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Yeah, so I want to also let our listeners know, Victor.

Again, we're recording on Tuesday the 6th, and lots happened just today.

We're going to get your thoughts about

the

Tim Walls being the Minnesota,

if I could say that right, the leftist Minnesota governor who is Kamala Harris's Veep choice.

And we have something we wanted to talk about last week, couldn't get to with the 9-11 deal.

And we have

war seemingly more on the brinkier than ever in the Middle East.

And I know there's something else here we're going to get to, Victor, but oh, Kamala's basement campaign.

Yeah.

I think we're on day 16, 17 of her not talking to the press.

No, remember, no, no, no, no.

Remember, she said that she can't talk to the press because it would be presumptuous because she's not officially nominated yet.

And that would be unfair to the other candidates.

That's what one of her, they don't exist, but that's what one of our handlers, some of her handlers have been saying, well, she's going to talk.

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Okay, Victor, we're trying to now

record these podcasts closer to the actual air dates.

So here's a great try.

So we'll be out on the 8th.

But as happened this evening

on the East Coast, Tim Walls, the leftist governor of Minnesota,

a champion of no borders,

man who let the Minneapolis get toasted over George Floyd.

He is the nominee.

And Victor, I'm just, I, I'm a little more than surprised they're embracing the leftism

that they tried to ignore or push aside in 2020 when they didn't want to nominate Bernie Sanders.

That's why we got Joe Biden's.

Tim Walls, what are your thoughts?

It's been a big gift.

It's been a gift to the Trump administration.

Now, it's Trump candidacy.

I mean, JFK was a northern left liberal.

So

in 1960, he picked Lyndon Johnson.

Lyndon Johnson was a southern,

supposedly

more conservative.

He wasn't, but that was the image.

So he picks Hubert Humphrey in 64.

So then there's Richard Nixon, and he tries to get a swing border state.

Agnew.

And on and on and on.

Even John Kerry, the left-wing liberal, gets Joe Lieberman, the centrist.

And even Bill Clinton in the days when Al Gore was spouting off that he was the moderate southerner, they pick

Al Gore.

Even Barack Obama picks good old Joe from Scranton.

He wasn't

a centrist, but that was the image.

But they didn't even go through the motions.

They just Xeroxed it.

And the idea is,

and some of you are going to say, well, that's J.D.

Vance.

That's J.D.

Vance.

Well, J.D.

Vance is a little different than Donald Trump.

At least there was some

socio-cultural differences in age and maybe, I don't know, in experience.

But

this waltz guy is a duplicate of her on every issue.

And he has done to Minnesota what she helped do as Attorney General.

and a lifelong prosecutor and a senator did to California.

So the question is, why would she do that?

Well,

is he well-spoken, like J.D.

Vance, and it can explain her agenda?

Maybe,

but she doesn't have an agenda now because she's doing what all of these Democrats do.

They try to get for 90 days, 120 days, whatever the campaigning season is, once they lock up the nomination or the primaries are over, the delegates are decided, they go to the center.

And that was John Kerry, you know, salute, reporting for duty and all that stuff.

And then they get, when they get elected, like Barack Obama, there is no blue state, there is no red states, it's just America.

Yeah, he didn't believe that.

But when they get elected, then they go with their agenda and their message to the American people is we have to deceive you in order to serve you.

So put up with us and we're going to go through this rig and a row.

And that's what they're doing.

But the problem is by picking him and given her political record, it's going to be very hard to do because they're basically saying,

I'm on record with open borders and you don't dare say Merry Christmas when the illegal aliens can't enjoy Merry Christmas.

And I'm for no fracking, Green New Deal, no horizontal drilling, abortion to the moment of birth.

all these crazy.

And I just picked somebody just like that.

And now we're both going to say that we're moderates.

It's going to be very difficult to do that.

And then they've got the other problem is

Ohio is a closer swing state, I think, than Minnesota by picking Vance.

But the idea of picking Vance was that he was going to go into Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and appeal to those people to come out and vote.

the working class.

So they had a guy that supposedly could do that, the governor of Pennsylvania.

He had the whole machine in his hand.

Pennsylvania is the bigger of the three states with the greater delegates.

So they thought, you know what, we'll pick, I thought for, at first I thought they were going to pick him.

Then I thought, you know, they're terrified of a 1968 Chicago convention.

And if they pick him and what he's written as a young kid about Israel and he's pro-Israel and he's Jewish and they hate Jews and the base of that party, it's going to be a nightmare in Chicago.

It still may.

So they didn't want him.

And the message went out: if you were a Jewish Democrat, I don't know if it's going to hurt, I don't think it'll hurt the donor class, but the message is we don't want any Jew, Jewish person anywhere near the top of this ticket because if we get elected, it's going to be bad news for Israel.

We're going to be pro-Iran, pro-Hamas, pro-Hizbollah.

And they are.

And everybody should know that.

And and minnesota is yeah other other than michigan is kind of a ground zero for that i got really frustrated with that guy i don't know if you remember but during 2020 when everything was burning

and it was the locus it was ground zero because of the george floyd incident there the death of george floyd there and so That guy got on TV and he basically said

he didn't want to use law enforcement because he was was worried about the protesters who were by this time looting and burning and killing and assaulting.

And then his unhinged daughter, remember that?

She tweeted a bunch of stuff and she was basically tweeting,

acting as if she had inside information from her daddy, which she did apparently, and saying, don't worry, go out tonight.

The guard won't be there tonight.

I got it on good.

They're not going to be there tonight.

