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Victor, you know, Catholics, we Catholics, we can watch the Democrat Convention and say we're offering it for the souls in purgatory.

You know, you non-Catholics, I don't know what you get out of it other than another ulcer, but you caught some clips, Victor, or watched part of it.

Let's start with Joe Biden's, I don't know, angry man on the lawn.

I'm going to have my dogs

like they do as Secret Service agents.

That's the last spark of old Yeller.

You know what is really weird about it, Jack?

The guy is president all of September, October, November, December, right?

September, October, November, December, December, January.

He's got five and a half months, 10 days in August.

And he's completely inert.

This was like his, they were advertising this as his farewell address.

I'm thinking, wow, this is his farewell address.

He's still president for six months almost.

And then they just kept delaying it.

They said it was going to come on, you know, 11 o'clock at 8 o'clock our time in the West Coast, but it got into midnight, 9 o'clock.

And it was almost an hour long, and it was that semi-fascist phantom of the opera, ultra-mega, you know, just yelling.

And then he had this slurs word.

And I think what they were saying was,

we're going to delay this and delay this and get this SOB out, and he's done.

But, you know, he's the president.

So that was a problem.

And then they made sure that nobody was listening to him.

First night, no audience, last speaker, and they had a bunch of nobies speaking before him, you know, congresswomen and men that were just non-entities.

And then Hillary did her shrill thing, you know, cackle.

She has her own cackle.

It's a little bit different than Camela.

But the thing about Biden is it was, when I sat down, I think he's going to recycle the Charlottesville lie that even Snopes has now you know, admitted that it was a lie that, you know, he said that there were simply good people on both sides, including the Klan and not neo-Nazis.

When in fact, he said, I'm not talking about the white supremacists, I'm talking about the people who objected to the way statues were toppled.

And he,

you know, you said he wasn't going to talk about Antifa.

There were good people on both sides.

There were.

But

he recited all of those bloodbath, anti-Semitism.

The height of absurdity was there's 100,000 people today outside there that are basically anti-Jewish, anti-Israel.

And he's calling Trump an anti-Semite.

So there was nothing, it was good riddance, you know.

The only thing that really

struck me is

the cognitive decline.

I mean, he has been

incommunicado.

So I thought he would, you know, have the Adderall rush like he did.

But

he couldn't pronounce his speech.

I mean, the words were just jumbled and smush.

And then he makes up for the fact that he's incoherent incoherent by emphasis.

Like it's, if you're loud, you're clear.

So

the more that he shouted out these garble sentences and phrases, he thought the more emphatic they would be.

But it just accentuated the fact they were incoherent.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it was kind of a showcase.

And whereas if that speech had been given like the debate on June 13th, everybody was praying that Biden would do well.

Well, everybody was praying on the left he'd do poorly because that will reinforce their decision.

They're going to say, see, this is what Nancy Pelosi's been giving interviews, Jack.

She's kind of come out now.

First, she denied that she pushed him out.

You remember?

She wouldn't say that.

I'm not going to talk about a president.

And then she put her finger in the air and she thought, you know,

this Kamala craze and the complete non-existence of Biden makes whoever accomplished that look pretty good and prescient.

So I'm going to claim credit.

So then she said, I did it for the children.

They always say that the left.

I did it for the children.

That's what Hillary used to say.

I did it for the children.

He had to go.

He was going to take us all down.

Well, maybe she wants a reputation historically, Victor, like Lyndon Johnson and

Sam Rayburn.

as just one of these great political strongholders.

I don't know, but you know, it was really funny because

they still can't quite figure out the dynamics of it because it was so abrupt.

You stop the Orwellian narrative that Joe is fit as a fiddle and Corinne Pierre

Corinne Jean-Pierre has to stop lying and pivot and then say that

he's not fit as a fiddle.

And then you've got to take this Spiro Agnew insurance policy called Camilla Harris, and you've got to reinvent her.

her and it's got to be done in 48 hours so you don't get momentum.

Like a Joe Manchin was going on the, remember he was going on the talk shows and the news like, I might be a candidate.

No, no, you're not.

That's not part of the plan.

And the Obamas gave, what, four days of the endorsement thinking, well, we don't want Camela.

Is anybody going to jump in or we have to endorse her?

And then when they endorsed her, it was like, she's the second coming of Obama.

Okay, all that happened.

And it was pretty bad.

And now Elosi thinks, well, you know, she's ahead in the polls.

It's pretty good.

She's not really ahead in the poll.

If you look at the real clear politics, it's dead even nationally.

And Trump has leads in the majority of the swing states.

So

the final thing is, I think they're going to have to be very careful, though, Jack, because she's had two impromptu appearances.

One on the stage most recently with Tim Waltz.

Right.

And you remember that little riff she gave off script about democracy is both strong and fragile because it's democracy and democracy and democracy?

Right.

And then she gave one two weeks ago in the tarmac about the art of diplomacy.

In the former case,

non compos mentes Biden was completely freaked out.

Like, the hell is she talking about?

And then you should have seen Waltz's face like, please, please, please stop, stop, stop.

Do not go on, please.

I want to be vice president.

I want to have a free house.

I mean, I have no net worth.

I've got to get that house.

He'll live somewhere.

Yeah.

He can live on the streets.

It was very funny because he gave his financial statement.

He had no 401k and all this, but the guy has had free rent, right?

And he's always worked for the government.

Right.

And they're saying, see how honest he is?

He doesn't have.

And I'm thinking, yeah, that's good, but he's been on the doll.

I mean, he wasn't Joe Biden crooked,

but he's been on the government doll.

So why would he need a car or anything, right?

It's all provided for him.

Did you see the artist?

Like Bernie Sanders.

Did you see the report by,

I think it was Washington Free Beacon or the DC Examiner?

I forget which one.

I apologize to the wrong one.

When he was teaching in Nebraska two years after Tiananmen Square,

he was praising Red China for how it how it's.

That's why he bowed.

Have you seen, notice how he bows?

He turns like he's trying to emulate a traditional Chinese bow.

He puts his right arm on his stomach and then he goes bows down three times and he goes to each angle of the planet.

What?

Why would anybody go to Red China three times?

Why would you go to Red China 30 times?

I don't get it.

Why would you celebrate your anniversary in China unless you

have an affinity for it?

And

all of this is coming out.

Now, we've had all this stuff about him, and then the more he tries to lie about Stolen Valer, the worse it gets.

The riots, the wife opening up the window so she can smell the

kind of like right out of apocalypse now, the smell of napalm in the morning or

burning tires or something.

And then you've got the daughter, you know, the wayward daughter who's trying to tip off the national, the protesters that go out and commit violence because the National Guard won't be there because dad promised me that kind of stuff.

