropriate penalty is.

But

the other thing about it is, and I mentioned it to Jack, is that all civil rights movements start out pure and virtuous.

And then

the radical element, a Jacobin element, takes over and feels that progress is too slow, or yesterday's revolutionary is today's counter-revolutionary sellout.

And you go from Martin Luther King to Rap Brown or Stoky Carmile in about two years.

And then you go to the Black Panthers and you go to the Symbolese Liberation Army.

And the trans thing was like that.

We heard about it in Hillary's campaign.

She said, I want to welcome the LGBTQ something communities.

And then we went to it, it was a civil rights thing, and then you're not supposed to use the word tranny, and then the pink hair and the pride flag.

And then you've got the very radical element.

And that's where we are now.

And people,

if you look at that issue, that is a Trump 80-20 issue.

There was a local poll on

a media website,

Fresno Media, I think it was Channel 26, and it said, do you support, because we had the state championships and some field events in Clovis here, and a biological male dominated some of those events, I think three events.

And the question on the poll was, do you support biological males transitioning into female supporters?

And the response was like 90 to 90% no.

It's just not a winning issue.

Everybody knows that it's something that violates the innate American sense of fairness.

It's just not fair.

And also, the left can't digest it because they've always told us that

women's sports should be equal.

Title IX.

Remember, Barack Obama wrote letters.

It wasn't Donald Trump that was interfering with Harvard.

That followed Obama.

He did two things when he was president.

He went and said, Title VII to

9, Civil Rights Act, if you have sexual harassment charges, you do not give them the benefit of reasonable doubt.

And you don't even give it preponderance.

You just say the majority of evidence convicts them.

They have no right to convict to all that.

And then he also said, if you don't have sports programs that are equivalent, then you're going to be cited and we're going to cut off federal funds.

He did that.

So when I was at Cal State Fresno, I mean, all of a sudden the baseball,

the big three that earned all the money

for the athletic department was

first football, secondary league basketball, and then baseball.

And they had a wonderful girls' softball team.

That was an exception.

It was a world champion.

I mean, it was a nation's champion one year.

But anyway, the point I'm making is then they had to take resources from their revenues and get an equal number.

And one of the things,

the solution was to make a huge equestrian team.

And Cal State Fresno, I mean, all of a sudden you went out there, there was dozens,

dozens of women with horses.

So the point was they were under a federal mandate.

And everybody says Donald Trump shouldn't interfere with universities.

threaten to cut off their funds if he doesn't like what they're doing.

That's exactly what Obama did.

No one said a word.

I didn't hear one liberal judge say this is unfair for the federal government to poke its nose into an internal matter in a university,

as they are saying to Donald Trump.

Well, I think in the case of the Olympic boxer, what is really tragic, even if the Olympic committee addressed this and said, takes away strips him of his medals and then gives it to the next person down, the people that had to fight him in rounds leading up to the final rounds were disqualified.

So without, you know, they were

defeated by him, but they might have won the Olympic medals.

And that's a very sad thing, that Italian girl.

Recently in Clovis with a high jumping, long jump, they spent their whole lives.

They want a scholarship to Berkeley.

They want to go to USC.

They want to go to Stanford based on their excellence in sports, and they're not going to do it.

They're going to give their spot over to a transgendered athlete who cheated.

And everybody knows it.

And everybody, it's one of those things where

it just takes,

it's like a ball that's being pushed up to the summit.

People are getting sick and sick and sick, and it's just incrementally.

But once it gets to the summit and it starts to go, it goes like crazy.

And that's kind of what's happened with woke in general.

Everybody was afraid to talk about it, and now everybody is afraid to support it.

And the thing about this transgender thing is everybody is scared to be called a transphobe, but it is so egregious what they're doing to women.

And the Democratic Party is on the losing end of this because the women who supported it as powerful women who define their own sports and sexuality and all this, now they're just you're a transphobe.

And then who's the constituency?

If you're a Democratic poll like James Carville and you want to rant and scream and yell like you're nutty

on a video once or twice a week, then you're just doing the the math and you're saying 51% of the population are female and the number of people who suffer from general

from sexual dysphoria is about 001%.

And we are allying with 001%

against 51% of the population.

That does not make sense.

And that's why he rails and screams about it.

