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This is the Friday news roundup where we look at some of the recent news stories.

And we've got lots on the agenda.

Of course, everybody has seen the debate between bounce and walls, so we will start off with that.

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So Victor, I guess the most important thing for our democracy was the debate this week between Vance and

Waltz.

And I was wondering how you thought they did.

Well

Vance came in with a strategy and Waltz didn't have a strategy.

His strategy was to dispel these smears and slanders that he was somehow

unlikable, mean, doesn't like women, cat women, that kind of stuff.

And the second thing he had to do was remind the voters again and again and again of three liabilities.

One, that Camilla Harris is a radical and that she's in a 90-day chime phase, and she will revert back to it.

He did that okay.

Two,

that if she really had

believed

in

she is the fact that she's moving forward, she's the change candidate, then all she would have had to do is implement all these supposedly great ideas in the last three and a half years, or contrarily, she could do it now.

She still has 90 days on her tenure.

So,

September, October, November, December, she'll have 90 days after the election.

She has almost four and a half months now.

And he did that.

And then finally, that she doesn't want to reveal who she is,

for that matter.

And he was polite about it all.

A lot of the partisans felt that he could have, I mean, he had all of the data at his fingertips.

He smiled, so he dispelled.

this idea that he was mean, he was warming, and it made the left go absolutely stark raving mad.

They got so angry that he was so nice and warm, charismatic.

They got mad at Waltz because he looked like a deer in the headlights.

I felt sorry for him.

I really did.

I must admit that.

He looked over at,

you know, he nodded.

I think, didn't Don Jr.

say after the end of the night he was going to vote, that Waltz would probably vote for Don?

He nodded, and then he got caught.

I met so many people in my life like Waltz that are very nice people.

They're enthusiastic.

They don't know very much.

You want to like them and they're just pathological liars.

And that's what he is.

He lied.

When he was trying to correct the lie that he had been at Tineman Square, he said he, did you hear him?

He said, well, I've been to China 15 times.

I said, what?

I remember he said he'd been there 30 times.

Me too.

He just halved it?

Nobody said anything?

It was amazing.

So he got caught again, and I've never seen any debate in my life where the guy just says, I'm a knucklehead.

That took a lot of guts, I suppose, but it was very damning.

And so

people have remarked, I wrote a long tweet, it's going to be in the New York Post as a column, that it makes Trump look good because he picked someone who's more articulate than he is and can better convey the intricacies and the details and the fine print of the MAGA agenda.

And it makes Harris look worse because she deliberately picked somebody unlike Amy Kobashaw or Gavin Newsom or the perennially mentioned Josh Shapiro that could have done much better against Spance, but would then beg the question why they are at the bottom of the ticket when she's so in-ept.

The other thing that came away, if you're not going to do interviews,

like Napoleon said, if you're going to take Vienna, take Vienna.

If you're not going to do interviews, don't do interviews.

Don't do press conferences.

Don't do town halls.

They didn't do any of that.

And so they're like a weightlifter that never lifts weights.

They're flappy.

So

he hasn't done this.

Vance and Trump are 70, 80 times they go out in the arena.

So that really showed.

I would have...

After I watched it, I thought, wow.

These are the most biased of all the moderators.

I thought, wow.

They've, you know, like Tallyran, they've forgotten, they've learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Don't they understand how the

Mir and Davis moderators blew themselves up?

Yeah.

They promised they wouldn't fact-check.

They fact-checked J.D.

Vance twice, wrongly, wrongly.

And then

the choice of topics.

I mean, the American people, I know they've heard so much about abortion, healthcare, childcare, global warming.

How about the Ukraine war or the blowing up of the Middle East or you're not able to go in on the street in America because of crime?

Yes.

But they deliberately picked these social therapeutic issues to highlight what they thought was waltz and didn't help him much because J.D.

had boned up on him.

He was authoritative.

And then, of course, January 6th to end the debate.

We knew that was coming.

I would have done the following, and I don't think it would have been as effective as what he did.

He just batted it away and said, you know, he accepted the election.

And you guys are for censorship.

But I would have said, you people believe in election interference.

Let me tell you something.

In 2004, your party, under Barbara Boxer and what, 30 of your representatives, they tried to stop the certification of Ohio to overturn the 2004 Bush victory.

In 2016, you guys rounded up a whole cadre of B-list Hollywood actors, and they saturated the airwaves between

the election that Hillary lost.

Yes, she did lose it, even though she said it wasn't a legitimate victory on the part of Trump.

But in that interregnum, before the electors met in early December, they were going on the air telling everybody to be faithless electors.

Renounce your constitutional duty.

Do not vote in accordance with the majority vote of your state.

Be a traitorous elector.

That was very subversive, wasn't it?

Then, of course, they canonized and ritualized Stacey Abrams, who made a whole career of touring the country as the election denialist par excellence.

Remember how she always introduced herself, the real governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams?

Yes.

And so they do that all the time.

And I thought Vance could have alluded to that.

If he didn't want to allude to that, he could have got up.

Well, you know, it wasn't 120 days of riot, mayhem, looting, killing, 35 dead, dead, $2 billion

in property damage, 14,000 people arrested, 1,500 officers assaulted Tim.

And what do we know about your role?

You let Minnesota burn for 24 to 48 hours before you called in the National Guard.

And your running mate, Kamala Harris, she said, this will not stop.

It should not stop.

This is a movement.

