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So, Victor, there's been all this talk, and I know we've talked about it before, but all the rhetoric, just sort of in general,

I want to talk about the left narrative.

And so, we have all these pundits out there talking about Trump throwing people into jail if he becomes president.

He's going to be a fascist.

He's going to commit murder with impunity, death squads.

And the other thing that

I wanted to ask about the left's narrative is

that they're saying that Trump was equally bad in the debates.

And I find that hard to believe, but that's their narrative.

And I was wondering your thoughts on either of those two things.

Well, I mean, the left is always guilty of projection, so what they're doing, they project on to someone else.

So when you talk about what Trump might do,

they're formulating that about what Biden did do.

So remember, in the 2016 election, James Clapper,

even Comey resisted, tried to fabricate this Russian collusion narrative.

He mentioned it in his own memoirs that he didn't post facto really believe it.

And it really hurt Trump.

It probably lost him the popular vote.

The Steele dossier, Fusion GPS, Perkins Coe, they were all paywalls that were trying to hide this

Hillary Clinton connection to smear her opponent with false data, that he was some Russian stooge or what Clapper later called a Russian asset.

In 2020, They did the same thing.

They totally corrupted the CIA.

And a lot of people say, well, Victor, there were 51 intelligence authorities.

And they were retired.

Retired.

Can you get...

No, they weren't.

A lot of them were retired, but they were back working for the CIA as independent contractors.

These were the luminaries in the intelligence committee.

Leon Panetta, James Clapper, John Brennan, Mike Moral, all on the prompt of Anthony Blinken, never paid any price for going in front of the American people and lying.

And then we have Jim Comey deliberately leaking presidential confidential conversations to the New York Times,

saying he couldn't remember when he was asked 245 times, and we had Kevin Kleinsmith convicted felon for altering a FISA to make it look at something that it wasn't.

So they polluted the FBI and the CIA.

Then when you remember Bruce and Elior and the DOJ working with Steele, that was totally corrupt.

Sally Yates and going after Mike Flynn, that was corrupt.

So when they say that Trump might use the government to go after, they've already done that.

They've gone after Trump.

And somebody said, well, these are just state and local prosecutors.

No, they're not.

Nathan Wade met with the White House counsel.

The number three man in

Merrick Garland's DOJ

was outsourced to work for Alvin Bragg to get a conviction.

Jack Smith was a dismal prosecutor.

He'd failed with the McConnell McConnell indictment.

The Supreme Court had

conviction had reversed him 9-0, and yet they picked him.

So they're just projecting.

As far as

the debate,

they say that Trump lied or he interrupted.

Everybody saw it with their own eyes.

So what I'm getting to the debate about is that this is all

this narrative.

Basically, we have this.

We have a Soviet Brezhnev in the White House.

By that, I mean a completely debilitated person who can't perform, just like Brezhnev in the Soviet Union in his last years.

Then we have a Soviet Pravda.

That is a media that just parrots and narrates.

I mean, the latest stories are.

They even go to talk show hosts and try to get them to get

spontaneous questions that are not spontaneous and that they've already, that Biden's already seen.

And then we have a Soviet.

A Soviet is all of the bureaucracies and the apparatus are all coordinated by the government and they're not independent and they go after dissidents.

That's what we're doing right now.

And then they have the gall to accuse Trump for doing that?

If anything, he didn't understand when he was there.

He didn't understand what Anonymous was doing.

He didn't understand what the FBI and CIA were doing to him.

He didn't understand what people inside the Pentagon were doing to him.

They were all thwarting the wall.

They were thwarting pressure on NATO.

They were thwarting trying to get out of the Iran deal or the Paris Climate Accord.

It was just, and then when that didn't work, they used lawfare.

They got Robert Mueller to waste 22 months and destroy basically his first two years.

Then for the first time in history, they impeached him twice for a phone call.

They impeached him on the grounds that he called Zelensky and said, you people are corrupt.

You're helping Biden.

And what are you doing?

Well, that's what Biden does.

He calls up foreign leaders and says, you've got to watch out for Trump.

And Trump is his leading opponent.

And in the 24 race, they impeached Trump for doing that.

