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By the way, Victor, Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror now.

How was your

we drove up to Northern California, and my daughter had just

decided, she had decided a year and a half ago that Santa Cruz and its culture was not conducive for the raising of three children, one with special needs.

So

we...

We went in together and we purchased five acres in our house, and

she's got a little family compound up there out in the country in the foothills, five acres.

And they are getting back to this.

She grew up on a farm, so she had to do all sorts of chores

when she was as early as five.

So I think it's really good for her.

She's in her early 40s, and she's

doing maintenance.

And her husband works at a high school.

And so she's there all day and trying to fix up everything.

So I went up there and we viewed the property and I gave her some suggestions of which.

Is it open property or whatever?

Yeah,

you know,

it's in the California mother load, gold rush country.

So there's five acres and there's actually a fissure that runs through the place where they used 1860s hydraulics.

You know how those water cannons.

So they made a canyon and there's a stream.

And

she's

it was it's a very it's on a dead-end road.

It's very isolated.

They have a dog and they were five of them living in a 1200, 1100 square foot home in Santa Cruz.

So it was very cramped and then they were, you know, the Santa Cruz.

I don't need to tell our viewers what Santa Cruz schools are like or the culture there.

It's a beautiful city.

I went to school there.

I lived there for a while.

She's lived there for over 12 years and

They needed to get out.

Well, well, good.

I'm happy for them.

I remember growing up in the Bronx, by the way, Victor.

I think we maybe had 800 square feet for 12 people, and it was just bunk beds, galore, rack them and stack them.

We did the same thing.

My dad,

my grandfather

gave him one quarter acre, and he went and bought at an auction an 800 square foot home, and he towed it on a big platform.

And then he bolted it down, and that was our home until I was about 10.

There were five of us.

We all shared, the three of us shared one bedroom and then we built he

he built a house that, you know, like a V pitch roof right next to it.

So he put the first half of the V

and then he stopped and he was going to put the other half V and tear down this house so you'd have the complete thing.

So he had half a house 15 feet away from the regular house and then he fell when he was doing all the work and smashed.

He destroyed his elbow.

They had to take his elbow bone out, broke off his tip, and he couldn't hammer anymore.

So then he stopped.

So that's where we lived.

And that's my brother lives there.

And that's exactly what it is today.

It's half of a newer home built in 1965, I think, and then the other half that was towed in.

And three bedrooms.

So you have to go from the bedrooms, three bedrooms in the new one to walk out

in the cold to go to cook or something.

Does it actually get cold?

I thought the average temperature there was 127.

Well, actually, and here yesterday it was 45.

Wow.

Frigida.

Hey, Victor, I'm going to surprise you.

We talked about this ahead of time.

What were we talking about?

And I had meant to mention this.

I'm still on a high, right?

I said that the last episode.

Yeah.

And I see

the foreign policy of the United States

being conducted by Donald Trump.

And he's not even president.

Isn't that funny?

I was thinking of that too, Jack.

I'm glad you brought it up.

They put Michael, they tried to destroy Michael Flynn for so-called, remember, conducting foreign policy when he was not yet officially in office by supposedly talking to a Russian diplomat.

Remember that?

Right.

And

forget that John Kerry was out of office and was finagling around with an Iranian foreign minister to undermine Donald Trump, and they didn't say that.

The Logan Act is just a piece of paper.

It doesn't matter.

It's just ossified, calcified.

But my point is this, is that

if

Joe Biden was president and he was sane, and they would go after Trump.

But the reason they're not going after Trump is even the left knows there is no president.

There is a president and name only who was put there as a facade to leverage a hard left agenda.

And that facade has now dissipated, evaporated.

So there's nothing there.

I mean, he went,

you know,

he wandered into the jungle.

We never knew if he came back.

And then he speaks a language other than English.

I couldn't understand.

Every time he's on the air, I say to my wife,

you know, I can read four or five languages.

I cannot read, I cannot understand that language.

What is it?

I don't know what it is.

And I'm not being cruel to the elderly because he's obnoxious and he's cruel to people.

So he's not functional, and he knows it.

And then we have somebody who went, crashed after her aborted bid, went to Hawaii, and then all of a sudden this news came out from her loyal supporters.

A, she was a lousy candidate.

B,

we lied to you.

Our internal polls showed that she was never ahead.

There was no hope.

There was no joy.

There was no big momentum.

Luckily, I mean, we looked at the lying New York Times, the lion Washington Post, the lying Sienna, the lying Quinnipec, and we were happy they were giving us momentum, but we didn't see it in the polls that we actually paid for, to be honest.

And then, of course, the donors came out and said, what?

You took, you went through a billion and a half of our money.

You paid Hope for that billionaire half a

million, a million bucks, that shyster shakedown artist, Al Sharpton 500.

What did you give Cardi B?

What did you give Beyonce?

What are you doing?

Who are these little 20-somethings rinning jets on our dime?

You just took us to the cleaners and you ran a terrible campaign.

So then she comes back and you think she would be vigorous, refreshed, optimistic, sober.

And what does she do?

She does a video, 20 minutes with Waltz and somebody on her staff does not like her because, well, everybody on her staff doesn't like her.

So they take a 30-second clip.

It looks like she lost all muscularity in her neck.

Her head is drooped.

She looks like she has no makeup on.

She looks, I don't know, sick.

She looks wrinkled, tired.

Her hair is disheveled.

And she, if you ask me, without any evidence, and I'm not engaging in character assassination, but I would think she'd had a little bit to drink.

She seemed to be on the verge of slurring a lot of words.

Can you blame her?

No.

So after all of that, I mean,

she's not in charge.

So nobody's in charge.

Who's in charge?

Don't.

Trump stepped up and he said, hey, we don't have a president and we don't have a vice president.

So I'm going to be president.

So Trudeau flew to Mar-Lago.

And I mean, he did this thing with it.

Did you see the picture at the G20 when they basically said, when you and I talked about that, screwed Joe Biden in America.

He's always late.

He always wanders around.

We're going to go ahead with a picture.

And if he shows up, fine, but stick him up in the top corner.

And that's what they did.

So now we've got Trudeau.

the man child flying to Mar-Lago.

We have Mark Zuckerberg, the man child, flying.

I guess guess what they say is when they go to Mar-Lago, Mark Zuckerberg says, Donald Trump,

I am so sorry that I stealthily, covertly sent $419 million.

That's a lot.

It's almost a half a billion dollars to destroy you.

And it worked.

And so that's what I did in 2020.

I tried to absorb the work of the registrars and all those key states that you lost.

I did that.

But I'm sorry.

And then you know what I also did?

I partnered with the FBI to

suppress news of the laptop, which one of these polls said altered the 2020.

So if there's one private citizen that is responsible for you losing, it's me.

But forget all that.

Please don't do to me what I did to you.

And then Trudeau comes in and says, I've called you a dictator.

I've called you Hitler.

I've called you everything in the world.

We're sending illegal immigrants back into Canada.

