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Speaking of kind of things religious, even though Italian doesn't necessarily mean religious, Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of

Michigan, has caused great offense to Catholics and I think Christians in general by some ridiculous antics where she has

supposedly apologized for.

But does anyone really apologize in this day and age?

And we're going to get Victor's thoughts on.

No, they don't.

Beat me to the button.

Jack, I take full responsibility.

That means

nothing.

No.

That was totally inappropriate.

I said something inappropriate.

I'm very sorry.

I take full responsibility.

That means I'll do it again next time when you forget about that.

Amen, brother.

Well, we'll get into that

a little more.

We have Kamala going after men in kind of weird ways.

So is Tim Walls.

And by going after men, I mean in social media videos, Barack Obama berating black men to vote for Kamala Harris.

General Milley going after Donald Trump as

a total fascist or something to that effect.

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let me read here very briefly Gretchen Whitmer's apology.

I put that in quotes

for her

social media

video where she was giving some woman on her knees a Dorito that was something, you know, aping the

giving of communion or the Eucharist.

If you're Catholic, I know Protestants also take communion.

And it was just totally,

you didn't.

You didn't have to have any political lens on here to see that this was something imitating,

to many people, a sacred religious act.

And here's what she says after the hullabaloo that was rightly caused by it.

Over 25 years in public service, I would never do something to denigrate someone's faith.

I used my platform to stand up for people's right to hold and practice their personal religious beliefs.

My team has spoken to the Michigan Catholic Conference.

What was supposed to be a video about the importance of the CHIPS Act to Michigan jobs has been construed as something it never was intended to be.

And I apologize for that, Whitmer said.

She's apologizing for the construing, I guess, Victor, but not for what she actually did.

It was very strange because apparently it emulated

a TikTok skit.

And

it was kind of, I don't know what the word, I know that it was

trying to

make it be a parody of the Eucharist,

but in the normal Catholic ritual, does the person who receives the wafer kneel down like that?

If you old school, there was a communion rail, they would call it, and people would kneel.

Most people now stand, and they receive it in the hand.

But this is something you'd see in movies of going my way and things of all your.

The way that she did it, I mean, it was almost there's

I don't want to be paranoid or conspiratorial, but there was almost a sexual element as if she was dominectrix.

The way she looked, you know, afterwards,

this woman almost tasted it she just didn't she didn't just have like a blank expression she kind of said it was almost like a yum yummy you know what i mean on her expression the receiving woman and then yeah gressman woodmer looked like a dominectrix when she stared out at the camera in this solemn voice so it wasn't a celebratory chips thing as she said it was trying to do something to mock this.

And I guess, as I always understood it on both the Western and Eastern churches, the Eucharist is sort of

a reenactment of the Last Supper, right?

When Jesus washed the feet.

Yes.

So my point is that it didn't have any of the solemn nature.

It was trying to parad, you know, like making Doritos chips for

the body of Christ and all of that.

But it also had something weird about it, the way she turned sideways and looked at the camera, like almost a scowl and the woman like looked like oh this is good that type of thing it was really sick for a governor to be doing that and that's i think

michigan i think they're going to lose michigan because there's too many

uh extraneous uh developments that uh each in themselves are not

transformative but in total total they are and you get the impression that the entire arab american vote has concluded that the only way they're going to get their agenda recognized is not to vote Democratic.

Some will, of course, some just won't vote.

But in a state like Michigan, that's going to matter.

And then you've got the auto workers with this EV mandate, and they're laying people off.

And they've got those clips showing.

I was in Michigan

with my annual billet with Hillsdale, and there's some really brilliant commercials about the EV mandates that that did that to the auto industry.

And so you're going to lose a little bit of those.

And then in places like

out in the, you know, in Detroit, lesser extent in

Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids, you get the impression, Lansing, there's going to be a larger than normal African-American male vote.

And there are a sizable number of Latinos in Michigan,

larger than normal, larger, when normal, I mean 2016 and 2020.

You put it all together, and I think that two things could happen.

Mike Rogers

could win that.

And

he's a pretty good ⁇ he's no Oz.

He's no.

No.

He's not really a MAGA candidate, but that might help him in Michigan to appeal to crossover voters.

He's close now in some polls.

He's either even or one or two points behind.

He was down seven or eight

and written off sort of.

And so I think it matters if

there's 10 or 20,000 Catholic votes that just say, you know what, I'm not going to vote for her after that.

We'll see.

They've done their best to offend auto workers, minorities,

Catholics.

etc.

And

everything about this, just to take a little whiff, whiff, everything about this campaign is different than 2000, both 2016 and 2020.

And we should remind everybody

that 2020, the polls were much, when Trump lost, polls were much more in air than they were in 2016.

Much more, almost double.

They had some polls that had Trump

winning a couple of states he won in 2016, but they had him down like 17 points in Wisconsin in one poll that he lost by about a point in 2020.

And so what I'm suggesting is that they didn't learn their lesson from 2016.

They doubled down on it.

Just like as I said earlier, the moderators did not learn their lesson from that ABC travesty.

They doubled down on it in CBS.

That's what the left does.

And they're going to, and these polls that are coming out, I don't know if they're going to be at such a wide variance as they were in 2020,

but they are exaggerating the level of Kamala Harris's support.

So when you see these polls showing Trump winning six out of the seven swing states, and then you see other polls, the more recent poll, showing that he's winning in Nevada, which would be seven out of seven,

then it suggests to me that he's really two or three or four points up.

And that's important because I do think he's going to to lose one or two points when we have the mail-in ballot.

And by the way, I don't understand.

We were told by the left

that in these lawsuits that they cherry picked liberal judges that we all had to go to mail-in and early balloting because of COVID.

That was the only reason.

And yes,

5% rejection rate of ballots pre-COVID went down to 0.3, 0.4.

We doubled the number of mail-in ballots, and we decreased the rejection rate in some states by a magnitude.

So

they're going to need something, because I think there's going to be some irregularities.

And that something might be three or four points.

And I think

he's almost in the area right now, in the real area.

If he's one or two points ahead in the polls, he's actually four points, but I don't know how much he needs to counteract these laws that say that you can mail in ballots late, 10 days after the

deadline, or they can have incomplete signatures, or you can have third-party harvesting, or you can have post-election ballot curing, or they're mailed out every time a person goes to the disability office, the DMV, the welfare office.

They just get ballots under slightly different names to the same address.

So I don't know what they're going to need, but I think he's within striking distance now of wrapping these states up.

If he can show discipline and not insult,

I would curb the rallies a little bit.