And so

I don't take it very seriously.

And I think there's a catalyst here that they're paranoid because, A, they know what they did, and they know that if they were Trump, they would do what they did.

And they think Trump is like them, and then number two, they're losing.

If the polls that had Trump down 10 points,

and he didn't lose the popular vote by 10 points,

but today in 2020, he was down 10 points,

if he's up in the national polls 3% to 4%,

he's probably up eight.

And they know that.

Yeah.

Do you think that Trump did equally bad in the debate, by the way?

Or what's that all about?

Because they keep saying it.

My only closest Trump was

within the first five minutes, he just said,

this is a joke, essentially.

This is what I warned you about.

He's not all there.

So he didn't take it seriously.

But

he didn't interrupt.

Biden lied, of course.

He said,

He shouted.

No, he didn't.

We saw that he wasn't shouting in between.

And then he said he lied.

No, he didn't lie.

He said things like they're putting illegal aliens in luxury hotels.

They put them in one luxury hotel.

The rest are two and three stars.

And the New York Times says, got you.

But that's the type of exaggeration.

It's not a lie.

He didn't say

inflation was 9% when he inherited it.

Biden the other day said there were no one vaccinated when he took office.

That was a lie.

It was 17 to 18 million people.

He just lied the entire time.

He said the Border Patrol endorsed him.

They didn't endorse him.

And the thing is, the left, when Trump was president, they had the Washington Post fact-checker.

Each day he's up to 17,000 lives or something.

They never do that with Biden.

And if they do do it, they just say it's because of his senality.

So

I think they're very worried, the media, because they're totally discredited.

Today there was a very pathetic column by Peggy Noonan.

She endorsed Biden and she tried to list all the triangulating statements she said that suggested that Biden was debilitated.

But then, of course, that had no effect.

If you look at the context of those comments, it's we're worried about Joe Biden, but he's better than Trump.

So all of them are trying to scramble now and say they were not part of this Soviet narrative that he's robust.

But, you know,

don't believe any of them because they're not journalists.

They're just hacks.

They're political operatives.

They don't know anything about journalism.

They're not that prior generation of liberals, you know, Walter Crongright, John Chancellor, those type of people who were left-wing.

But they're not, you know, Edward Ardmuro.

They're not like those people.

They are hacks.

They're very poorly educated.

They live in Washington and they're usually married to a high official in the apparatus or the bureaucracy.

Yes, but they're also very incendiary, that he'll be committing murder, he'll be sending out death squads, he's going to be a fascist, yada yada.

And that incendiary stuff is scary because I think that it communicates to people.

Well, there's only two ways they can stop him from winning.

And one is that Alvin Bragg puts him in prison.

I'm not sure that'll work.

And the other is they can be so incendiary that they'll ring out of the woodwork some nut.

And the way that Chuck Schumer's direct threat to Gorshich and Kavanaugh by name,

you're going to reap the whirlwind, you're not going to know what hit you,

months later brought out protesters, including a confessed potential assassin.

That's what's worrisome.

Yeah.

Well, let's turn to the Kamala Harris candidacy.

And I read in the New York Times, there's a strange, I have two questions on this, just your commentary on what they say, but it also just sounded like an article you could have put into AI, write me a left-wing article about why Kamala Harris is having trouble being a viable candidate.

And the LA Times said that her problem is that

there's a higher bar set because of her gender and race.

It's sexism.

That's another thing.

They just lie.

Let me just put this to you.

Does anybody think

that if Kamala Harris was born in Bakersfield to a truck truck driver, middle-class truck driver, and a waitress, and was white,

that she'd be where she is now?

No.

No.

She was the privileged daughter of a Stanford PhD professor, an immigrant from a wealthy family in Jamaica, who even confessed his family tree included slave owners.

And she was the daughter of an

Indian immigrant who had a PhD in immunology and breast cancer.

So she grew up in the Bay Area with two PhDs

and then she was half black and half Indian and she rode that her whole career.

She had no experience and then she had a sexual liaison with somebody 30 years older who was married, Willie Brown.

He put her on two boards,

two boards.

Bay Area Assemblyman, Speaker of the California State Assembly.