And then she put a cherry on top of that with soliciting bail for people who committed violent felonies.

Had he done done all of that, he would have had to be animated, but instead, it was sort of like Reagan.

It was like, Tim,

I agree with you.

We're getting along, but she got a little problem.

You've got to defend her.

I wish you didn't.

You're right a lot of the times, but your job is much harder than mine.

That's how he said that.

I thought that was funny, too.

So I wouldn't have done as well, but I would have done a staccato machine burst at him.

But he did very well.

And

I felt bad for Waltz's last statement.

He was just rambling, and he was like, oh my God, I screwed up.

I told everybody I was nervous to lower expectation, but all I did was convince myself I couldn't do it.

I'll never do this again in my entire life.

And I don't think he's going to be jumping on stage and doing his bow and pointing and that hot rotting stuff after this.

What I felt.

He should get himself a baggy suit and be kind of quieter.

How about just a hoodie and then run around under it?

Did you see when he was doing the interview in Federman?

It was like,

get on the bus, man.

You blow it.

Don't keep digging.

Get on the bus.

We got to go on the Harris bus.

Yeah, and here you're just lying and lying and lying, and you're getting your lies all messed up.

Get on the bus.

Yeah.

I found myself just distracted by his face and that shrew they called a moderator that was after J.D.

vance she cut his mic off i couldn't believe that i know and they said they wouldn't fact check

you can't i mean you can see why trump would never you would never any republican that would ever set foot on a debate stage with any of these people because the more that they know that what they're doing the more they do it and

you know i was on megan kelly the other day and we were talking about these

t-ball interviews that they give kamala harris so

that ridiculous Philadelphia interviewer.

And then there was Dana Bash.

What would you answer?

Would it be A, B, C, D, E, F?

None of the above.

Yeah.

And then they had the Association of Black Journalists, that classic look when she stormed off.

They thought, what the?

We tried to make her look good.

It's not our fault.

She's an idiot.

I think the classic of all classic was that moderator in the debate who said, basically, here's your point, Kamala.

He just said that he still thinks

2020 was an illegitimate election.

And she didn't even take the bait.

No.

That was where he wanted her.

Opa had to interrupt her and do her immigration thing.

Then she went with those two NBA basketball players and they were like,

We heard this before, Kamala.

We've heard it five times about your middle-class upbringing and your empathetic equity economy.

So every time she does it, the moderators think

the prior moderators disgrace themselves.

Now I will disgrace myself too, but I'll be even more effective in being a toady obsequious hack because I may be able to look good.

Then they fail.

Then the next one says, those prior people were hacks.

I can do it in such a way that it will not look like I am the hack that I am and I will make her look good.

And they can't.

You know what I mean?

And so they just keep debasing themselves.

Now we got 30 days.

I predict that she will not.

She's hemorrhaging.

If you look today at some of the state polls that came out,

Trump is ahead in every, almost, he's ahead in Nevada, he's ahead in Arizona, he's ahead in Pennsylvania, he's ahead in Georgia, he's even ahead our tide in Wisconsin and Michigan.

And

When you look at those real clear politics, electoral college maps, he's doing better.

And they're hemorrhaging, not just from this debate, they're hemorrhaging from throwing their lot in with these longshoremen.

I mean, the president of the longshoremen, he has that working-class accent.

He makes 800 with his bonuses, he makes a million bucks a year.

He lives in a mansion, and he's threatening the United States.

Well, you don't know how powerful we're all going to shoot you, shut you people down, you're not going to be able to move food.

I thought, you know what?

Okay, his argument is, I can see it, they haven't got longshoreman wages

that have kept up.

But I was just talking to a guy today.

You know what happened?

The price of almonds to break even,

and I don't, I'm not asking for sympathy because I have other income, but I know a lot of guys, it's about $2.50.

They got $1.40 last year.

It's below the cost of production every year.

Do they go on strike and bulldoze their almond orchards and say,

we can't make it?

They're losing money.

It would be be as if you were a longshoreman and you were going to work and then you had to write a check at the end of the day for the privilege of unloading a ship.

That's what farming is right now.

But nobody, I don't, I know.

So everybody's hurting.

Everybody's hurting.

But this guy says, I'm going to shut down the country and I have the power to do it.

And

okay, Harris and Biden threw their lot in with him.

And he will shut down the country.

And that will not look good.

And then there's

Hurricane Helene.

Is that what we say, Helene?

Helena, I thought.

Helena with an E, or I don't know.

But the point I'm making is that the media gave almost no coverage.

They say, well, it's not Katrina.

Well, I think it might be bigger than Katrina because there's hundreds of people missing.

And it's a disaster.

And for five days, nobody cared about these people.

It was East Palestine Redukes.

It was the same subtext.

These are just a bunch of irredeemables, clingers, who knows?

Let them.

Remember, Biden said, I have have done something.

I was on the phone two hours.

He's at the beach, and he answers the phone for two hours.

And Harris wasn't there either.

And she was terrified to go up there in those communities like she was East Palestine.

She'd never go there.

So that hurt them.

Then there was the third problem, and that was the Middle East is blowing up.

Jake Sullivan said, you know, I looked at my portfolio.

That was, I think, September 28th of last year.

And it's the calmest it's been in 20 years.

Subtex, Donald Trump calmed things down, and they screwed it up.

And now the whole thing is about ready to blow up.

And everything they say makes it worse.

If you're going to take Vienna, take Vienna.