He's now going into,

just to get off the topic, Jack, he's going into New York, Madison Square Garden next week.

He was in Coachilla, so there must be some reason that he's going in states that he has no chance of winning.

He's going to go to Chicago, I think.

He has no chance of winning Illinois.

He lost California by 30 points.

He lost New York by, I think, 23.

He lost Illinois by 19.

So if he does better than he's ever done, better than any Democrat has ever done in the last 25 years, he still will not win these states.

So it has to be that he's going in there, A,

to embarrass her, like the Aurora, Colorado.

He's not going to win Colorado, but he can go to Aurora, or he can go to particular states and highlight on-the-ground embarrassments to her, or he's going there as personal favors to the donors class that keep saying, you know, why should I give Trump any money?

He's not going to win my state, but because

they're deemed more selfless because they're giving to the national cause, then maybe he wants to reward them.

And then third, there's down ballot consideration.

Absolutely.

Maybe he thinks that he's three or four points ahead and he can afford now to go and help House.

In California, it's House candidates.

I don't think I like Steve Garby, but I don't think he's going to win.

He has no money.

Adam Schiff, who I can't imagine anybody would vote for him after his pathological lying about the Russian collusion hope.

But nonetheless,

there are in some of these states a lot of House seats.

And we have here in the San Joaquin Valley, we have Mike Mayer, and he's the last.

We have five congressional districts here in the central, southern San Joaquin Valley.

All

four of those five are, believe it or not, are part of the 11, I think it's 11 now, Republican congressman now of 53.

But he's the last, Jim Costa, who's been there for 30, 20 years and in politics for 50 years.

He

usually wins, and he often wins after the ballots are counted.

In other words, mail-in ballots come in, SCIU ballots, et cetera, from Fresno area.

But

this is a hot race.

So maybe people like him and David Valadeo, who voted to impete one of the only, I think there's only two surviving impeachers of the 10 Republican House members.

And he's one of them.

And he's in a very, I think he's up, he's in a district that's plus 10 Democrat.

He lost it under suspicious circumstances.

And since

it was one of those, you know, counties.

And won it back.

Yeah.

And he won it back.

And

I think he'll win again.

I like him.

He's a good guy.

And I like all of the people who are in this area.

We're very well represented.

But I think that's one of the reasons that Trump's going to these states.

It'll be a very, if he gets, it'll be very controversial because it'll kind of be like George Bush.

When George Bush thought that he was clearly ahead of Al Gore in 2000, the last polls were two or three points ahead.

And then two things happened.

They released that October surprise that he'd had a drunk driving offense 20-some years

in Maine when he was 40.

Yeah, yeah.

And then

maybe, I'm sorry, 12 years probably.

And then more importantly, he went to California.

Remember that?

They thought they could win California.

And the people said, why in the blank are you going to California?

And then it was deadlocked.

So I hope that's not the case.

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Victor, a couple of things we can pick from here.

Maybe we should start with Barack Obama, and then we'll get into the

I just want to say something.

Sure.

Sure.

I was just at, you know, I go

during the week to my job at Stanford, at the Hoover Institution.

And they announced, Jack, I think we talked about those Stanford students.

I think there was eight of them that they actually took over the Stanford University President's office.

They remember they vandalized it?

Right.

And we have these beautiful sandstone colonnades there.

And then people painted them, you know, with this awful humas.

You can't sandblast those or

pressure to clean them.

I think I mentioned on the air, I walked by where there were

some

uh maintenance workers they were all hispanic and they were they looked like they had some type of tweezers or scissors or something chippy right very almost like they were operating for all of these spoiled brats well

they announced uh that all of those people are not going to graduate oh i think there was 11 11 of them and they had things like you know

They wrote stuff like kill cops, F America, death to the United States, all of that stuff.

And it was the People's University for Palestine.

And I thought, you know, they're just going to do nothing.

And the reason I mentioned it,

the Stanford Review wrote, they had the pictures of all of them in there.

You know what I mean?

Yep.

They're all

upscale.

privileged kids that come to Stanford and play radical or they're from the Middle East on speaking pieces,

and

they just think they get away.

Well, we have a new president now.

We had the other president had to resign in semi-controversy because he had allegedly doctored some scientific papers.

Then we had a classics professor, Richard Salyer, who was an interim president.

But in that last year of the former president and the interim president, they allowed people to camp for four months, contrary to university rules the hamas camp they there were all kinds of well you remember the stanford law school where they hijacked the lecturer the trans right

called a federal judge that they one of the people said he would like to rape his dog all these horrific things well then they made they did something very strange for stanford they put uh

Mr.

Adah, Professor Levin, the dean of this business school, as president.

Now, that's interesting because he allowed a free speech forum while he was dean.

We didn't even do it at Hoover.

He did it at the School of Business at Stanford.

He's president now and he's brought back the SAT scores as well.

And I think we're going to move more toward

meritocracy again.

But more importantly, he's not going to let these kids off.

That's what my point is.

And he gave a lecture last weekend to a health seminar where Scott Atlas, our friend that's been on here, and Jay Bacharia, both of them keynoted

a forum dedicated to the COVID lockdown, hysteria, and the need for free speech and give and take and debate.

And he gave the introductory remarks at that.

The president of Stanford.

So I see.

Was he a known quantity to you, Victor, before he came to the point?

I have not met him, but

I was shocked at the height of the George Floyd controversy and the demonization of Scott and Jay by the med school.

And they went after a very brilliant immunologist, John Yannidi.

We had a Nobel Prize winner, Michael Levette, they went after, but especially Scott, where they tried to,

faculty senate censored him.

And the med school tried, there were a petition to take away his license.

They've all been...

discredited now because we know that Scott and Jay and John and all of them were right, that

there was no, that the damage done by the quarantines and lockdowns outweighed the virus itself.

And remember, these were not election

vaccination denialists.

They were saying that the vaccinations had utility if in guarded circumstances for the very old or those who were likely to die from COVID.

But

they did warn everybody that these were a new, it was not so much a vaccination, it's sort of a genetic engineering with the mRNA vaccination.

And they did not approve of dismissing people like in the military that wouldn't take them.

Use that curse phrase,

herd immunity.

That was

they had all, I mean, that was a cornerstone of modern medicine for two centuries.

And all of a sudden, herd immunity was not considered, it was considered quackery by the left.

But anyway, the point is that

the President Levin spoke to this group and said very brief remarks, but you read the transcript, it's we're going to be dedicated.

You know, he said, you guys have been a controversial group.