What he doesn't do is say if you look at the ultimate logic of your party, which is neo-socialist,

and its mantra is equality of result, then this is an aberrant.

It's the ultimate manifestation of making everybody equal who are not by mandate.

And that's always trying to find a victimized class to leverage and use against people you don't like, which is usually the majority, white, Christian, conservative, nuclear family.

Well, James Carwell is not the only one that's screaming about the Democratic class's lost

Democratic Party has lost touch.

But Scott Jennings this week did the same thing.

He said that

they

had erred with the working class.

They had cried wolf too many times, which I think meant too many lies.

And they supported insane issues.

And those were his two accusations against the Democratic Party right there with James Carville.

Having Tim Waltz, the spokesman for the working people, remember how he says you have to speak code?

That is like having an arsonist work for the Forest Service.

I mean, he is the epitome.

What did Tyrus call him?

He was a clown in search of a circus.

Tyrus is a brilliant guy, but that's one of his all-time best

similes.

And he is such a little punk, and

he uses all these expletives and porno language and gutter adjectives and nouns, and he wiggles around and is tight.

He's just a disaster.

And now he's on to what white men really do.

You remember he was going to fix his truck and he's going to have a beer.

He wouldn't know how to

put him on a tractor, he wouldn't know which you go forward or in the reverse.

He's an idiot.

And he's the spokesman of trying to appeal to the white working class whom they despise.

Tim, who thought up these following words?

Chomps, dregs, semi-fascists,

deplorables, irredeemables, and clingers?

I think it was Obama, Hillary, and Joe Biden.

In other words, the last three major candidates of your party.

And I think someone added to that vocabulary called Joe Biden when he included the word garbage.

They're garbage.

And so you've lost those people.

They don't like you.

They don't like elites in general.

They don't like you.

And

they're not going to vote for AOC.

And they're not going to vote for the squad.

And

they're a great gift to Donald Trump.

Spartacus was yelling at Donald Trump.

You forgot to mention Spartacus.

Spartacus was arguing with Ted Cruz.

And he was saying, that was so funny because,

and I wrote two columns about it.

The last 10 years, nobody has gone after judges more than the Democratic Party.

We had that

prime example of Chuck Schumer going to the doors of the Supreme Court while it was in session in front of a crazy pro-abortion, late-term abortion mob and yelling, Gorsuch,

Kavanaugh,

you sowed the wind.

You're going to reap the world when you don't know what's going to hit you.

Hit you?

That's a direct threat by name to the Supreme Court.

And then about a year later, a little bit later, then they started mobbing, committing felonies, these homes of Supreme Court justices.

And

an assassin showed up who went all the way out there to kill Kavanaugh.

And he was talked out of it by his sister.

And then, of course, in addition to that, we had Elizabeth Warren.

Pack the court, pack the court, pack the court, pack the court, court, pack the court.

And then we have Joe Biden.

Hey, everybody,

I canceled student loans before the midterm, and the Supreme Court kind of said it was on.

Don't worry, I work around it.

I'll just work around it.

Then you had all these professors saying after the 2022 Supreme Court ruling against Harvard and North Carolina, just ignore the Supreme Court.

They're just a bunch of old fuddy-duddies.

So they were attacking the court personally.

They were trying to dismirch their

authority.

They hated them.

They wanted to pack them.

And then all of a sudden, they're now claiming that because Donald Trump has complained about a district judge with supposedly regional jurisdiction issuing this blanket pardons on every which issue.

In other words, he's the president of the United States.

He got elected by the majority of the people.

I was appointed the lowest court judge, and I'm in the district of California or I'm in Texas.

But I can issue like that, an edict, a fiat that's going to cancel out the whole foreign policy of the United States right in the middle of crucial negotiations about tariffs.

I'll just do it.

And you know, I'll do it.

And maybe if I get reversed, who cares?

I was cherry-picked anyway because I'm crazy.

And the circuit court and the Supreme Court, and that'll be three months.

And you know what?

I'll high-five the other judge and said, I took three months off that 48-month tenure.

It's not your turn.

Come into the wrestling ring now, and you take your shot.

Cherry-pick him.

I got three months, too.

That's what they're doing.

And so they've destroyed

the respect for the judiciary almost.

They have made the district court judge,

the lowest tier of federal judge, the most powerful arbiter of U.S.

foreign policy in the United States.