If you're going to watch them send 182

missiles, ballistic hypersonic missiles, 12 minutes from launch to hit Israel.

Some of them hit, too.

We don't really know that anybody was killed, but some of them hit.

But if you're going to do that, then don't tell Israel this week, as Biden just did, don't hit the nuclear, don't retaliate.

Every one of those, Mr.

President, was designed to kill a thousand Jews.

Just because they're effective and competent doesn't mean that that was not the intent of the Iranians.

It's very strange about this weird, bastardized sense of proportionality.

Well, Israel's got to be proportionate because they're so good at knocking things down that,

you know, they can't send back 182 because theirs will get through and that would not be fair.

But Iran gets to shoot 182 because the Israelis will knock them down.

So we'll just keep doing this.

No, no, no, that's not what it works.

There's something called motive and intent.

And their intent was to kill as many Jewish civilians as they could.

They weren't because they were incompetent or the Israelis were more competent.

It doesn't mean that this is not the chance to solve a lot of problems.

And Israel should hit Karg Island hard.

They should hit their nuclear facilities hard.

And they should go after

Khomeini.

Yeah.

I like what our former Secretary of State, Pompeo, said today.

He was at an event in London, a policy exchange event, and he said, Iran must be crushed.

And he said, we should tell them, quote, finish the job and leave it at that.

Well, if there was no Iran, theocratic Iran, if it was back to normalcy, there would be no Hezbollah and the Lebanese would take back their country.

There would be no Hamas and maybe they could have their dream of being Hong Kong, who knows?

And there would be no

Houthis.

But when this administration came in, they said that Saudi Arabia was a pariah and they were committing war crimes along with the Emirates by hitting the Houthis.

Remember that?

And we were gonna we cut them off.

And then we, of course, in the 2022

midterms when we were draining the Strategic Petrolling Reserve to get votes, then they went over to Saudi.

Oh, we didn't mean it.

You're a long-standing ally.

They just thought, you know what?

Now we like you better when you were obnoxious

than being obsequious.

And so they empowered the Houthis.

They took them off the terrorist list.

They empowered Hamas.

They said, well, we were giving money back to Hamas, and this was for civilian and humanitarian.

No, it wasn't.

It's all fungible.

All they did was just do a little bookkeeper, take the money we gave them for this, and then that freed up money for the tunnels and all of that.

Come on.

And then Hezbollah.

So they empowered all of them.

And then it blew up.

If it hadn't blown up on October 7th, I was surprised it took that long for something dastardly to happen.

They were completely culpable.

And that, along with the strike, which they're on the wrong side on that one, and the hurricane, which they were tardy about, and the waltz performance.

They're going to keep hemorrhaging.

Not a lot, just a little bit every half a point each week.

Yeah.

And then they're going to try to do what they always do, the October surprise.

And we had one today.

We did.

Jack Smith.

Guess what?

I got swatted down like a fly, and I never give up, even though

I'm kind of incompetent and I'm unprofessional and last time I had this job the Supreme Court reversed everything that I tried to do against

Governor McDonald in Virginia.

So I'm going to try it again.

I thought the DOJ had no major indictments 90 days before an election.

So why is he re-filing charges and why is this judge Chuka?

Is that her name?

Yeah.

Why is she leaking them or releasing them to the press right before the election?

So this is their October surprise.

And I suppose their earlier October surprise was, suddenly the economy is going to go into ruin immediately unless we lower the interest rates by half a point right before the election.

And so they're going to keep doing this, doing this, doing this.

And

boy, they have an agenda that no one likes.

No one likes the crime.

No one likes the border.

No one likes the foreign policy.

No one likes the wokeness, they don't like anything about it.

So they have to either lie about who they are, and it's not just, when I say they,

if you look at these Senate races, Tester is running as a conservative.

He has a 92% liberal voting record in Montana.

And

is it Aldred that's running against

Cruz?

Yes.

Colin Allred.

He's running as a conservative.

He's not.

He's one of the most liberal people in the Congress.

So they can't even run this.

So their strategy is avoid the press, don't get press conferences, for 90 days act like a conservative, moderate, consensus, bipartisan uniter,

outsource all of your hit pieces to your flaks in the media, outraise them two to one with Hollywood and corporate Silicon Valley money, and you can win.

Especially with the early voting and mail-in balloting.

That's the whole strategy.

But under no circumstances, go out and meet the people and say, I was given a 92%

liberal voting record by reputable Democratic, liberal, progressive surveys.

And I am so proud of that.

And I want to inform you and enlighten you about the third sex that we discriminate, transgenderism, and why children need these operations without their parents' consent.

And I'm for abortion, no restrictions, all the way up until birth.

That has to happen.

And this border was very successful.

We got 10 million people in.

That's what we wanted.

We got them.

We're proud of it.

And we got out of Afghanistan.

It was a little messy, but you know what?

That's what we wanted.

We got out.

Why don't they just defend all of that?

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since Walls is kind of a sympathetic character, they wanted to say.

Kind of, yeah.

They wanted to say that he did well on a couple of issues.

So they seem to be lauding him for

his revelation that his son Gus saw a shooting at a community situation.

I hope that is true for his sake.

But anything he says that is newsworthy is a lie.

So there'll be fact-checking, and I hope it's true for his sake.

Yeah, and he wanted to also say that thing the left always says about guns, that sometimes it's just the guns, as though they shoot themselves.

Sometimes it's just the car, too.