I'm not quoting him verbatim, but basically he said, you've been controversial, but you have a right to express your views in a free and open form, and people have a right to contradict them or argue with you, but we're not going to go back and censor like the Stanford Internet Observatory did.

And a lot of people that were involved in the Twitter and Facebook censorship

hand in glove with the FBI had Stanford connections, both distant and close.

So this is a, this is, again, I think everybody, we're getting kind of depressed.

I am, but there are good signs.

And when you see it, you should recognize it because I think the tide is turning.

And you can just see.

I know you guys out there are listening.

You can feel something's going on.

I don't know what it is, but when you see Tim Waltz today begging to get back on Fox News.

Yeah, today he's

done.

It's Sunday and he was appearing again with

J.D.

Vance was also

they weren't debating, but yeah, right.

And then you see her.

Now she says not only did she work at a McDonald's, but she won't tell us where

it was or when she worked.

Now she says she has a Glock.

She won't tell us where she is,

under whose name it's registered, when she bought it, what type of Glock model it is.

Remember that she tried to outlaw certain models of block as an

attorney general.

Why is she doing that now?

Why?

And all the October surprises of bomb, the unnecessary rush to cut the Fed rate by a half.

We saw that inflation is not dead, but the Fed wanted to do that to help her.

Jack Smith's repackage indictment, that didn't help.

The Bob Wardwood work, we're going to talk about General Milley in a minute.

That hasn't helped.

And the Zelinsky fly-in where he flies into munitions and then trashes Vance and Trump, that didn't help.

So something's going on, and I think there are internal polls.

All the betting sites I looked this morning before we came on, Jack, all six or seven of the major betting sites have flipped.

He's either 53 all the way up to 57 odds of winning.

So I think it's, again, I know I beat that dead horse, but it's very similar to 19.

Well, the cement is hardening about Victor.

I think that people

believe

when are you lying, Kamala?

It's when your lips are moving.

So no matter what she says, it just plays into, and you're lying again.

I don't care if you told me two plus two is four.

Because you said it, I think you're probably lying.

When you've lost Bill Maher and you've lost Saturday Night Live, because they're both ridiculing her, and they're ridiculing her two or three, but every question a person asks, what would you do about the border?

Why didn't you close the border?

There goes the cackle.

And then the second thing, I grew up, let me just say this.

I grew up in a middle-class family.

I'm one of you.

And I learned to love America and to bring us all together.

And that stock answer is

just pathetic.

And so, and then

she can't really tell us.

why she is a change candidate when she's part and parcel of Joe Biden's disastrous record.

She can't tell us why she didn't, if she is a change candidate, why doesn't she do it right now as vice president?

Can't tell us why she's changing her position on everything.

And we know she'll flip back the day after the election, either as a lame duck vice president or as the new president-elect.

It doesn't matter.

She'll flip backwards to where she was.

So it's starting to really, and then there's Joe Biden.

The only time I ever saw him smile was when he put that MAGA hat on.

And then he said, you know, how is it, how is, there's been some controversy.

How is DeSantis doing?

Well, he's doing a great job.

She had just said he was selfish.

Yeah.

It's a bitch, isn't it?

Yeah, you get the impression.

I think somebody on the Ace of Spades website said something to the effect, or maybe it was Newt Genrich, said something to the effect.

It's not my original idea.

That's the point I want to make, but they basically said that Jill and Joe were probably sitting around and saying, you know, I've had it with them.

I've had it with them.

And you know what?

Would be really good for us, Joe.

This is Jill speaking.

If you could claim that you were

the only person to beat Donald Trump.

And that wouldn't that be nice if you were sandwiched between loser Hillary and loser Kamala.

I think there's something to that theory.

I, yeah, that makes it makes

a rational

justification

for why he's sticking to the market.

That's an off-topic, but there's an observation that we have some momentum.

Victor, there's nothing off topic

when you're rendering your opinion, my friend.

That's what people are saying.

We're witnessing something historic, and I said it reminds me so much when I was a little

lad of 26 to watch that late surge by Ronald Reagan when they said, you know, Reagan can't win.

There's a third-party Republican John Anderson.

He's going to cipher 10 or 15 of the rhino vote away from Reagan.

And, you know, and Carter's commander-in-chief in times of crisis.

And

he's increasing the defense budget, the Carter doctrine, the Middle East.

No, they got sick of him.

And they just said, you know what, we're not going to tell anybody we're going to vote against him.

We've still got an open mind.

And they heard him whine one too many times.

Cardigan sweater whine.

And they said, you know, I'm done with that guy.

And then they just landslide for Reagan.

And

And the underticket.

Hey, Victor, we've got to get your thoughts on Obama and then back on Kamala and Tim Walls with some of their

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Victor Barack Obama lectured black men, lectured, it means bullies, bullied them.

He was in Pennsylvania.

He talked at some rally, and then afterwards he went to

a Kamala Harris campaign office, I think in

Pittsburgh.

And here's just a very brief piece from an article in Just the News, which is the happy home to this website.

The lack of support, he's claiming, attacking, you know, going after black men for their decreasing support for Kamala Harris.

The lack of support appears, quote, to be more pronounced with the brothers, end quote, Obama said, quote, you're coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses.

I've got a problem with that because part of it makes me think, and I'm speaking to men directly, part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're coming up with alternatives and other reasons for that.

And quote, I guess there's no good reason for a black man in America to think independently of who he wants.

to vote for.

He must be a misogynist if he doesn't want to vote for Kamal Harris.

Victor, your thoughts on Barack Obama for

the second time.

Obama's becoming Oprahized.

In other words, an iconic black figure who

appealed to all segments of the population in supposedly ecumenical style and was very successful, wealthy, and then became not just partisan, but shrill and banal and repetitive.

And that's where he is now.

I don't think he'll have any effect whatsoever.

He comes out.

And by the way, we don't know what house he, excuse me, I'm sorry, what mansion he came from.

Did he fly in from the multi-million dollar Hawaii Beach mansion?

The 20s,

is it 40, 28?

I don't know, Acre Martha Vineyard mansion, or maybe the Colorama mansion.

He still owns the Chicago semi-mansion.

So then Mr.

Netflix comes in.

He's worth $100 million almost.

And he starts lecturing black males that they're, it was very Marxist, that they're suffering from false consciousness, that they don't know what their real interests are.

And he's there to tell them.

And so to tell them and to be credible now that he doesn't hang out with people from the inner city and he's a multi and he uses them, he used them,

they know it and they're sick of it.

And so he has to like talk down to them.

But to do that, he has to go back to Obama, Obama, the community organizer mode.