They have more power than the House, the Senate, maybe even the Supreme Court.

They've got to be dealt with.

They really do.

I mean, by the higher courts, they've got to intervene and say, you know what,

look in the mirror.

You're a district judge.

And

your duties and your authorities are to adjudicate cases that arise in your regions.

And to the extent that they can be

extrapolated to the entire nation, that's something maybe for the appellate courts, circuit courts to adjudicate or us, but just stay in your lane.

You're not that important, you 350 left-wing judges judges that are

on the list of all these Sorrels-funded legal action committees.

Well, Victor, with that, let's go ahead.

We'll talk a little bit about Hag Seth renaming some battleships after these messages.

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Victor is now on YouTube and Rumble and Spotify, and we're working on the Apple connection as well.

So hopefully it's there, but I can't guarantee that.

So Victor, Pete Hagseth has

opened up about renaming a few battleships.

And

one of them is named after Harvey Mill.

Battleships in the sense of warships.

Warships, yes.

We haven't had a battleship since the poor

kids.

It was put into mothball.

Yeah,

warships.

so harvey milk ruth gator bins ruth bader ginsberg and um caesar chavez are up for renaming i you know there was one i i kind of disagree with because if anybody was an old battle axe harriet tubman must have been she faced a lot of odds that there's no problem with that

um

far sojourner truth i suppose but harvey milk

i know that he was martyred when he was cruelly assassinated, but if you look at his long career in perspective, he is very, very lucky that he was not born 20 years later because of the laws against pedophilia, because he openly consorted with underage boys, underage men, in

one-sided, asymmetrical sexual relationships that a later generation would have called pedophilia.

So I think that was what Hegset was saying.

But I think his other point was

he was looking at, he was trying to think of names that are less political and that everybody could agree on, or stalwart people

that were common to everybody, rather than just pick left-wing people.

I think the left would have had

the same type of anger if

first term Trump had named a bunch of ships, the William Buckley, you know what I mean, or

the Tom Soul.

They would have got angry about that.

I wouldn't have had a problem with this Tom Soul.

But that was the criticism that they were the left was appealing to an activist element that, by the standards of previous naming, didn't have wide support.

And maybe Sojourner Truth did, but

there's so many, such a pantheon of American heroes that it seems like

you could name people that didn't have that off-putting.

I mean, Cesar Chavez, I grew up with Cesar Chavez.

I live, what, 40 miles from Delano.

I used to go to Lincoln Park in Salma when he was walking to Sacramento and listen to him.

And in fact, I went to a Chavez

strike.

I was in high school, and we were picking peaches

in the summer.

So somebody said, hey, they're going to strike.

And so we drove, about five of us, drove in a little Volvo over to watch it.

And

it was so funny because everybody said they were nonviolent and everything.

And we were watching them pick it, pick it, because there were some guys picking peaches.

And then, bam, they gave the signal and they just stormed in there and knocked everybody's ladders over and kind of took over the fuel.

And then this is what was funny, though.

Then we got kind of scared and got in the car and we drove away.

And the Fresno County, Calary County Sheriff pulled us over, said that we were outside agitators

and that we had been egging on.

We said, no, we were watching.

We'd never seen it.

We're good old Selma high school kids.

No, no, no.

One of you has long hair.

I think one of us had hair down over his ears.

And we said, but high school's out now.

Yes, but why are you here?

Because we wanted to watch.

And I was like the big-mouth, stupid nerd.

And I said, we were watching an historical occasion.

You were watching a historical occasion or you were participating in it and egging it on as an outside agitator.

I said, no, we're all from Selma.

You are?

So we had to bring our little IDs out because we were like 17.

But it was not, my point is, it was not non-violent.

And Cesar Chavez, when

the

Imperial Valley farmers sort of outfoxed him and brought in what he called scabs, but which were people from Mexico and they joined the Teamsters Union and then he went down

on the border and had armed people and to try to knock away people from entering the United States and they used terms like wetback

Chavez people did

and they wanted they did not want illegal immigration they wanted a small pool of Hispanic workers that would have clout against the employer and bargaining power and the Teamsters kind of demolished that The whole thing was adjudicated

by

mechanization.

There's so many crops now that are mechanized that the need for

physical stoop labor in the fields is diminished by a magnitude.

Yes.

Well, we're getting near the end of the show, but I had one.