When you get in an accident, the car, I mean, it just killed you.

Let's get rid of cars.

Let's get rid of the car.

Sometimes just the knife, too.

Yeah.

And then the second thing they said he did well on was at the end where

he

I guess he pushed Vance on, did Trump lose the 2020 election?

And Vance didn't give an answer.

Vance was rocking a hard place because

Trump lost the election because he handed over power.

Does he think that he lost the election to the degree that he was going to not give up power?

No.

But if Vance had said, yes, he lost the election, then Trump would yell at him.

Why didn't you say that?

So if he said he did,

which he basically did, there was a way out of it, though.

But

as we remarked in the past about the candle in the staircase,

the idea or the thought that you should have, as you're leaving the debate hall or the dinner, you just remember as you walk down the stairs with your candle.

And that is, he could have said this.

Well,

you have to know, Tim, that your lawyers and your party went to eight or nine of the swing states in March and April of 2020 under the cynical use

of excuse, I should say, pretext of COVID.

They cherry-picked judges and they sued and took away the right of the legislatures to be the primary adjudicators of voting laws and overturned them and demanded because of COVID that there should be early voting months before the elections and mail-in balloting.

And the word absentee ballot disappeared.

Now, Tim,

when you look at these states' records of authenticity, the traditional rejection rate of an absentee mail-in ballot, depending on the state, is 3% to 5%.

They either don't have an address that's fully recorded, or their name doesn't match one on the registrar, or their signature is lost, or whatever, but they reject those mail-in ballots.

This time, think of it, Tim.

Double to triple the number of mail-in ballots swarmed the registrar's office, and guess what?

The rejection rate dived from 3 to 5% to 0.3 to 0.5 percent.

So, they basically green stamped every single ballot that they were swarmed.

So, there obviously were a lot of variances.

Now, I wouldn't have brought that up, Tim,

except this election was decided by the 2020 election, was decided about 45,000 key votes in those states that might have, in in Arizona and in Georgia and in Pennsylvania, might have made the difference.

But just saying, you could have said that.

Yeah, you sure could have.

Victor, let's go to a break and then come back and talk a little bit more about the debate.

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So those are his.

I should say he could have said that.

Somebody's going to say, yeah, Victor, but could you have said all the things he said?

No.

Absolutely not.

He did 99% of what he was set out to do.

I had an interview with Megan Kelly that day, and she asked me, what do you think he's going to do?

And I said, I had some apprehensions about Trump

because, as I said to Jack, it was sort of like watching the

wicked witch of the West melt down

and being Dorothy at that first debate.

And the second debate,

although he articulated issues, he didn't have the swarmy, therapeutic, smiley, cackling that seemed to make people think that she won the debate.

Yeah.

But I had no apprehensions on this one because I've talked to him before and I've seen him.

And I knew, I've watched him do the interviews, I've met him in person, I thought that it would be a clear win.

Yeah.

It seemed to have been.

In fact, the commentators are also saying that Vance advanced the needle for himself with women in particular because they appreciated the politeness with which this debate went on.

He was young, he was good looking, he was charismatic, he was polite, he was empathetic to the dilemma that Waltz was in.

He tried to help him out.

And you can see how many people on the left went nuts after the debate.

And so why didn't he

bat that hand away, that handshake?

Don't you understand what J.D.

Vance is doing?

These are the same people that said he was an authentic voice of the heartland and we'll never see his like again.

And we're so lucky to see he'll be a gallery, you know what I mean?

These people are

shameless.

No, they're shameless people.

They have no moral compass.

Well, then let me tie up one more thing on this longshoreman strike.

Apparently, the Secretary of Labor of the United States said that she wasn't worried about the long shoreman strike and really hadn't thought about it too much recently.

Why should she worry about it?

She's just Secretary of Commerce.

Oh, hey, Ms.

Secretary, did you know that unemployment's up to 15% and inflation's increased 5%?

I didn't know that.

I'm just Secretary of Commerce.

She doesn't care.

Do you think it affects her?

No.

All these people.

Precedent was set by Pete Buttigig, wasn't it?

When he didn't have any clue about transportation or the accident at the

East Palestine.

East Palestine.

He was very worried about racist clover leaves.

Clover leaves were a sign of racism.

Remember, they destroyed neighborhood racial cohesion or something?

He's an idiot.

And you know what?

People, he always is a Teflon guy, but he was one of the people who prepped Tim Waltz, and it showed.

I mean, can you imagine that you prep as if you're going to debate Tim I mean,

a jig?

Come on.

That was like.

That was a no-brainer who was going to win, huh?

It's like

having a boxing match with a 10-year-old, so you're going to face George Foreman or something, you know?

It's just, it's just, it was a joke.

So, so, Victor, just a last thing about the Long Shoreman.

I know that you mentioned that the head of it, it's very strange how somebody can earn a million dollars.

But in addition to that, he has some extraordinary digs of his own.

And I was wondering here.

50 miles outside of New York, five-car garage with

six bathrooms, five bedrooms, a mansion.

They have a Google picture of it on that, I think, in the New York Post.

He has the shtick down as a man of the, you know, he's elderly, 78.

He's got a

working man's accent, but he's an elite.

And I think he didn't help his cause when people have been suffering from 30% price hikes.

And he's basically bragging that his longshoremen, 80,000 of them or something, are going to really stick it to the United States.

And they're going to really be shocked at the power the longshoremen have to make life miserable for Americans.