So it's a dysfunctional group, and then they've got all of this history that there must be a lot of people at Mar-Lago just pouring through every video of Camilla Harris.

Now we know that

it's not just wages, prices.

She wants to go to companies and say, you know what, you have 1% disparity in male and female jobs compensation.

So for each one, we're going to take out a 1% out of your bottom line.

So,

you know, and then you pharma people, if the pharmaceuticals are too high, we determine, if I determine, if I determine that you're charging too much for Cipro or something, I'm just going to cancel your patent and let it go out to anybody.

And somebody said, can you do that?

Yes, we'll just, how would you do that?

We'll just snatch it, snatch it.

So, and then she's already talked about confiscating guns.

So she's got an ambitious, and this is only an 80-day

window

of into her that we're seeing that it's a fake now.

It's for 80 days, tough on the border, tough on crime, always was, energy development, full blast.

And then whether she wins, Jack, or she loses, she's going to go back hard left.

If she loses, She's going to lick her wounds and be angry, but she's still got three months on her tenure, and she will be so hard left and just make fun of all the positions she's embracing.

If she she wins, she's going to go hard left and tell everybody, I didn't really mean that, you guys.

You're going to get your progressive administration.

So this is just 80 days of dissimulation.

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You know, on the Biden speech, he once again repeated the attack on Trump that he

that President Trump allegedly called the buried Americans

overseas as suckers and losers.

I find this astonishing for a guy that's always using the stolen valor, fake valor, by the way, of his dead son, who didn't die in the war, but he says he did.

I mean, this is a man steeped in stolen valor.

He did it not too long ago.

He mentioned Bo.

And he does it all the time.

And you've got two people

associated with that ticket, the new vice president who

can't tell the truth about whether

his own service was combat-related or not.

And now you've got the president who just serially lies and says his son died in Iraq.

And

then accusing Donald Trump in a meeting where reportedly 30 people were there and there was only one.

We know there was a lot of people who didn't like Donald Trump in his inner circle who said that.

And then they did it again when they said Donald Trump, who is clumsy in his expression on occasion, said that the medal of freedom was more impressive.

It was better than the medal of honor.

And they just took that.

And if you read the entire statement, what he was saying is, to a person who got the medal of freedom, you're alive and you're young and you're vibrant.

But unfortunately, when you get the medal of honor, you're either severely wounded or you're dead.

And so therefore,

it's a different type of medal.

He wasn't deprecating the medal of Honor.

It was a clumsy thing to say, but you can see what he was saying: that you're young and you didn't have to go to combat and you did all these wonderful things.

And unfortunately, when you give the Medal of Honor, the poor person is either disabled or dead on most occasions, not all.

But the point I'm making is

I'm torn, Jack, between two

philosophies of this campaign

because their campaign is predicated on no press conferences, no town halls, no unscripted interviews, no unscripted speeches, because to do so will lose her the election.

And therefore, Donald Trump must bring her out and get ahead three points to four in the polls to force her out.

The only way he can do that is to show the American people, as the things we've been talking about, that she's an absolute socialist, if not a communist, in the sense that she's talked about

mandated equity.

We didn't have equality.

Equality doesn't, it's the, it's a geeko on the opportunity, but some people don't start out that way, so you've got to have equity.

So

that's the only way you can do it.

Stick to script.

But when he goes off, half of me says, you know what, when you call her stupid or crazy, or she just yesterday called her a lunatic, it, it gives the media two to three hours.

Look at Donald Trump said, look at Donald Trump said.

And it just builds this narrative in independent voters' mind.

The other half of me is, yeah, he shouldn't do that, but it doesn't really matter because they're going to lie about him and exaggerate, and they have no other thing to do but to make the election Donald Trump's crudity.

She's smiles, she's joy, she's vibe.

He's a downer.

I go back and forth.

I do think he can help his cause, though, if he just stops the,

what do you call it, cul-de-sac, this personal invective that is not as effective i don't have any problem because she called you know she called him a coward the other day so no big back and forth but

he's much more effective when he demonstrates how she is stupid to have price controls he's got to get really detailed he's got to explain things he should say on energy he said he said ah they destroyed energy

you know they just

Well, they were even worse than that, Mr.

Trump, President Trump.

What they did is when they came into office, they canceled Anwar.

They canceled Keystone.

They canceled federal leases.

They were all whole hog.

They were draining.

And then all of a sudden the midterms came up, 2018 and then 2000,

excuse me, 2022 and then the election of 24.

And they got together and said, oh, my God,

prices have doubled on gas.

Let's reverse pivot.

Tell the green people we've got to lie for a while.

So they said, we're for all green.

but what they did was they started renewing leases, they started to stop the war on fracking, they didn't open Anwar, they didn't open Keystone, but they started to allow people to do things that they had done under Trump.

Now, they didn't grow at the same projected rate that Trump was, but they did restore it to where Trump was.

And then with the increased demand, they drained the strategic petroleum.

So what he could say, what I'm saying is he could say, they canceled all my programs when they came in.

And guess what?

Just as I predicted, the price of gas would go up.

And you know what they did?

They copied me again.

Now they're starting to pump oil and gas.

And they have drained the petroleum reserve.

And they've canceled Keystone and Wire.

And they're just trying to flail and get back to me.

But when he says they've canceled all the energy, it's not true.

The energy production today is a little bit greater than it was under Trump.

And that's what they do.

And he's got to say,

they do two things, you guys.

They project whatever they accuse me of, where it's on the border, that means they're doing it.

Just remember that.

Number two, you've got an 80-day

fake person.

For 80 days, she's going to be Donald Trump, she's going to be a MAGA person, she's going to have all my issues, and then it's going to dissipate, win or lose.

But he's got to explain people,

explain to people what's going on.

Yeah,

remind them of

what are the actual

actual costs to an actual, you know, typical family four years.

It's got to be $20,000, you know, $5,000 a year for the typical middle-class family.

And he's got to say the same thing about

she wants to give everybody $20,000 for her new home.

So

all the sellers are going to ask for $20,000 more because the government's going to make up the difference.

It's not going to help the person at all.

And the fact of the matter is, it's going to punish people because house prices, you'll make an artificial demand and house prices will go up.

And the guy who's been working three jobs to buy a little starter home and he's just about ready to buy a new home, he's not eligible because he's had a home before.

Whereas the guy who didn't do that is eligible.

And none of these things work.

He's got to explain that.

There's a 1% profit margin on supermarkets, farmers.

I mean,

when you talk about inflation, I can tell you right now, I went in and looked at almonds.

There's still the same price in the store.