There's lots of things on the Democrats and losing their constituency all the time, whether it's Carville or Scott Jennings.

But they had an interesting thing out this week from a Pew Poll that 56.3%

of liberal women

have been given a mental health diagnosis.

And I was wondering your thoughts on that.

Like basically that the

Democratic Party women are crazy

in some fashion.

You're saying that

a woman who's 35 and she lives on 200 acres near Kingsburg, California, and she has three boys and two girls, five, and she does the books for her husband who's farming and she monitors all the kids.

She makes all the meals.

She takes them to PTA.

She makes sure that they go to church.

That that woman is more stable and happy and satisfied than a colleague at Stanford University who has no children, who's had five or six relationships, and talks through her nose.

Exactly.

More likely to have mental problems if we're going to deal in stereotypes.

Yeah, I don't think we need a poll.

I can say that I'm 71 years old.

You've been a live, viewing, and thinking sentient person for 70 years.

I've never actually gotten an argument with one of those Karen types, if I could use a stereotype.

But I was out in the foreign language department at Cal State, and

this professor, she's deceased now, but she fit that every time I saw her, she had a new live-in boyfriend.

And she was about 50 and I was about 35.

And I was at a department meeting and they were arguing about how to split up $500 among 20 faculty members for travel.

And they were all accusing each other of featherbedding.

And I just said, this is kind of crazy.

And so she was sitting next to me and she said,

whispered, why don't you shut the F up?

And I turned around in front of everybody and said, what did you say?

And she said, are you deaf?

I said, shut that.

So I said, Professor X, you're a feminist.

You always are telling me feminists.

So if you were a male and said that to me, I would

ask you to go outside

and I would give you the first slap.

Now, do you want to do that?

I can't believe what you said.

You were threatening me.

I'm going to the dean.

I said, you just told me to shut the F out.

And then you said it again in front of everybody.

I don't care.

This is so mean.

I just expected that of you.

So your feminist just melted like the wicked witch of the West.

She was going to be my equal.

And then she would walk the next month.

Every time I saw her coming, she walked the other way.

And so I said to the chairman, Why does she walk the other way?

He says, She thinks you're quite dangerous, and she's thinking of a restraining order against you.

And I said, I will bet you she slapped more men than I have women, because I've never slapped a woman, nor would I in my entire life.

But she threatened to slap me for nothing.

And then,

you know, people get old, and at the end, I didn't care.

But my point is that that type suffers, according to your poll, suffers mental challenges more than conservative women and women who have different types of lifestyles that are less professional, maybe.

Not that we don't need professional women, but

I think that people in the U.S.

Congress, like an AOC or the squad members, are a little bit more crazy, a Fannie Willis or AOC or Representative Tlaib

than others.

They sure make themselves seem.

But since you're a-cause Michelle Obama said that women, the country should have to realize that one of the least important things of womanhood is raising children.

She's been really mouthing off in her podcast that all that old envy and insecurity and anger, and that she's always always leveraged her whole life for affirmative action and for victimhood.

Now that she's a multi-multi-multi-millionaire, now that she's a celebrity author, now that she has four mansions, now that she's a Netflix influencer, she's got everything she wants, but she's still back at it, back at it.

You know, it just, this is so unfair that I'm a victim.

What'd she say the other day?

People don't understand.

When you're in the White House, you have to pay for your own food.

I don't think you do, Michelle.

Maybe if you're having caviar, you do.

But I think you get most things paid for.

And I think you did very well, Michelle.

When you left the White House, you were looking at about $100 million

in quid pro quo sweetheart deals, and they were not given to you because you had a reputation as a brilliant screenwriter.

You were not David Mammoth.

Sorry.

No.

And so, speaking of career women then, I know you wanted to say something about Corine Jean-Pierre's, she's got her new book out, and it's a look inside a broken White House.

Yeah, and that's a woman that any time, I mean, if she was Pinocchio, her nose would have been knocked over the Washington Monument.

Every time she stood up, she lied.

Remember when people,

there was a collage of Joe Biden wandering off in the Amazon forest and looking down, tripping, and just freezing.

Everything you saw in the debate.

And then she came up with this fake cheap fake.

Cheap fake, cheap fake, cheap fake.

Oh, come on, that's just one side that's doing this.

And she just lied and lied.