Because a lot of these people haven't gotten raises.

And

longshoremen work very hard.

But

it's not people like on the waterfront with hooks anymore, right?

They're in sophisticated machines and they're very skilled.

And there's about 45 to 50,000 of them.

And their head of that union is bragging that he's going to shut down a country of 330 million people.

And then in his braggadaccio, did you see that news conference what he said?

We can stop all the food coming in.

We can stop all the cars coming in.

We can do that.

We can do this.

We can do that.

That's not going to go well with American people.

You think an LVN who's working 12-hour shifts and her wages have not caught up and she's cleaning out bedpans and she's dealing with used syringes, you think a guy who's on a Massey Ferguson or a John Deere for 14 hours a day out in the sun wants to hear that the longshoreman the 45 can shut down the whole country when

he can't?

Do you think that somebody who's a trucker, an independent trucker who's driving 12 hours, you know,

with a very small margin, profit margins.

Do you think he's one going to hear that?

No.

So when Biden and Harris think they're going to posture and we're going to be for the working man, I don't think that guy, despite his accent and his look, who lives in a huge mansion and makes a million dollars a year and threatens the country with a complete standstill, is going to be your miner or steel worker or auto worker type of sympathetic character of the past.

I really don't.

And I think there was a poll, albeit maybe

biased from the Chamber of Commerce, but most people did not support the idea of a nationwide strike to shut it down.

So the thing about these October surprises are the October surprises are very strange.

It's almost like there's a karma or a nemesis.

All of the ones that hurt the Democrats are all natural, spontaneous.

They're not hatched by Republicans.

They're the opportunity,

the opportunity to help people during a catastrophe with Helene.

And what do they do?

She takes a picture of herself with blank pieces of paper, with ear pods, you call them pods or plugs, but they're not hooked into her phone.

And knowing her, I bet you that the staffer who took that picture and arranged that fake scenario is fired because the papers were blank.

She just got a bunch of blank papers.

Hey, give me some blank papers.

Let me put my hand on my ear.

Look like I'm deep in thinkor thought, Rodin, thinkor thought.

And then I'll put some ear pods on and I'll plug to the phone like I'm multitasking.

Oh, wait a minute.

People could see there was nothing on the page and my earpods weren't even plugged in.

I can't even fake it.

You're fired.

Well, that's not going to help them.

And that's a natural phenomenon that shows who they really are.

It really is.

And so is this longshoreman.

Nobody dreamed up on the right, but this longshoreman strike, it was a Pavlovian, juicy smollet, automatic response.

Yes,

we support the strike.

And that's going to hurt them.

It really is.

But their October surprises, they're all manufactured.

Special counsel is going to do this.

Chairman of the Federal Reserve is going to do that.

We've got some more salacious stories coming out about Bobby Kennedy now.

Three or four women claim that they had relations with him this year or something.

They're going to try to destroy that guy.

I'm not saying that stories are not true.

I'm just saying that they come out at an opportune time to diminish his effectiveness for Trump.

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I think what I was trying to say about the longshoreman is really captured in all of these news clippings about what's going to happen.

And I don't think that they have any idea of what the

optics are of this.

They want a 77%

raise over six years.

Let me just read you a dispassionate paragraph or two how the left-wing media is

characterizing this.

International Longshoreman Association, President Harold Daggett, this is the fellow we referenced with the $3 to $5 million home and makes a million a year, has warned that the striking workers could, quote, cripple the economy if the nation's demands for a 77%

pay raise over six years and a halt to port automation projects are not met.

Listen, cars won't come in, he said.

Food won't come in.

Clothing won't come in.

Daggett remarked on to Fox News, you know how many people depend on our jobs?

Half the world.

Now think of that.

45,000 people are threatening to shut down the livelihoods and the sustenance of half the world unless they get a 77%

pay raise over six years and

they stop automation, which is making life quicker, cheaper, and more efficient for people.

And then here's President Biden.

President Joe Biden, who's cast himself as the most pro-union leader in U.S.

history, has expressed support for the workers' demands and rebuffed calls to use powers contained in the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to order them back.

That was the cooling off Taft-Hartley bill.

You say,

cool off for two weeks, just

think about what you're doing.

He won't even invoke that.

He could do it.

He will do it if

in three weeks, it's a week before the election, it really starts to stop things.

But these people are basically threatening the American people with a loss of livelihood.

And I don't think that people are going to be sympathetic with Joe Biden.

I think you're right.

Well, Victor, let's take a break and then go to talk about China.

Stay with us, and we'll be right back.

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Once again, people are threatening.

I mean, it's not we have an existential war in the Middle East, and Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons.

And once again, our pundit and ex-military and current military just, I don't believe him, he's joking.

I don't believe him.

One million casualties.

And that was about two months ago of Ukraine and Russia.

And it's going to be another million.

They're going to fight this to the last Ukrainian.

Yeah, they sure are.

Zelensky doesn't seem to have any other plan, and he doesn't have any way of defeating Putin because he doesn't have the numbers to do it.

And I don't know.

America can't get involved by giving him so much technology, I guess.

There's so many, I've said that so often.

People get very angry.

I've got so many people angry.

I did another Goodfellows with my colleagues at Hoover, and it was a little tense.

But

I just want to see what the strategy is.

The left always told us that you have to have a strategy.

Vietnam has no strategy.

It's just a meat grinder.

Afghanistan has no.

Well, what is the strategy in Ukraine?