Then he put, he got his machine to get her elected city attorney, then county attorney, and then state attorney general.

And then when

he was just an old man, it was no longer necessary.

She dumped him.

And then she went for Senate, and she would have just been a mediocre senator if she didn't do anything.

But because of George Floyd,

In that summer of 2020, Joe Biden announced under pressure that he was going to appoint a black woman.

Black woman.

Everybody thought he was going to appoint Andrew Cuomo, who was riding high before the sexual harassment allegations because he had this false narrative that he had saved all these people when he'd actually had policies that killed thousands in rest homes.

But

the

media loved him and he had his brother Chris Cuomo before he was fired for similar sexual allegations and for unethical

consultation with his brother as he was reporting on him.

But they were the darlings and that was going going to be their vice president consideration.

And then he's just said,

okay,

I'm going to point a black woman.

Then you look around and it's not like

there's Barack Obama around, right?

And there's not

Shirley Chisholm or Barbara Jordan.

These very well-spoken past presidential candidates, national figures.

There wasn't.

There was Maxine Waters.

There was a fabulous and election denier, Stacey Stacey Abrams, and risque novelist.

So who was he going to pick?

The only person he could pick was Camilla Herr.

And then, so if you review that career trajectory, and then you suggest that she suggests that she's somehow been discriminated against, everything in our society in the last 50 years has benefited her.

That's where it's so, it's so...

I don't know what it is.

It's just so bothersome.

It's just so exasperating that when you have wealthy people, upper class people, how many, what percent of the population has two parents that are PhDs?

0.0001?

Yeah, something like that.

Yes.

And what percent of the population has two parents, one who's a Stanford professor and one who's doing research at UC Berkeley?

No, but nobody does.

And then to pass that off as if she was oppressed because she doesn't look white.

When the whole country is in this penance and repertory attitude for the last 60 years, it gives preference.

So yes, if she was in Bakersfield or Delano or

Porterville and she was a rural working-class daughter of two working-class white parents, she would have it rough to get where she was.

Yeah.

Well, what I was surprised about in the article, they didn't even make an effort to say anything about her record and accomplishments whatsoever.

Nothing.

There was zero.

The space program, she was space czar.

I guess the border czar.

She let in 10 million people.

I don't know what she's done.

No.

School buses, EVs.

Is that what she was talking about?

She was going to get EVs.

We all like school buses because school buses are school buses.

That's how she talks.

Yeah.

So all she has is gender and race, and we'll see if it works for her.

Victor, we need to go to some messages and then we'll be right back.

Welcome back.

So, Victor, we have a new bill in the House, or it's going to be in the House.

It hasn't quite made it in as a bill, but it's called the SAVE Act, Safeguard American Voter Eligibility.

And it's being led by Mike Johnson and I think Mike Lee as well.

And

I wonder your thoughts on the possibility of this requiring proof of American citizenship before you give it- Well, it's going to go nowhere because it's logical and it's sane, it's needed, and Republicans don't control the White House and they don't control the Senate.

It just says that

when you get a mail-in ballot, you're not going to get a mail-in ballot unless it's cross-check on a computer bank that you're a citizen.

Apparently they mail ballots to residents and not citizens.

And I know that's a fact from my own community.

And then it says,

the name should be cross-checked.

And then it says, if you're a convicted felon, you probably shouldn't vote.

And if you're an illegal alien that has tried to vote in an election, you should be deported.

It's pretty simple stuff.

Elon Musk said anybody who didn't support it was a traitor.

He says, and you know what we do to traitors.

And he's an immigrant, of course, who came legally.

But they're going to be against that.

The whole border was not just laxity, it was by design because they have an agenda that 51% of the people abhor.

They don't like what they did abroad.

They don't like what they did on the border.

They don't like what they did to crime.

They don't like what they did with hyperinflation.

So they need constituents.

And that's what it's all about.

Yeah, which brings me actually to my next thing.

The United States has started since June 4th deporting people back to their country under a law that's been there for a long time, the Immigration and Nationality Act.

And one article I was looking at said, well, the first Chinese nationals have been deported back to China as well.

