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Israel yesterday or early this morning, again on October 26th, bombed Iran.

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Victor, we might as well, I think,

not put the politics aside, but let's...

Let's get the big news of the day and your thoughts.

And that has to do with Israel and Iran, Israel in response to Iran's missile attacks from a few weeks ago.

These

Israeli response, frankly, I don't, I, you may have seen some reports, Victor, on

what the targets were.

I believe they were military,

how

impressive or extensive they were.

Anyway, Victor, what are your thoughts on this?

Well, I was at Pepperdine, and I had to go to a dinner last night, And then the middle of dinner, about 10 o'clock Pacific time, I saw the account, and then we drove home all the way to the farm today.

And I had just written a column.

I filed it with American Greatness.

And I'll have to redo it quickly before, as soon as we finish today, because the argument was that Israel should hit Iran before the election and not necessarily take out the nuclear facilities.

So what they did, Jack, they sent 100 planes.

And, you know, it's about a thousand miles and they had refueling.

They probably went over Syria and Iraqi airspace rather than over Saudi Arabia.

And they concentrated on

probably three types of targets, missile armories, that is, stored missiles and launch sites as well.

Number two,

I think the Iranian Air Force was in the air.

And so

they took out air facilities and then anti-aircraft batteries.

So the point would be of such a massive hundred-plane strike would be A,

to ensure that if Iran wants to retaliate, their retaliation won't be any more effective and probably a lot less effective than the prior 500 projectiles that they've sent.

this year.

The thing about it was, it was weird, is that

they wanted to do it before the election.

You can see why, because if on the chance that Camilla Harris would win,

that would really be bad news for them.

And

if she had won,

if she wins, I should say, then Biden would probably say, you're not going to do this, and what are you going to do about it?

But more importantly, there might be a little, I don't know, you guys have been screwing us over when we might just hit before the election.

And who knows what effect that will have on on Harris's chance.

So, there's that outside consideration as well.

But we told the

we, the Americans, told the Iranians, and so did Arab interlocutors,

the nature of the

strike.

And we had leaked it before, but basically, we were assuring the Iranians this is in response to your massive 182 missile attack and your prior 320 missile attack.

And you've sent 500 missiles or drones or projectiles, and Israel's only sent three.

So this is going to even the score a bit, but it's not going to go after your nuclear, it's not going to go after your oil.

And

the Arab countries were relieved of that too.

So at the first glance,

when I just heard it, I thought, oh my gosh, here's the Biden administration leveraging its support for Israel.

Terrorists already bragged they had a suspension on 2,000-pound bomb shipments to Israel.

And now not only do they tell them you can't hit the nuclear strike,

with a nuclear strike, you can't hit, with a strike, you can't hit the nuclear facilities and you can't hit military installations, i.e.

you're not supposed to kill a lot of people.

Military installations in the sense of barracks is what I meant, Jack.

You know, barracks, people and planes.

You're just supposed to hit military facilities by the sense of depots or arsenals.

But you don't, it was clearly designed not to go after military bases and kill people, not to go after the oil facilities, not to go after the nuclear.

So then I started thinking about it.

I had a long drive home and I thought, you know, it's actually pretty smart, what Net Yahoo did, because he takes out the ability of Iran.

to stop a second strike to a much greater degree than he did earlier.

He

attrites the ability of them to send send these hypersonic missiles because we don't know how many missiles

they took out, but they probably took out a sizable number.

And now he sits there and they're humiliated after the Hezbollah and Hamas losses and it's all of its fiery rhetoric.

And then they're thinking, well, wait a minute, we've got to strike to get credibility, but if we do strike,

We haven't had any luck hitting anything in Israel.

And now we have have zero defenses, zero, and we don't know how many missiles, we don't even know if we can send another 200 missiles, who knows?

And if we do strike,

they're going to tell the world that they were patient, compliant, measured, proportionate, just as the Biden administration, the EU, the Europeans, the Arabs had said they should be.

So if we strike back,

Then they're going to say, okay,

you wanted to keep this thing going.

We're willing to stop.

And they will send 300 planes over, and we can't stop any of them now.

And they won't even have to worry about it because they've taken out most of our air defenses.

And they will come back and back and back for a week.

And they will destroy our nuclear facilities.

And they will destroy our oil.

And then we'll be at.

So I think that's where it is right now.

Advantage Israel.

Right.

What is it?

Victor, why is there such a concern to protect Iran's, from America's perspective, Iran's nuclear facilities?

Why wouldn't we want them?

Why wouldn't there be unanimous desire to see them obliterated?

Well,

I think, first of all, we look at all the parties involved.

I would think the Russians are indifferent.

On the one hand, they like the idea that an American ally like Israel might have a nuclear sword of Damocles over their head.

On the other hand, they don't like Iran because they never know how crazy Iran would be and they're in their neighborhood.

I think that goes for China too.

I think another consideration is they don't really know the degree of

active nuclear material that would be spread.

So, I mean, they did it before in Iraq.

They did it before in Syria.

Apparently they know, but I don't know, I'm not a nuclear physicist, but if they were to hit all of these cyclotrons and stored fissionable material or fusion material, whatever, it might be a nuclear disaster.

Who knows?

And then third,

we've never done that before.

Nobody has ever

systematically taken out a weapons, a nuclear arsenal before.

In other words, when During the Iran-Iraq war, when the Israelis took out an Iraqi

nuclear reactor and they did it in Syria.

Those were, quote-unquote, dual purpose, right?

They were peaceful and war.

But these aren't, you're just going after a nuclear arsenal.

And I don't know if anybody knows what quite, I have no, I mean,

nobody listens.

Nobody that is listening would care.

We're all intelligent people.

But maybe somebody in the Biden administration said, oh my God, they're going to go after nuclear missiles or they're going to go after two or three bombs that are sitting there and who knows what will happen.

But the oil, we know why they don't go out.

Because remember, after Biden called Saudi Arabia a pariah that he was done for, and then gas doubled with his hyperinflationary inflationary first two years, then the midterms loomed, he panicked.

He was begging the Iranians, the Venezuelans.

He told the Ukrainians not to hit Russian oil facilities.

He drained half of the petroleum reserve.

So he was, then he went over to Saudi Arabia to make up and say, please, please, please, pump oil, pump oil.