Is it to show go under, take 500 square miles of Russian territory so they'll retreat from the south?

They haven't done that.

Is it to make a deal where they keep what they already had prior to February 24th and then they go back to where they were prior to that as well?

And then you have a demilitarized zone and Ukraine doesn't join NATO and they're armed to the teeth.

That seems to me a workable start.

That's what J.D.

Vance said.

But all these people, the neoconservative movement and the left,

they keep saying that this is heresy and how dare you and you're a defeatist, you're an appeaser.

Just tell us exactly.

We've given them somewhere between 130, depending on which source you rely on, and $170 billion.

We could have built a wall from

the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico along our southern border for a fraction of that, maybe $8 billion,

$170 billion.

And they keep saying, it's not enough.

It's not enough.

We need your best planes.

We need your best missiles.

We need all the javelins in all of your depots.

We need you to open more factories of 155 millimeter shells for us.

We need, we need, we need, we need, we need.

We're doing this for you, for you, you, for you.

Well, when

What was it?

Majorca said, well, we don't have enough money with the Secret Service.

That's the problem.

Well, we don't have enough money because we're spending it on idiotic things and we're giving all this $170 billion.

Why not just say,

look,

we've got to spend $10 billion on border security and $10 billion on the Secret Service, and then we will give you $150

rather than just print money and give it away.

And I would like to just say, what is the magic number of years and casualties before you want to discuss some type of negotiation.

Is it two million?

Three million?

I mean, this is the largest war in Europe since World War II.

And

I don't know.

I have no personal animus toward Zelensky.

I admire what they did in Kiev.

It was heroic.

I think it was great.

They saved it from another Russian preemptive attack as he had waged in Georgia in the Donbass and Crimea, and this time he failed, at least to take Kiev.

That was wonderful.

But

we're talking about somebody who suspended habeas corpus in a way that Churchill or Roosevelt never did in an existential war, World War II.

They canceled 11 political parties

and they've outlawed all, they've basically outlawed all oppositional media.

And boy, if Israel did that and the hated Netanyahu did that, the United States would cut them off.

Did you see where Kamala Harris was bragging that she in her interview, is that with the OPA or no, that was, excuse me, with the Association of Black Journalists, when she said that she wanted to reiterate that she approved of cutting back on the 2,000-pound bombs, putting a suspension to Israel?

Yes.

An arms embargo.

Yes.

Does she ever do that to Ukraine?

No.

Does she ever say to Ukraine, you have to have a ceasefire?

She just said that.

Does she ever say, we have to have a two-state solution in Ukraine?

We have to have a ceasefire.

Can't have any collateral damage.

No.

So.

That's strange.

It is.

And I know we talk about it quite often here on the show: the difference between their approach to Israel and the approach to Israel.

So why is it?

Why is there a difference?

Because they can, because Israel is so competent, then they can say, hold back, hold back.

And Ukraine, while it's competent, it's faced against

an army that's almost equally competent to it.

Well, it's bigger.

And it's bigger.

It's got a population three and a half times larger, area 30 times bigger, GDP 10 times bigger.

And Israel is competent and it has a lesser foe, but not with Iran.

I mean, when you look at the Houthis and Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran, it's at least as formidable.

They are more competent than the Ukrainian.

They're more competent than we are.

And no, I mean, do you think that we could knock down 182 ballistic missiles coming into San Francisco?

I don't.

Yes.

I mean, no, I don't.

I think if they went into London, they'd take out London.

So when all these Western leaders say, don't retaliate, well, if they did it to your capital city, you wouldn't be in a lot worse shape.

Yeah.

And you wouldn't be talking like that.

Yeah, so...

I don't know.

I would just like to know.

They keep telling the Israelis, what's the end game?

How does it end?

What's the strategy?

There's no strategy in Ukraine.

Just keep going.

We'll just keep feeding the monster.

And kill, kill, kill.

We'll see how it goes.

And he's lying about using nuclear weapons.

Well, I think the answer to what's the end with Israel is coming because they are on a trajectory to

finish things.

To get rid of the theocratic regime in Iran.

And the only way they're going to do it is humiliate them to the point where the people are suffering.

And

they have not had the same threats as the Israelis had.

No.

There's not rockets going in.

They've never had rockets.

They've had three rockets in the first exchange.

But you send 180 Israeli rockets.

They should just take the same amount and

go right after the nuclear.

Karg Island, the oil refinery export island, they should hit that.

And then they should hit the nuclear facilities.

And then they should pause and say, do you want more of it?

If you do, we'll take out your grid.

And the Houthis are very strange.

They've been attacking shipping, but they haven't attacked Israel after they've sent that missile at the airport.

Because they took out hundreds of millions of dollars of port facilities.

They have no port now to receive their Iranian weapons.

Or they're Chinese.

And so speaking of China, I know you and Jack covered a lot of things, but you didn't talk about China from this week.

Apparently, they are talking that Putin needs to make a deal with the Ukrainians at the same time as they're still supplying him 70% of machine tools and 90% of their microelectronics that are important in building weapons inside of Russia.

So they seem to be talking out of both sides of their mouth.

And then they're also, two things that they've done this week, setting off intercontinental ballistic missiles inside of China though.

So they haven't sent them out of China, but inside of China.

And Taiwan has been monitoring this, and they're doing it in Mongolia and some provinces inside of China testing.

They just had a very new submarine, and it sank right at the dock.

Wow.