70% of your terrorist suspects are from the Canadian northern border.

and we want to get rid of them.

So, since Biden declared that you guys were a dumping ground, we just dumped everybody we didn't want in there.

But I'm so sorry.

Please don't have a tariff on me.

That's pretty much what he's doing now.

He's holding court for all these.

I'd like to think he treats them.

Remember when we've talked about before when he held court with Mitt Romney and that

who wanted to be Secretary of State?

And that was quite an embarrassing outcome.

Yeah, Mitt Romney

go on to beg for Trump's support when he ran for Senate successfully,

only to be one of, what, four senators to vote to convict him of the impeachment after he was a private citizen in 2021.

Yeah.

No favors go.

It's always better in Romney's mind to

lose nobly than win ugly.

Well,

Victor, before we get on to the

Wall Street Journal piece, this is by about, it's an interview with Michael Barone.

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I'm not sure I said his name right.

He said it better than I do, and I've known Tunku for, I don't know, 20 years.

Okay, well, thank you.

I've never been able to pronounce his name.

All right.

Well,

you do say names interestingly sometimes.

I do.

You do.

Juicy.

My listeners remind me of that.

I can plead that on my bike accident, both of my lips were upper and lower were severed.

I know, my gosh.

I know.

So I have

the picture of that.

I have kind of a lisp now.

Well, we'll suffer through it.

This is a title, Donald Trump's Rainbow Coalition.

And the interesting thing, Victor, in general, there, yeah, there is a Rainbow Coalition.

And

part to me of the beauty of what happened is the

decline of identity politics,

which is an abhorrent thing.

I wrote Bill Buckley when he ran for mayor 60 years ago, same thing.

You know, this is, can I not just be an American?

Do I have to be a black American?

Do I have to be a hyphenated American?

I wonder, though, don't we, isn't there an, isn't that kind of a pressing need to try to totally break the back of the corner?

Are you suggesting there's a paradox when Trump supporters say they got record levels of the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the gay vote?

Yeah, I mean, and they're not supposed to be for DI.

There's a lot of paradoxes that Trump's going to have to reconcile.

I mean, in order for us not to be in so-called endless wars or endless supporting, supporting endless wars, you've got to be deterrent.

Because Biden ruined deterrence.

So to be deterrent, you're going to have to use force like he did with Soleimani or Baghdadi or the Wagner group.

But that's also using force abroad.

That's a contradiction.

You can't ask, you can't really promise a trillion and a half dollars of tax cuts, no taxes on retired Social Security income, no tax on tips, no tax on military, firemen, first responders, and then

slash taxes and then say you're going to bat, nobody's ever done that before, to slash taxes and to

keep spending the way it is and balance the budget.

So you're going to have to slash taxes to create greater prosperity and revenue, slash expenditures, and then get toward a balanced budget.

So I could go on, but there's a lot, and as far as immigration is, you're going to have to make the case, Mr.

Trump,

that the reason that Hispanics are supporting you is this time it's different.

50% of the people coming illegally into the United States are not from the Latin American Spanish-speaking world.

And so let's just admit it.

There's a much greater hostility because it's not necessarily an ethnic solidarity factor at work here.

And then number two, they come in such numbers.

They're flooding the zone and they're destroying the schools.

They're spiking crime.

So he's going to have to thread the needle and try to explain to his newly acquired constituents that I'm doing this for you.

It's a class matter.

This was dreamed up by bicoastal elites and the consequences fell on you.

And these people are from all over the world.

We're not just singling out Hispanic.

So that's what he's going to have to do.

But you're right.

You can't just keep saying,

I got more black votes, I got more, but you're going to have to say, I created a middle-class constituency.

And as I said a hundred times, the black truck driver, the white carpenter, the Hispanic roofer, This is the last time I'm going to say identify people by their ethnic affiliation.

All of you have more in common.

So from now on, I'm just going to say our.

You know how I used to say our farmers and our

that personal possessive, plural possessive, our, that was really effective, our soldiers.

He's going to say our middle class people, our middle class people, because you don't want to accentuate.

And just as a footnote,

everybody should remember how this whole debacle started.

Under the Civil Rights Act 1965, that led to soon affirmative action.

If you go back and read about it,

it was at a time when 10% blacks were markedly impoverished per capita income compared to the so-called white.

And they did say so-called white.

And they lumped in so-called white as non-blacks.

And that included Hispanics, that included Asians, etc.

But

then

the Democratic Party took that under Ted Kennedy.

And soon they let in the border and they said, no more Europeans, we're going to have family ties.

And they flooded the zone.

And

the so-called white population dipped from 90 to 70 percent.

That wasn't the only reason there was a crisis in so-called white fertility.

But the point I'm making is, as they flooded the zone, then they came up with a new idea that affirmative action would now consist of Hispanics,

but not Asians, and blacks, but not Asians.

And why?

Because

Asians, Japanese Americans, Chinese,

and the beginning of a huge influx of people from the Indian subcontinent, Pakistanis, Indian, they were making more than whites.

the subtext, though not overt, was economic.

Then two things happened.

Blacks and Hispanics started making a lot of money and the Democratic Party, not a lot of money, but they were upperly mobile.

And if we had closed the border, the existing Hispanic population would have achieved parity or above by now.

But the Democratic Party said, this has been a winning issue.

We have got back all the black vote we lost because of the Southern Democrats that Eisenhower and Nixon used to win.

I think as you mentioned, Michael Barone, he cites, I don't know if that's correct, but he cites the 64 Goldwater victory as a vote against loss and candidacy

of someone who voted against the Civil Rights Act.

And so did Buckley, so maybe, or not voted, but didn't support it initially, although he later rebooted.

But my point is this, is that when the Democratic Party looked at that, they said, we can develop this ore, we can mine it.

So then they came up under Obama with a new word, an old word that was now new, diversity.

Diversity said this.

It's no longer affirmative action, blacks.

It's no longer affirmative action, Hispanics.

It is everybody who can claim not to be a despised white person.

So you can be an Indian aristocrat.

You can be, and I'm talking now from personal experience, you can be an Indian almond farmer with 5,000 acres.

You can be from Basque.

You can be from anywhere that has a claim that you're not white.

And that diversity pool went up to 35%

of the population.

And then the economic factor which had initially helped prompt affirmative action now was discarded entirely.

So we end up with an Orwellian situation where you're in a university and somebody who's making

$500,000 a year and driving a Mercedes who happens to be Indian from India is telling you how she is oppressed and a member of the non-white constituency.

And then when you go to a meeting of faculty and you hear people prompt, and I have thousands of times, we need a diversity candidate, a

diversity can.

What they mean now by diversity,

that person can be from the Middle East.

He can be here on oil money.

He can be a Kuwaiti grandee.

He can be a blonde-haired, blue-eyed South American Chilean who trills his Rs.

Can be anybody who claims he's not white, and he he can be as rich as Croises.

And that's what we're in.