And the price of almonds I'm looking at in an almond orchard right now is about $1.60.

And when I planted those almonds, it was $4.30 nine years ago.

Nine years of inflationary policies, and the price is one-third.

And they're trying to say that the food producers are ripping people off?

Do they have any idea that diesel fuel and gasoline doubled in price?

And it's still $4.50 a gallon in California, if not higher, and labor is $20 an hour for entry-level jobs.

And you say, well, no, Victor, it's just the fast food.

No, it's not.

You're competing with fast food that pays $20, so you pay $20 for it.

And so there's all these costs that they added.

And it's really weird how they

destroy affordable gas, they destroy

affordable entry-level wages, and then what do they do?

They blame the farmer or the food market for jacking up prices when they're not making any money.

And they won't make any money under this.

People will just stop.

They'll just stop.

Victor, we have one or two more things to talk about related to the

Democratic Convention.

Again, we're talking on Tuesday the 20th, and we've got one day of the convention behind us.

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Victor, one last thing, you know, about the infamous AOC.

When she was last getting some public attention for campaigning, it was that Jumping Jack Flash.

Yeah, it was Jamal Bowman's rally in the South Bronx, which, by the way, wasn't even in his district.

It wasn't anything.

She came out like Jumping Jack Flash, didn't she?

Oh, yeah.

Skipped Oluma.

Skipped a loom, my darling.

She jumped around like she was on Joe Biden's outer Adderall or something, just screaming and yelling and made a complete fool of herself.

Then she went in and she did the rhetorical version of that, screaming and yelling about the underclass.

And I was awaiting, I said, no, you're not.

You were the daughter of professionals.

You were a second generation American.

You grew up not too far from you, Jack, right?

Connecticut suburb.

Well, she grew up in the Bronx.

Originally.

But I thought she moved in Connecticut.

No, she was in Westchester, so a little north of the Bronx.

But yeah, in the Fowler metropolitan area.

Is it considered a ghetto?

When she was growing up, it was much better than it had been.

No, I don't think she was a ghetto.

I don't think she was.

I think she would have lived there, but it was.

I think she was just like this whole lost generation that gets all these scholarships to get all these degrees that don't require anything, and they have a bunch of letters after your name, and you've got a big student debt and you know nothing.

She didn't know who she was, an

economics major.

I don't think she had ever heard of Milton Friedman.

She was formed, wasn't she international relations in her master's or something?

Well, was that?

Anyway, the point I'm making is she got these worthless degrees from these overcharging universities that are dependent on federal money.

And then she became a waitress.

And she, like

thousands of other middle-class kids, millions of them.

And then she was up there talking about the impoverished impoverished and the underclass.

And just like Waltz was saying, I'm just a guy from Nebraska and you're just a young girl from Oakland.

No, she wasn't just a young girl from Oakland, black girl from Oakland.

She was a daughter, she was of the 0.001% of the population whose parents were both PhDs.

One attached to Stanford, one attached to Berkeley, and then she moved to Canada and grew up in a very upper, upper middle class.

But, you know, it's kind of like the log cabin thing of the 19th century everybody's born in a log cabin but

so that that speech was just screaming and yelling and it was this it's just boilerplate socialism

hillary's was incoherent the same thing just

the weird thing about it was it was all

joe biden we love you did you see those signs with a little heart I heart Biden.

And I'm thinking, you just

like a Caesarean assassination, you just pushed him out.

And now after he's spoken,

there's some wisdom to them.

But the reason you pushed him out was not concern for the country,

because he was obviously non-composment and debilitated, if not demented.

And you were worried about that dimension, not because he could destroy the country with a nuclear button, because he's still in power, because that's what you want.

You were worried that he was taking you down to flames in the House and the Senate and the White House.

So

it was just weird to see this guy they pushed out and he was speaking at midnight to nobody and they were cannonizing him at the same time and he'll be in the memory hole today and the next day and the next day.

Which kind of begs the question, I can't quite figure out

what they're going to do with him in the next three to five months because he's getting really badly.

Are they just going to keep hiding hiding him as president so you don't, he just doesn't make a fool of himself?

Or if she gets down two or three points in the polls, are they going to try to 25th amendment him and threaten him and get him off the ticket so she runs as an incumbent?

And if they were to do that, would that be an advantage that says, I'm President Harris up for re-election?

Or would it be a disadvantage?

You've seen what a buffoon I am now in person.

I can't hide as president.

It's really strange what's happening right now.

We're in a state of constant flux.

Well, and that's, and we limit our fear, like, what are they going to do with him, Victor, related to American politics?

But, you know, there could be a poop show on the international scene.

There will be.

Yeah.

You know what?

Iran is looking at this and they're thinking

because they've been quiet now.

I think they call it strategic patience, but it's not patience.

They're thinking, hmm,

Israel reply, the United States repressed the reply, but they hit three, just with three missiles, they took out a whole anti-aircraft battery.

We sent 320 in,

and for all the daylight between the United States and Israel and the European hatred of the Jews and the Arabs, they helped knock these down.

So if we send in 1,000,

they'll knock them down again.

But there's an estrangement from the United States and and Israel, but that estrangement doesn't go far enough to allow us to destroy them because the military and the State Department, for all their left-wing sympathies, are still stuck in to protect Israel.

And they will if we send a bunch of crap over American public opinion, it's almost 70% supporting Israel, so they'll knock it down.

But that will give Israel an excuse to go what?

go bananas.

And we know they have the ability if they can take out an individual in a apartment building in our city, our capital, and do the same thing in Beirut and Damascus,

they may take out our grid.

They may take out our ports.

They may take out our oil refineries.

They may take out our oil fields.

They may blow up our nuclear reactor and, you know, centrifuges.

So there's us sitting there, paralyzed, and trying to figure out we have to retaliate,

but we've already retaliated and it failed.

And in the meantime, Israel has demonstrated to the world that we were impotent in our retaliation, and they were quite potent in their response, but it was just a symbolic response and it frightened us.

And if they can take out these three top leaders, they can take out our Nasrallah tomorrow.

They can take out Khomeini.

They can take us out.

So they're just paused.

We talked about that, you know, in the Wild Bunch, that scene where,

you know, remember that scene, the wild bunch, Jack?

Yeah, no, you're, that's, that's like six great seconds of

pregnant

Mapache because they cut the guy's throat and then, yeah, and then all of a sudden Ernest Borgni starts smiling when Billy.

They shot the German, right?

Is that what happened?

Or they shot the German or Mapache?

Matache, yeah.

And then all of a sudden they look and they smile and think, get it on.

Well, that's where we are right now in the Middle East.

And Iran is Mapache.