So he does not want two or three million barrels off the oil market before the election.

Yeah.

It's hard to remember, Victor, that that man you just mentioned is still actively the president of the United States and we'll get your thoughts on that.

That's a good point.

Everybody.

Well, he had that meeting not long ago and

she started to dominate it.

He said, now just a minute here, or, you know, just hold on.

I'm still president.

And he's diminished.

He's really diminished, and no one listens to him.

Nobody cares what he says.

Foreign policy is in the hands of two incompetents, Blinken and Sullivan, with good input probably from the Obamas.

Yeah.

And the Iranian lobby deeply entrenched in the State Department and the Pentagon.

And

we'll see what happens.

But Netanyahu, you know, he's sort of like George Patton, the ordeal and triumph.

I'm writing an article right now, and I told you, I wrote it last night, and I'm going to have to rewrite it because of the strike, but it's something like the ordeal and triumph of Benjamin Netanyahu.

They wrote that guy completely off, Jack.

He was done for.

And they blamed him.

They said that he tried to play Hamas off against the Palestinian Authority.

He emboldened Hamas.

He's an idiot.

He got everybody.

He's got to get out.

And then he hung on.

He had to work.

And then he's systematized.

They said, you can't go into Gaza.

It'll never work.

You cannot fight these people on the ground.

They're under hospitals.

They're under schools.

They're under mosques.

They've got 500 miles of tunnels.

There's hostages.

And he did.

And then you can't go into Lebanon.

That's the graveyard of Middle Eastern place.

Anybody who goes in there, you should know Israel.

You went in there before 2006 and earlier.

And when you go on the ground in Lebanon and you try to deal with Hezbollah, this is the SS of Middle East terrorists.

These people are 100,000 strong.

They've got, what is it, Jack?

100,000, 150,000, we're told, missiles.

They will wipe out northern Israel.

You can't do it.

They're going to prepare for an inroad themselves, like October 7th.

And then you've got Nasra, he's a fanatic, and you've got the Hezbollah.

And then you've got the Houthis attacking you, Mr.

Net.

Now, just give up and try to make peace and listen to Mr.

Blinken and Mr.

Sullivan, Mr.

Biden, deal with the terrorists, kind of apologize, and maybe we can get the hostages back.

And oh my God,

do not mess with Iran.

Who knows what Iran is going to do?

They have been for 40 years the dominant, you know, they, you can't mess with them.

They were behind killing American hostages, 241 in Lebanon.

They were the ones that killed 1,500 Americans with shape charges in Iraq.

They're just wildly unpredictable.

And what he did was he basically said, no, Hezbollah is a big talker.

I'm going to blow them up with pagers.

I'm going to blow them up with walkie-talkies.

I'm going to have targeted killings of their people.

I'm going to expose all their banks where their gold is.

I'm going to blow up about 100,000 of their 150,000 rockets.

And I'm just going to ridicule them and make them inert like I did Hamas.

And then, and as far as Iran goes,

if you guys think that

that government is so formidable, then we won't be able to get inside their airspace.

In fact, I'm going to send a whole

squadrons of Israelis, and they're going to go in there and they're going to do whatever they want.

They're all going to come back alive.

And we're going to reveal the Iranians to be paper tigers to the world.

And everybody's going to criticize us, but we're going to get phone calls the next day.

And trust me, they're getting phone calls today

from egypt from jordan from the gulf monarch oh thank you thank you thank you thank you and from the europeans oh we're gonna mr netanyahu tomorrow we're gonna blast you as right as disruptive and and uncontrollable and but you know what you just keep going man because you have done more for nato interpol fbi cia than all of them combined the last 50 years

he's he is akin to what you've written about trump trump as the john wayne character from The Searchers and Shane doing the dirty work and getting, but being

put all the people in the United States in counterterrorism.

Put John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey,

Andrew McCabe, Christopher Wray, all of the loud people in the Biden administration.

And he has done more in one year.

to deal with America's existential terrorist enemies than all of them combined over a lifetime.

Right.

And he really

justice to

these

SOBs that killed our people decades ago and thousands of them.

If you had said, if you and I had said, and I would never imagine this, just

two months ago, Israel alone under intense pressure not to, with the entire world, the EU, the UN, the United States, much of the, all of the Arab world and against it is going to do the following.

It's going to destroy Hamas.

It's going to destroy most of the 400 miles of tunnels.

It's going to make Gaza never, ever want to attack Israel again.

Then it's going to turn around and take on Hezbollah.

It's going to take out probably

30 or 40 of their top people.

It's going to kill Nasrallah the terrible.

It's going to get rid of two-thirds of their rockets.

It's going to go in on the ground and fight Hezbollah.

It's going to ridicule them further.

Nobody in Hamas and

Hezbollah are going to be willing to say, I'm stepping up.

I'm the next ruler.

I know they've assassinated the last guy, but I'm now the new guy.

No, they don't want to do that.

And then they're going to take out the ports of the Houthis, and they've been very quiet lately.

And then they're going to say, now we're going to deal with Iran and we're going to show the world that for all this Zionist entity, kill the Jews, they're wheat.

And we can go anytime we want, anywhere in Iran, and do whatever we want.

And the only reason that Iran will not suffer a complete loss of their nuclear facilities, all of their oil revenue, and their entire military is because we, the Israelis, choose not to do so.

Right.

And

that is a decision that ranks with Churchill and

I don't know, June 30th of 1940, when he's the only one there.

The Soviets are on the Nazis' side.

What is now the EU is all Nazi control.

America is saying, you know what?

The British are doomed.

The Blitz is starting.

I don't really want to get involved.

Joe Kennedy says they're going to lose our ambassador.

And Churchill says, you know, we only have blood, sweat, and tears.

And we're going to stand, we're going to fight them on the beach.

And he's the only one against Hitler.

And he keeps the whole Allied cause alive.

And that's what Netanyahu is doing.

He's telling the West, you don't have to be afraid of these people.

You are so much stronger than we are, and look what we did to them.

These are barbaric medieval terrorists, and you can fight back and destroy them.

There's no such thing as, well, you can't destroy an idea.

You guys destroyed Nazism.

Reagan destroyed Soviet communism.

You can destroy an idea.

So I thought it's really, we don't appreciate it, what he's done.