You can go out there.

If they're there, it'll take them a time to get there.

And then his wife was giving these weird interviews where she rolled down the window so she could smell the authentic smell of burning so that she got some personal experience with the ordeal of all the protests.

Also, that whatever was burning, whose equity it was, it deserved to be burned.

Like your small business zone.

Yes, she didn't care.

No, they don't care.

So that's going to come out, the haunt them.

I never understood the idea in a male bathroom, you have tampoons.

I guess it's the idea there's people

that are biologically female and they still have ovaries and a

female sexual organs, but they're dressing as men.

We used to call that transvestism, but we don't anymore.

But that is about 0.001 of the population.

And

again, it's the idea that you don't care about the normal person, normal meaning the people who are the greater percentage that will be using that bathroom.

And they feel more comfortable with people who are biologically, sexually aligned.

And then the thing about it was

this party is, it just functions right out of Orwell and right out of the Soviet Union with this Pravda-like group speak.

About five days ago, a little DNC person wrote this.

It's weird, you guys.

It's creepy and weird this week.

That's the word.

JD Vance had intercourse with a couch.

Now, it's we don't, we can't confirm it, but we'll get it out there and then the fact checkers will reject it, but it will be out there because of that.

So, you just say weird, weird, weird, weird, weird, right?

So, this is the party of the surgeon general, who is, I don't know what he is, he's

he's transsexual or

transgendered.

And we had the serial baggage thief.

Uh,

We had a picture.

Yeah, the demi energies are.

I didn't see the picture the other day.

I saw the picture the other day.

I don't know if it was Photoshop, so I apologize to the audience, but somebody sent me this picture of this device that men wear that are nursing their children when they're both of the same sex.

And did you see it?

It has two plastic breasts.

You fill it up with milk, and then you hold the baby to the plastic breast.

The party that does all of that, and we're not even getting into

what happened at the Olympics or the left-wing boxers and volleyball players that hurt women or what we see at the border, they're calling the other party weird.

It doesn't make any sense.

Weird, like what?

I guess what they're saying to all of us is, if you're heterosexual, which they call cis, I guess, cisgender, if you're heterosexual and you're married and you have children and you have a nuclear family, you're weird.

Weird, yeah.

And

if you,

what else makes you weird?

Being white?

Is that what they think is weird?

Because that's still 68 to 70% of the population.

What is so weird?

I don't understand about J.D.

Vance.

Why is he weird?

He married somebody of a different race.

His kids are biracial.

I see on TV this Sonny Hossin or something said, this person is weird.

He just wants to have, they were interviewing some woman and she said,

he just wants more white children.

Well, he's not doing a very good job of it.

He's true himself.

Yeah.

So

it's scary how they adopt that group speak and then they all like

just

aborg, just say, say, say.

And this is what this guy was doing tonight.

Walt.

They're weird.

They're creepy.

They want to go into your bedroom.

All that crap.

And question is, just Mr.

Waltz, just ask,

just if JD

Vance debates him, all he has to do is,

Mr.

Waltz, during your tenure as governor, did more people come into Minnesota or did they leave?

Are there more policemen on the beat as crime has soared or is there fewer policemen?

Did test scores, when you said that teachers should not look like you, have test scores

therefore under DI, have they gone up?

Have graduation rates gone up?

Has reading competency gone up or has it gone down?

Fiscally, is Minnesota in a better financial situation today or when you took office?

And they can ask a series and we know what the answer is.

It's a mess.

It's California.

So basically their message to us is, I'm Camilla Camilla Harris and I'm Governor Waltz and we're going to do to the United States what we did to California and Minnesota.

But we can't tell you that yet because you don't like what I did to California.

You don't like what I did to Minnesota.

So bear with us.

We're going to deceive you for 90 days.

And then after the end of 90 days, you'll get to have what we enjoy in California and Minnesota.

That's the message.

Anybody who votes for that ticket

has got to have their head examined because you know what's going to happen if they were to be elected in January and if they win the Senate.

First of all, they're going to try to figure out how to deal with a $1.3 trillion by then interest payment and probably somewhere around $37 or $38 trillion and going at an astronomical rate with multi-trillion dollar deficits.

And we're headed into a recession because the $7 to $8 million trillion dollars they printed created hyperinflation, which meant people's buying power went down, prices rose, and then the ultimate reaction and the inevitable reaction is now following.

People can't afford stuff, so they're not buying.

And now we learn there were more jobs created for foreign nationals than for Americans, and that he really hasn't created any jobs for American citizens.

And these are low-paying jobs for the most of the people coming across the border.

So you add it all up.

Even if the Fed, which they will do, will try to throw the election by lowering interest rates.

Even with that, we're headed into a recessionary period.

And that's going to be a very tough time if these people are elected.

And as far as Israel, as I said earlier, and they're just going to just completely wash their hands of Israel.

They really are.

And they are going to be empowered by this guy.

And

it's also, you know, it's really,

you think in 2004 when John Kerry picked a Jewish American Lieberman on the Democratic side,

they couldn't do that anymore.

They'll never do that again in our lifetime.

This is the party that talks about liberality and tolerance and was a traditional home to the Jewish community.

You cannot be on the ticket if you're Jewish.

This is like gentlemen's agreement.

It's like going back to the 40s.

And everybody should take note of that.

It's

an ideal candidate.

I mean, we're going to learn stuff about Walt.

They're already talking to us about his drunk driving, which he kind of got off with reckless driving, driving 95 miles an hour as a school teacher.