And then she said she was going to drift off and not be political.

And then she looked at everything and she said, oh, my God, Jake Tapper, original sin, is making a lot of money, even though he's not selling as well as he should.

He's still making a lot of money on his advance, several million dollars.

And more importantly, the narrative is now that the media is innocent

and the people around Biden are guilty.

And I was the one that was most around him.

So this is directed at me, a proud black gay woman.

So I'm going to write a book called Independent and re-transform myself as not a partisan who made fun of people, called him cheap fake,

and slurred Peter Doocy every day and lied, lied, lied, lied, lied.

I'm going to be an independent in a broken White House.

No, you helped break it, Corinne.

You helped break it.

You were part of the conspiracy, and you're only right to one degree.

You were only half of the conspiracy.

Jake Tapper and his brood were the other half.

You were welded at the hip, both of you.

Your media, you guys wrote memos every single day to the media.

Help us out.

Make sure you don't do this.

You're going to be asked this question.

We're going to give you the question in advance.

We know you did that.

And don't act like you were independent.

You were dependent.

And you, if I said four years ago,

I have a question for you, Press Secretary Jean-Pierre.

Do you think the White House is broken?

What are you talking about?

You know, she was just gone ballistic.

This is pathetic.

These people are pathetic.

He's going to live.

The legacy of,

unfortunately, Joe Biden is going to live well beyond his natural lifespan.

The legacy of the damage, whether it's what he did in Afghanistan or what he did on the border or what he did with borrowing $7 trillion

or the semi-fascist, all that stuff he did, or the DEI that he did.

It's going to live on after him.

And people, he's going to go down.

I know that he said, somebody said, well, he was one of the top-ranked president.

The presidential presidential historian.

There is no such thing as a presidential historian.

There's a bunch of academics who are left-wing, who say they're presidential historians when they are asked to rank somebody and they put pathetic people like Joe Biden in the top 10 or top 15.

I did, everybody, I hope they watch an interview with David Mammet.

I did.

It's going to come out very soon, but I asked him about Trump, and he said Trump,

exhausted the superlative.

So it'll be interesting.

Yes, since you brought that up, your David Mammet interview will be out on Saturday.

So instead of our usual weekend episode, the David Mammet.

So we hope everybody tomorrow watches or listens to the David Mammet interview.

It will be operated on Tuesday of next week.

I don't know,

I've not had it done before, and it was a little bit more um

not debilitating but out of the public sight control because it's you know it's right here and you get swelling and bleeding.

But I want to thank somebody.

Somebody wrote me an email and said, you mentioned sinitis and whether you like it or not, the ultimate only cure for it is to open the apertures of infected sinus tissue that touch each other and close your sinus which just happened to me on the CAT scan.

But my point is he was exactly right.

Four months ago, get rid of doxicillin, ZPAC, all the antibiotics, all of the steam, all of the netipots,

all of the probiotics, all of the iodine, all of the colitils,

all of the barking, humming, all of those things, you know, that people write you.

In the end, it's a plumbing problem.

It's closed because you have constant inflammation, and

this doctor is going to cut it open.

I hope.

Let's hope.

I have these dreams that instead of Elmer's glue paste that's the CAT scan shows, you think that it's like

a whole thing of crystal clear water that's backed up, and then he just comes in and goes bing, bing, popes, and it just shoots out, and then your pressure goes, your fever's gone, you feel great.

I don't think it works that way.

No, it doesn't work that way, Victor.

Dead mouse that's rotting in your sinus.

Oh, no.

All right, Victor.

Well, we are at the end of the show.

And as we like to do at the end of the show, we have some comments.

And

there's so many and such great comments.

Thanks to our audience for writing them.

And I would like to just try two of them.

One's a little bit of a criticism of both of us, on The Last of Us, the series that is out.

And it comes from, from, and his name is The Youngest VDH listener.

I like The Last of Us.

I do.

You got to listen to what this young listener has to say here.

He says, I cannot listen to you to you two butcher The Last of Us any longer.

He's talking about me and you.

It is based on a popular video game of the same name.

The timing and manner of Joel's Pedro Pascal's murder is the same in both game and TV show.

Lots of alphabet characters are part of the game.

Yes, the TV series overplays aspects, but it isn't conjured from nowhere.

So thank you, the youngest VDH listeners.