New, it just sank.

Not that we should be critical because the chief supply ship that supplies this whole carrier group ran aground the other day that supplies all of its fuel.

And it's out.

It's getting repaired in the Gulf.

A U.S.

ship?

Yeah, U.S.

They never tell us why.

Was it the incompetent

commander?

Is it DEI?

Is it a lack of meritocracy?

Is it just an accident?

Is it inevitable?

Tell us.

But something is wrong with the Navy.

It's underfunded.

It's incompetent.

And

they should come clean.

But the Chinese have a lot of problems.

And we'll see.

The problem with China is that their parity with the West is

very broad, but very thin.

And by that, I mean they are like the Japanese after World War I who

took all of their nautical engineering and all of their mechanical engineering and arms industry by emulating the Germans and the French and the British.

And while that made them very good, they didn't have a long enough tradition as they do now to be innovative.

And so China has stolen all of their technology and they're emulating our carriers, our frigates, our jets.

But they haven't done this long enough where they can start to innovate themselves.

And so they're always going to be one step behind as they copy us, us meeting the West.

At some point, they'll have a Caltech and an MIT, and they may be better than us because they won't have DEI and they will be merucratic, but that hasn't quite come yet.

So

there's one thing that we haven't talked about, but when we're talking about competitiveness,

We have this guy, and we mentioned him before, a Renaissance man, Elon Musk.

He's an engineer, he's an inventor,

he's a communicator, he's, I don't know what you'd call him, he's Ben Franklin, he's Thomas Jefferson, he can do anything.

And that one man has almost single-handedly given us a edge by providing internet service to 100 countries, Starlink.

We use it every day here.

and out in the country.

All the rural servers that I've had out here in southwest Fresno County haven't been as good as Starlink.

It's reliable, it works, it's fast.

And he sent up 700 satellites, 700, 100 countries.

And when Ukraine needed internet service, he provided it, not the U.S.

government.

And now people are without internet connections in North and South Carolina and Georgia.

He's going to provide it.

And no one had ever challenged the big three.

He did with Tesla.

He broke in and he's selling it two years ago, it was the best-selling car in California.

And then he did this, he's on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.

He's on the cutting with that, what is it, AI company.

Then he's got this Neuralink to, that's the cutting edge of brain chemistry connection to online computerized internet.

It's scary, but somebody's going to do it.

And then in addition to that, he's taken a huge hit that had taken over X and revolutionized social media.

Now people have a voice that they didn't have.

And of course, SpaceX, he's rescuing NASA and this old ossified dinosaur Boeing with his dragon project and everything.

And yet everybody hates him.

It's like he doesn't have a credential.

He's out of his lane.

He's spreading himself too thin.

They always, I mean, it's like telling Da Vinci, you've got to concentrate on painting.

You cannot be an architect.

You can't be a biologist.

Hey, Michelangelo, you're the architect of St.

Peter's Cathedral.

You stick to the Sistine Chapel painting.

Oh, you did David Napietta?

Nepiata, you can't do that.

You're spreading your...

Machiavelli, you're an essayist, you're a politician, you're a military strategist, and you're a humanist.

You can't do that.

Thomas Jefferson, hmm, president, agronomist, architect, founder of the University of Virginia.

Ben Franklin, Ben,

you've got to stick to bifocals and lightning rods and stoves.

You cannot write poor Richard's Almanac.

You cannot be an ambassador all over Europe and try to champion the American cause.

You cannot invent our version of movable type and you can't be a printer.

Just can't do it.

Teddy Roosevelt.

Hey, Teddy, you were a cowboy.

You were a historian.

You were an essayist, you were a military veteran, you were the hero of

San Juan Hill, you were a president, and you were an explorer, almost died in the Amazon.

What have you not done?

So these are really rare people like Elon Musk, and you have to give them their due.

And you know who else was a Renaissance person that just died?

Chris Christopherson.

I mean, think about that just for a second.

He was part of that super group, the Outlaws,

with Johnny Cash and Wayling

Jennings and Willie Nelson.

And for a period, that was the country western group.

He was a songwriter.

He wrote Me and Bobby McGee that Janice Joplin made famous.

Sunday Morning, Come.

All those songs, they were great songs.

He was an actor.

I really liked him in Billy the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

And Starsborn, the remake.

He did that.

He did a lot of stuff.

And then he was a boxer.

I think he held boxing records at Pomona.

He was a rugby player.

He got a BA in literature from Pomona College.

And then he went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and got a degree in literature from Merton College, Oxford.

If that wasn't enough, he was a, by the way, he was a second-generation Swede.

Parents were, I think, came

with his grandparents when they were small.

And his father was a general.

So then he joined the army

and he was in the army for five years and he was a helicopter pilot a helicopter pilot yeah athlete pilot writer songwriter musician he excelled roads scholar literary critic I mean he did everything he's like Elon Musk and you know when you see these people it's like well they don't have they have a BA Victor but they don't have a G JD so why are they talking about law stay in your lane stay in your lane

You can't opine on other topics of which you're not credentialed.

You're spreading yourself too thin.

That's what we do with these people.

Yeah, essentially.

Just let them go.

That's one good thing about Trump.

Just lets him go.

He said something the other day.

He was down there and somebody said they'd have no intersection.

Elon will take care of it.

Oh, yeah, down in the storm.

Yes, Elon's going to work on it.

Yeah.

I think that was the Starlink concept.