I mean, I think I was a teacher, and if I had driven 80 miles, in a 55-mile an hour zone drunk, that would be all through.

And so they're going to bring out all this stuff about him.

And then we're going to ask ourselves, why would you pass up this young, vibrant, charismatic, and I'm glad they did.

Again, I'm not arguing for Josh Shapiro.

I'm relieved.

But why would you pass up a guy with the most important electoral college state in this coming election?

And you would wait to the very end as if you're considering it.

It's not a done deal.

I know that in my head, I should pick him.

But the squad says no.

And the people in Michigan say no.

So I'm going to have to go with the

less diverse candidate, the candidate that's not going to help me as much.

There's one other reason on the Shapiro question, but let's get to that and some more stuff, Victor and Walls.

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on Shapiro, and then we can bounce back to walls a little bit a bit.

He masqueraded, and I think he probably genuinely felt himself to be in favor of school choice.

He came out last year when the Pennsylvania budget was percolating, and

he said he was going to to support the school choice

program.

That's the kind of thing that would please the Betsy DeVoses of the world.

Well,

very tight house in the Senate, excuse me, in the legislature there, one vote.

But the leader of the House Democrats, and de facto Speaker of the House, is, of course,

a teachers' union leader.

So, long story short, the teachers' unions and therefore everyone else in the SEIU you asked me, they hate Shapiro because of what his position is.

They have reason to hate him, and you're right, he's a leftist.

But

among all the leftists you could pick,

I'm just trying to emphasize the fact that he was a governor, and he has about a 53% approval rating, and he will be a force to swing that Philadelphia-Pittsburgh vote to win

for Harris and get those votes.

And on two issues, he is diametrically opposed to his party because he has to be.

One,

he's a devout Jew and he supports Israel.

And two,

and he does it for other reasons, no doubt, as well.

And two, he supports fracking, and that's central, essential, crucial to Pennsylvania.

And so,

is he left-wing?

Yes.

But he had the pretense, the veneer of being passed off as a moderate.

Not that they won't try it with Waltz, and they will.

They're trying it with Harris, but it won't work.

He's too far left.

He's too loudmouthed.

He's a braggart and a loudmouth.

I've watched that guy on television for four years.

As soon as he sees a camera, he starts salivating and he runs up to it and starts screaming.

He brags that he was a football.

He reminds me of one of my old football coaches.

You know what I mean?

That's what he does.

And I just don't see it except the fact that the squad and the anti-Irael and the convention and all those things said, don't do it.

Don't do it.

And then I think they said the Hollywood and Silicon and Wall Street donor class who are Jewish Americans, they're mostly secular Kamala.

That's what they're telling them.

They don't care about Israel anymore.

Just go ahead and do it.

They'll still give you money.

They want to win.

And so that's what the decision was made.

And we'll see how it works out.

But they think he's articulate.

He's not articulate.

He's just a shouter.

And if they have a debate, what the vice president's debate matters, but J.D.

Vance will, I think, will do very well against him.

You know, he also, of the things percolating about him, one of them is his military service, which he brags about.

And he was in the reserve for quite a long time, sergeant major, but some top top level of sergeant major.

But then

his unit,

then I think it was 1991 or whatever, it was being called up and he resigned.

And so some of the other guys who were yeah, I remember that story.

I remember at the time, it was 2005, I think.

And he was about 40 years old.

Yeah.

And he had retirement looming in a year or two.

And he took early retirement.

And the people, I don't know the specifics, so I can't assess any culpability.

40 years old going over to Iraq, I understand that, but he apparently took early retirement.

And there were ranking members of his unit that said you were the

ranking officer.

Yeah, we're about to go off.

And now we don't have the morale or the group cohesion because you decided to retire suddenly when we had to go in the war zone.

And

I don't know to what degree that is going to come up, but

all of it comes out just like it did with JD when they went out and said all that stuff about him.

And then it kind of wears out and you're down to what the election is really about.

It's going to be

after

about another 10 to 15 days, we're going to have about 75 days left.

And it's going to hinge on to what degree can Waltz and Harris be exposed for who they really are?

And the matter is, I said a thousand times that McGovern was exposed, that Dukakis was opposed, that second term Jimmy Carter, and nobody wanted to fall for, I'm just a peanut farmer from

Georgia, that I'm not crazy Democrat.

And remember, the Democrats' modus operandi was

we can't get elected unless We've gone so far left after 72,

we cannot get elected unless we have a southern accent.

So 76, I'm Jim McCobb.

In 1980, I got a Southern accent.

84,

they violate the rule with Walter Mondale, and he gets bombed.

88, they violate the rule with Dukakis, and he gets bombed.

Then they say, you know what, we got to go back to the rule, the fake concern.

Then there's,

I feel your pain, Bill Clinton, 92, again in 96.

96.

And then they go into 2000 and they do it again.

They have Al Gore.

He's not the crazy Al Gore who's going to take away your gas engine.

He's now the conservative Al Gore.

And they do that.

And then

they try it in 2004 and they break the rule and they get

John Kerry and they lose.

And then Obama.

destroys the rule and says, if you're black and you're charismatic, it doesn't matter anymore.

We'll be shameless.

But there was a time and there is a time that they have to find a mechanism,

unless the person is an Obama fad and Harris is not, where they fool people into thinking that you are moderate.

And they used to do it with the LBJ, Clinton,

Gore,

Jimmy Carter, fake, that they're Southerners.

And they don't even make that pretense anymore.