And

they've got themselves in a jam because Israel is getting to the point where they don't give a damn.

You know what I mean?

They're thinking, you know what?

We're going to make the best of this.

And it's kind of to our advantage.

The United States is trying to distance itself from us, but they can't quite cut off our supply of weapons.

And they can't quite side openly with Iran by not knocking down a missile that goes over their ships.

So they're probably going to give us 90% of the stuff that worked before.

But this time, this time, we're not going to listen to anybody if they attack us.

And Iran knows that, and they know they have the capability.

And

it's going to also Israel is thinking,

wow, they're doing all this to us, to us, and maybe Iran wants to hit us during the convention.

And if they were hit us during the convention, we're going to hit back.

And what would that do to the street?

So you know that this administration is telling the Iranians, don't do anything while we're at the convention in Chicago, please, please.

Yeah, I mean,

this is a 6 billion.

Do you really, I have a question for you.

Do you really believe that this 100,000 people the last night are going to get violent and crash in and destroy everything?

I don't.

I don't either.

You know why I don't?

I went back and I read for the nth time, and everybody should,

the February 2021 Time magazine essay by Molly Ball.

Remember that one?

The cabal conspiracy.

Hey, everybody.

It was like this.

If you haven't heard it, I'm just ad-libbing, but this was the flavor of that 4,000-word or so essay.

Hey, everybody.

We won, man.

We won.

And you stupid red state people, yokel deplore.

You don't know how we did.

Let me tell you.

I'm going to rub it and salt your wounds.

We had a cabal.

We had a conspiracy.

It was multifaceted.

We took your Chamber of Commerce.

They joined us.

And they raised a lot of money from even right-wing sources that didn't like Trump.

Then we worked with the social media, Facebook, and we had the, you know, we call it misinformation, disinformation, and we squashed stories, i.e.

the laptop.

And then we had the guys in the street.

We modulated the protest.

Yes, we did.

We worked with them.

And then we had the private giving from Silicon Valley.

Remember Mark Zuckerberg?

They don't mention him by name.

And the result was we saved democracy, Jack.

We saved democracy with mail-in ballots, early ballots, censoring the news and modulating the demonstrations.

And I think that's exactly what they're going to do.

I think these guys are really pros at what they do.

They have no scruples.

And when Joe Biden has not won one delegate in Iowa and he loses New Hampshire to Pete Buttigig,

And he's lost Nevada, and they look at these people and they say, man, we're socialists, but these people are communists.

Warren, Sanders, Butijig.

Get them out.

And I don't know what they paid them, but they gave them some incentive for them to be like dominoes and get out.

And that's how they operate.

They complained about the big city bosses controlling the party, but...

Man, they do.

So I think they got Antifa, BLM,

Justice for Palestine, and they lined them all up and said, what do you guys want?

All we're asking isn't money.

Is it concessions?

Is it law?

Is it more attacking Israel and the press?

You name it, and we'll give it to you.

And then just make those guys behave.

You can knock down a few fences, throw a few rocks, but don't do 2020 summer, please, because we have ways of rewarding you if you do, if you don't.

And that's what I think they're going to do.

The mayor

blamed, he blamed Republicans and Trump for the violence.

There was no violence, but they knocked down a fence.

And he said, all these people are here because of Republicans.

Because he said that they had sent migrants to his city.

Somehow that caused the protest.

Is the city run by the teachers' unions?

The hard part.

Johnson is a joke.

I don't know.

Hey, let me ask you.

Anyway, go ahead.

I just want to ask you one other thing about back on price gouging, Victor, before we go on to.

Why did you say, Jack?

I thought it was price gauging.

Well, let me, let's call it price control.

And I'm dropping this on you, but when Nixon

implemented wage and price controls.

Jack, you know who did that?

Your friend, George Schultz.

George Schultz.

He did.

A Buckley Prize winner to you and George Schultz.

Yeah.

But I'm curious.

I mean, you were not running the farm at the time.

No, I was in high school.

But do you recall, recall, is there any recollection of how that might have affected the

Hansen farm business?

You may not have any recollection, but I'm just curious.

Well,

that

was in a period of stagnation.

So

there had been 1965 guns and butter.

You remember that with Johnson and the Great Society?

And he was spending money like crazy.

And then

the 60,

that was the first sign of what we would call stagflation

the economy was sputtering and prices were going up i think they were like eight or nine percent and they tried it and

we were producing raisins so the raisins were just sitting there and the the price was below production and so they just sat there because

they couldn't raise the prices and they they just go in the reserve pool.

That means they make cattle field, they cattle, cattle feed, or they send them overseas for food for peace or something.

But the point was that

I think it lasted for what, three months, 90 days.

And

everybody,

when I went to college, I was very interested, so I would read Diocletian's Edict on Price Control.

They had the death penalty.

It didn't work.

Really?

Yeah, they did.

Yeah, they did.

And Milton Friedman was, I think that's where he first became really, I mean, he was well known and famous, but that's first when he kind of developed into a public intellectual.

Reader Choose was on around this, I think it was around the same time that was coming out then, maybe a couple of years later, actually.

Yeah.

So I was, you know, I was, I don't know, I think it was in, I shouldn't say high school.

I was, yeah, I was.

I was thinking it was in my senior year.

It was in August and 1971.

I was going into college.

So 70s were not good.

60s had been good early 60s and then the Vietnam War and inflation and then we went into Nixon and he had trouble beating Humphrey.

And then it got pretty good 72, 73.

And then we had

the Watergate and all of the Vietnam and it just went to hell.

And then Carter, of course, that was the end of it.

And we didn't get out of the mess until 83, end of 83.

I remember that my grandfather told me that he had not made any money farming since he made 1940.

He told me that 1942 to 1946,

he made more money than he had from 1946 to 1968.

Oh, my gosh.

Wow.

And he put a one year, I think it was 53, and he he was a pacifist.

And he had a lot of people in our family that had been in war and wounded.

His

son-in-law, nephew-in-law, two nephews-in-law.

One had been shot in the head right after Normandy.

He's buried in the Ham Military Cemetery.

And the other one, I mentioned he had

He got a very high fever, dinghy fever in the Philippines.

And he was retarded, you know, he was never the same.

He rode a bike out and came and visited us from town every day.

And then my other half got, but my point is he really hated the Vietnam War.

He was kind of a pacifist farmer.

He was very conservative, though.

And he was always apologizing for making money during the World War II because they bought raisins like crazy for

you know, a non-perishable food for the troops.

It was very nutritious.

It was non-perishable.

And he refused to make wine.

You know, you could make Thompson Seelus in those days and did generic wine.

He didn't do it until he was very old, and he got really upset about it.