And they've got to destroy this thing because it's a neo-Confederate racist idea.

It leads to absurdities like Harvard or Stanford's separate graduations by race, separate spaces, safe spaces.

Remember that?

Safe spaces?

Where you have to check your idea?

And I was...

About two years ago, I had a student intern, and I said, pretty soon they have to have DNA

badges, sort of like yellow stars.

And he said, what do you mean?

I know students who sent in their DNA in their applications.

So you've got to end it.

Trump's got to end it.

Chris Rufu is right.

They've got to end it.

Vance is right.

They've got to end it.

Pete Heckseth is right.

He's been really overt

about he's going to try to end it.

And there's a whole bunch of scoundrel officers that you can go on the internet, Jack, and some people are playing what they said.

During the heyday of 2021, when Millie

and

Austin, remember they were virtue signaling after George Floyd and read Professor Kendi and white rage, white privilege, white supremacy, we're going to find him out and all that stuff.

I don't know.

I'm not supporting Professor Kendi, but I just have to learn what it is.

I'm going to read him.

This is when Kendi had his, what, BU, $50 million race studies program.

Anyway, BLM had not stolen $100 million and esconced off to luxury homes.

Malibu.

I wish there was some intrepid journalist, not like that Chris Ruffo isn't.

Who gave the money?

Who made the decisions that this corporation, their foundation, is going to give our DLM?

These people should be paying.

Yeah, look at Al Sharpen.

He's admitted it.

He came to currency as being an overt

Michael Pack's recent movie,

Wall Street Shared Project on Crown Heights riots.

He just stirred up anti-Semitic violence that led to death.

And yet he was rehabilitated.

And that's what he did.

He shook down corporations for

contributions or owls.

But people have to just say, we're not going to do this anymore.

And that's why Pete Heckseth would be a very good nominee.

And the fact that he would be a big ⁇ I don't know if you saw today, Jack, they're going after him with a renewed attack this morning.

No, I did not.

Is it the same

over the same circumstances?

It is.

It is.

It's what it was is allegedly, well, no, yes and no.

It's not about the alleged assault.

It's his three marriages.

So he had a marriage, and I think he confessed to adultery, and then he married the person he was seeing.

and had three kids and then he

had a relationship.

I think he had impregnated her, so he married the the second one.

Then he

got another one, the third.

But in that process from one to two, his mother was angry at him and wrote in the heat of passion an email to him that said, you've got to start treating women better.

You treat them as expendables.

You're not civil to them.

And it was about the child custody.

problems between him.

And she really bawled him out and said, I'm not proud of you.

And then maybe, I don't know, within a very short period, I can't remember if it was hours or minutes, she wrote another email or maybe sometime and said, I'm very sorry.

In the heat of passion,

I said that I didn't mean it.

You've been a decorated hero.

She's gone on Fox News.

I've seen her on Fox News where she praised his military service, said he's a wonderful father.

He treats his past.

Anyway, well, The first email she forwarded to a quote-unquote friend.

Do I need to fit?

Oh my god.

I was just going to ask you, how did this come to light?

Where do you think it came to light at?

Who published it?

The suspects are...

Come on.

Who are the usual suspects that destroy people?

Politico, the Washington Post.

Close.

Politico, Axios.

You tell me.

You're missing the elephant in the room, the New York Times.

Oh, okay.

Sorry.

The paper of records.

The New York Times without much context either.

So

now she came back out and said, this is despicable.

That was forwarded to a friend, and that friend betrayed her trust.

Of course.

That's what friends do in this day and age.

So Chris, you know, Pete's,

you've seen these articles also of DEI offices at the Department of Defense and the Pentagon, like we're going to clear out of this.

You know,

I mean, if I was a general.

say a one-star or two-star,

and I was sniffing the currents or the scent of where promotion was was and notoriety and advancement and careerism and a post-retirement billet with a defense contractor.

And I saw this DEI thing and I listened to the chief of naval operations, the chairman of the joint chiefs, and the Department of

Defense Secretary, and they were all promoting this.

And I guess if I had no character, I would jump on it too.

So you have clips of these generals, and they're saying,

well, we're here at DEI because we're here to

remove the impediments.

Well, there was no impediments.

I mean, look at Colin Powell 30 years ago, 40 years ago.

So

what they're talking about is proportional representation or repertory representation.

What I mean by that is they're looking at a unit, and if it doesn't absolutely mirror image the demographics of the United States, or if you think that for prior discrimination, it must over-represent non-white people as reparations, then they're going to find a way to do that and toss away merit.

That's what they're talking about.

And so I think they're going to go, those people are on record.

And I would just, if I was, I think Pete,

I think I could say that if he's confirmed,

and that's going to be the reason they go after him, not the marriages and stuff.

Right.

It's like going after Matthew Ridgway for his three marriages.

His daughter never talked to him again because he didn't treat his first or second wife well.

But the point is, he was,

I think he was the best American general since Sherman.

I mean, America just elected president, a man with three marriages, maybe even four.

I've lost count.

So, I mean, I don't see that, Carrie.

Well, don't you think someone that only was married once, his wife passed away, but was married to Dr.

Jill, he's a much better president because he has one less marriage.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

And Bill Clinton is the best of all.

He's only been married once.

So

that's what it was all about.

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And

this particular episode is up on Tuesday, the 3rd of December.

We are into, as Catholics will say, we are into Advent, Keeping my Catholic hat on, very excited, Victor, seeing some of these clips of

Notre Dame,

Notre Dame, which will formally reopen.

You know, I think I was going to ask you about that.

I looked at, did you see the before and after of the interior?

Yes.

Well,

before the...

The before, forget about this damage.

It was kind of dreary and yellowish-brown, right, from aging and super.

Yeah, sure.

And then the other one looks like a Counter-Reformation glittering white one.

You know what I mean?

Yes.

It's pretty.

You know, this reminds you of

the Sistine Chapel, the ceiling, which I think it was about 25 years ago, the Vatican had some project with some Japanese

television network that paid for the cleaning of it.

And so prior to the cleaning, the darkness of the ceiling was,

you know,

part of

the artistic analysis.

I know it.

So once it was cleaned, It was like, throw all that analysis.

Every time I go to Europe and I go into a church or a religious structure and it's glistening white with all these colors, I say, hmm, those were those Catholic bishops that got together and say, we're losing subjects to those damn Protestants, excuse the word, and we're going to lighten up and get white, glittery,

ostentatious, win back the hearts and minds of the.

the apostates.

And they did.

Those

counter-reformation stuff is pretty impressive.

And that's what it looks like.

Have you ever been to Notre Dame?

Yeah, I have.

Twice, I think.

Yeah.

When Sharon and I got married, our honeymoon in Paris, we went, it was funny.

We just went, started going up some stairs, and we ended up, we were hanging outside with a bunch of gargoyles.

It was

the first time I went was 1974.

Yeah.

It was kind of in the hip, well, the end of the hippie period, but it wasn't necessarily well,

what's the word?