Yeah, but I knew that that was from a video game, but I would ask a question back to my young questioner.

How many novels

are captured faithfully on the big screen?

Very few.

So they're two different genres, for good or for bad.

So if you have this video game and you're trying to expand it into three to four seasons,

and it was really good in the first year, I watched it religiously and in the first two or three episodes.

But whatever the video game's prompt was,

when you very early kill off the hero and you destroy this chemistry chemistry between the older man who's looking for a lost daughter that has been killed and a directionless young woman who

has discovered survival techniques and her found herself and they are a partnership and they overcome insurmountable odds by these zombie fungus people.

It's working and you could have had all sorts of directions in which that content and script could have gone.

You could have had a group of rival people coming to try to kill you because of what Joel did, or another group trying to say, look, we've got a cure.

You can come without having your head blown up.

You could have done all sorts of things.

But instead,

they killed off the main character.

And then they turned it into sort of a gay thing between two young coming-of-age girls.

And it's not me who's saying that.

If you look at the audience drop-off from last season, it's been considerable.

That's all.

And I I still watch it.

I just,

it's, they know, they're doing, they're putting things from the video game, but also from the contemporary culture of Los Angeles in there.

And that's the problem.

Yes.

Well, here's the second comment.

And this is from Van Gogh, and it's on the Memorial Day Tribute.

And he says, it seems to me at age 92, a huge discrepancy in attitude between those who witnessed in some fashion the events and immediate fallout from World War II and those 50 or so and younger, probably due to more moralistic attitudes or the Circean magnetism of the salesman of the lure of the ideal communism.

Whatever.

The vast majority of those who experienced the Second World War had no hesitancy in backing whatever it took to terminate the Japanese and Nazi regimes.

I remember as a grade schooler walking past the homes in my neighborhood in Kansas City and seeing all the windows with one and occasionally more gold and silver stars displayed, showing how much our little community was indebted to our neighbors, known and unknown, who had or were putting their tomorrows on the line for the rest of us.

We owe them so much.

And thank you, Van Gauten.

People forget that the Japanese army, as I've said before, in terms of the losses of the Japanese people versus the people that they killed, the military, it was the most asymmetric, even more so than the Germans or the Russians.

They killed somewhere between 15 and 20 million Chinese, and they probably killed another 3 to 5 million Pacific people in Burma and places like that.

And it was a killing machine.

They executed prisoners.

They tortured prisoners.

They were horrific, the Japanese militarists.

And

how we got, turned that defeat of Japan into the story that was tangential, like Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

I mean, it was central to defeating them, but it was just one small element of that four-year effort.

And then the Japanese internment was terrible, but it was not the central story of World War II.

The central story was that three fascist countries tried to take over the world and butcher people, and very reluctant Americans didn't want any part of it.

And they were attacked, and they reluctantly went over there.

I tell that story if I could.

I mentioned it maybe three years ago.

I was at a graduation,

and you know that scene in the best years of our lives where Myrna Loy's got

Frederick Marsh, and he's drinking at that dinner, and she puts down, doesn't she count the drinks?

Yeah, she has a little chart on how many drinks he's had.

He's He's just like,

he's drunk.

Well, I was at

Cowell College in 1975, and there was the dean, and they had all the people who had won an award.

And I was, they call it the College Award, and you got little stars on your program.

It was kind of like Summa Kum Laud, but it was touchy-feely.

pas-fail version.

So this person was talking.

She was Japanese, but not Japanese American.

She had married somebody who had been in Japan.

So she was sitting there and they were talking about everything.

All the parents were at big table and the dean was kind of encouraging, oh, you were from Japan, you know.

And then they got on to Hiroshima.

And

then she started talking

about the B-29s.

And she said she was a little girl and these horrific fire bombs and da-da-da-da, and then the Hiroshima.

And so I looked at my father, and he had taken the red wine that was shared for this element of the table, and he just kept pouring it.

So my mom was looking like this, and she was like kind of lizard-eyes to me, like out of the corner, like this.

Please, please kick your dad.

We know what's coming.

And then my mom says, well, this is very interesting.

And it was just a tragedy on every part.

And

let's just talk about what's the future of everybody.

What do you want to do?

And she said, and she didn't take the hint.

So my dad was just going,

and then he let loose.

And I couldn't get hide under the table.

But then I didn't want to.