Absolutely.

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Hey,

before we move on to things

political in America, just quickly on

Netanyahu, while you were talking about him, do you think it would be fair to say that of the last hundred years, he would be considered one of the great statesmen of our time, A, and B, that a Trump-Netanyahu

combo is

like one of the best things to happen for global peace?

Yeah, I think it is.

And, you know, he's 76 years old.

So people say, look at Trump.

He's 70.

It's not that he's a spring chicken.

And he's been the longest prime minister in Israeli, I think it's 16 years, longest in history.

And one thing they don't give him credit for, when he was economic minister under Sharon,

he was the one that opened up the economy.

It was kind of a neo-socialist, kibbutz-like economy.

And when you go to Israel today, and I've been there two of the last three years, it's just stunning.

It's, I mean, as I said before in a podcast, Haifa looks like San Francisco did free debt destruction.

I mean, maybe 2008.

It's booming.

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Tel Aviv is booming.

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Highways are crowded.

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Tourists were everywhere.

And you've got all these entrepreneurs, the tech industry, the natural gas industry, all of these things, the agricultural export industry, the agricultural manufacturing industry of, you know, things like drip bowls and everything, it's booming.

And he did that.

He really was sort of a Ronald Reagan free market libertarian

economist.

And

what he's done since then is he has reestablished deterrence.

And now people know.

You do not want to do what he did on October 7th.

Was he culpable for November 7th?

I think everyone in Israel has to take the blame.

He's the prime minister.

He took a lot of the blame.

I think the idea that

Hamas was semi-normal, like the Palestinian Authority, which I don't even think is semi-normal, but you could deal with them, was a mistake.

And you didn't want to empower them by even talking to them.

Letting 20,000 people from Gaza to come into the kibbutz every day to work was an unwise idea.

But the point is...

You know, the culpability is pretty broad, though.

How many years taxpayer dollars paid for concrete to build those tunnels all throughout Abdaza and empowered Iran to

throw money into the I would say that Churchill is pretty accurate on a smaller scale because Israel is a tiny country.

But

October 7th was sort of like Churchill's Gallipoli.

In other words, Churchill was desperately trying to find a way to break the stagnation of death on the Western front.

And he got the idea that maybe you could go in, retake Constantinople, recreate the megala idea.

In other words, get the Greeks involved.

They would get rid of the Bulgarians, come back in,

and the two to three million Greeks that were in Asia Minor would knock out this Turkish

fascist, I don't know what we'd call them at that point, militarist ally of Germany, and then you would have an ability to go in behind, join the Russians if you could, or stop the beginning of a revolution in the making and come into Austria and Germany from the back and then relieve the pressure on the Western Front.

It didn't work, but it was kind of tactically inept.

In other words, the French and British admirals were at fault.

The ground commanders stayed there near the beaches.

They had no audacity to take that an earlier advantage initiative.

So they blamed Churchill.

And you're right.

There was was a lot of blame to go around on October 7th.

But the most important thing is when people were calling for him to resign, and we were putting pressure on him in a way we never did with Iraq, and we've gone with that.

It was very asymmetrical.

So they said to Netanyahu, you've got to be proportionate, not Ukraine.

You've got to have a wartime cabinet of your peers, not Mr.

Zelensky in Ukraine.

You've got to be proportional,

not you, Ukraine.

You've got to be disproportional.

And it went on and on and on.

And yet

somehow he navigated the Biden-Harris administration.

And he was able to get stuff from them and yet have

the sufficient latitude to be autonomous and to do things, like get rid of Nasrallah.

Every one of those things he did when he took out all of the, I mean, they wanted to,

Sinoir, they wanted to negotiate with Sinoir.

They wanted to negotiate with all the Hamas people he took out.

And the same thing with Nasrallah.

And he was basically saying, you can't deal with these people.

They're murderers.

And he was able to take them out over the objections of the United States.

And he knew that anytime he talked to Biden-Harris, that information would be given to the Iranians.

We know that from the leaks.

So it's pretty amazing.

He's got one last chapter in this

comeback, and that is what is the final verdict on Iran.

If he were able, Jack, to take out the nuclear facilities

and without destroying the Iranian economy and spark a revolution, and they got rid of that theocracy, he would be of Reagan-esque or Churchillian status.

And he would do more.

He might save the EU and the United States foreign policy if he did that.

We might have been there already, but for Obama.

But that's not.

No, remember the the Green Revolution.

How many days was it?

11 days.

They were in the street begging a million Iranians for U.S.

and he wouldn't do it.

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Joe Biden came out of the mothballs in his basement in Delaware, and

he was campaigning, I believe, in New Hampshire and ranting about Donald Trump, including we gotta lock him up,

a big fat punctuation mark on the whole mindset

of lawfare.

Verbatim, you did it.

Verbatim.

We gotta lock him up.

Who is we, you think?

I thought they didn't coordinate.

When he says, we gotta lock Trump up, who is we?

Is it Merrick Garland?

Is it Jack Smith?

Is it Fannie Willis, Nathan Wade, Letita James, Eugene Carroll?

Who knows?

But he seems to assume that that is an ensemble.

And he's done that before.

And I'm just going to, I have this kind of note here.

Do you remember in November of 2022?

Here's what he said.

Well, we, we, everybody listen to that.

He said we again.

We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power if we,

if he does run, I'm making sure under legitimate efforts of our country, he does not become the president again.

And

what is it?

How does he stop that?

What's he, what's he doing?

And so I was thinking of that when he said it, because he let the cat out of the bag.

And

he's,

you know, he's got Jack Smith right before the election within 60 days re-filed those indictments against Trump.

And I read, I think it was Sammy, I read the DOJ Manual of Ethics and Protocols about what prosecutors should and should not do in an election year.

And it says, federal prosecutors, by the way, Jack Smith is a federal prosecutor, and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements for the purpose of affecting any election or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.

Almost every legal scholar who's examined Jack Smith's behavior disinterestedly says that he has accelerated the timetable to do exactly what he's not allowed to do under the DOJ protocols.

Right.

And I think everybody says, well,

Come on now, you guys, you Trumpers, you mega people, coordinated.

What does that mean?

I I mean, these people are independent prosecutors, federal, bragg,

municipal, James, Attorney General, Fannie Willis, County.