Oh, no.

But yeah, he didn't make any money.

And it was,

even though he had 140 acres here, we had another farm in Kingsburg.

It was all subsistence when I was a kid.

And by that, I mean.

It was, we had, I think, one acre of walnuts.

We all had to pick walnuts, and then we would crack them and put them in plastic bags.

And then we had one acre of

Washington naval oranges, and we picked them and we washed the skins, and we stored them.

And then he had raisins that he'd washed and stemmed, and we put all these out in the porch.

And so when we went down there, they had, you know,

orange juice, and we had oranges, and we had cracked walnuts and raisins.

And my

grandmother would make kind of like an early granola with raisins and nuts.

They didn't have any money.

Sounds like just what gougers do, Victor.

Yeah, I mean, it was just, it was, we know what's going to happen with wages.

Venezuela did it.

Soviet Union did it.

It doesn't work.

Yeah.

Because it assumes the government is smarter than the market and

the invisible hand of Adam Smith, and it's not.

Yeah.

Unless you know, you have a big marketing.

Collective humans are a lot smarter than Kamala Harris.

Yeah.

I think they told her many times about the.

They told her to shut up.

They basically told her, no more economic suggestions.

No more.

You're not going to do it because you have enough of a trail already, Kamala, with your steel snatch the patents and your prior thing about confiscating guns and your prior riff on equity.

And we had to ensure everybody on the back end ended up the same, that you were suspiciously a communist or socialist.

And now you go out and talk about wage and price controls.

And now we have this thing came out about gender equity.

And you were going to,

that was the scariest, Jack, when she said if there's a disparity of 1% between female and males in the same job, she was going to fine the company 1% for each violation or something to that effect.

It's all based on the idea, if you give me enough power, I'm going to control your lives in a way that I think will make you all equal when you're not equal innately.

And anytime anytime anybody does that, they have to get more and more and more power.

Right.

More people.

It's crazy.

Everybody's very worried.

You know, it's really weird.

I don't know why there's such a depression right now on the right.

Have you noticed that?

I talked.

Yeah, I do know.

Also, I feel it myself.

Yeah.

I know it.

And I watched TV.

And I called some people very prominent on the right, and they're all depressed.

And I thought, wait a minute, the polls are dead even.

And I just looked at the Electoral College, and Trump is ahead.

And he's ahead in

six of the nine swing states in the real clear politics.

This is after the greatest media barrage in history and her not speaking a word to the press.

Can they keep it up?

But yes, she will get a balance at the end of this week.

But if Trump just stays on message and stops the ad hominem and speaks,

you know, like I said before, I wrote a column on the Ultra for the website.

Just appear three or four times with one arm around Nikki Haley and the other around DeSantis.

These are good people.

They agree with you.

If we win this and we're going to win this, these are the type of people that are going to unite us and we're going to put them in positions.

I know MAGA will get a little mad, but that's what he has to do.

Victor, that's the depression: is that what you're saying makes absolute sense.

I know it's not going to happen.

Victor, shut up.

We understand that you've said it on Fox.

you say in your podcast you've written seminars i know i have but i'm getting frustrated yeah and he needs to take kemp and he needs to say governor kemp and i didn't agree we still don't agree on that election but you know what that's minuscule in comparison with socialism and communism he doesn't like it and i don't like it and i have my arm around him and we're going to win georgia together and whatever he wants as far as local counties i'm for

and he should do that and then he should say to his team you know what?

We're going to keep those rallies to 90 minutes.

And I want a script and I want explanation and some facts.

I want to say, this is exactly how many people came in.

I'm not just going to say, what do you mean?

I want to know what you think.

Is it 12 or 15?

Or you tell me.

And here's why they came in.

And this is what the new, this is what Obadar, I handled Obadar.

You know what he's doing now?

He's trying to stage a revolution to cancel the Supreme Court and redo the entire.

He's trying to prepare himself for Camilla Harris because there's going to be an onslaught coming in this country.

And this is what we're up against.

He needs to explain that.

And then he needs to keep that to 90 minutes.

And when he does a press conference, he said, I'm sorry, 20 minutes, I'm done.

Sharp, quick answers.

No, she's a lunatic.

No, we know that.

No, she's dumb.

We know that.

No, she can't talk.

We know that.

Joe Biden, she, okay, no Biden.

He's done.

Just say, you know what?

Can you imagine Camilla Harris trying to outsmart a free market to determine a price?

And when she can't outsmart it, she's going to use the power of federal government, the same power.

she wants to take away your semi-automatic weapons, the same power that she wants to fine you corporations if you don't make her formula of what compensation should be?

Same person.

And you companies that have a patent, you think she's going to to stop with drug patents?

If she says that Cipro is too high, she's going to cancel the Cipro

patent and let everybody make it and forget about Cipro trying to get its RD back.

But she's going to do that to everything.

Everything.

And pretty soon people will not be doing research and they will not be investing in development.

Because if they do, they're never going to get their money back because she's going to give it away.

And when she ends the patent, that's just not American companies.

That's Chinese companies and Russia because all of them will get in on it.

And to the extent that we can retaliate, that's the only reason they respect a patent.

And even then, they don't respect it very well.

Well, and why shouldn't she, Victor?

We have an imperial presidency with Biden.

He's setting the table for acting that way.

She'll do it in spades.

I don't understand it.

You know, they go.

If you just take a deep breath,

we are in the middle of the greatest revolutionary cycle in the history of this country.

We have witnessed in the last nine years

Hillary Clinton hiring a foreign national to create a completely spurious invective dossier, peddle it to a toady press, and sabotage a political campaign, declare the legitimate winner illegitimate along with Jimmy Carter, Hycum Jeffries, everybody, and then go right in to evaporate 22 months of his administration with this Mueller collusion nonsense and then take a breath and then impeach him for a phone call less egregious than what Joe Biden said to Israel.

We're going to stop the 3,500 bombs that we approved in the Congress to you

unless you do what I say.

subtext, I'm worried about the vote in Michigan.

That's what they impeached Trump for, that he was trying to play domestic politics by suspending aid because they were involved with the Bidens.

Okay, so we impeached him, and then we impeached a private citizen.

We impeached him twice.

Then we took him off the ballot of 16 states.

Then we unleashed five civil and criminal court proceedings against him.

Then somebody tried to shoot him.

And then we removed the Democratic candidate and nullified, vidiated 15 million nearly primary voters after we changed the narrative from him fit as a fiddle to completely helpless and hopeless.

And then we took somebody that we said was completely inert and could never be president and therefore you have to keep Biden in.

When we got changed the narrative, then she became Christ-like.

That's what we're up against.