And so it's going to be very hard for them to say that for for 90 days we're just good old Waltz and good old Harris and we want all the fracking we can do and we got to close that border up and we'll discuss the fate of all these illegal aliens that came up and crime is going down and we're crime fighters and

you know,

why do we worry about, we don't want to go into people's bedrooms and discuss transgender and abortion.

That's not important.

That kind of stuff.

And then it'll be Donald Trump is

a criminal.

He's a criminal.

He's a criminal.

He's a criminal.

He's a felon.

That's what the campaign is.

And boy, I hope the people in the Trump campaign have pulled out all the tapes and they have about a little task force, and they're looking at tapes every single day from the end of the Democratic Convention in 1988 until Election Day.

And they need to see how Lee Otwater

ran the George H.W.

campaign because he made up

about 25 points.

And that was pretty amazing.

Or you can go back and look at Ronald Reagan's handlers.

They made up about eight points against Jimmy Carter in 1980 when they beat the incumbent.

And they didn't do it by talking about,

with all due respect to Trump,

they didn't do it by attacking a Republican government.

governor of a red state like Kemp.

They didn't do it.

And I have questions.

I mean, I think there was a lot of weird things that happened in Georgia, but it's ancient history.

And you don't have a rally and go after them when you need every single vote.

And there's a lot of people who really like Kemp in Georgia, and you don't attack him.

And what you need to do is redefine, like Reagan and Bush did, redefine Adu Kakis and Carter.

And you can do it.

You still have time to do it, but not if you get off message.

Yeah, if he's going to talk about a person, the person should be the Democratic opponents.

And if he's going to talk otherwise, Victor, I think it's about us.

It's about you, me, and the voters.

It's not about our problems.

And I want to give a message to all of you out there who

did not vote for Trump 2016.

You did not vote for him in 2020.

This is different.

We've had now eight years of Obama and four years of Biden, and it's like a

metastasis.

And it's getting worse and worse and worse.

The border is worse than it ever has been.

The debt is worse than it ever has been.

The homeless situation, the exodus from blue states are worse than they ever had.

The status of the U.S.

military has not been this bad since the year or two after the Vietnam humiliation.

We're in bad trouble.

And if you think that you're going to write in somebody's name, Or you're going to vote for Harris because you think she's moderated, or you're going to leave her, that's just a vote for this insanity.

It really is.

This is a neo-socialist agenda was what they want.

And she said it the other day, I saw a clip.

She said, I'm for equity.

And you know what equity is?

It's kind of, it's different than equality.

It's everybody didn't start the same.

So, but everybody's going to end up the same.

And she was trying to say by race and income, but what she should say, there are other factors that people didn't, you know, within families, within

communities, there's people who don't have the drive that somebody else does, or they don't want to do what somebody else wants.

Somebody wants just to read poetry like Bernie Sanders and walk barefoot in a shack in the

forest in Vermont, let him do it.

If some guy wants to start be an entrepreneur and make a lot of money, let him do it.

But don't try to come back on the back end and say, we're going to make you exactly the same.

You might say, well, we're going to allow people not to starve and have a bottom, a ground floor that we don't let people fall below, but we already have that.

And so that is socialism.

And, or that's a nice word for communism, but that's what she believes in.

And that was kind of a, you know,

it's going to be very funny because Joe, Barack Obama wasn't as disciplined as everybody thought he was.

He gave us a lot of indications of where he was going.

Remember Joel the Plumber when he said he wanted to spread their wealth?

And then he said that his grandmother was scared of black men.

When they walked by, she clicked the lock.

And

he was attacking her a lot.

And throughout that campaign, you got the impression he said, you know, America's exceptional in the way Greece or Britain were.

He said that right after, I think he was elected.

And then there was Michelle, who during the election said, you know, it's a downright mean country.

I've never been proud before of it until they nominated Barack.

They always have set the bar too high for all of us.

And then they just said, you know what?

That's it, Michelle.

You're not going to be out one minute without adult supervision.

And they transmogrified her into the cuddly Michelle who loves everybody because she was a very bitter, angry person.

And she said, oh, I'm, and then all of her supporters said, well, she's playing the angry black woman.

Is that what your people are saying?

No, she did.

Wasn't playing a role.

That's who she was.

But the point is, they suppress that a little bit.

But the left will always give you an indication of where they're going.

And we know where

these two are going.

And with this debt, I want to remind everybody that when you have a debt of this magnitude and an interest payment, you only have three choices.

You've got to keep this inflation going

or you're going to have to confiscate wealth

or you're going to have to nullify debt.

And this bunch is perfectly capable of saying, you know what?

If anybody has over $5 million in T-bills, maybe they should just, I don't know, they won't miss a million.

Just give us a million.

We'll cancel.

We'll cancel what we owe them.

Or they'll say, you know what, Social Security is in a bad trouble.

So if you've got over 10 million to 401k, I've read this, so they're thinking about it.

Maybe for every million that we take from you, you get a couple of years' credit in Social Security.

How's that?

And we'll see a wealth tax.

We'll see a reinstatement of the estate and inheritance taxes at a much higher level if they win the house and sin it.

So beware.

You were warned.

Well, Victor, we have a few more things to get your opinions on.

Before we go to a break, I just want to note that tonight

in the announcement of Tim Walls, the one thing you did not see was an American flag.

It's just, it was kind of striking.

And you didn't really see her, did you, with an unscripted moment?

She introduced him off the teleprompter.

She put in her required cackle, her cackle rea.

She said that for a little bit.

Joy.

It's joy.

Get it right.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then she, then he took over.