They don't have anything to do with each other.

Do we all remember that key date?

That key date?

Okay.

When I just read you that quote

that Joe Biden said in November of 2022, he will not take power if he does run.

I'm making sure

that he will not take power.

Okay.

Six days later, Donald Trump announced that he was going to run for president.

Everybody remember that seminal date, November 15th, 2022.

So Joe Biden says, obviously he had, he was worried that that was going to be announced.

So he said, if he does, if he takes, if he announces he's going to run, he's not going to win.

He's not going to take power.

So Trump announces.

Guess what happens?

72 hours later, everybody, three days after Trump announces, and just nine days after Biden promises that he's not going to be president, all on the same day, November 18th, 2022.

Number one happened that day.

Remember Matthew Coangelo.

He was the third ranking attorney in a very prestigious billet in the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland.

He had just come back from being freelanced to Alvin Bragg on that pseudo campaign violation prosecution that the feds didn't want to touch.

And so as a federal attorney, he was not able to get Trump under a federal law, so they outsourced him to go to the Manhattan prosecutor and use state authority to kind of bootstrap a federal offense onto onto it.

And

think of that.

On November 18th, just three days after Trump announces he's going to run, this Matthew Coangelo goes to, resigns, and he will shortly go to work for Alvin Bragg.

And he had been involved in the Letita James.

So he had knowledge before of Alvin Bragg, but he cut his teeth with Letita James, going after Trump on that bogus real estate.

And after his

bushwhacking and ambushed work was done, he was back at the DOJ and then he went back into New York politics on this time with Alvin Bragg to get Trump.

The same day.

The same day that that.

Can I guess?

Does it have to do with Georgia?

Yes, it does.

The Playboy, Nathan Wade, the paramour of Fanny Willis, he turns up that same day that Matthew, I wonder if they saw each other in the DOJ.

Hey, Matthew, what are you doing?

I'm going to go work for

Alvin Bragg.

And they said, well, why would you give up such a nice job?

You're the third guy in the whole government.

Yeah, we got to get Trump.

Well, I thought you already got him with Letita James.

Well, we got to get another one for insurance.

Well, what are you here for, Nathan?

Well, I'm here to do the same thing.

I'm talking with Biden, too.

I'm going to meet in the White House council.

I'm going to be there for eight hours today.

Oh, my God.

Oh, good luck.

Tell Fanny.

Good luck.

We'll synchronize.

Yeah.

Number three,

what else happened on November 8th?

Joe Biden, I apparently called up Merrick Garland because Merrick Garland on that day appointed Jack Smith special prosecutor.

Think of that.

All in 24 hours, the Biden administration has Jack Smith appointed as a federal prosecutor to go after Donald Trump for supposedly an archival dispute which had always been

resolved through civil means, and he's going to investigate them in addition to January 6th.

On the same day that the number three and the DOJ gets back into the fray at the local label, joins Alvin Bragg.

At the same time, they must have bumped into somebody bumped into this bumbling Nathan Wade that's

wandering around the halls of the West Wing looking for the White House counsel and then billing them, Jack, for $250 an hour to listen to his instructions.

Cash preferred, yes.

And if you think that's bad, remember just about two weeks earlier, three weeks that Reed Hoffman the multi-billionaires billionaire Trump hater

I think he made it his fortune in LinkedIn he has started to coordinate with Egene Carroll he was a Biden supporter big financial supporter of Biden and he was going to fund the entire legal bill of Egene Carroll So whether it was Carroll, whether it was Fannie Willis, whether it was Letita James, whether it was Alvin Bragg, whether it was Jack Smith, all five of them were spokes in a wheel of deceit and law affair whose hub was the West Wing.

Well, I wonder what Lady Justice, with her blindfold,

if it had been designed to represent justice in the Biden era, what she might look like.

That's all they're talking about.

Again, they know

that if they were in Trump's position on the cusp of victory and they had suffered what Trump has suffered from them and they came back to power, they know what they would do to their enemies for doing stuff like that.

And so they project that onto Donald Trump.

Oh, he's going to destroy democracy.

It's on the ballot.

He's going to go after his enemy, not like you did.

That's the weird thing about Trump.

He keeps saying that, that for all that we're going to go this, and that he didn't weaponize the IRS, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA.

He brought people into his government like John Bolton,

Christopher Wray, James Comey, Andrew McCabe,

Alexander Binman, you name it, John Kelly.

I could go on, people who despised him.

And he fired them, he called them names, but he didn't go after them the way that Biden and Obama have done.

Yeah.

By the way, he was, I listened to about the first 45 minutes of Trump's interview with Joe Rogan, three-hour interview, which got a lot of attention

these past few days.

And he did stick to John Bolton.

But at the same time, he said

it's good to have him along at some of these meetings because

the people, the nations Trump was trying to pressure thought that there's Bolton in the background and he loves war.

So they took it as kind of threatening, but he obviously didn't like him personally.

And John, who we both know,

was every night writing his notes so we could get his stick at the table.

He was ready to

write a book, write at a key

campaign moment.

Yeah.

And John Bolton hadn't.

was serving in the Bush administration as U.

Ambassador on a recess appointment, and he would never, never have been approved by the Senate for any position high up in the State Department or anywhere else.

The only place he could ever be appointed was National Security Advisor.

I don't think that requires Senate approval.

And he was out in the wilderness for years.

So he comes in to work with Donald Trump.

And first of all, everybody understood that he has a neoconservative interventionist policy, and Donald Trump has a Jacksonian,

no better friend, no worse enemy policy, and they're not compatible.

So it wasn't going to work from the beginning, but you'd think at some point John Bolton, who replaced H.R.

McMaster, which I don't understand that.

I don't.

But nevertheless, both of them had reservations about Trump, and I'm not saying anything new.

They both voiced that in their books, but there was a difference.

McMaster tried to implement things in which he disagreed.

Bolton tried, when he disagreed, to thwart them them and stop him.

And so,

and

the other thing is all of these people that are now coming out right conveniently so, and we saw that Mark Milley's quotes now are resurfing about Donald Trump being a greatest danger in history of fascists.

We had McCaffrey out of the, remember him?

He's back from the Clinton years.

He was drug czar, General McCaffrey.

Right.

And all of them have controversies.