And man, that is some of the most revolutionary law affair manipulations, anti-constitutional stuff we've seen.

And it's not over yet.

And this is all in the background of suddenly we woke up in 2020 and Election Day didn't exist.

70% of the people showed up on Election Day.

There was a term called absentee ballot.

You wrote a little excuse and said, I'm sick.

I have to work.

Suddenly it was mail and early balloting and 70% of the people didn't show up on Election Day.

And gosh, these are revolutionary times and the

The Republicans are like Paul Ryan in that commercial, Jock.

They're in a wheelchair and they're just being pushed over the cliff every time.

They've gone, what the?

Yeah, they're not doing the pushing.

They're being pushed.

You know,

I try to talk to people.

I do five or six podcasts with different groups a day, and I talk in the commercials, and

I'm just amazed.

They're wonderful people, but their attitude is like,

hey, Victor, can you believe?

Can you believe that they just switched and got bad at Biden out?

Can you believe all of a sudden Harris, that fool?

She's divine.

How do they do that?

Do you really think that Alvin Bragg would dare put Trump in jail?

Do you think that he can come up with the 300 million

the fine that Letita James and Carol had?

I can't believe it.

They're going to try to take him off the ballot.

It was just utter amazement.

And what do you do about it?

You know what I mean?

Yeah, well, Victor, this all started with the French Revolution.

They chopped the head off the king and the queen.

And then in Russia, they shot the czar and his family.

Do we not think they won't do anything, the left?

I mean, it's part and parcel of

their.

But you know what?

I also talked to a very close friend, and I really think she's wonderful, but she's so upbeat that I called her partly, but she was kind of depressed.

And she said, I don't know what these people are going to do if they win.

I'm scared that they'll go after their.

And she's right.

But the point I'm making to everybody, we don't know why I'm bringing, don't get depressed.

He's even in the polls.

He doesn't have the media.

He doesn't have the universities.

He doesn't have Hollywood.

He doesn't have Silicon Valley.

He doesn't have the money.

They're going to outspend him three to one.

And he's even.

Right as I speak, he's even.

Now, he's going to go down three or four points with the bounce.

But he's got an advantage.

He can win the election on his own, and she can't.

She can't.

She can only win if Trump allows her to win.

Because

if he disciplines himself and they do to Harris what they did to Dekakis and Jimmy Carter in 1980 and show the world who he is or who she is and demonstrate it and get brilliant ads,

even if they only have half the money, they can still beat her.

But not if you give up, get depressed.

It's not worth voting.

I don't really, well, I'll vote for him, but I won't give him any money if you're a big donor.

It's not going to work.

It's socialism, man.

It's socialism.

And they can vote

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When Victor is being upbeat compared to the rest of us, it's worth noting.

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Victor,

I've got to read another little spot, but let's talk quickly about one subject and let's wrap this up with your thoughts about the Republicans filing for impeachment against Joe Biden.

But the first little topic, and then I got to read a spot, has to do with this Harley-Davidson backtracking on DEI.

There's this activist Robbie Starbuck, who got more recently John Deere, which is like,

is John Deere

going woke?

Are you kidding me?

Harley Davidson woke.

John Deere Deere is always the blue chip.

I always drove massive Fergusons.

I could never afford a John Deere.

They always said that John Deere is heated up.

They didn't.

But, you know, with 115 and you're going down 12-foot vineyard roads with a tandem disc, you got one inch of clearance on either side.

You got to have a good tractor.

And

so I always had a massive 285, 75, or 265, but I always wanted a John Deere.

Couldn't afford it.

It was a blue chip tractor.

Everybody liked them.

Well, like, bud, these are names that you think of, and you think of America.

Exactly.

And I don't understand.

I'm backing off, but go ahead.

These people are completely.

Who do they think buys John Deere?

Do they think the guy in Atherton or Hillsborough or Cambridge, Massachusetts gets on his lawn tractor?

No.

It's either a guy who does his landscaping or a guy in Hillsdale, Michigan who loves to get out and mow his lawn himself.

Right.

And they're conservative.

And as far as Harley, you know, when I heard about this,

I think it was started by Robbie Starbuck.

Robbie Starbuck.

Yes.

Well, he said that he was, so I did a little thing in my mind.

Every time I went to Fresno or my local little town, I drove over.

I went over and stopped in Los Bamos.

Anytime I saw Harley, right,

and I went up to the Sierra, you see a lot of them.

I looked at the person driving, and guess what?

They were a little different than Honda or Yama.

Every single Harley was a white man between 30, 40, and 60.

Yeah.

Usually,

and that person is not a Biden-Harris voter.

They're really not.

So if you're Harley and you're in Milwaukee of all places, and your trademark is that constituency, and you're sponsoring gay parades and drags and DEI, and you keep forcing it down somebody's throat,

and you don't, and you rely on U.S.

domestic sales, what are you doing?

You're just telling those people, screw you.

And they're just saying, you know what, we like to buy Harley, but there's other stuff where we don't have to buy it.

And they didn't.

But if I may, Victor, it's also a company that tries to create a culture among its customers, unlike like Heinz Ketchup doesn't do that with its customers.

No, Harley does.

And everywhere.

Emblem is everywhere.

It's kind of, I see people with Harley t-shirts that have never been on a motorcycle.

Same thing with John Deere.

Nothing runs like a deer, and it's everything.

It's John Deere

weed whack.

They have every type of...

yard cleanup equipment, gas motor, everything.

And the people who use those are the muscular classes.

And it's not like, you know, Michael

Amazon or Adobe.

So why do they do that?

Because they're arrogant and stupid.

I'm now sounding like Trump.

But I'm explaining why they are, because they have absolute contempt for the working classes and they think they can get away with it.

And who are they?

These are not somebody who was 19 years old and he worked at the John Dealership, John Deere dealership selling, and then he went into the service department and he was a brilliant mechanic.

And then he ran the service.

Then he was transferred to the home office.

Then he was a national office.

And then he took some business class.

And then he got worked his way up.

No, no, no, no.

These are people who come right out of MBA programs and advertising and marketing.

And they're in their 20, 30s, like the woman, you remember her who did the Bud Light commercial?

They fired her, the Bud Light trans thing.

They fired that

Harvard girl.

Yes.

that's who does it.

And they've never lived with real people.

And they have nothing but contempt for real people.

That's what's so strange.

It's at least funny about these people.

The great strength of America that made it going back to Tocqueville

was you had autonomous, independent, middle-class people, shopkeepers, truck drivers, teamsters, farmers, and they were pragmatic and they were

free to do what they needed to do.

And they developed a fierce sense of individualism and liberty.