Yeah.

And

that was it.

She's not.

It's going to be embarrassing because he's going to do all the talking and he's going to be debating and Trump is going to

and JD is going to be talking and they may debate back and forth vicariously over the airwaves.

And then there's Trump and she's going to be the fourth person out and she's not going to say anything.

I hope people say, well, why is Trump talking extemporaneously all the time, sometimes to his disadvantage?

And why is JD giving an interview and anybody who walks up to him?

And why is this clown Waltz just bellowing out every day all these crazy things?

And she's not.

And I think they should understand why she's not, because anytime she is not, it's going to be a disaster.

She's one of those people that she knows she's been told, ad nauseum, Camilla, if you go out, We just beg you, please do not cackle.

Do not cackle.

And then we beg you, do not use the same phraseology and vocabulary within the same sentence or two, okay?

And just make it quick.

And she says, okay, I know that.

And then she gets on the tarmac or she goes out into a reporter sticks.

And for a second, she goes,

and democracy.

Diplomacy is really important.

The art of diplomacy is, it's so important.

And Joe Biden is such a good diplomat because it's the art of diplomacy, which is important.

And that's why we're here to talk about diplomacy.

And that's what's going to happen.

And they know it.

They know it.

And she knows it.

And it's almost like you got insomnia and you know you don't want to think about trying to go to sleep.

And you know, you don't want to think that you're not going to go to sleep.

And you don't want to think you haven't had any sleep.

And then guess what?

That ensures that you will not sleep.

And the more that she knows that she can't cackle, she can't be in a word salad mode, she's going to do it.

Well, we maybe don't want to sleep because we are facing a nightmare of these people.

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Victor, let's see.

Well,

we

have such tensions.

I hate the word tensions.

We have real murder and mayhem going on in the Middle East.

American troops in Iraq have been bombed.

Iran is threatening any minute now

another attack on Israel.

The Iron Dome has been deployed against

some

incomings, but it just

seems things are getting

grimmer there.

Not the good old days of when it was just Israel

attacking

Gaza because what happened on October 7th, now we have Lebanon and additional complexities.

Your thoughts on all this, Victor?

If this administration does not intervene, I don't mean troops on the ground, but if they don't make it clear

that the Houthis are not going to own the Red Sea and Iran is not going to own the Persian Gulf

and Hamas is not going to survive and Hezbollah is not going to get away with it, then there's going to be a lot of people pile pile on.

You're going to see Turkey sending stuff.

Pakistan said the same today.

They're going to send a multi-stage ballistic missile to Iran.

This is Pakistan that's a recipient of billions of dollars cumulative of U.S.

military aid.

Ditto Turkey.

So what this administration has done

by

signaling the Muslim world that Israel and the Netanyahu government are now not allies of the United States.

Every opportune party is jumping into the fray.

The reason that Iran has not retaliated yet are threefold.

Number one, they want to see how many people will jump in and help them, and they don't know to what degree their rhetoric will be backed up by actual support.

Is NATO-Turkey actually going to send

planes into the area?

And what would we do if they did?

Is Pakistan really going to say say to the United States, we don't want any more support for you?

I think everybody in the United States would be delighted.

I would.

I would just say, thank you.

We don't want to have anything to do with you.

India is a true democracy, and it's not a radical Islamist country that helped kill Americans in Afghanistan.

So we'd like the clarity, you are not our ally anymore.

You are our enemy, and we're going to aid India as much as we can to deter you.

So that would be a good development.

And the same thing with Turkey.

I would like transparency at this point.

But the second thing they're doing,

they're saying they can take us out in Damascus.

They can take our top people out in Beirut, and they can take them out in Tehran.

And they can't do that unless we have people within our own fold that are working with the Mossad.

And that's scary because they can take out Nasrallah, they can take out Khamenei, they can take out anybody.

And are they going to do it?

And then third,

they were so brazen in killing this guy in Tehran, Hanya or whatever his name was, that we have to have a muscular response.

However, if we have a response like we did last time, when we send 320-something drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles, and almost none of them get through, and none of them really hits anybody, except I think a young girl.

And it looks like a complete failure, and it's reported that half the ballistic missiles did not leave Iranian airspace because of the incompetency of

the rocket or of the launcher or the humans involved.

We can't repeat that again.

So we're going to have to have a much bigger response to Israel,

and it has to be successful, and it has to get through

the shield of Arrow, Irondome, but also perhaps if it goes over Saudi Arabia, which apparently has to do, they have missile defense, and so does the ships of the Sixth Fleet, and so do maybe the British.

So it's going to be hard to get our missiles in there, but we have to do it.

Otherwise, we look impotent a second time.

And we've now provoked Israel twice by attacking their homeland.

And

if we attack without sufficient force and efficacy, then Israel will be able to tell the international community, we had to hit back.

And we tried it once.

with just three missiles and we took out an air defense system, but now we have to go after the nuclear facilities.

And Israel may well go after that nuclear facility or facilities, plural, and they know it.

So the reason they haven't responded right now is they're thinking,

is anybody going to come and help us?

Is anybody going to come and help us?

Is anybody going to come and help us?

If we respond, are they going to kill me?

Are they going to kill him?

Are they going to kill her?

Are they going to kill this?

And if we do respond, will it really do something or will it just give them excuse in the international eyes to take out our nuclear facility?

And that's why they haven't responded.

And they don't have an answer to those dilemmas.

I don't see it.

Everybody says what I'm trying to say, Jack, is everybody says that Israel is losing.