So what does he do?

He goes into that pseudo-black patois.

I just want to tell you that brothers, brothers, brothers.

He doesn't use that with his Wall Street Netflix friends.

He doesn't refer to African Americans as brothers.

So he does this as fake authenticity, which reminds me, by the way, why is Camilla Harris, when she speaks, did you hear her speak to the Univision?

She had kind of a, I'm going to tell you, she had a a Mexican, she had a Latino accent.

And then she, and then to.

Well, I know it.

And then to the Caribbean people, it was like, right.

Hey, man.

Hey, man.

Hey, man.

And then she did the,

you all,

you all, the black thing.

Remind me of so much Hillary.

I'm so tired.

I didn't come this far.

And then Obama did that.

What is it with all these leftist candidates?

Can you imagine Donald Trump, wingtips, black suit, red tie, 100 degrees, which he is often in his outdoor rallies, faking an accent other than that kind of what people have said is a grading Queens accent?

I can't.

Whatever he is, he's authentic.

These people are shameless.

And I think people are so sick of that.

And so basically a lot of black leaders on both the Democratic and Republican side said, if you're angry at males, that she's 11 points down with males, then go talk to white males.

She's a lot, there's more, a higher percentage of black males are going to vote for her than white male.

They're worried about a 25 to 40 percent

loss in black male, but 55 percent of black males will vote at least for Harris.

55 percent of white males are not.

She's down like 40, 60 with white male.

And that includes

white educated, the people I work with during the week.

They're all for

Harris.

So my point is,

why, there was Bernie Sanders' former aide, and she was really good.

She was on CNN, and she got really angry and said, why are you doing this to black males?

Why do you lecture them?

And, you know, it was so weird because it was very reminiscent of something characteristic of the left-wing elite mind.

Billy Clinton, remember the deplorables and the basket of irredeemables?

Sexist, racist, homophobic, nativist, just all of these.

You could put them all in a basket of irredeemable and deplorables.

Yeah, that's how they, and you talk down, and that was for

poor white people that had been traditionally Democratic.

And then we had Obama and remember the hot mic tape or whatever it was from a San San Francisco fundraiser?

Oh, I lost Pennsylvania, but I'm not worried.

You know, these people,

they get very, they haven't been, things haven't been good for them.

And so

they cling to their guns and their Bible.

They

vote against a black man, that kind of stuff.

They always deprecate.

You never do that in politics.

You never make fun of your constituency as a way of galvanizing them to vote for you.

It just doesn't work.

So for Obama to come out and break off his golf game or his beach game or whatever he does at his mansion and to come in there and to start sanctimoniously, snarkily telling these black males that they don't know what they're doing, but they can all ask Professor Obama and he will tell them what is in their interest.

And I haven't even mentioned, of course, Joe Biden.

to Charlemagne Dagad.

Well, if you're going to vote for, you're going to vote for Donald Trump, you ain't black.

You ain't black.

And then another person who was said, well, how but what are you talking about?

You're a junkie.

Well, how would you like it if I called you a junkie?

So it really shows you that the contempt they have for minority voters, whether they're black or white or what, they just feel that these are automatons that can't think individually.

And I think it's, I think the jig is up, as I said the other day.

It's up.

Yeah.

The shtick that he thinks he could act like he's a character out of a barber shop or some you know a black he's very high he's very high on himself because he said as you remember that his they asked him all one one of the psychophants or toadies said to him what would you be would you ever consider a third con

i guess you know get a constitutional amendment to reverse the post is uh post-fdr amendment but he said uh no i'm too lazy i i could if i could just phone it in and direct things here down here

that's what he thinks he's been doing And that's gone to his head that he's really the president,

third-term president without the work or notarily.

By the way, Victor, whatever situation the Democrat Party is in now,

it might not be in that situation had Barack Obama not picked Joe Biden to be his vice president.

So he

has

a culpability here.

You didn't say it.

I didn't say it.

None of our listeners said it.

Barack Obama said, never underestimate the ability of Joe Biden to F something up.

And he did.

So he just did it because he thought, I'm a radical, young black senator with a hard left voting record that has no experience whatsoever.

So I'm going to get this

senior white male, pseudo-middle-class, working-class guy, old Joe from Scranton, Delaware, et cetera.

And

as Biden bragged, I'm from a slave state, remember that.

Border state, he said, we're slave.

He said that.

And he thought, but the key thing of picking Biden was, and he's dumb.

He's dumb as a brick, and that will not overshadow me.

So I'll put him there, and he'll be dutifully dispatched to various things, and I'll look like I'm racially ecumenical, and I can claim that although I would never do it, I can claim that I'm relying on the expertise of of a senior statesman

when in fact he's a fool.

And that's how Obama treated him.

And that's why he was very bitter in 2016 when Obama said, no, Joe, you ain't gonna run.

It's gonna be Hillary's turn.

You're just gonna, and then he said, I think he said in 2019, remember that famous quote, Joe, Joe, you don't have to do it.

You just don't have to do it.

Don't do it.

I.e., don't put your...

put yourself through the humiliation.

And he did.

And then they had the first coup when they displaced him after losing the first three primaries and caucuses.

And

Clyburn got all the African-American voters.

He thought he did at least.

And then to vote in South Carolina, then Cristo.

For some reason, Warren and Sanders and Buttigig and all the rest suddenly dropped out.

And Joe was coronated as long as he played, what was the guy's name in the first Star Trek, John Galt?

Was that his name?

Yeah.

The guy that was the empty suit that was that,

you know, he kind of brought a Nazi regime in and they drugged him up and then the real Nazis ran it.

I'm not using that as a Nazi,

just the idea.

Oh, there's the Trojan horse.

Yeah.

So

anyway, it was not affect the Obama.

And, you know,

he says he's lazy because he is lazy.

And he's not going to go out there every day for 23 days and go through that bothersome cadence and have to talk about brothers and

you know I just say yeah

all that fake accent he doesn't want to do that

especially if he's making things worse for her which I think he is I think he is too yeah

and well

she's

she's

they're in I keep I said that a month ago they're in a doom loop the more she goes the more she goes on everybody says you know when they ask her questions she's gonna say

you know

I'm from a middle class.

I'm from middle class.

I'm a middle class.

I grew up in a middle class.

I believe in unity, and we all have to come together, and my values haven't changed.

We've all heard it a thousand times.

So she can't.

What's funny is, can't they give her a little playbook and say, look, point number one,

when they ask you why you haven't enacted your move forward-turn the page agenda, you say the following.