And that's the first since 2018.

And I was wondering your thoughts on Joe Biden finally doing a little bit about this border.

That's the immigration version of draining the strategic petroleum reserve.

He's worked with Obador now

for the optics.

I think he's basically told Obador, you're going to get Trump if you don't work with me, and he's going to tax your remittances and build the wall.

So you better clamp down at least till the election.

Then, when I win, you can send all the people you want up here.

Obador said, It's a beautiful thing that 50 million people came, meaning illegally, to the United States.

So

there's not much to say that

he's trying to do as part of a pandering, $160 billion.

Jerry Hendricks, who was a retired military officer, is a very bright guy.

He tweeted the other day.

It was just amazing.

He said, for the $160-some billion dollars that we gave away, that people owed, just so he could get 10 million boats, we could have built 10 fleet carriers, I think 30 or 40 frigates, destroyers.

He listed all the things the Navy is short on.

And we could have had the largest Navy in the world for the price of not giving away

a multi-billion dollar before the election to people who, by and large, are upper-middle class and haven't been paying their student loans.

Boy, some guy in a forklift from Des Moines is out there working every day to pay his taxes and never went to college.

Remember, the Democratic Party is the upper, upper elite and the subsidized poor.

That's who they are.

They don't like the middle class.

They're too independent.

They like the very, very wealthy who have all these utopian bromides and want inside deals and are very wealthy.

The wealthiest people in America now are left-wing.

And I know that's a contradiction, but it's true.

And then the large subsidized poor.

That's who the Democratic are.

Well, Biden recently had an interview with George Stephanopoulos, and I was looking at some of the commentary on that.

Apparently, Hunter Biden helped to prepare him for that interview.

So I was wondering your thoughts.

It was just yesterday that they talked.

Well

who else would prepare him?

So

who prepared him for that debate?

I guess he's saying the top minds of the Democratic Party, historians, analysts, handlers, they had two weeks where I arrested, they pumped me, and they failed.

So Hunter can't be any worse.

And Hunter came up with his crazy lines, I guess, that I beat Putin.

Putin is gobbling up as we speak, Ukraine.

He's the one that said, I won't react necessarily if it's a minor invasion.

Gonzelinsky, you want me to fly you out?

Hey, Putin, if you're going to hack, don't hack hospitals.

That's what he did.

So

that was a disaster.

that Hunter was advising, but no greater a disaster than his prior advisors.

And, you know, there's a pardon somewhere there, and they're trying to calibrate if he gets out.

I think what they're saying is, you get out and we will pardon.

You can't pardon yourself.

It'll look too bad.

But Nixon could himself.

But we'll pardon you.

We'll pardon your whole family, Frank and Jim and Ashley and Hunter and Hunter's various incestuous relationships.

We'll pardon them all.

Everybody that's on the laptop that's incriminated, everybody that has not paid paid their taxes, we'll just pardon it, but you've got to get out.

You think they've offered him that?

They have to.

Oh, they will have to, yeah.

I don't know that they've.

You think he's going to get out without pardoning?

I mean, if

he says he's not going to run again,

he will probably pardon Hunter the Last Days in Austin.

Yeah.

After he said he would, who cares?

Yeah,

he won't even know where he is by then.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, he's really

working

on the greatest scandal in the history of the United States, that they took somebody who was completely cognitively challenged, and they hid him in the 2020 campaign, and they got the media to campaign, and they raised all that money, the Zoopbucks and all of that, to win.

and change the voting laws in the key states.

And then for the next four years, they hid the complicity of the media, how debilitated he did.

And they hid that by attacking anybody who suggested Elsa.

I said on Fox News in 2021 that he looked reptilian, and the hostopot bit my head off.

I haven't really been on that particular show since, very often.

And a lot of people got their head bit off, but it was obvious.

It was obvious in the campaign when he ran.

His own Democratic rivals in 2020 said that.

Julian Castro, Spartacus, they all said that.

And

they did that Faustian bargain.

It wasn't Watergate where it was a right-wing president, so the left-wing media was going to get a bird-dogging him 24-7, and they hated Nixon as they hate Trump.

It wasn't that.