And they were unlike anybody in the world.

And why you would not like those people or you would try to destroy them when they made the United States unique, I don't know.

But it's

somebody's going to have to start defending that tradition.

They really are.

When I heard.

Aren't you doing that?

Aren't you part of some

essay series on

forthcoming?

I'm getting old, man.

I'm going to be 71.

But my point is

at the Chicago convention, Jack, they started to apologize for

settler land on Chicago.

And I said to myself, okay,

maybe you're right.

You have 100 years of Democratic mayors.

You destroyed the city.

It's not the city of Carl Sandberg anymore.

Right.

It's not.

Okay, give it back to Native Americans.

If you don't have confidence in your own culture and you don't have confidence in your civilization and you don't think that Native Americans are treated equitably and they have a standard of living higher than any other indigenous people in the world, if you don't believe that, then give it back.

Just move out.

You've destroyed it anyway.

Move it back.

Give it back.

And they don't do that.

It's like Stanford University.

You go into your office and one day who Manipios Sarah is not there in my plaza.

Well, he whipped Indians 250 years.

Well, how about you?

leland stanford hired Chinese Americans and then he made fun of them so then just change the name of Stanford yeah but they never you miss white professor give your job up to a

yes they never never do that it's all virtue signaling tokenism

and that's it's pernicious and it and it's aggregate you know when it aggregates because people just lose heart.

Oh no, I guess we are.

We're settlers.

They should have said, look at this beautiful city.

Look at it.

Look at these skyscrapers.

Look at this.

We built this.

No other city did this in the world.

And they can't.

It's not true now because it's, you know, injecting, fornicating, defecating, and urinating everywhere.

And then, you know,

Al Capone on Saturday nights in Chicago.

But

you have to realize that this civilization

was astounding.

And it still is.

And it gets me really angry.

You know, when I hear these people that have done nothing and they start criticizing Elon Musk,

they were after him.

He tweeted something they got all upset about.

I thought, man, this guy, we talked about Bill Crystal attacking him as a mediocrity.

Gosh, there's never been a Renaissance man like him in 50 years.

There just isn't.

I mean, his space keeps working and working and working.

Save the space station?

I'll do it.

Send up 10 times as many

rockets as Russia does in a year, and you'll do it every month.

You put more in a month than Russia can do a whole year.

I'll do it.

Break into the.

You can do a tunnel under Las Vegas.

I'll do it.

Yeah.

Go under Las Vegas with a big tunnel.

I'll do it.

Can you break in?

Remember DeLorean, that

John DeLorean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Remember that didn't work?

He was going to break into the top three.

He can't.

Studerbaper couldn't.

American Motors.

This guy comes in and says, I'm going to break into the big three with an electric car.

No, you can't.

The Bolt didn't.

Chevy Bolt was a disaster.

It won't.

He did it.

And he's done everything like that.

He played five times too much for Twitter.

Yes, he did.

And he changed the whole culture of social media by making X.

Yeah, and he stood up for free speech in the front.

He is.

He's a Renaissance person, yet we hate him.

People like that made the country.

And that's what we have to be.

We shouldn't be apologetic about it.

I just talked to, you know, somebody, I won't get into it, but somebody talked to me and they gave me this little La Raza stuff.

And I just kind of lost it.

I was in the supermarket and said, oh, I like you on Fox, but, you know, you should do this and this and this.

And I just said,

why are all these people coming to the United States?

And if they come to the United States and they have the same attitude as Obador, this won't be where they want to come.

if you elect Harris, it'll be like Obador's.

And then why would you come here?

Because you would just be going from one socialist country to another.

You're coming here for a reason.

You may not know it, but it's called Free Market Capitalism and the U.S.

Constitution.

And it's unique.

And I'm sorry if the people who broke it, who created it, were white males with wigs.

But they weren't just white males with wigs.

They were peculiar people who had ideas of ecumenicalism and freedom that transcended race that did not exist

in Mexico.

They didn't exist with the Tlaxcalans.

They didn't exist with the Aztecs.

They didn't exist with the conquistadors.

These were people whose views and ideas and values and customs, if they were going to come to fruition as they have,

the end result

would end their own monopoly.

In other words, they were saying that these ideas will allow anybody of any race or religion to prosper, even though our customs from the Anglo-Saxon Western tradition created them.

But everybody can

share that tradition.

It's a state of mind.

It's not appearance.

That was the most revolutionary idea in history.

And what do we do?

We make fun of those people as if they didn't do anything, or they fault them, or we say, we took the land from the Indians.

Yeah.

Well, Victor,

I have to read something.

And

before I do, though, I wanted to say about what I mentioned before about Tocqueville.

I thought you were writing part of

a series of essays,

you and others for New Year.

I just finished my essay, Roger Kimball's editing it.

Okay, so this is forthcoming.

Yes, it's forthcoming.

It's an essay on Tocqueville and his warnings about democracy and

the idea that American democracy in the founder's view should not, not resemble Athenian democracy and why, and it should resemble Roman republicanism and why.

And Tocqueville had something to say about that later.

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Victor.

Let me just say one thing real quick.

I was thinking about Nick Nixon.

I was talking about what farming was like, but when I graduated from high school in 71, and people can correct me, I don't think what was weird about those price controls,

I don't think it was like the Carter inflation.

I think it was more like 6 or 7%.

It wasn't that bad.

I mean, it was bad.

Yeah.

But it was, uh, and the other thing I remember about it,

I didn't really know what it was.

I was just graduated from high school, but I kind of read and

nobody, and it hadn't been done since the repression.

And it was kind of like she's doing this because I remember that most people liked it.

Oh, you mean I don't have to pay more?

And it was sold that way by Nixon.

You know what I mean?

Is there's no downside.

Right.

And then there was a downside.

It helped.

Of course.

I mean, the guy really,

it blew up very quickly, and it started to get bad.

And they kind of...

Carol Ford ran on that whip inflation now, right?

Yes, he did.

And it was weird.

I went back and looked at the 72 campaign about a month ago, and it was really weird as it's starting to get bad.

Nixon flipped and was blaming McGovern for the rising inflation that he'd helped cause.

It was really weird.

And

the weird thing is, Jack, it was very popular, and she's doing that because she thinks that people will respond because they'll just say, I went to the store and that Chuck's steak is still the same price.

And they will.

But then the pain comes six months later, and that's what's going to happen.

That's what I remember.

Well, Victor, we have...

a little bit of time, five minutes, because we've got a dead stop here today.

But you think in five minutes, you can give your thoughts as to the Republicans'

impeachment report that came out yesterday.

Well, there were two things.

Comer said that they have the evidence that the Biden Consortium got $27 million.