Well, as a vice president, it was very hard for my voice to be heard.

But there were things I did

that were

nuanced enough, and maybe I didn't get credit because I did not want to undermine the person who appointed me to support the president.

However,

I objected.

And then she could lie.

But she can't even do that.

She voted 33 times to break the deadlock on a 50-50 cent note, more than any other vice president in history, all 33 of those bills were hard left.

She was voted not just the most left-wing

senator

in the current Senate, she was voted the second

most left-wing.

It wasn't even Bernie Sanders this time, it was Elizabeth Lauren, who was the most leftist voter in the Senate in the 21st century.

She's second most left.

So it's very hard for her to, you know, I have to give her some credit, very hard for her to disown every single position she held from

stop fracking to abortion completely on demand to

no deportations, no wall, bring back catch and release.

We're going to make Ford and Chevy and Chrysler have EV mandate, all that, and just disown it.

and then adopt the antitheses and do all that 90 days.

That would take some talent, which she doesn't have.

Well, we got a little more about her and Tim Walls and

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Victor, I'll put them all in a basket.

Well, first, Kamala, Tim Walls has some video out of him

hunting,

and it's just pheasant hunting.

And this is an attempt to woo male voters, and it's become laughable.

That is on the heels of an ad for Kamala's campaign with about five guys who are man enough.

I'm man enough to vote for a woman to vote for Kamala.

And I'm sorry, a couple of those guys looked like they could have been beaten up by that kid in the footse pajamas from Obama's efforts a few years back.

I mean, if these were these are pinnacles of men

being, you know,

I should be on another planet.

And then the last thing.

Yeah, go ahead.

No, you're not.

well just the last thing was trump uh displayed at his um most recent rally a clip like a back and forth point counterpoint using the um full metal jacket that you know folks will remember the movie uh the great actor he passed away a few years ago arlie uh emmy or emi who and he was he played the gunnery sergeant he was actually a uh a marine corps drill instructor but it counterpointed him with those infamous scenes from that movie with now our modern military, where they have

drag queens, etc.

So, anyway, three visuals, Victor, that have been unleashed in the last few days.

Your thoughts on any or all of them?

It's not going well.

I mean,

that

scene of him hunting, he had trouble in loading a, I think it was an automatic Beretta.

It's not hard to do as to order to load an automatic weapon, you know.

It really isn't semi-automatic who had a shotgun.

And

I don't know.

This is what is so strange about it is that they don't like people to have guns.

And they don't like the Trump working class, but they're going out there to do things

like what?

She had a Miller Height Life beer with Stephen Colbert.

She doesn't drink beer.

And she says she owns a glock, but she doesn't tell us where it is, what kind of model it is,

when she bought it under, I think it's like her McDonald's, as I said, fake resume.

It came in a happy meal.

Yeah, even the clothes.

I looked at the clothes he had on in that clip.

I haven't hunted in years, but I used to hunt every weekend when I was a kid.

And nobody, I never saw anybody wear that kind of stuff.

All that elaborate, you know, get up that he had on.

So it was kind of like John Kerry.

Remember the duck hunting thing where

he had to go duck hunting right before the 2004 election?

If the left always does that, they make fun of the middle class.

And then right before an election, they emulate.

Remember the, God, that was even more painful.

That's a hard call, Jack, the waltz.

But remember Elizabeth Warren when she opens a bridge and she gets a beer and she shows you how she drinks it and loves it.

And then there was Hillary suddenly when she was running in 2008 in the primary, she started bowling and having boilermakers because she was really after Obama.

And she kind of got a little racist when they said, you think he's a Muslim?

And she says, well,

he says he's not.

It's the same.

His middle name is Hussein.

Yes, yes.

And then they have this, the worst commercial, as you point out, is this one about they get these actors and they all look like they're deranged.

The black guy looks normal, but the white guys, man, there's one guy really fat.

There's one guy who's bald with a, God, he looks like Rip Van Winkle.

And

they all look like they're deranged.

So this, the signal they're sending is, hey, you guys.

We don't like these people.

Look how weird they look.

But they're feminists.

So they basically say,

I'm a tough macho man and a tough macho man writes notes to his wife.

Tough macho man

kind of wants a woman to have abortion if she wants.

And nobody, you never see people like that.

It's like the kids in the space.

Remember that little setup that she did as vice president?

Yeah.

Hired actors.

She hired actor, little kid actors.

These are actors, too.

It's It's not going to.

Yeah.

By the way, Victor, did you mention before the Univision appearance?

That was a disaster.

Yeah, but the audience was supposedly

undecided Latino voters, and they weren't.

They were also hired to be there.

And some of them were.

They weren't convincing.

One of them asked why they sniped Biden in the back.

It was, it was just, it doesn't go well.

She goes to Starbucks or she, that Dorito commercial, they're all staged.

Everything about her is fake.

Everything.

She's faked her bio.

She lived in Palo Alto in Berkeley.

She never lived in Oakland.

She was born in the Oakland Hospital.

She might have lived there for a few months.

And then her mom divorced and she stayed in University Town and ended up in a very posh neighborhood of Montreal.

Not very many people have two parents or PhDs.

And so that was all fake.

Everything about it is just fake.

And everybody's starting to see that.

They don't like that.

I don't know why she doesn't do this.

She doesn't do this.

She can say, you know what, this is a center-left country.

And Bernie Sanders proved that when he ran, he almost got the nomination.

And I want an open border.

That's why I fought hard to let 12 million people in.

Because our fertility rate is 1.6.

We need hardworking people.

There may be a few bad apples.

I'll screen them out.

I didn't do a good job.

But I want an open border.

And you know what?

We're putting too many black men and people of color in prison.

That's why I wanted to defund the police.

And that's why we'll get through this crime spike.

And you know what?

We borrowed $6 trillion and we got 9%.

That's hard for you.

But you know what?

There's more money out there now.

And the people who had money, it's not worth as much.

Because we got inflation.

Inflation is good for

we poor people.

It spreads the wealth.

Remember that?

Barack Obama said he wanted to spread the wealth.

That's what I'm doing.

And over in Afghanistan, we got out of Afghanistan.

Now we got to kind of, not saying we didn't muss up our hair a little bit in Afghanistan, but we got out.

That was the point.

And you know what?

Israel fears me now because I cut off 2,000-pound bombs.

We've got respect.

Why doesn't she just campaign on what she did?

She'd be no worse off than she is now.

You know what she's on the way of doing?

She's on the way of doing two things, going down in history in a political science textbook as what you don't do as a party.