It seemed unkept, as I remember.

Yes, yes.

As if a hunchback was living up after.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was saying the same thing a few years later when I was there.

But anyway, this is one of the great structures of Western civilization.

So that's, you know, kind of cool that it was

early on.

Part of the talk was, well, we're going to, you know, change this from the church that it was into some cultural center.

And thankfully, that got shot down.

Anyway.

I heard that.

I thought it was going to go back to Robespierre and the call of the supreme being.

Yeah.

Well,

they were going to put up big screens and do a lot of

picture of Greta Thunberg, maybe, or

carry.

Yes, the new saint of our age.

Hey, Victor,

in the same Wall Street Journal that

referred to the previous article,

There's a piece by Ed Ring.

I don't, I'm Ed Ring, who runs policy for the California Policy Center.

Terrific people.

He's always, the guy is

a machine of analysis to solve California problems.

Very prolific.

Yeah.

Climate action has California's energy economy on his knees.

And I'm not going to read from this except one little passage.

But first of all, there's a truly crazed offshore

wind turbine

energy plan that he writes about.

But then, a very important thing here to me is: he says,

California farmers are losing up to a million acres of some of the planet's finest irrigated farmland thanks to bureaucratic delusions

that water should be left in rivers that run to the ocean.

Californians can't afford homes thanks to a housing industry subject to climate change laws that require infill or building in unused and underutilized city spaces to prevent the emissions that accompany urban quote-unquote sprawl.

There's so much more in this piece that is overwhelming in the

number of things that are being inflicted on Californians, including you.

Victor, your thoughts on this.

Well, if you were a Martian and you flew in here and you were an anthropologist,

professor at Mars, and you wanted to study the sociology of California, and so you traveled the state, state, you talked to people, you look at the internal data, you talk to the elected officials, you would come up with the following exegesis.

You would say, wow, this is very strange.

This state is systematically being destroyed according to the standards of the past, which this generation had inherited, the last two generations had inherited a wonderful state.

And it's systematically being destroyed by people who live in this strange nexus of UC Berkeley Stanford, one

$9 trillion

of market capitalization, two in Silicon Valley, and three,

a wealthy, spoiled brat culture of politicians that

have created the Pelosi family, the Newsom family, the Feinsteins, the Boxers, and the Jerry Browns.

And Gavin Newsom

just bought a $9.1 million

mansion.

And

he makes $250,000 a year.

So he gets that money either from his wealthy second wife or from the Getty family that's financed him and was very close to his family.

But my point is this.

When he does it, California rates about number four in the nation in known

30 billion barrels of oil, perhaps, in 30 years of 100% ability to supply its natural gas.

And it was the forerunner in nuclear power at Ranch El Seco and Diablo Canyon.

And it's deliberately shut down Ranch El Seco.

It's not, it's put so much, I just talked to a natural gas guy at a lecture I gave, I think last year, and he said to me that at the present rate of failure to allow increased fracking and new discoveries and leasing, that the offshore and the Elk Hills

fields will be pretty much inert.

And they've gone from just recently supplying 40% of our oil and gas down, it's down to 20%.

And that's the point.

They want to phase them out.

And they now produce, Jack, about 125%

of our daily electricity through these mammoth fields.

When I drive to work every week, I go down Manning Avenue on the west side of the Great Central Valley.

And you should see it, Jack.

They have pulled out thousands of acres of almonds and row crop farming for these solar farms.

They're just, they go on for miles.

And it's the big, I think it's one of the biggest solar fields in the world.

And you look at it and you say to yourself, wow, I thought environmentalists wanted to leave a little imprint on the environment.

This is ugly.

Farming, at least there was a beautiful orchard or a beautiful stand of alfalfa.

This is hideous.

And the upkeep, they have to go in there and wash the things.

And then there's it, I thought, well, wait a minute.

I thought that the left said that you can't do such things as it would interrupt, what, the migratory pattern of rats and lizards and turtles and stuff.

And it just, it's an artificial barrier, much more evasive on the natural landscape than the wall with Mexico.

But there's not a word of.

And anyway, my point is this, is that because they don't have batteries, they don't, about 20 to 30% of it, they don't use every day.

They just disconnect it, I guess.

Nobody wants to buy it because our neighbors with hydroelectric Oregon and coal and

Utah, Arizona, Nevada, they have all the electricity they need.

They export to us at night because we don't have any power at night.

So our

power bills have tripled.

So the guy that really is the architect of this, there's two people who were the architect.

It was Jerry Brown, and then that was accelerated by...

Jerry Brown lives in, I think, a 2,000-acre compound up in Grass Valley where he's back with nature.

He doesn't have to commute.

He doesn't have to raise kids.

He doesn't have to pay for grandkids.

He doesn't try to help his family.

He's a multi-millionaire.

And Gavin Newsom and his family live in a $9 million Fairfield mansion.

They don't care about the price of electricity.

Yesterday, Jack, I drove down the 99 from outside of Sacramento to Selma, California, 214 miles.

And I can tell you that in large swaths, that six-lane, major, the major north-south artery in California shrinks down to two lanes each way, four lanes.

And it was like Road Warrior.

Really, it really was.

I mean, cars going in and out of traffic at 90 miles an hour, truck drivers who basically say, well, if they're only going to have two lanes, and I'm going to end up behind some guy with, you know, two trailers of chopped wood, I'm just going to get in the left lane and I'm going to floor pedal of the metal and I'm going to go 70.

And if a guy wants to go 90, let him go around me.

And so it's just open war.

And it's got the, as I said earlier, the highest fatality rate per miles driven of any road.

And so you look at that and then you say, well, wait a minute, there's high-speed rail parallel to it, almost, or it dissects at an angle, and it's 15 billion.

And the cost for just taking another 60 miles to ensure it would be six lanes is a fraction of the cost of Stonehenge.

And I don't get it.

So I do get it because Gavin Newsom sits there in his palace with all of his Bay Area friends and say, wouldn't it be nice if, you know, we went to Spain this summer.

We were in the vineyards of France.

We saw this high-speed rail go by.

It's so neat.

We're going to do that.

We're going to have one from Bakersfield to Merced.

Isn't that going to be a nice little toy project?

And we're going to split up these farms and ruin the landscape of Kings County.

But that doesn't matter.

We're not going to fix that gas-burning fossil fuel consuming 99.

If people die, if you're Hector Lopez and you're a paint contractor and you've got your van and you've got to go up and down every single day from Tulare to Merced and you go into that death trap and then you pull off the side of the road to get your $5 gas or maybe $5.15 diesel.

That's your problem, Hector.

Wouldn't want to be you.

That's the attitude of these people.

Gavin Newsom never comes and says, he says he came down to the valley, Jack, the other day and said he was going to spend $500 million beefing up our

administrators and legal team to stop the Trump agenda.

I guess he meant to protect criminals from deportation.

But he never comes down and says, you know what, I feel for you people.

You do not have a safe transportation system in the valley.