Yeah, Elon will take care of it.

Da Vinci will do it.

Don't worry, Michelangelo's working on it.

Yeah, we're very lucky to have these people, actually.

Yeah, and

that's why immigration is very important if it's legal and measured and diverse.

Yeah.

Because we've been the great beneficiary of somebody like Elon or Chris Christofferson's family.

I really admire people that can do all these things.

And

it's just amazing.

Last question before we finish today.

Kamala was asked if folks should stand for the national anthem,

and she couldn't answer that question.

She's thinking like this.

I have to be kind of patriotic so my socialist

anti-Americanism doesn't show through.

Could be a trick question because LeBron and all, you know, take a knee.

I was really for all that.

So if I say something, somebody's going to pop up an old video with me, I don't know, taking a knee or smiling.

So I will just weasel out of it.

And she did.

She said something to the effect, well,

I believe that you see that we're a unique nation and we have the First Amendment, and I'm for the First Amendment, and that allows you to choose.

So, of course, a person can do what they want.

That wasn't the question, Kamala.

No.

What is your reaction to people?

Should they stand or not?

It's not a legal question, it's a moral, ethical question.

In a racially, ethnically diverse country, is it good to have a unifying celebratory protocol, a ceremony?

What's so hard about that we all partake in?

Not saying that you do have to by statute, you're just saying, should people do it?

And the obvious question is yes.

But what is that?

Pay their respects to a country that gave them everything.

Yes.

Gave us all everything.

We should do it.

And if somebody, knucklehead, to quote Waltz, wants to take a knee, let him go take a knee, but ostracize him socially for doing so.

Yeah.

But what does that say about our country if Kamala is so worried about that?

She must be a lot of her voters that would not like her to say, yes, people should stand for the next step.

It's the same thing.

It's the same thing.

25% of the Democratic Party said they wish Donald Trump had been shot.

Yeah.

25% said they weren't sure.

That's half.

That's half of half of the country.

And you know why that is?

Because half of the country is enrolling in these crazy universities and colleges, and they're not learning engineering, they're not learning math, they're not learning literature, philosophy, science.

They're learning gender studies and sociology and psychology and media studies and personal relations studies, therapeutic curriculum.

and that is basically.

Did you know that your country was racist systemically?

Did you know that you're a beneficiary of white privilege?

Do you know that we were flawed at our conception and got worse?

Did you know that we dropped a bomb, an atomic bomb, and no one else has?

Did you know we had slavery?

That's what they teach them.

And because they have no history or philosophy or literature or inquiry, they have no reference to put it in context or refute it.

No one says, well, well, yeah, everybody had slavery.

Some of them still do in the Middle East.

But the West was the only area in the world that first abolished it.

It was a critique from the very beginning.

I guess they should read Alcadamus.

Remember him, the great rhetorician of the fourth-century Peloponnese?

He said, God made no man a slave.

He wrote that about, I don't know, 30, about

400, 380 BC.

So

there's dissent in the West, and there isn't another civilization to the same degree.

But that's the problem when we talk about all these people who are ignorant and she's worried about the ignorant people.

She did say something that was unusual, but it could have been good, but it wasn't designed to be good.

She says she's going to pass statutes if she's elected that will allow people to serve in her government, i.e., the deep state administrative state bureaucracy, who don't fulfill the requirement for a bachelor's degree on those certain jobs that require that.

So she's going to waive that.

And that's not going to be like Joe electrician for 10 years experience.

That's not who they're going to hire.

No.

They're going to hire the person who went to community college and dropped out or got a 400 on an SAT or had a 2.1

and dropped or took six units for 10 years and has $150,000 in student debt.

That sounds about right, Victor.

Yeah.

Well, this is the end of our show today.

Thanks to all of our listeners and thanks to you for all of your

wonderful discussion of some very tough topics today, but it's been a tough week, I think.

Tough week, but things are getting better.

Things are getting better.

The pills are getting better.

The pills incrementally, insidiously, bit by bit, drop by drop, step by step.

All Trump has to do is focus, focus on the issues, control, no comments that she's mentally impaired, none of that, and cut back the rallies a little bit.

That's where he goes off topic or he gets sworn out, and that's where he exposes himself to some nut that could change the course of history.

So don't press his luck and do more interviews in a conducive landscape.

Yeah, you know, I heard somebody talking today that internal polling that has been leaked out is showing that Kamala is doing really bad.

And so they're very worried on the left because I think internal polling are the most accurate.

That's why she's...

During the Alabama-Georgia game, she had hired a plane and it couldn't take off, I think, because of the weather.

It was going to go over the stadium challenging Trump to making fun of him because he wouldn't debate.

The only reason she wants to debate are because of the internal polls, so she's hemorrhaging.

I always thought betting was also, but, you know, betting,

because most people don't want to lose money.

But did you see that one of the betting sites had Tim Waltz before the betting started?

Like, right before the debate,

the betting odds were 68%

that he was going to win.

Well, you know why that is?

That is not because they're flawed.

It's because they all knew that the moderators would be on his side.

Maybe so.

So that's what the bet was.

Or they were ignorant.

They had never heard him debate before.

Perhaps.

But he, in one minute, or two minutes, it went from

68 to 38.

The moment he opened his mouth, nobody wanted to bet on him.

That's a great end to this show.

Yeah, usually, though,

betting and internal polls,

the only reliable indicators of what might happen.

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you.

This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis-Hanson, and we're signing off.