Number one, you don't have a coup to displace and lose the incumbency.

So

Biden had a bad debate.

That was a typical bad debate.

But he was only, he was no worse in the polls than she was.

And they removed the advantage of Biden was he was president of the United States, and they could put him anywhere.

They could have people come to Delaware for the summit like they did.

They had all those resources at their command.

They could pander.

I don't think they're going to pander very well for her because she stabbed him in the back.

And I don't think that she is going to do that well in the polls.

I think people are going to look back and say, man, as bad as he was, as senile as he was, we could manipulate him.

We could use him.

We had three years of, and we threw it all the way, and we knew that she was incompetent.

We had said that, we had said that, said that, said that.

He will never step down because he has a Spiro Agnew insurance policy.

A completely inept vice president was a joke.

And then we lost our mind and we turned over the party to her.

We should have never done that.

And then they're going to say, that being said,

we had a chance.

We had a governor of Pennsylvania that had a 64%

approval rating.

And that is,

what is it, 2020?

Is it 20 or yeah, it's

Wisconsin's 10, Michigan's 19.

And

electoral votes?

Yeah, I think it's 21.

21.

I'll find out.

Yeah, maybe it's more than that.

But we had, I think there are 44, the three of them.

we had a chance to win that state, the Keystone state.

And we and I blew it because I was afraid, A, that he was Jewish and he would offend the voters in Michigan, who I think will sit out a large percentage of them.

And more importantly,

he was too smart.

Every time I talked to him,

he kind of outsmarted me and he had too many facts.

And I did not want that narrative that he should be at the top of the ticket because he was too confident yeah 19 votes

19 yeah so yeah and he's too arrogant and tim walls was a buffoon but he was my buffoon and

and he would uh he was radical like i am and he was a yes man and he

and they're going to look at those two decisions as really tragic for their cause yeah we won't spread it here but there's some other crap percolating on on Twitter about Tim Walls and his service as a teacher when he was in Nebraska and why he hightailed it to Minnesota.

Maybe we'll talk about that.

I've heard him because

on the Victor Davis policy,

real and facts, we don't do real and rumor.

Although, Jack, you've already committed the classical sin of Praetorideo.

I'm sorry about that.

Praetor Ridio was a classical trope, most famous by Demosthenes, who said the following.

As for my opponent Eschines, it would be irrelevant and off topic but i will not mention the fact that his mother was conducting acts of prostitution in a graveyard outhouse it's of no relevance right

okay well you know we we have we have one more topic to talk about but i did want to stick in there when you were talking about how everything is fake and let's just do this very quickly this is mean of me but did you see hillary clinton's mug on her latest book that has just come out.

I mean, it is so airbrushed.

These people just are beyond fake.

So I just wanted to get that.

Yeah, I mean, did you see the 60 Minutes ad for the

Camilla Harris interview?

She looked like she was 20 years younger.

They airbrushed it.

And by the way, I mean, I thought 60 Minutes cannot go any lower.

Not any lower.

They put Leslie Stahl on there four years ago, who looked Donald Trump in the eye and just absolutely lied.

Said, you know that this

basically this laptop is authentic, it was in the hands of the FBI.

It had leaked all over the Washington media nexus because they're all intermarried with the bureaucracy.

That the FBI had authenticated.

Nobody in their right mind believed all those lurid pictures and texts were dreamed up in the Kremlin.

They're not that good.

So anyway,

they just lied and we had that, is it Ars Technique or whatever that one

conservative polling group said that it did make a difference in the election had people known that the laptop was authentic.

So in other words,

yes, that was election interference on the part of the FBI, on the part of the 51 intelligence, quote-unquote, authorities.

And by the way, they weren't all retired.

Some of them were still contractors on the take on the CIA.

And then Leslie Stahl,

she just ruined her reputation, such as it was.

So then they come back four years and they want Trump to go back and do that again.

He wisely said no.

So they put her on there and then they edit the transcript so that they juxtaposed

her vapid answers to

kind of questions that weren't asked.

It was kind of mixing things up.

like an interview, and then you kind of mix the answer where you think it would better apply to another question so it didn't make her look stupid.

And then after that,

and Sammy and I talked about it, they get this journalist on there who's pretty good, and he asks Ta'anahisi Codes some simple questions.

If you're going to write a book about the messenger about Israel, and you just flat out say

you're not going to discuss any other point but your own, and you're a journalist, and

you can't do that.

And you have to ask, have you read the Hamas Charter?

Have you seen what happened?

He just tore them apart.

And then they had something called

the fact, was it the race and culture unit or something?

Unit.

Yeah, the re-education unit of C

and

just chastised that guy.

So

they have destroyed their brand.

They're like Disney or Bud.

I don't know why these people do this, but they're so partisan.

It has to be because they're in this tiny little East Coast bubble of Washington to New York, Nexus, corporate people, Disney,

entertainment people, media people,

politicos, and they all know each other.

They're all intermarried with each other.

They're all divorced, remarried with each other, and they don't ever hear anybody who's normal.

I never, I can never remember her name.

We brought this up before.

The lady who said, I don't know how did Nixon win.

I didn't know anyone who voted for him.

So,

yeah, that was that famous writer, wasn't it?

Somebody, obviously.

But yeah,

they live in a bubble world.

Hey, Victor,

we need to spend a little time.

We're going a little long here today, folks.

We need a little time for you to talk about one of your favorite

generals ever.

And I'm not talking about General Sherman or General Patton.

I'm talking about General Millie.

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

We are back with the Victor Davis-Hanson show.

Retired Army General Mark Milley

now says Trump is a, quote, total fascist, end quote, and quote, fascist to the core, end quote, according to a forthcoming book by Bob Woodward, the famed Washington journalist.

He is the most dangerous person ever, Billy told Woodward in his book, War.

Blah, blah, blah.

You know who that was?

You know, I just remember, that was Pauline Kale.

You know her.

She was that movie reviewer.

Yes, okay.

And she was pretty good.

She was,

she was married to that Landberg guy, or whatever his name was.

Anyway, she was pretty good.

She wrote a book once that surveyed

literature and I think

agrarian literature.

And she actually mentioned a book I wrote, Field.

and wrote me a note, I think.

I think it was.

But anyway, she was the one that said in 72 that she didn't know anybody that was going to vote for

Nixon over McGovern.

As far as Mark Milley,

he said he was the most dangerous person, didn't he?

Yeah.

Ever.

Ever.

Ever.