We have been letting out, I'm so sorry, we've been letting out all your water to the ocean, 90% of the snowmelt, rather than let you have, and your wells are going dry and you're losing jobs because your farmland cannot be irrigated.

I'm so sorry I blew up those four dams.

I don't know what made me do it.

We had cheap

hydroelectric power.

We had recreation.

We had flood control.

We had irrigation up there in the climate.

I just blew them up.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I'm sorry.

I want to help you people.

I want to help you people of the San Joaquin Valley.

He doesn't care.

Completely careful.

Bob Dole saying, where's the outrage?

That's

from afar gets me.

I think everybody's listening.

Why is this?

And I can tell you, I've thought about that most of my life because I've been unfortunately around these people.

And there's two exegesis of it, and they're not mutually incompatible.

The one is, and as a Catholic, Jack, you can, is that these people feel very guilty.

They feel very guilty that they have so much.

And once they get to a level where they have so much, they know they cannot consume everything that they will never run out of money and they can consume everything they want.

They think, I want to help the less fortunate.

But I do not want to be around the less fortunate.

I've seen these people.

I do not want to be in the same room with the people who pull off the 99 into the shell station

bathroom and write graffiti all over it and trash it.

I don't want to be around those people.

But I will square that circle of my guilt and still get into the kingdom of atheism after life by,

I don't know, saying that I want to have high-speed rail.

I'm going to go green.

I want to be clean.

I want to have everybody buy their food at whole Earth.

I'm going to have, I want everybody to buy an EV except the demonic

Elon Musk.

And so if Donald Trump

eliminates the $7,500

EV

discount, I will resurrect it in California, except for the only car maker who assembles EVs in California, Elon Musk, who has 50%.

You know why?

Because I'm a good socialist, and I and the legislature have the legislature have decided that anybody who has 50%

of the EV market, who created the entire EV market, is too greedy.

So if he has 50%, he's not going to get that 7,500.

So if you have a BMW that gets 6%, a foreign automaker, I will privilege you over our California native maker because I do not like him having too much market share.

And incidentally, the fact that he put in $300 million into helping Donald Trump win has nothing to do with it.

That's what we're asking to believe by him.

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Victor, you're talking about the ugliness of what you see, not just the ugliness of the highway or the danger of the highway, but the ugliness of these solar fields and

wind farms that are, you know, to me, cuisine arts of the sky, chopping up the bald eagles and bats.

We remember growing up that

Keep America Beautiful was such

always, always on.

And you're right, that's so anathema to that.

I can remember it.

I remember when I was,

let's see, I was in,

I was

11,

10.

I was in fifth grade, and Lady Bird Johnson had, remember, pick up all the trash and make America beautiful?

So what did we do?

Every Friday afternoon,

every Friday afternoon.

And they did not give us plastic gloves and they did not give us little spikes.

They said, go out with these trash bags and they did not have plastic plash bags.

They had

paper bags with two little paper handles, and we had to go out and pick up all the trash on the campus.

And then we went out on Mitchell Avenue in front of Eric White and

picked up the trash in front, and it was very spotless.

And then we had a contest.

Every month, the person who made the best, don't be a litter bug.

So we all made little bugs, you know, like litter bugs, posters, don't trash.

And that's what we did.

That was the culture.

It was called,

there wasn't a word ecology, it was conservationism.

And we learned about contour plowing and reforestation.

So this myth that there were all these grasping capitalist desecrators of the environment that they'd left now,

they are.

They have done more damage than

they are the ones, as Edward Ring pointed out in this essay, that stopped logging.

We only have 20% of the logging, and I think we went from 50 companies down to two or three.

So they wouldn't let you log.

They wouldn't let people go up and cut wood for their

cabins.

They would not let

controlled burns.

They wanted to have a natural, lush undergrowth and overcrowded.

And then, when it goes up, their attitude was, at least until recently, oh, it's burning.

Well, people shouldn't have been living up there anyway.

It's not natural.

And after they lost 60 million trees and they put more soot into the environment than all of the pollution for about a year and a half in these fires.

And that was deliberately done so by this administration, the Newsom and earlier the Brown administration.

They got theirs.

I mean, they're all, it's, uh,

I see these guys at various venues I go to, these very, very wealthy, ultra-wealthy Bay Area people.

They're the kind of people that have

John Muir Woods on the

little stickers on their bumper or the Sierra Club buttons.

Right.

Very nice people, but they're very wealthy.

They don't mind paying the 13.3 income tax.

They don't mind paying the $5

gasoline.

It's going to go up by 62 cents, by the way.

The

Air Resources Board that's not elected, but is the dumping ground for wealthy people who know Gavin Newsom or any governor on the left.

They put these people on the board, like the Coastal Commission.

They've decided that the poor people, and we have 21% of the state below the poverty line, and one out of every three welfare recipients, they think that

the more they pay for gas, the cleaner the air, the cleaner the environment.

And then they, you know,

they don't really care.

Their idea of illegal immigration or poor people is,

you know, Juanita comes into their home and cleans them and they give them their used clothes and they brag about that at their social clubs.

Yeah.

So they're kind of like medieval grandees and they have their keep and the the peasants live outside the walls, and when they walk, when they ride out in their carriages, they throw bread to us.

That's how their attitude is.

Only they call it left-wing.

I don't know why we call it left-wing.

They're the most neo-Confederate people in the world.

Every aspect of Confederacy, whether it's nullifying federal laws with sanctuary cities or safe spaces, separate race graduation, or one-drop rule for

minority status, you name it, that comes right out of the old Confederacy.

Yeah.

Victor,

we're going to move on, but I just think about that crying Indian from those old commercials with a little tear running down his cheek.

And he'd be weeping, he'd be bawling now to see the ugliness.

I drove down from, where was I at Napa, down to Selma this summer?

I went through some

propeller field, what do you call it?

I can't think of the, you know,

the wind turbine.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh, it was so ugly.

It just we don't have much of that here.

You know, but I had to fly into Palm Springs to speak and you should see it.

First thing I notice is half of them don't work.

Yeah.

Yeah, I didn't give in time.

Then I drive up through the Livermore Pass and I see it.

And I thought, wow, this used to be a pristine ridge line.

You could see the sun rise or set, depending on your position it's just so ugly didn't you read about how much energy it actually takes to create these things and how indisposable they are and it's all a fraud from that perspective and we're you know we're

what 60 years into nuclear power so it's much safer now than it ever was and they have we have fifth generation small fusion plants they could create they can do all sorts of stuff and we could do this cheaply and environmentally sound and give if they want to go all electric and they you know they're Elon and these people are getting us

I think Tesla's up to 340 miles on range it can get up it'll get up to 400 they're starting in Nevada to have these big recycling plants so they don't even have to go after the precious metals from China as much or we could mine them ourselves we have them here in Cal we have one of the the richest precious metals for battery components anywhere in the world here in California.

And we don't tap it.

But we could do all of that with nuclear power.