And that's going to have ramifications for Hunter.

I know that he was given exemption from earlier taxes, but if Joe Biden gets out of office and Camilla Harris is not

the president, we'll see what the IRS does with the statute of limitations.

You can go back three years

if it's inadvertent, but I think if there was a felony, you can go back earlier.

I'm not sure.

But there's exposure there in taxes, kind of like Al Capone.

They got $27 million, and believe me, they did not pay taxes on all of that money.

Where they said they didn't, what was clever about it was, and I looked at some of the report,

they said things like, Hunter says, Hey, my dad is in the room right now, or my dad will talk to you.

But they never put in writing or in a text or on a phone call,

give us that million dollars, and my dad will go in and get exactly what you want done from President Obama.

And that's where

that was the problem.

In other words, they got all of this money, but it was kind of, you know what I mean?

When you,

I've had, I've seen donors, I don't want to say I've had, I've seen donors give money, right?

Right.

Unattached.

And then they later have come, hey, by the way, I want you to do this and this and this, but they never say, I'm going to give this money if you do, and then you're going to do this.

Right.

In other words, it works as friendship.

Because if you say no, if somebody says,

I gave all this money to Fresno State, and Victor, I want you to go speak all over for me, and you don't, then that's kind of what?

It's kind of, yeah, ingratitude.

So you feel guilty.

So I had a guy, I won't mention his name, gave a lot of money at Cal State.

Very generous.

And then he would call me and say, I'm coming down.

I want you to pick me up and I want you to take me to lunch and I want you to take me on a tour and then I want you to do this and then I want you to speak and I want you to do this.

And I did

because I thought it would be ingratitude.

And I always thought that my time was not nearly as valuable as the sum total he gave.

But my point is: this is that when they give that money, then they develop a relationship, so then they call for things.

And the only way you can protect yourself, if you're a high-ranking politician, is saying if you want to give money, it has to be transparent

and it has to go through these channels.

And that's what didn't happen.

The other thing is:

what do you do now, Jack, when you have proof that the sitting president of the United States, while he was vice president, he and his son and his brothers

were crooks and they got $27 million

and the left who has fought you

for three and a half years and denied that doesn't care

and is probably leaking to you.

Hey, there's some more stuff you can get.

And you know what?

This report came out because some of the documentation on the freedom of information was released.

So, in other words, now they're saying, wow, they kind of admitted they took 27 million bucks, but it's all the guys that they want to get rid of.

They don't like Hunter.

Right.

And they don't want Joe.

And if we impeach the SOB and they were, they might even vote to, they might even vote to convict him, to give her an incumbency.

So it's too little, too late.

And that's what's so weird about it.

They're basically saying the President of the United States is a crook and he got $27 million, he and his family, and it was improper.

And we're releasing this thing now because there's been a lot of leaks and there's not really any opposition.

And to the degree the Democrats care, they're just kind of like, why don't you move on?

We don't really care.

If you want to impeach them, go ahead.

You know what I mean?

It's not a contentious issue.

They were fighting like it was a news thing.

And now the official narrative has changed.

There is no Joe Biden as fit as a fiddle.

He's going to run for re-election.

No, he has been.

He's irrelevant.

He's an old yeller who just barks at the moon.

We don't want him any more than you do.

If you want to go beat his corpse, go ahead.

We don't care.

That's their attitude.

And so Comer's like, wait a minute.

This was my goal.

to show the world that he doesn't deserve to continue.

And they're kind of like, man, don't quote me.

You're right.

He's a crook all along, but the narrative has changed.

He is a crook, and now he's your crook, not our crook.

Right.

And you can do what you want.

And Comer's like,

okay,

he's our crook, and now we have to deal with him.

And if we impeach him, they're just going to call us petulant and wasting precious time.

And then if we were to succeed and one apostate voted on our side,

then she'd be an incumbent.

If he was really Machiavelli, Jackie'd say, wait a minute, if she's an incumbent, yeah, she'll get this, as I said earlier, the upside of incumbency, but she's so incompetent and incoherent, she might be forced to be out and it could boomerang, especially if there's a tension overseas.

So, therefore, maybe we should impeach him and maybe they'll allow us to convict him or something.

But they're not going to do that.

It's over with.

Done.

They made their statement.

He's a crook.

We all knew that.

Look at the houses.

Look at

all of the expenses.

Look at how they lived.

Look at the laptop communications.

Look at the money.

Look at Barisma.

Look at Hunter.

It's all there.

His girlfriend, the former stripper in Washington that had the child

and they disowned for a while until they were shamed into admitting it.

She has a memoir out now.

And I read it.

Yes, I read a couple reviews about it.

It's pretty stunning.

I wouldn't pay for it.

But

there's long quotations in some of the reviews.

And it's just, he's just utterly stoned and doesn't know where he is or what he's doing or who he is.

He's just,

you know, it's like we're driving.

Oh, we got to go in the bathroom.

I got to go snort right now.

And that kind of stuff.

Constant.

What's he saying?

The smartest guy Joe ever met.

It's amazing.

And he talks about women.

The thing about,

I really get mad about Biden, two things.

He lectures the country on paying their fair share.

You've got to pay your fair share.

His son is a tax cheat and is facing federal tax evasion charges as we speak.

And he is a tax cheat.

And he's such a hypocrite.

The other thing is he keeps saying that Trump is anti-women because, oh, look at Stormy Allen.

Forget about he didn't even want to acknowledge

his own own granddaughter.

Forget about the fact he can't see any preteen girl without blowing on her hair, calling her out as cute, telling her whether to date, squeezing her.

Forget about the fact Tara Reed said she sexually assaulted by him.

Forget about the fact that any middle-aged woman that dares hug him is going to be hugged very strongly and maybe kissed on the lips.

And we knew that in the 2020 campaign when I think six women complained and he apologized.

But the apology, remember Jack, was, well, I was just from a different generation when that was okay.

So my point is, if you read from these reviews of

his

son's interaction with the widow of Bo

and this woman, it's pretty abusive, you know what I mean?

In other words, he takes women who

have pretty much the straight and narrow.

I mean, they may be a little racy here or or there.

And he gets them on drugs.

And he gets them into his drug-ridden lifestyle.

And then he discards them.

And he really destroyed

Beau's widow and got her on drugs.

And he got this woman on drugs.

And he's a very pernicious, dangerous kid.

He really, not kid, adult.

And this idea that he is

just not culpable, he's a very evil person.

And he's probably the second top advisor to the President of the United States.

Smartest man he's ever met.

Smartest man he's ever read.

All right, Victor,

you've got a date with some contractor or something.

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You shouldn't have said this publicly.

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