I remember McCaffrey in the first Gulf War, I think I wrote a column defending him, but they said that after the ceasefire, he was trying to kill Iraqis and still use his, he was a division commander and they had an investigation of him.

And so my point is, he should have some experience with what the administrative or bureaucratic state can do to a person.

And then there was also.

Kelly, he came out and he started doing the same stuff.

And then we see McChrystal, and he's making commercials.

And

all of them

have no sense that, at least the ones that worked for Trump, that their careers had stagnated.

Bolton's had,

Kelly's had.

Milley,

he was never going to be appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

He was appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs by Trump over the objections of Madison, the Defense Department.

So you would think that somebody,

you know,

I've been very lucky in my life.

I've had people who have done me favors and later we've ended up on the wrong sides of issues or

I don't know how to put it.

But you have to have some gratitude.

I don't think I've ever, ever crossed or tried to attack somebody who has done me a favor genuinely, not just quid pro quo.

You have to have some sense of magnanimity, you know, that these people, Donald Trump picked them out of obscurity and restarted their careers, especially with Bolton.

And then to have that

chance and repay it by writing these things deliberately designed to show that he's an idiot or crazy or a danger, it's really bothersome.

That nutmeg that no favors go unpunished is proved regularly, especially by these, you know, the hundred-plus signers of the endorsers of Harris, et cetera.

I think, Victor, they're all just obviously deeply threatened by the change they fear is coming.

So if you're a guy like

I think so.

If you're a four-star general and you've gone along with the DEI stuff and you've rotated in and out to

lucrative plush seats on defense contractor boards, or you become a lobbyist for Raytheon or General Dynamics or whatever.

And this guy comes in and he says, and he has said this, and Vivak said it too, and I think Vivek will have a prominent role in some capacity in that administration.

Tulsi Gabbard said it too.

She will too, that we've got to go back to the idea that if you are a high-ranking officer and you leave the government, you're going to have a hiatus of five or ten years before you're going to be able to go onto a board or act as a military lobbyist and use your contacts with former subordinates still in

appropriations of defense

budgeting,

and you're not going to be able to go work.

And the pensions are over $200,000 in many cases.

It's not like a general retires and they have no income, or they don't have to even go.

They can go on

ABC board, they can go on CBS, they can go on any liberal board they want, just not go on to a board that is bidding on a Pentagon contract and puts you on that board or as a point person because of what?

Because that you know hundreds of one-star, two-star, three-star, lieutenant colonels, colonels, majors that are all within the Pentagon and making key decisions.

Because we have really important decisions to make in this country to save the military.

We're in an age now where our enemies, whether we see see them in Russia or we see them in Hezbollah or in Iran, or we see our allies trying to respond to them, the world is changing technologically and we're back to a World War II paradigm of more is better.

And you don't put all of your eggs in one basket in the fat in the manner the German army did or the German Air Force.

So you don't spend a lot of money on a V-2 rocket when you could have 100 B-17s and carry a lot more payload.

You don't put all of your money in a King Tiger tank that's so expensive and so

costly to run when you can make 30 Shermans at the same price.

You don't put all of your money and expertise in a M262 sophisticated jet that has a range of about 45 minutes when you could build for the same price something like 100 P-51 fighters.

And so we need to be doing that.

We need to have drone carriers, drone frigates, drone submarines.

We need to have flaptops with a minimal crews with 3,000 or 4,000 drones on them.

Not to replace what we have, you know, $175 million F-22 or something, but to augment it.

And yet we're not getting that.

We don't have 150 millimeter shells.

We don't have javelin stocks.

We're not spending the money to create a lot of stuff.

And

whoever is in charge of the appropriations of scarce funding for the particular armed platform is not making good choices.

And we're also 45,000 soldiers short.

And we know we've talked ad nauseum about why that is and who they are.

There was just a

study, Jack, I was going to bring up to you by Owen West.

He was the co-author.

He's son of Bing West.

He's son of, I met Owen, yeah.

He's a warrior himself.

And he had commissioned a survey

of uh families and people who served in the military and he wanted to know what the attitude was uh and uh about either not joining the military or leaving the military and and what the at what group that represented.

It's pretty much what we talked about.

It is white middle-class families that generation after generation join the military and they make up twice their numbers in the demographic, both

in combat units abroad in god-awful places like Afghanistan or Iraq or Syria, and double their numbers in the fatalities.

And he can't get anybody in the Pentagon to respond to that.

He did a piece in the journal.

I didn't see it, but yes, a few days ago, DEI is crushing the military.

Is that the market?

Yes, it is.

It's part of the survey.

And he's trying to suggest that if you destroy meritocracy and you tell officers that have superb records, whether it's in

making sure your squadron hits the carrier right every time, making sure your artillery battalion hits the target every time, making sure

that your special forces conduct missions, and you're going to compromise that excellence by suggesting that that's not necessarily going to see you rewarded with promotions, but DEI will, Then you're going to undermine the entire morale and that's going to trickle down to a particular demographic who feels it's aimed at them and it's aimed unfairly because the basis of DEI is we have to have DEI because this particular demographic is racist, it's full of white rage, white privilege, et cetera.

And it's undermining the military, just as its

procurement strategies are undermining the military.

And so this is a long, windy rant, getting to where we started.

You're absolutely right.

These people are terrified of Donald Trump if he comes in.

Because if he readjusts the entire

way that we procure weapons and which type of weapons that we get, and he gets dissidents within the military and starts to promote them into positions of power, and he says that generals and admirals are not going on defense boards anymore.

And I think you should go back to the idea that he did before that you don't give waivers.

He waived it.

I supported that with in the cases of McMaster

Mattis and others.

But I think it's a wise idea that a general goes out of the military and he waits five to ten years before he goes back into a cabinet level position.

Yeah.

Well, Victor,

let's

head into the home stretch here, a week out from the elections and get your take on where things are, where they're going, and again, on some of the hair on fire on the left over some non-endorsements.

And we'll do that when we come back from these important final messages.

We are back with the Victor Davis Hansen Show recording on October 26th.

This episode will be out on the Tuesday, the 29th.

By the way, Victor, in between when we are talking right now on a Saturday and when this is put up on the World Wide Webs, Donald Trump will have spoken at the Nazi haven of Madison Square Garden

in New York City.