It would be, that would work, that you could have an electric car that would go 400 miles an hour in range, and you wouldn't have to,

you know, you wouldn't have to worry about the environment.

It would be cheap.

You could get down to 10 or 15 cents a kilowatt hour, but they're not going to do that.

It's not just, Jack, it's not just the environment that they are against.

They are against the idea of progress for people.

They believe in a pyramidal system where a sanctimonious, morally superior, smug, highly educated person like Barack Obama has the right every once in a while to venture out of a mansion and says to people, you don't know what you're doing.

You're really racist.

You're really

sexist.

You're voting for the wrong person because you're ignorant.

And I'm going to tutor you right now.

So listen up.

That's how they look at the world.

All of them do.

The vanguard of the proletariat needs it.

And they do not want empower.

Their biggest fear is empowering people who they feel are not their moral

and educational or intelligence equals.

And the funny thing about it is,

and that's what's so good about the Trump effort to dismantle this administrative state, is that once you get through

this little,

I don't know what it would be called, once you get through this

peephole and you get into the credentialed world, that is, once you're branded on your rear end with BA, MA, PhD from the appropriate school and you plug into the foundation, the university, the Department of Environmental Affairs head, whatever it is,

it's pretty easy.

It's not like you wake up every morning and you're Billy Bob Briggs in Bakersfield and you've got to go find another job to put in gutters, right?

Or you fix

leaky roofs, and you've got to hustle, hustle, hustle.

And you've got the government on your back, you got the regulators, you've got the customer.

Where's my next job coming from?

Yes.

Or you're running a 7-Eleven, and you get up in the morning, you go in there and think, oh my God, what's the inventory?

Did I replace this?

What's the shoplifting loss?

Oh, my God, what's the security?

Are they security cameras working?

Oh, my gosh, that guy pulled out and took off the gas hose in the car.

That's

$550, $1,000.

Well, that's what they do.

It's not what Tom Steyer does, or it's not what Gavin Newsom does, or it's not what the Stanford Faculty Senate worries about.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, one last thing, you know,

we'll move on.

Energy.

It's shown wherever there is a lack of energy, there's poverty, and where energy is

when we export energy to, let's say, Bangladesh.

I mean, this is the solution to the impoverished world, is the growth of an availability of energy, and to suppress it is

almost satanic, I would think.

Victor, you wrote a piece for X

on the fumes of the 2024 elections, and we'll close out the show with your thoughts

on the fumes.

Yeah, I did.

Okay.

When we come back, we'll discuss it.

I wrote it on Thanksgiving, just spur of the moment.

Okay.

Well, we'll some important messages, and then then we'll hear from Victor on this.

Bye.

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By the way, Victor, I noticed on your appearance,

it was a Mark Levin last week, but you had your novel behind you.

Ah, The End of Sparta.

The End of Sparta, yeah.

So that was,

I don't know if that was a successful effort, but it was kind of a history.

I tried to make every single thing in that novel of a coterie of people with a

Pamananas that freed the Hellots and defeated Sparta

factual.

So

I read everything, and then I actually wrote the dialogue in classical Greek, and then I would translate it back into English to get a kind of a, I didn't quite know.

I didn't want it to sound like Tokyo, but I didn't want to sound like American English either.

Anyway,

it's actually sold pretty well.

I was pretty happy how it did.

But on this piece, The Fumes of the Election, I wanted to pick out seven things that came to my mind.

And

I had a good friend that corresponds with me, and he said,

what happened to Eeyore?

He disappeared.

and you smile on Fox you've never smiled before you're happy and I said I buried Eeyore at least for a while and I have been I admitted I think we've talked about that I am euphoric and I don't I know you have to come down to earth but I really think we dodged a bullet and I'm so happy and

I think the first one I thought is even his enemies, have you noticed it?

His approval rating, Jack, right now is 55%.

And Joe Biden's is 36.

That is amazing.

And so, you know, after all those collusion hoaxes, and I pointed out that in the piece, and the mail-in ballot ambush, the two impeachments, the trying him as a private citizen, the five criminal and civic lawsuits.

Annie Weiss might go by the board between the time we hope so.

$5 billion in campaign negative ads in two different elections.

You could add three elections if you add 2016, two assassination.

He's kind of, and I said,

I said this, and now like an exasperated wiley-e coyote, they have developed a bizarre mixture of fear and respect, venomous though it is, for the unstoppable beep-beep roadrunner Trump.

It is.

You can't get rid of him.

And then the other second was that

did you hear that

well, anyway, I preface this.

I just read that

David Floof, the Obama-era strategist, admitted on, I think, Pod Save America that she was never, ever, ever ahead.

The internal polls showed all the time.

So when they were talking about the big momentum and the joy coming.

And she had a flawless campaign.

I thought so too.

But now, apparently, they were surprised that

if I were to translate what he said, I think I could say truthfully, he was shocked that

the New York Times, Washington Post polls, and all the others were lying lying on their behalf with her leading because they never saw it and they were paying good money for internal polls.

And so then I said, you know, that she's going nowhere.

She is not going anywhere.

She's going to a Dukakis-like retirement.

She was the worst candidate since George McGovern.

And I give him his due.

I liked George McGovern.

I didn't like his politics, of course, but he was sincere.

He was honest.

He volunteered in World War II.

I think he flew Jack over 30 missions as a B-24 pilot.

He was a friend of Buckley.

He showed up as a business.

He had a tragic daughter who died.

Oh, yeah.

And then

he opened that bed and breakfast and said, oh, my God, what have I created?

The regulatory mission.

A mile from where I am right now.

He had the Stratford Inn.

He bought it and got shocked by what it

running a business meant in America.

So I said, she's not going to make a Trump comeback.

They blew, all her donors are furious at her.

She blew that $1.5 billion.

It's probably more with a PACS.

And so she ran five points behind Joe Biden four years ago.

And Adam Schiff got more votes than she did

when he ran in Senator, you know, on the same ballot in California.

And the only weird thing is, what is she going to do?

She says now she's either going to run for president in 2028 or in 2026 for governor, but she's got a hundred-day metamorphosis.

She She is now on record as a crime fighter, a fracker, a border hawk, red reporter.

Does she flip back to, because we all know that was insincere, but does she do a, she goes, I'm in California.

I'm going to, I can't get the nomination.

I got to go back to my failed bid for 2020, being the hard left.

Or does she think, hmm.

The country, five or six of these counties moved red in California.

Maybe that's a trend.

Maybe I should stick with my phony 100-day campaign.

Who knows?

But

all we know is whatever it is, it will not be authentic.

And you know, another thing is, Jack, this has really clarified the 2020 loss.

There's only one time in history where a subsequent election

got

It was only one time in history, let me put it this way, where a subsequent election got less votes than the prior one.

And that 2020 election total votes, that had more than this election, of course, more than 2016.

And Donald Trump's margin was almost the same.

He lost handedly to

Joe Biden, and he lost, he won handedly over Kamala Harris.