They're not losing.

They have almost destroyed Hamas.

Hamas is, if they

allow them to continue another three weeks,

I think they will finally get the entire Hamas command and they will set them back for 30 years.

Hezbollah has, for some reason, not wanted a war with Israel.

And the reason is in 2006,

they were debilitated for 20 years.

And they don't want that.

And the Houthis lost a multi-million, if not a billion dollar port facility,

all of their container unloading equipment.

And they can't really service.

They don't really have a port that serves them.

And that was nothing for the Israelis to do that.

And so I think they're in a pretty good position.

And we'll see.

They would be in a much better position if the Biden administration just put their two carrier groups and other assets in the region and they're starting to move one of them at least and said to Iran, we've been trying to be even-handed, but we want you to know, given that

we had a Pakistani that was just arrested, tried to kill a president or was plotting, and given your people have been trying to kill Bolton and Pompeo and maybe Trump, and given what you think about us, we want to warn you that if you continue to do this, and

we're not going to invade you,

and we're not going to tell you anything, but what we did to Solomania

will be nothing to what we'll do to you.

And then you would have peace if you just told them that and you meant it, and they knew you meant it.

Everything would revert back to prior October 7th.

No daylight between the United States and Israel.

Doesn't mean you tell Israel, you have a blank check, kill everybody.

You just say to Israel,

you have to do what's in your national self-interest and we have to do what's in our national self-interest but in this particular crisis your national interest and our national interests are parallel in one place exactly and that's iran

We have issues with Iran long before they had issues with you when they took our hostages 40 some years ago, 44 years, 45 years ago.

So we are on the same page, and it's in the American interest to make sure that Iran stopped this

subsidies for terrorists and unrest in the Persian Gulf and in the Middle East in general.

And I think you'd have peace if we could send that message.

But now they're looking.

Well, they're saying we can't understand what Biden's saying.

We got this left-wing pro-Iranian Harris coming in.

Now she's picked another leftist,

and it's a 50-50 chance Trump might be elected.

So we've got five months and that window closes.

So maybe they will think that they'll do something stupid.

It would be stupid, but maybe they think they eventually are going to pull the trigger.

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Victor, we're going to go to a break in a little bit, talk one last big issue, talk about terrorism, but I'm springing this on you.

But did you, did you see?

You must have, you see everything, these clips of the madness, you've mentioned Britain before, going on in Britain with these

Muslim gangs out in the street just causing mayhem in many major cities do you catch that at all yeah i did i i and i saw the asymmetrical comments of starmer the the new prime minister it was very similar i mean the population of london is somewhere between 35 and 40 percent british traditionally despined by white british and the rest are immigrant populations

And

the problem is in some of these cities, there are minority, majority populations of recent immigrants, mostly Muslim, but

not exclusively so.

And what happens is they have been given a pass on issues that are very dear to the left, such as the left tells us that they are the protectors of children or forced marriages or female circumcision or rape.

But every time there's an incident where an Islamicist is alleged of that, or that somebody in the Muslim community starts a demonstration to show empathy with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Pakistan, you name it, and it turns violent.

They don't do anything.

And now after these three girls were killed

by a son of, this was an African

Brit who was a son of immigrants, this

furious white minority community starts to protest.

And then you get counter-protest, and rather than saying,

as Starmer should,

that

Britain is famous for the rule of law and calm, and we're not going to allow anybody to do it.

But they can't do that because they have no record of doing that in the past.

It's sort of like it's almost eerie, the comparison between May, June, July, August, September, 2020, where everybody, the 14,000 that got arrested were exempted, And then the one day in January 6th, where these guys face long prison.

So now we have this situation where this stormer

is

bragging that he's going to give this, I don't know, three or four hundred people arrested.

He's going to give them long prison sentences if convicted.

But everybody's saying, well, then go ahead and do it to these gangs of Muslims that are attacking people.

But he won't.

And he won't because

of one reason, and it's the same as here, that the immigrant population in Britain overwhelmingly votes labor.

And the original British white position is divided or more likely to vote conservative.

And they know that.

And so it's the same thing here.

If you're on January 6th, the Democratic Party says you're an insurrectionist.

If you kill somebody or beat up, you're one of the people who beat up the 1,500 policemen or torched a police precinct or St.

John's Episcopal Church or rushed the White House grounds, you name it, they're not going to do anything to you.

And no society, no democratic, consensual society can last when you create that two-tier system because it creates cynicism and nobody respects the law.

And that's happening here and it's happening in Britain.

And what is the common denominator?

The common denominator is a very

the creation of a very wealthy, coastal, globalized, cosmopolitan class of professionals in the media,

in law, in entertainment, in government, in politics, in finance, in tech.

And they have made so much money that they're completely exempt from the Euritopian experiment.

on us, their lab rats.

And they tell the hoi polloi, excuse me, hoippaloi, I don't want to be redundant, they tell hoippaloi,

there are three genders.

You get it?

Women are going to be boxing with biological males.

You're going to get an EV.

We're not going to develop fully our energy.

You're going to have to pay more.

You have to pay more for your air conditioning and heating and your transportation.

And you suffer privilege.

And you're going to redirect that.

Now, these poor Londoners, these white communities are the poorest of the poor, in many cases, working class, and they're being told that they have privilege by the people who do have privilege and use it to exempt themselves, just like here.

And

it's reaching a farce here, Jack, when you have Camilla Harris,

who lived in an upscale neighborhood in Canada and in Berkeley, a middle class, and whose mother was a PhD.