The

Nazi rhetoric of of the left, including, I think Hillary Clinton, for example, is a typical person.

Yeah, and she had one of her biggest rallies in 2016, where?

At Madison Square Garden.

They've turned a rally in Madison Square Garden into Lenny Refschell's triumph of will.

Why do they get that?

They're just insane.

Are they afraid that he's going to have it sell out?

I think it already is sold out.

And what's the danger that right in the heart of liberal New York, you're sending a message that there's people, that MAGA can find you anywhere?

There's MAGA people.

I was driving.

It finds people in Bronx barbershops.

So, yeah, I think they're desperately afraid.

We were driving.

I was being driven to this event last night in Palace Verdes,

and we passed through Venice, right?

Yes.

And then we got

Venice Hoity-Toidy.

Yeah, but we were right on the edge of it.

And then apparently in Los Angeles areas, they have spontaneous Trump uprisings where people just have a pre-locate, you know, they kind of mass at an intersection, maybe 30 or and then they wave American flags, Trump banner.

They have inflated Trump dolls and they yell and scream, and, you know, half the people flip them off.

And I gave them the victory signal.

But they're every, they're everywhere.

You know, I can't imagine that happening with Harris.

Yeah.

Your gut, Victor.

The polls, little by little, every day, it's a little, you know,

0.2%, percent point three percent in this swing state that swing state but uh everything's moving trump's way momentum matters as you're going to the final week although a significant number of people have already uh voted uh for president in the states that allow it but uh your uh general take on how this may end up i know you don't like to predict things but

well uh

i don't have a great record i was right in 2016 that Trump was going to win, but I thought that the Republicans would do much better in 2022.

I really did not think that,

you know, overt gestures like leaking the Roe versus Wade memo or draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or canceling student debt would suddenly,

in these close races, stop the Republican red weight, but it did.

So I have to be very careful, but it does seem to me historically very similar to 1980, as I've said.

And we're right at the point now where between the 1980,

as far as October goes, we're between the 17th and 18th when Trump, when

the second to the last poll showed Reagan eight points down to the last poll, which I think was the 30th of October.

And that showed Reagan three points down.

And then five days later, six days later was the election, and he won by by 10 points.

And this was the most reputable poll at the time, the Gallup poll.

So what I'm getting at is,

I think there's some chance that he could win all of the seven states by 40 or 50,000 votes and get an electoral

majority that's pretty good, maybe as good as 2016 of over 300 electoral votes.

And I think there's a 50-50 chance he could win the popular vote.

I think there's a 20% chance that we're all living in a dream.

And these pollsters are trying to gin up final momentum when they know that the polls are starting to radically change in Trump's direction.

And yet they know that if they report that honestly and dispassionately,

it will give momentum and

look, not a lot of people watch CNN as Once Upon a Time, but that guy who does the

analysis there i i mean that that to me carries a lot of

a lot of anti-spin weight also the so the some of the senate under ticket numbers and also yes and the idea that these swing state senators uh in wisconsin incumbents,

Casey, they're kind of running and Rod, you know, sloking against Rogers in Michigan.

They're running on the argument that they worked with Trump.

How could I never understand that if he's a fascist and he's a Nazi and is a Hitler, and your party says that every day, why would you run on the idea that, hey, I want to remind everybody in Michigan, hey, all you people in Pennsylvania, you know that fascist in Hitler that Harris hates?

Well, I hate him too.

He's a fascist, but I worked with him.

And

he signed a bill that I helped, and I was on the same page as Hitler.

It's just incoherent.

So, and on the journalism front, why doesn't

the Washington Post, the paper that says it fights, you know, it exists because democracy dies in darkness, right?

Well,

it's not endorsing.

The Los Angeles Times has come out.

They're not endorsing such a rich target to not attack Donald Trump, Nazi fascists, that they're not making it announced.

I think we have the answer to that.

I think Jeff Bezos, who's bleeding, I don't know, $30 or $40 million a year, has decided that Donald Trump is going to win.

And somebody at his right-hand side is going to be Elon Musk looking at abuses, regulation.

And

Bezos thinks, you know, the left has gone after me.

People have gone after me for monopolistic practices, for all sorts of violations.

And I am a competitor of Elon Musk in the space race.

And I am not going to use this money-losing disaster of the Washington Post and unleash these left-wing nuts that work for me to go after Donald Trump in a cruel cruel op-ed that says vote for Harris.

Because not that he's opposed to that.

He has no problem with that if he knows Harris is going to win.

But he thinks that if Harris is going to lose and he does not want his paper to contribute

to any chance that she might win by endorsing her because after the election's over, he feels that Trump will be angry at him.

And I think that's true to a lesser extent of the Los Angeles Times.

And what is also very strange about this election is she has

a lot more money, about 10 times more money than he does now.

And I think when you look at all of the related PACs,

the dark money, It's kind of like, remember they told us the Koch brothers dark money is ruining politics?

No, it's the left-wing dark money.

Oh, my gosh.

It's three and a half times to one.

The question is, why didn't all of that money that had three and a half times, it was all squandered?

So if you're a Democrat listening to this and you gave them $100,000 or a million, you should be very angry because you didn't get any bang for the buck.

And you can see that in two areas.

Number one,

gosh, those commercials, you spent all that money on white dudes for Harris and you had those fake...

those actors with all those

trying to be macho and they were just pathetic.

And then you had that African-American guy kind of like the dating game with the women.

And when they said he wasn't, he was going to vote for Trump, they smashed balloons.

It was just, every commercial is a character.

Every time I see one of them,

I think Trump made it.

I've said it to my wife.

That's a Trump commercial.

No, it's not, Victor.

I said, no, nobody would pay to.

have something hurt them.

Yes, they would.

And the other thing is, he's done twice the number of interviews.

So he goes on the most listened to podcasts in America, Joe Wogan, for three hours.

He goes on Dana White.

He goes on Fox News.

He goes anywhere.

And he gives these interviews.

And he's the McDonald's.

How much money do you think it would have cost to get mention in the network news, PBS, the newspapers from that McDonald's thing?