And I just don't believe that a guy who never campaigned like Joe Biden, who could hardly speak, was going to get more votes

than the first black woman.

But he did by not even close.

He outperformed her.

And I think I'm not saying that they changed the ballots.

I'm just saying when you go over in a matter of months from 30%

voting on Election Day to 30% not voting on Election Day and 70%, then

you have a magnitude of error rate decline.

So 5% ballots, you throw out Michigan, now you're down to 0.5

as you're doubled the incoming ballot.

Something went wrong there.

And we'll never explain why that one year stands out as having more, so many more votes than the election following it.

And I said, you know,

they are still catatonic about the result.

Did you see that, is there a name Seltzer who told us that she was going to win Iowa by 3%.

She was beloved by pollsters and said she was a gold standard of Iowa polling.

And she resigned.

Did you see that?

He's

retired, yeah.

And then, you know, another thing that was very strange is that they said he had lost the women vote.

He did almost the same, if not a little better, with women than he'd done before.

And with men,

he kept about the same.

But what really made that 2 million to 3 million edge

was his

going up to about 27% of black men.

And maybe it was at 14% of the black vote or maybe 16%, 17% of the black vote, 45% of the Hispanic vote, 45% of the Asian vote.

So

that's what's driving the left crazy is that, and that's why Joey Reed is ranting all the time about white people.

Because the increase in minority voting across the board gave him that extra millions of votes that put her out.

And that is driving them,

that's driving them really crazy.

The other thing

proof to them that it's a racist nation, as opposed to

the other

takeaways.

Another thing I pointed out is they are screaming about the weaponization.

Oh, my God.

Pam Bondi is going to weaponize the whole DOJ.

If they put cash battelle in there, he'll just turn the FBI into, I don't know, a personal retrieval service that will go after laptops and missing diaries and missing handguns of the Trump family.

And all they're doing is projecting what they would do if they were Trump and suffered what they did to Trump.

That's how they think.

And

a little of that has to happen, though, Victor.

Oh, yes.

I think they had to subpoena all of Anthony Fauci's emails, all of Jack Smith's emails.

They've got to find out what was happening.

I think it was November 23rd, as I said so many times, on 2023,

when, or is it 22, when all of a sudden Jack Smith was appointed special counsel?

And 22, I think.

And then Nathan Wade ended up wandering around the halls of the legal counsel's office in the White House.

Mr.

Coangelo suddenly said that his high-paying, prestigious job was not nearly as important as quitting it to go to work for Alvin Bragg.

That all happened in 24 hours.

So

they really do have to look at that.

But you know, I was thinking, when I was a little kid, and when JFK

was elected,

my parents were Democrats, but my dad,

there was a campaign commercial, I don't know if you remember it, Jack, and it was Eisenhower, and he didn't like Nixon.

Remember that?

He kind of subverted his campaign a little bit.

They said at one point, I'm doing this from memory, so you experts out there, give me some slack.

He said something, Mr.

President, can you think of something to say about positive about, and he said, give me, what did he say, give me, give me a week.

Yeah, yeah, but something like that.

Ike had that streak in him.

He really did.

He could be cruel.

But anyway, he made a commercial finding.

They said, Eisenhower, you got your legacy will be imperiled if you let Kennedy come.

So he said, basically, get out, get up, get out, and vote for Dixon.

So we would be in bed at 6 o'clock in the morning.

My dad had to get us up.

My mom had gone to work, and he was going to work so he had to take us so he would yell out boys

get up get out and vote for dick nixon he'd scream and yell and we'd get up and jump

and then and then uh he'd always say remember how kennedy said uh vigor vigor or something he said we're gonna do that a new england accent

he'd say and you're gonna get up with vigor

and then he'd say

there was a

Kennedy said, we can't have missiles in Cuba.

You know, he said that publicly on thing.

And my dad said, if you don't get out, you got to remember, boys, we can't have missiles in Cuba.

My parents.

So the Hansen boys are trained in politics.

Yes, they love JFK.

And my dad, and why did they like him?

He was for civil rights.

He was for tax cuts,

get the country moving again,

new frontier.

Not that Eisenhower, I think, was a really good president, but the point I'm making is there's something about Trump,

this feeling right now, it's kind of Kennedy-esque, and maybe RFK had a little bit to do with it.

I don't know, but it's like, we're going to get the country moving again.

It's a new frontier.

You got a president who gets excited who kind of gushes, did you see what Elon did with that mechanical army?

Got that.

We're going to explore space.

We're not going to get into Vietnam or Afghanistan.

It's kind of a very exciting time.

It's like we're going to get back the country, and it's just going to have no, it's not that we're going to be vindictive and go after trans people.

We just don't have time to,

you know,

confess our sins every hour about what happened 150 years ago, or we're not going, you know, about, we're not going to say that, oh, I'm so sorry, but I think, you know, smashing a volleyball down, a man with muscularity is going to smash a volleyball down the face of a girl across the net.

That's kind of wrong.

And we're not going to apologize for that.

It's kind of a new type of.

So I pointed that out in one of them.

And

for folks who are on X,

that's where they can find us just so that.

Yeah, and

so what I meant also that, you know,

I was kind of tongue in cheek, but just to read what I said about this new

Kennedy ask, and then I also said it's the end.

It's not the end of the beginning, it's the beginning of the end.

Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning.

We're just starting to wake up.

There's no more stomach for spaghetti arm Antifa rioting, BLM-inspired looting, pampered foreign students spouting anti-Semitic venom while breaking their host laws.

Israel has proved that the feared Hezbollah and death to Israel-Iran were paper tigers and blowhards.

The exhausted public has little tolerance left for toppling statues, renaming iconic buildings and streets, DEI venom, transgendered chauvinism, lectures from bicoastal grandees on why we must buy EB cars, throw away our gastoes, flash our pronouns, study Professor Kendi, worship the moronic Todd Nahisi coats, or listen to the claptrap of sanctimonious Pete Buttigig and Alejandro Mayorkas.

I think that is what we feel.

I know I do, and I know people that I talk to do.

So then the only thing I ended on a note of

worry

in two cents, Jack, I was worried that Joe De Biden has

descended into utter incoherence.

And I said, from wandering into the jungles to, you know, speaking,

as I said, an untranslated language,

not known to man.

And I don't know if he's going to finish the 60 days.

Her handlers, who said he was fit as a fiddle, as did she, are now talking about maybe giving her a bone and saying you can be the first

woman president, the second black president, if you just step in here for 60 days.

But I guess maybe that video blew that.

I mean, why would you want somebody who looks like she's south

on a video to replace Joe Biden, who looks that way?

But in any case, I'm kind of worried that Somebody's going to do something stupid abroad because they're not sure that Trump,

they don't know who's in charge of the United United States.

I mean,

they know that Trump's coming and somebody will be in charge, but there is a 60-day window of opportunity for bad actors abroad.

And then there's, I'm worried about Trump, I'll confess it.