Mark Milley.

was a psychiatrist, apparently, when he self-diagnosed Donald Trump in 2020 as non-compos mentes, and then he decided to break the law when he said that he would, as chairman of the Joint Chief, do two things.

Both, I think, are illegal.

Number one, he said he was going to have the theater commanders in times of existential crisis report directly to him.

They don't, Mr.

Milley, Mr.

General Milley.

You know that better than I do.

The advisory role is

purely advisory, the Joint Chief.

They are not in the chain of command.

The theater commanders, whether it's CENTCOM or AfricanCom, whatever, they report directly to the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense reports to the President.

You advise the President, but you cannot intervene between the President to the Secretary of Defense to the four-star general theater commanders.

You cannot do that, and yet you did.

And then second, he called not once, but twice, his Chinese communist

people's liberation counterpart to warn him that if we went to a DEF CON one or it was a existential crisis involving the potential of using nuclear weapons that Dr.

Milley had self-diagnosed Donald Trump is deranged and he would first call the Chinese to say you know don't we're not gonna if you your intelligence intercepts something about Donald Trump wants to do this or that, we're not going to do it.

So our allegiance basically is to you, my relationship with you, not my commander-in-chief.

Let me be clear.

When Stanley McChrystal, who now is on television ads endorsing Kamal Harris, when he

embedded a Rolling Stone reporter, when he was

an Afghan commander

of all forces in Afghanistan, And that reporter wrote an article about McChrystal that when a phone call came from then Vice President Biden, McChrystal in front of everybody mocked him and said, oh, Joe, bite me, Joe, bite me.

And he was sacked for that, General Melley.

Do you remember that?

He was sacked for that, for saying, Joe, bite me.

Not for calling up the Taliban and saying, hey, Mr.

Taliban, if Barack Obama sends me an order that I think is not in our interest or dangerous to you, I'll tell you first.

And not for calling the other

theater commanders and saying, you know what, you've got to report to the general chiefs, not Obama, you can't trust him.

That's what General Milley did.

And the idea that Donald Trump's the most dangerous person, now let's see how we would adjudicate that.

Ah, that would mean he got the United States into wars.

So let me ask you, General Milley, four questions.

Number one,

what president see of the last four did Vladimir Putin not violate the borders of one of his neighbors?

Was it A,

George Bush?

No, no, he went into Ossatia and Georgia.

Was it Barack Obama?

No, no, he went into the Donbas and Crimea.

Was it,

I don't know, Joe Biden?

No, he went into, try to take Kiev.

Oh, it was Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in American history that he didn't invade anywhere.

Let me ask you, General Milley, who was the only who killed more Russians during the Cold War than any other president?

Donald Trump, when he killed the Wagner group that was assaulting an outpost in Syria?

Who got out of the asymmetrical missile deal?

Who sent offensive weapons to Ukraine that Obama-Biden had not allowed?

Who put sanctions higher on Russian oil and almost bankrupt them?

Who killed

General Soleimani?

and who killed the terrorist ISIS kingpin, Mr.

Baghdadi?

And who destroyed ISIS and who had empowered it earlier?

The most dangerous man in history had killed ISIS and defanged Iran by robbing them of $100 billion, billion, billion dollars in oil revenues?

Who labeled the Houthis a terrorist organization and who lifted it?

Who

said that Israel could have its indice in Jerusalem or the Golem Heights were not going to go back to Syria, or who cut off aid to the tunnel builders of Hamas, and who restored it.

So you get the point, General Milley.

You get the point.

Then he was also quoted that Donald Trump would do this.

This is very interesting, Jack, because he said Donald Trump will go after the retired.

Even if they're retired, they're going to go after them.

Well, yeah.

Now, what you said in public, because it is in the public domain now about Donald Trump at right now is not actionable because he's not president.

But if you read the Uniform Code of Military Justice and you look at Article 82, it says that

officers shall not disparage the Commander-in-Chief publicly.

Okay.

That has been interpreted by military courts to apply to people that are on pensions and subject to recall in times of emergency, like you,

like General McChrystal, who called Trump a liar, like General Hayden, who said he had set up Auschwitz things, like the Nazis did at the border, the so-called cages, like General McCaffrey that said he was a Mussolini-like character, like one of my colleagues who will remain nameless.

All of them did that.

All of them violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

And so when he says that Donald Trump will go after him, no, he's not going after them.

He's just trying to enforce something that you officers apply to other people.

So when you have other people who disparage their commanding officers or the president publicly, you chastise them and you charge them with crime.

And then you're supposed to be exempt.

You're supposed to be exempt.

So you get a retired general or admiral and they go what?

They get a very...

generous pension.

They revolve into all of these defense contracting boards.

They make a fortune and then they sound off during an election cycle and try to influence the election by trashing, trashing, not building up Joe Biden.

I'm talking about trashing the current president that they did at the time.

And you're not subject to the very rules that you enforce upon others?

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

So

he's going to go to, it doesn't, don't.

Pay any attention to what Victor says or General Millie.

Just look what history is going to say.

They're going to look at him and his tenure and all of the virtue signaling he did during 2020 when Donald Trump was rumored or said he wanted to send in federal violence to stop the $2 billion, 1,500 injured policemen, 35 dead, arson,

burn police precincts.

He should have, and he did.

He offered to send in the National Guard and Millie.

We told everybody, I shouldn't have done a photo op with Donald Trump.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

The left-wing media hates me now.

What do I have to grovel to get back?

Disgusting.

Yeah.

Disgusting.

Something has to be done with the military.

I mean, my gosh, it's 45,000 recruits short, and the way they're handling it is they're just reducing the recruitment level.

So they're saying, oh, we're not short.

We just don't, we found out we don't need that many because we're mothballing ships and units, etc.

Yeah, maybe if they have some more, you know,

sailors and soldiers performing in drag shows, that'll up the

no, no, no, no.

I've talked to people in the military.

DI,

transvestism, commercial, had nothing to do with people not wanting to join.

Kick out 8,500

people who had natural COVID immunity because they didn't want to get the mRNA vaccinated.

Had nothing to do with it.

Tell, you know, the drag shows, the pregnancy, Air Force flight suit.

No, nothing to do with it.

Promoting people on the superficial appearance rather than their proven ability to perform in a battle-like situation as a commanding on nothing to do with it.

Nothing.

Saying you're going to go after white people and white rage and white privilege if you're Lloyd Austin or Mark Marley, nothing to do with it.

No, what had it?

Hey, tell me this, Jack.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, it's not bad.

It's because, you know, we're in a tight economic situation and people can get more money in the private sector.

And we have a lot of young people who are just out of,

you know, we have these people who are just obese.