I don't know, know like a hundred million i thought

exactly

and then to have him with that apron on smiling yeah none of that none of that ah kamala harris is dumb she's uh she's not no it's a different trump

i'm i'm just or no you're nobody's ordinary you're not ordinary how do you do this and then smiling everybody this is on trump take it you know hey these fries are neat and then having the left saying well he didn't he didn't finish the entire shift he wasn't wearing a hairnet And

we're going to release this two-week-old story that there was one McDonald's that had E.

coli.

And we're going to go after McDonald's now.

And they reacted in the worst way.

But my point is that he's been doing these stunts all the time.

And he's dominating the free publicity.

So if you actually look at airtime, because he was willing to go anywhere, with anybody, anytime,

and say anything, and he just killed her on the free, just like he did in 2016 in the republican primary and uh so he's what i'm saying is she went through three and a half times the money he did and it didn't help because he got a much bigger bang for the buck and then he had a free free buck that she never had and she couldn't have because people are now saying

For the first 40 days, they said, oh my gosh, she's got to come out.

She's young.

She's attractive.

She can talk.

Why did they not let her come out?

And now they're saying, oh my God,

I should have shut up.

I watched Brett Baer.

I watched Anderson Cooper.

I watched Dana Bash.

I watched 60 Minutes.

I saw Maria Shiver.

I looked at the Univision teleprompted television.

She's a disaster.

Just sappy little, I'm from the middle class.

I'd like to read something by someone about this point, Victor, and get your final thoughts here.

You know, Jeffrey, I think you may know Jeffrey Tucker.

I mean, he writes a lot of stuff.

Yeah, he's very good.

He writes a lot of good stuff.

Yeah, he's an Epic Times and he's one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.

But

on X today, he wrote this.

And you'll forgive me, folks, this is just a spec long.

I've paid far more attention to Kamala.

than I've ever imagined I would with a presidential candidate listening to her interviews, speeches, and so on.

I suspect that many people, even people who are her partisans, are realizing something quite shocking.

It's this.

She knows less about policy news, existing public controversies, and even recent history than most people who read X or the New York Times or even just listen to the news on radio or TV.

For that matter, I suspect that just about any person on the street knows more.

It's like she hasn't really paid much attention to anything for years.

Interviewers are trying their best to be kind to her, but even the slightest bit of push on what she knows turns up a big nothing.

It's not that she's being cagey or clever the trouble is that she truly does not know it's hard to understand why it could be that she has for most of her career been unable to been able to outsource knowledge and understanding to others she's always gotten just been a smiling face the socializer spout her bromides and gotten fine with faking it i mean i think he's i think this kind of nails her.

Yeah,

I think all of us have met men and women like that.

In the case of women, I think she batted her eyelids.

She was in her mid-20s.

She thought she was hot.

She had that little sappy voice, her little hand gesture.

She talked these platitudes.

And whether it was Willie Brown and all these state boards, which she was utterly unqualified, or the Bay Area donor class, she charmed them.

And they didn't care.

They thought she was an empty vessel.

But nevertheless, she knew enough to have advisors around her to get the left-wing agenda.

And the jig is up now.

Everybody's seen it.

And they tried to hide her.

To their credit, they tried to hide her.

And to their credit, they had used her as a Spiro Agnew insurance policy.

They said, you do not dare impeach or remove or force the 25th Amendment upon Joe Biden because you will get Camilla Harrison.

We know her better than anyone, and she's an app.

And then when they did, when it was no longer tenable to hide Joe's...

dementia, they said, well, you know what, just forget everything we said.

She's brilliant.

But they couldn't remake her.

She couldn't even win a primary.

She couldn't even wait to enter a primary.

She can't say anything.

And you know what's baffling, I think everybody that's listening has the same reaction as I do, and Jack does.

When she gives an interview, they know that they're going to ask three questions.

Question number one is going to be, you said that you're the candidate of moving forward, turning the page, change.

You have been in office three and a half years and you will be in office for another three months and you are serving a president that is not physically able to do the job so you would have an enhanced position as no other vice president why if it's so important to carry out your

price controls or to give reparations or $20,000 to a million black people, why didn't you do this three and a half years?

Why didn't you even suggest it?

And when that's asked, she says,

I'm from a middle class.

I grew up, I just love the American people.

You know, before I go on, democracy is a duality.

It's double.

It has fragility

and it's persistent.

And this is the

importance of being of time.

And that's what she does.

And they know she's...

Unburdened by the past.

That is unburdened by the past.

And everybody knows she's going to do it.

So the question that everybody wants to know is, why don't they have a binder with 25, 26 size fonts that say, Camela, question one,

answer A.

You say it's very difficult for a vice president to try to upstage a president.

The job description also contains loyalty.

Doesn't mean that I was obsequious, but there were areas of disagreement where I could not voice

my disagreement without being disloyal.

And here they are.

I wanted to be tougher on the border.

I objected to the Afghanistan.

She could do that.

Why not just do that?

And then the second question, everybody knows what the second question is going to be that follows up.

Kamela.

Your whole life, you've embraced defunding the police, cutting the defense budget, outlawing abortion, sanctuary cities, abortion to the ninth month.

All of these things.

We know what you did.

You were against fracking.

You were against horizontal drilling.

You wanted EV mandates.

Why?

How?

Have you disowned your lifelong agenda?

Have you repudiated many of the things you stood for as vice president?

Bernie Sanders says it's just because you need to be opportunistic.

But why are you doing this?

And are you sincere?

And if you are sincere, will you revert back whether you win or lose on November 6th to your lifelong earlier position?

And you should have an answer.

She could have said, well, Donald Trump was a Democrat at one time.

You have to be

flexible and fluid.

Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton had wonderful answers in the 90s, but those answers are ossified now.

So I grew and matured.

It's not convincing.

It's a lie, but it's an answer rather.

We had nice neighbors when we grew up.

You know, my mom was a working mother.

She had such green lawn.

So everybody knows

they're going to ask that question.

And

then they're going to ask the third question.

They're going to say, Kamala,

you, for three and a half years, you assured the president that he was bold.

tireless,

outworked everybody in the room, fit as a fiddle.

So you, more than anybody saw that he must have been cognitive decline because your own party removed him for that suddenly when they no longer could disguise that fact after the debate with Donald Trump.

So, when you say that Donald Trump is tired or exhausted, we assume you have some expertise in adjudicating the physical or mental status of an older man.

So, with that in mind, why didn't you say anything?

Why did you sit there and have somebody that was clearly cognitively challenged?