I'm really worried because I think the post-election left is so unhinged and so crazy.

You know that Dan Goldman, you remember him?

Yeah.

He was the guy that a year earlier said that Trump should be eliminated.

Eliminated.

And someone after the second assassination attempt said something really stupid as well.

They were talking about

Trump.

And my point is, when you call somebody Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, and they're still doing it, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

And you have the Secret Service under a cloud of suspicion as for incompetence as we learn more about the first and second assassination attempts.

Right.

How can you not think that way, right?

There's somebody out there right now thinking, my gosh, I will be a hero to the iconic.

I'll be an icon to the left if I try it a third time.

And I think, given the competence level of the Secret Service, I can outdo those two nuts.

And that's what's really scary.

I hope he has his own security in auxiliary.

or primary fashion because he can trust them.

But until somebody

shakes up the Secret Service and that Secret Service interim guy with the butch haircut that gets on there and growls and yells,

that's not very impressive guy.

And it's,

I'm just looking back at the four-year nightmare.

You know who I think that I mentioned them.

I think the two worst cabinet people were.

That's a hard call.

Well, let me guess one.

Is Majorkis one of them?

Yes.

Okay.

That guy just got on TV and lied and said the border was secure.

And he said, I never said that they whip people.

He did say that.

He did.

And then the other one is Mr.

Sanctimonious.

Mayor Pete.

Mayor Pete.

Guy was so insufferable.

He was always talking about racist clover leaves and racist.

I think Blinken was worse than him.

Well,

that's a good point.

And I was just going to say that.

They were the most insufferable.

But as far as the two people who did the most damage to the United States, besides yelling at Treasury,

were Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, and Blinken.

They were the people who started this Star-Crossed administration out by being humiliated.

Remember that dressing down in Anchorage in March of 2021?

Those Chinese people basically said, shut the F out.

You guys are racist.

We're not going to listen to you.

And they just kind of cried.

cried in front of everybody.

Then the Chinese balloon incident, the Afghanistan debacle, the ceding the Red Sea over to the Houthis.

There are a million dead people because of the consequences of their

behavior.

Well, when you tell Putin, my reaction will depend on whether it's a major or minor invasion, or you tell Zelensky the first week, hey, we can fly you out of that mess,

or you suspend javelins

weaponry, all offensive weaponry, the moment you come into office.

So what did they expect?

And then, Iran, if you beg, please, please, Mr.

Theocrat, would you please, please let us get screwed by you in a new Iran deal?

We promise we'll get all the sanctions off.

You'll get to have $100 billion in profits.

You'll get to supply again.

You can resupply the Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah.

But just please, please, please allow Mr.

Blinken to get you back into the Iran deal so he can get the Nobel Prize that we robbed John Kerry of getting.

God.

Very hard if you said to yourself in 2021, Jack, you said, I want to screw up the United States.

I want to destroy it.

I want to humiliate it.

I want to get inflation.

I want to get energy shortages.

I want to destroy that border.

I want to have 55, 60 million people that were not born in the United States that have not been fully assimilated.

I want at least another 12 million illegal aliens.

I want 100,000 fentanyl deaths.

I want child trafficking.

I want

Mr.

Oberdor to insult us every day.

I just want this.

But how do I do it?

You couldn't have done a better job.

You're right.

Gosh, the hatred these folks have for their own country is shocking.

And for the people like us.

Speaking of our listeners, you know,

again, they hate you.

They hate me.

They hate all of us.

Yeah.

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Victor, I want to read one comment from Apple, and thanks for the folks who take the time to go to Apple and rate the show zero to five stars.

Some people gave it less than five stars recently to say

that Fowler should shut up.

But here's one.

It's a little lengthy, but I think it's just wonderful that folks take the time to share this and feel that they that there is a that you Victor and the great Sammy Wink and I you know read these and are motivated by them.

And this one's called Free Range Farm Life.

It's based, I think, off you're talking about some of your,

you know, growing up on the farm recently.

I grew up in the 60s, 70s on Norris Farms in central Illinois, at the time, the largest farm in Illinois.

10,000 acres, 6,000 head cattle, feedlot, 500 head of cow calves, and loads of characters.

You would talk about some of the characters

on the farm there, Victor.

Dale was a World War II veteran and the angry mechanic whose eyesight dimmed for years of welding.

His son was a CB in Vietnam.

Hank was a tractor operator who ran a bait shop in Havana on the side.

Stubb was a truck driver, World War II infantry veteran, who was always pranking employees.

There were two handymen that carried all their tools in an old Ford bread van painted dark green and was called the hoopy wagon.

Huey was another truck driver, weighed 400 pounds, and his old impala would lean down on the driver's side.

Bill Barkley worked in the feedlot fixing fixing waters and fence with a pint behind the seat of his beat-up Chevy pickup.

Shorty was a midget, drove an old IH pickup stepside married to Lovina.

Neither one of them could read, but were very kind neighbors, always fishing on the banks of the Illinois River.

Tom was another big guy that had been a cat skinner, operated bulldozers in the coal mines and ran the heavy equipment.

He taught me running a bulldozer back up the hill as if the transmission failed, you'd drop the blade to stop, where rolling backwards the blade would just bounce down the the hill terry h

was a ojt from blackhawk east college in the feedlot driving a 73 nova ss with a four speed and full of college wisdom and there were others but i learned about the world from these people on the farm that's signed by fatfred24.

Yeah.

You know, there's something about a southern, have you ever, that distinctive southern Illinois accent?

I have a good friend, Charles Garrigas, and his family was from,

Charles Garrigas Sr.

was a local assemblyman, but he was from Southern Illinois.

He grew up there.

And it's not quite a southern, it's a very soft.

You know who was the best example of it, Jack, from southern Illinois?

It was Burl Ives.

Oh, yeah.

Remember that accent?

It was the most beautiful accent in the world.

Every time I've gone to Illinois, I went once and spoke about Fields Without Dreams, and a young couple picked me up and they asked me, I know you're going to be here for five hours.

Can we drive?

And

drove me two hours to their farm, and it was a assistant's farm with kids and stuff.

And they all had that accent.

And I still remember it.

Southern Illinois' accent's beautiful.

Yeah.

Look for our lives.

This is the time of year for him.

He has a great Christmas album.

I really liked him.

I was very happy to know that even though he smoked cigars and he was obese, he lived to be about 84, I think.

There's hope for us all.

I know.

My mom bought all of his folk songs.

Yeah.

And the cow got, I remember I'd start crying when the cow got sick and died in the spring.

And I said, mom, why did the cow die?

She said, well, it got sick.

Cow got the measles and died in the spring.

Jimmy Crackhorn,

he did.

And then the little white duck sitting at the water.

Yeah, I learned.

He did every one of them.

He did every folk song.

It was kind of like the Carl Sandberg of music.

Yeah, terrific.

Hey, Victor, you've been terrific today.

And thanks for all the wisdom and analysis you shared.

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