You know how much percentage of the population has two PhDs as parents?

About 0.001.

Both her parents were PhDs.

They did not face racial discrimination.

They were beneficiaries of policies that came in in the 60s and 70s in affirmative action.

And she has taken all of that.

And as she said in the debate to Joe Biden, you're a racist and a segregationist, and I was that little girl who suffered.

It's just a complete,

just a complete fantasy.

And that's what the left does.

And it's a class thing now.

And they have alienated the complete working class of Britain.

And they control the judiciary, they control the administrative state, and they're going to go after those people, and they're going to try to do to them what they saw the Biden administration did on January 6th to those people.

Yeah.

And they got six years to do it over there.

And

the Muslim

bands are looking at the United States, and they saw what happened

in 2020 and they looked at how many people were arrested and how many were ever convicted and it was almost less than a percentage.

Echoed by what you know happened at Columbia University.

Who's getting prosecuted for

as we look forward?

As I look forward to the academic year, that's something to look forward to.

I'll be walking from my office.

to my apartment and I'll have to go right by the Hamas camp again.

It's going to sprout up like a

crop of corn or something.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, we have one other topic to discuss or get your thoughts on, and that is the 911 terrorist deal.

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Victor

Khalej Sheikh Mohammed, the 9-11 mastermind, has,

I mean, I think he was caught within a year of

the terrorist attack, but for over two decades, this guy has been

and others have been under American lock and key.

And a 9-11, a deal was finally struck to,

you know, for their sentencing and the biden administration said they didn't know anything about the deal that it was even going to happen and then they would back and forth bs victor there's talk of a deal and there's political bumbling on it and then there's some of our friends even andy mccarthy uh my dear friend who still writes for national review look surveying the scenes says you know so much time has has transpired and and um

courts have ruled in various ways on things that pinge, that can affect this, that actually a deal may be the best thing that can be salvaged here.

So anyway, Victor, we have this deal.

We have Biden administration lying, bumbling.

Your thoughts.

And

I should note that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a Pakistani as well.

We just arrested yesterday a Pakistani.

that was trying to kill the president, ex-President Trump and other people.

And Khalid Sheikh, so there's something wrong in Pakistan, at least vis-a-vis us.

And we've got to remember another thing about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Osama bin Laden was the restraining influence on him.

Remember, he had a more grandiose plan to go well beyond what occurred on October.

He was talking about blowing up airliners,

attacking Americans in the Philippines.

He was talking about crashing planes in the CIA headquarters.

He was a grandiose terrorist.

And so

he was the worst of the worst.

And he was the, I don't know

what the word is, mentioning Israel.

He was a Jew-hating, Israeli-hating, Zionist-hating.

And he said that he did all of this primarily because we supported Israel.

He was involved in, remember the Daniel Pearl tragic beheading and all of that?

Beheading, sure.

Yeah, yeah.

So he was, whenever there was an American dying or there was a plan to kill Americans, he was there.

So then we get him.

And I remember Eric Colder is now bragging that he had a solution.

He wanted to take him out of Guantanamo and not try him by a military, put him in a civilian court.

Can you imagine that?

With a left-wing-funded multi-million dollar defense that would have got him off.

And even the Democrats said to Holder.

Now Holder's bragging that he wishes they had done that.

But the idea that you would give this guy any leniency after he was the main person responsible for the 3,000 who died is just abhorrent.

So I don't know how Lloyd Austin got into it other than the military tribunals are ultimately subject to the Department of Defense who takes his orders.

that the Secretary would from Joe Biden.

And Joe Biden said he had no idea what was going on.

But he understood that that in a camp, if this was not a campaign year,

he wouldn't have touched it.

But it looks very bad that the Biden-Harris, the Biden-Harris, the Biden-Harris administration was willing to give this mass murder a reprieve.

And there's a lot of mass murderers that are in jail facing capital punishment in many states.

And I don't think anybody wants to intervene and save them.

So if that's true, why would you want to save this guy?

He was the poster boy for people who deserve the death penalty.

He really is.

And so that was another blunder.

And yet the media, as soon as that story is, it's not even a story now.

It's been squashed.

It's been smothered.

And that's what they do.

They just smother it immediately.

And the same thing with the Emeroff

Harris's husband and the pregnancy and how the, whether the the pregnant nanny or tutor, whether she had the baby or aborted or was a miscarriage or how did she get the money to buy a home in the ham.

All of that was smothered.

And so we didn't get enough information about KSM, but

apparently we got enough that the Biden-Harris administration and Kamala Harris thought that this was damaging to her under her tenure as vice president.

So they reversed course and more power to them.

I'm glad they did.

Yeah.

I don't know why we don't off these madmen anymore.

It seems like almost a century, right, when whoever the hell he was that tried to kill Roosevelt and ended up killing the mayor of Chicago.

But after that, remember the guys that the Puerto Rican terrorists had shot up Congress and they got, and Jimmy Carter, wasn't Jimmy Carter?

Yeah, no, yeah.

He pardoned them finally.

Terry Truman did too.

He didn't want the death penalty.

I think it's the conceit that happens to a leisure,

affluent Western society.

They think we've got all this tech, we conquered nature, we have all these beautiful homes and cars and tech.

And we are gods now.

We're not men.

And we have the power to be virtuous, perpetually virtuous and pure, and we don't do that.

We don't use the state to execute people who are murderers.

And if you say to them,

When you don't enforce the law, you get some person who's a seven-time felon, six-time illegal alien that killed Kate Steinley.

And you could have stopped that.