And why should we believe you now when you didn't speak up?

So what is it?

Was Joe Biden on July 21st fit as a fiddle, but on July 25th, he was not?

What happened?

Well, you know,

I tell you something.

I grew up in Oakland.

And I was a middle-class kid.

And I'm for the,

my mom was an entrepreneur, worked at McDonald's worked at McDonald's yes and got a got a Glock yes sir I got a Glock and that so can't they have a binder with those three questions with ABC like the size of the A the size of your hand and it says Camela when they ask you

when they ask you about Joe Biden you could say there were things that worried me but not to the degree that I thought it was affecting his job and wouldn't it have been disloyal to try to remove a president of the United States in the way, and then she could have lied even better.

She could have said, you know, I watched Donald Trump and I saw that my party brought up psychiatrists to diagnose him as non capos mentes.

We put so much pressure on him that he was forced to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

We had the acting head of the DOJ, Rod Rosenstein, colluding with the interim director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, to wear a wire, to catch him in a fit of dementia.

We had the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, who as a apparent psychiatrist diagnosed him as mentally unfit to the degree that he was going to have more trust in the Chinese communist head of the People's Liberation Army than in his own commander-in-chief.

And

I thought that was wrong.

I just didn't like what was going on.

So I was not going to repeat that unfair attitude with Joe Biden, whom I was very loyal to.

And furthermore, I'm not a psychiatrist.

I'm not a psychologist.

I am not a doctor.

But

from my appearance, he seemed to me, apparently now, others think I was mistaken, and I'll let history decide.

That's all she had to say.

Yeah.

But she can't do it.

She can't do it.

Yeah, he's,

there are other things she says, but I think we'll save them for our next

podcast on,

you know, this coming for her.

I mean, we're coming to the end of our time here, but as she ends her campaign, it's, you know, abortion, Nazi

military is going to be used against us.

How many times?

Catholics.

How many times a day does she say that Trump's going to have a national abortion ban?

And almost as many times a day as he says he's not.

Yeah.

She's lovely.

We're down.

Everybody,

we're all down to the last 10 days.

And you know, everybody that's listening knows better than I do that they're down to their last two straws, that he wants to kill women by banning abortions in every state, even, you know.

blue states.

And number two, that he is either a Mussolini or a Hitler or a fascist or a Nazi.

It depends on what the day is.

They can't decide whether fascist or Hitler or Nazi.

This is military to arrest the women on the view, I think.

So Donald Trump says he's really worried about an enemy within because last time he was inaugurated, there was a full riot.

And this time, he thinks that the animosity to him is such that there's going to be massive unrest in the manner there was for 120 days, $2 billion, 35 dead people,

1,500 police officers, and this time he might have to call out the military.

And she uses that and says, well, you know, he's already threatened to put us all in jail and call out the military and deport people.

Final thought for the day.

Why is it so moral to let in 20...

12, 15, 20 million illegal aliens to unleash gang members, to kill people, to come into towns like my own and just swarm social services, physical services, medical services for

impoverished American citizens, swamp the schools.

Why is it so moral to break the law with such flagrant hubris?

And then

it's wrong.

That's okay, but it's wrong.

to say to the same people, you came in under illegal auspices during an unhinged government, and you're going to all have to go back and buy it again.

We want you to come back in, but only if you qualify.

So go back to Mexico, Guatemala, China, the Middle East, apply and say that you want to come to the United States because A, you have never committed a crime, B, you're self-supporting, C, you have skills that could benefit us, and we will look at it.

And

that's supposedly fascism.

He wants to deport Twain.

Well, that makes two-thirds of Americans fascist because the two-thirds of Americans support

radical, correct deportation.

Everybody knows she's insincere.

So this big question,

when they mail in that ballot, or they go to the thing, they're saying, if I vote for her,

I know what is exactly going to happen.

She is going to dismantle the border like Biden did, only more so.

And there's going to be another 20 million because the fertility rate in this country is 1.6 and it's asymmetrical.

People who are on the blue side of the ledger have fewer children on the red side.

And our paradigm of an empowered, female-dominated party, a young metrosexual woman about 40 years old that hates Trump,

is not the paradigm that provides the country with three children and a long marriage.

So

we're in trouble.

So we want to bring in impoverished people, give them entitlements, make them dependent.

We have a lifelong constituency, at least until they're self-supporting and then they get on to us.

then we have to bring in more.

Right.

Well, let's look at the Latino vote, how it's almost 50-50.

That plot to

work

our friends and neighbors in that way

seems not to be coming true.

Hey, Victor, we are at the end.

I want to read a comment or two from some of our listeners who comment on Apple and iTunes or on your website, The Blade of Perseus.

And one from the website is from Jesse Olbaum.

I hope I've said the name right.

And Jesse writes,

I've left so many positive comments of VDH over the years.

All I have to say at this point is that I wish I lived next door to him or Ben Carson or Clarence Thomas or Tucker Carlson, et cetera, et cetera.

Dozens of other patriots that will be written into American history books, any of which I wish were neighbors so I could be closer than video podcasts or essays to soak up their wisdom when I have them over for dinner.

I can dream, right?

You can dream, Jesse.

I think that's pretty cool.

I think if he saw some of my neighbors,

yeah, if he saw some of where my neighbors live, and that, yeah,

maybe Jesse can help you pull washing machines out of your

view.

Yeah, Jesse, maybe you can come over and we can get on either side of a thousand-pound freezer sitting in the orchard out there.

Yeah,

still there.

One from uh,

one from Apple,

where you can rate the show zero to five stars.

And, you know, everyone, practically everyone's given Victor five stars, 4.9 average over the years from thousands of people averaged out.

And this one's simply titled VDH Podcast.

Always look forward

to your podcast.

Love, love your voice of reason.

Thank you for helping me feel sane.

You are always so nice to say thank you for listening.

Wish I could get my Stanford grad brothers to listen to you.

Another brother loves listening to you too.

San Diego listener, Nancy, who goes by Turquoise Gal 12.

And we thank you.

Nancy, thank you so much for that letter.

I wish I could get my twin brother to listen to me.

So

I can't persuade anybody to listen to me.

I can't get my own brother to listen to me.

Yeah, well, I'd love to be in the room for that.

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Great as ever.

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