In the middle, it was a brilliant Frederick March rant.

He said,

I had 16 planes in my squadron.

14 didn't come home.

And if you bailed out over Japan, you were beheaded.

I didn't even wear a parachute.

And I flew 1,600 miles one way.

And I didn't ask to do this.

I was sitting on a farm in Kingsburg, California with my first cousin that we raised, Victor.

This boy over here is named after him.

He didn't want any part of this.

You wanted a part of it.

You were the ones.

You were the ones that invaded China.

You were the ones that invaded Korea.

You started it.

You were the ones that executed prisoners.

You were the ones that did the baton death mark.

We hadn't done anything to you.

So you wanted us to come over.

And we didn't know how to stop you unless we wanted to lose a million men invading your blank, blank country.

And he went on and on.

He said, so then I

fallen and I was in a bomber and 14 of my planes either cracked up on takeoff or they missed Iwo Jima or they crashed.

And we brought eight more in and seven of them died.

There's only three of us.

And

he said,

She said, well, you bombed all this people.

I said, you bombed.

We didn't behead you.

We didn't behead you.

We didn't kill 15 million of them like you did the Chinese.

And

you started it.

We ended it.

And we didn't know how to end it.

Well, how were we supposed to make a treaty with you people?

You didn't want a treaty.

You would have killed us all.

So basically, Victor and I went over there.

We didn't want any part of it.

We left our farm and he fought over you hand to hand in Okinawa and you killed him.

And

you killed him.

He didn't want to go over there.

He had no animus against anybody.

Now you sit here in the United States, it's a free country, and you start to libel all the servicemen who fought and say they're barbed.

That's what you're doing.

And I'm not going to sit here and listen to it.

So I have one thing to say to you.

And

she got kind of angry, and he said, I have no regrets.

The only thing I wish is that all 16 planes of these wonderful American kids were alive, and we dropped more bombs on you quicker so they would be alive.

And then he turns to me

under the table.

And how do you think of that, college grad?

And then my mom was like, oh, well, that was interesting, Bill.

And we get a different viewpoint.

And I think all the parents can agree on one thing, that we're all happy.

But then she starts coming up to me later.

And

I said, you asked, you started it, and he finished it.

And you don't tell an old B-29 guy from what they went through that,

you know, when you behead prisoners and you do this and this and this, and you're a bully for two years and you butcher everybody.

And then suddenly the Americans say, you know what, you're not going to butcher anybody that's defenseless.

Now you're going to take your own medicine.

And then you don't say, this is unfair.

I'm sorry.

And her son was there that I knew, so it was even worse.

A lesson well delivered.

I wondered how well it was received ultimately.

I bet she just ignored it.

I was looking at him and he thought, where in the hell did this old fossil come from?

But it was 1975.

My dad was born in 22, you know, so it was,

he was

53 years old.

He was young, big guy, and he was very proud.

Then, of course, it was over.

He never liked to talk about the war, but he'd had

wine.

So he walks over and puts his arm around me, and he says,

Let me tell you about Allenby, the pilot.

40 missions.

So, what's the SOB do?

Bravest man I ever met, best pilot in the entire

393rd.

And what's he do?

He volunteers for Korea, and he flies those B-29s with MiGs coming at him everywhere.

Most important guy in my life.

Did I tell you about Zelixon, the navigator?

He was a Jewish kid.

He was a mathematical genius.

He could get us anywhere.

I owe my life to him.

Did I tell you about

the whole 11-man crew?

And I go, yeah.

And he said, that's why I'm here.

These were the best people we ever produced.

And that was kind of like the best years of our lives.

It sure was.

And so I said to my mom, Is dad, I was kind of a really obnoxious 20-year-old.

I said, Does dad think he's Bill Holden or Dana Andrews?

I don't think there is any 20-year-old that isn't a little bit obnoxious.

It would be hard to be that age.

Yes.

I love Father.

Yeah, I'm sure.

I'm sure the feeling was well reached out.

The generation did a lot for all of us, and we should never forget it.

They should.

They did, and we don't forget it.

And I know that our audience doesn't forget it.

We'd like to thank everyone for joining us at the Victor Davis-Hanson Show.

Thank you, Victor, for all the wisdom today.

Thank you, everybody, for listening and watching.

Right, this is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis-Hansen, and we're signing off.