I'm thinking, okay, we've never had obese people before, and we've never had a tight economy before, so that must be why 45,000 people, all of a particular one demographic.

If you look at the number of people who are not signing up based on what the Pentagon is obsessed over, i.e.

race and gender, you find out that they they are of a particular race and gender.

And that particular race and gender likes to go to combat units where we like to send them, and they get killed at double their numbers in the population.

But it doesn't matter that they're not joining.

That's the message.

Yeah.

Well, Victor,

there are other things we could talk about, but

we've come to the end time-wise.

We'll save them for our next episode.

I do want to thank Victor the

two things.

A couple of things.

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Thanks for those who enjoy it.

And I get a lot of emails from folks saying such.

And I want to thank our listeners for listening.

I looked at some of the rankings today

on Apple's chart of political podcasts.

This podcast is number six in the nation right now, thanks to the wisdom of Victor and the

smooth tones of no, of Sammy Wink.

You and Sammy are doing a great job.

And you know what?

I'm very surprised at that because not that we don't have support, we have great listeners, but we're doing this right now from

my farm in your bedroom, and we don't have the capital to have a fancy studio.

We don't podcast five days a week.

Or six like some of our competitors.

We don't have a visual component yet.

We're just doing it off Zoom, and we're just trying to be natural.

So of hundreds and thousands of podcasts, to be six with almost no resources is pretty.

yeah it's kind of yeah i mean we're ahead of the new york we're right where the new york times and national public radio yeah it's the magic of vdh and and you know what victor people love you and they rank the show rate the show i should say zero to five stars on uh apple iTunes and practically everyone has given this show a five five stars thank you some people leave um comments uh here also people write comments on your on the website but here's one from from apple and it's titled, Wisdom of Farmer, Philosopher, Historian, Without Equal.

Mr.

Victor Davis Hansen's message sends an armada of truths against leftist propaganda and the evil motives behind aesthetic naturalism globally.

I'm a California almond farmer who resonates with Mr.

Hansen and also sees things that apparently the majority of my fellow Californians fail to see or foolishly want.

I pray for Victor Daly and others like him that our petitions to God and our fellow Americans are not in vain and may stultify the nefarious plan of the globalists.

Thank you, Victor.

I truly appreciate you and your courageous voice.

And this is signed by Honey Badger Dave.

We thank you, Honey Badger.

It's very hard to be an almond grower.

I mean, I'm an almond grower with only 42 acres, but I have other income.

But man, when that price hit $1.50

a little while back, it's gone up some, but that's hard.

I just want to finish with one thought.

I know that I'm going over, but

we talked,

we'll talk on our next broadcast.

I wrote this column about Renaissance people and Elon Musk.

And I got a lot of personal feedback, emails, some of it negative.

Really?

Yes.

And we talked about when you

look at what that guy has done,

the artificial intelligence company, the Neuralink Company, re-founding Twitter, the X company, the SpaceX, the boring drilling company,

and of course,

the Jewel in the Crown, Tesla.

You look at all of that.

No one else could ever have done that.

We are very fortunate that we're looking, witnessing a Renaissance guy in our mission.

I'm just saying that because this morning I opened my computer and I saw this huge SpaceX rocket doing this

flight that would show.

Landing, right?

Yes, and how to send a

space capsule into space.

It's the most most powerful rocket, even more than our old Apollo Saturn rocket 5, most powerful rocket ever made, ever made.

And when that thing came, the

reusable portion of it, this huge body of the rocket, which we usually let

splash down and we pick it up and it's damaged or we don't find it.

When it is guided back to where it took off, and then mechanical arms kind of grab grab it

and it goes back.

It's just amazing.

It's like Da Vinci's Mona Lisa or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.

It's amazing what he did.

And then to hear that the California Coastal Commission will not let the U.S.

military from Edwards Air Force Base in California, and I thought federal law, Trump, state law, but maybe I'm confused, will not let them

launch a SpaceX rocket to the detriment of American national security because you know what the military wants from Elon Musk is a dependable rocket to send satellites for the protection of all of us.

And they vote six to four to deny Musk that right on partisan basis, not my view it's partisan.

They said it was, that he's too political.

That would be as if some, you know, that would be as if someone said Google cannot have a company in California because

they give too much money and we've got to get rid of Mark Zuckerberg.

He cannot operate.

He's got government contracts.

He gave $419 million to the Biden voting integrity people and he cannot do that.

Every red state could retaliate

and even blue states could.

That is the worst thing I've ever heard.

So you've got this Renaissance man in our midst that's improved our life.

And I'm talking right now as I speak in rural California who have had nothing, nothing.

And I'll say it, use Verizon, all of these carriers, dish, they were all substandard.

And then he comes along with this little tiny dish.

I don't have to have a guy go and install it on the side of the barn.

I have about three, I had about four of those used ones.

You know what I mean?

No, I can't use your service after two years.

It's so slow that won't work.

And it just sits there on the barn.

And finally, I took them all off when I redid the barn.

But my point is, you get this little thing, it comes in a box, you do it yourself, you put it up on your roof.

Next thing you know, you've got high-speed internet.

He did that,

and that's why we can do what we're doing right now.

When we first started doing these, Victor, yeah, it was pretty dicey on your end.

My end, yeah, I was doing and video.

I couldn't, I uh, Stanford, I tried to do it.

I, I would, I tried to do video teaching, you can't do it, Not now, thanks to Elon.

And

I think the Ukrainian resistance owes him a lot.

And I think people in the Carolinas and Georgias owe him a lot.

He was cannonized by the left in the early days of Tesla.

So

he's really done something unusual.

And everybody should appreciate that.

And they should deplore California, it's a basket case.

and Gavin Newsom, who appoints people to the Coastal Commission for doing that.

that's just horrible what they do.

Turn on him like that.

And he's offering a product that will help us keep safe by giving the military them wherewithal to protect us at a time when nuclear weapons are being talked openly of being used in Russia and North Korea and Iran.

It's horrible.

I'm really angry about that.

Well,

you go cool off, my friend.

You've been terrific.

I'm going to go see Sport and Spike.

And

maybe jump in my 60-degree swimming pool.

All right.

Well, I'm going to take George and Sadie for a walk.

They've behaved.

I thought they were going to bark up the show, but they didn't.

Victor, you've been terrific.

Thanks so much.

Thanks, everyone, for listening.

And thanks to our sponsors, too.

And we'll be back again with another episode of the Victor Davis Hansen Show.

Bye-bye.

Thank you, everybody, for listening.