And we could have stopped a lot of stuff if we had taken out Osama bin Laden earlier.

And the Clinton administration had an opportunity to do that.

And they don't quite see that ancient element of morality.

And that's not the sin of commission, but of omission.

Once you decide that you're going to play God and you take an evil murderer that you have the power to either put in jail forever or to execute, and you decide that you're going to virtue signal your higher morality and you let him off and you don't take him out then

somebody's going to die and we've always seen it that morality in action I should say amorality when these people felt so good in places like Martha's Vineyard about an open border and then we started seeing people die die die because they didn't have the bravery and the fortitude to say, you know what, if these people are not good enough to live with us and we don't trust them because we have no audit, we have no idea why they're here, where they came, but we do not want them in Martha's Vineyard and our garages and tents, then why would other people have to be exposed to that risk?

And that's what's dangerous about the left.

They always are virtuous and morally smug and superior and sanctimonious, but only at other people's expense.

The tolls always fall on the middle and lower classes.

And that's just how they operate.

I've dealt with them for 60 years, and I've always thought, listening to them, I've talked to them, I've had coffee with them, I've taught side by side with them, I've been in their profession, and I can tell you they have nothing but contempt for the middle working classes.

And all of their ideas, when they blow up, because they are bankrupt theories, whether it's on energy or on schools, education, universities, that always

escape it.

They have

an escape hatch.

They always do, and it falls on somebody else.

You know,

I'm glad a lot of Nazis didn't escape, but you look at the social, you look at the communists, and we have communists here in America.

And even after the wall fell, I think Ceachescu may be the only son of a bitch to have

forgotten it.

Yeah, but the rest, Hanukkah, and all these other scumbags,

they all dodged it.

I mean, God will get us all in the end, but some people deserve

the people at Nuremberg, they just said to

Goering, we're going to hang you.

And they hung him.

And the rest of them, like Himmler or Goebbels, did it themselves.

But they hung a lot.

They didn't hang enough.

There were people that got off.

But

they did hang some of them.

Well, Victor,

we're at the end here i just want to thank our listeners for doing that listening no matter what platform you're on and people who do listen on

apple can rate the show zero to five stars and we thank all of you for the very high ratings for victor's wisdom of course he deserves five stars and it's 4.9 plus average some people leave comments and here's one from a dj in the valley that's just titled thanks and he writes or welcome back you're greatly missed I always look forward to each new episode from you, Jack, and Sammy as a breath of fresh air, veracity, and sanity, especially as a third-generation Californian.

Having grown up in the Santa Clara Valley, where when orchards dominated the landscape, I understand your love for your home and enjoy the stories from your life.

I've retreated into the Central Valley, but my older siblings are still heavily influenced.

with the Bay Area goings-ons.

My parents were born and raised in Soquel, Santa Cruz.

So Okay, yeah.

It's a nice little town.

Yeah.

Married in 45.

So different there now.

You help me feel I'm not crazy.

Thank you.

Look forward to your next talk.

You're sane.

And you're not a reactionary.

That was a golden age when I used to drive up

the old 101 and you would see these separate communities of Sunnyvale.

prune orchards, peach orchards, fig orchard.

Then you get to

Mountain View, and then you'd get to Palo Alto, and then you'd get to Menlo Park, and they were all separate.

And they were a farming community.

They had all these beautiful Victorian houses.

And

it was pretty safe.

Even when I was a student at Stanford in 75, there was not a lot of crime on campus or in the area.

East Palo Alto I lived in, it was pretty wild, but

it's not like it is now.

Yeah.

Well, we thank DJ in the Valley and all others.

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So civilthoughts.com.

Victor, you've been terrific.

You're always terrific.

And I live with, I just thought of a final anecdote.

Oh, please.

Go ahead.

I mentioned I lived in East Palo Alto, my first second year in graduate school.

I had a wonderful womanmate.

I won't embarrass him by his name,

but it was a very tough neighborhood.

And one night we saw an arm come through.

You know, they broke the door, but we had a chain on it, right?

So this arm, it looked like an alien arm or a tentacle from some detached body.

And it was groping around to find the chain to undo it.

So we had no weapons, but we had a baseball bat.

Yes.

So we clubbed the arm, right?

Yeah.

And so, and the arm retreated, and we never knew what happened.

But the next day, I'm walking into this area that was very high crime called Whiskey Gulch.

Now it's the site of the Four Seasons Hotel, but it used to be pretty wild.

It was the first place you could buy alcohol in those days because of the Stanford limitation.

And I'm walking in an alley in this really rough neighborhood.

And this guy's walking by me with his hand and his shoulder and his sling and a bandage, a fresh bandage.

And apparently, he must know who I am because I just walked by him.

Just somebody, he had just come out of a 7-Eleven with a six-pack of beer.

And I just, something told me as I turned around, he threw the six-pack with his good arm right at my face.

And I ducked and it exploded on the wall.

And then

he took off running because

it's pretty funny.

Those were the days.

You personify, speak softly, but carry a big baseball bag.

Yeah, a big spaceball.

And I felt, I think he was saying to me, the reason I'm carrying beer on one hand is you hit me me after I scouted out your apartment, and I'm going to pay you back.

But he wasn't a very good.

It's hard to throw a six-pack at somebody.

I think so, yeah.

Well, you've been terrific, Victor.

Thanks

for that and everything else.

Thanks, folks, for listening.

We'll be back soon with another episode of the Victor Davis-Hanson Show.

Bye-bye.

Thank you, everybody.