It was this, the left-wing media was trying to be probed alike and protect a left-wing debilitated president.

That's what they did.

And now they're embarrassed, and they're doing one of two things.

The majority are going back and saying,

well, on this particular day, I said I'm a little trouble.

Therefore, I was a disinterested, authentic reporter.

No, you weren't.

You just did that once.

Put the whole record down.

Or they're saying, I'm defiant.

I would rather have a debilitated president than Trump.

And they say that.

So

all Trump has to do is keep going to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,

Minnesota,

Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and talk to constituents, inner-city blacks, Latinos, service workers, independents, young people.

Just chip away at the Biden base with unity

and collective interest, class interest, and harp about his record

and compare it to Trump's four years and what Trump will do, and he will win.

What he does not want to do is say something crazy like,

I don't know, Biden has no brain or he's got an amoeba in his brain, something crazy like that.

And then the media goes, Thank you, you took away attention from us.

Let them dig their grave.

Dig, dig, dig.

Stand back, Mr.

Trump.

Watch it go by.

Yeah.

They're trying to get Joe to have a more rigorous day, and so they are sending him out to do speeches and such

from place to place.

The last time I looked, he did two speeches in one day, and then he had to return.

I think that they're really risking some sort of major trauma,

an aneurysm.

I don't know what, but.

He's had two.

Yeah.

Two massive brain operations.

I don't know.

I'm speaking with long COVID.

The idea, and I have to go on this Hillsdale cruise tomorrow, but the idea that I could go do that right now, what he's doing, and I'm more cognitively,

at 70, I am more cognitively in control with long COVID than he is.

And I don't think I could fly all over the world and do it with long COVID.

No.

He can't do it.

And so they're in a damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If they keep him, they sequester him like they have been.

Then people say he's not president.

You know, the Russians or the Iranians or the Venezuelans or the Chinese don't cause trouble on his timetable.

So he's going to have to be alert 20 hours a day and he can't do it.

But if they want to prove that he can do that and deflect that criticism that he's in bed, then he's got to go out.

But if he goes out, everybody

sees instantly he can't do it.

So it's a little bit disingenuous.

of the Biden family, his Dr.

Jill, saying, oh, we weren't handled well.

They put him out there too.

No, they put him out what a president usually does.

And when they didn't do that, they criticized him for not being out there.

And I don't mean just the right.

So if you want to put him out there as a normal president, he's going to show the world that he's cognitively challenged.

If you don't put him out, then he's not really a president.

Yeah.

So let's turn then to Britain and the new Labor government, Keir Starmer's cabinet, when we come back from these messages.

Welcome back.

So, Victor, I know you and Jack talked about the landslide for the Labour Party in Britain, which was really odd given the right turn of the continental places.

But I wanted to look at Starmer's cabinet, which he's left of center, as they say.

And I, just for this particular segment I looked at a

left-wing assessment of him and they say that he's going to turn to the people's concerns inflation health care and employment that he's going to out with all this council culture war woke concerns that are just addressing and distracting from the true things and he's going to try to get back in with Europe and make things better with Poland, Ukraine, NATO, and address illegal immigration.

Do you see that cabinet doing that?

I don't see the Biden cabinet.

I don't see the British cabinet.

I don't see any of them doing it.

That's why they're going to lose in most elections in Europe.

But it's going to be a wild ride because the

Labour Party got how much percent of the popular vote?

33%.

Yeah.

Maybe a couple of other leftists.

I don't think they got 50% of the vote.

They just were smart.

And then Neil Farage, I don't know if he did it to be a spoiler or he wanted to make a point, but his 15 to 16 percent of the electorate translated into a loss

directly of about 80 seats beyond what they lost.

So the Conservatives were more divided and the left-wing parties were more united, but I think there's still 50-50 in Britain.

But I think it's good to see this because the left left will do what the left did here.

First of all, they'll be sworn by illegal immigrants.

Second, they'll spend money, and Britain is almost as bad as we are as far as GDP debt.

And they will go Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.

And they have no plan how to win that war or end it.

No plan.

The only thing is it's Putin.

We hate them.

We hate all Russians.

They're all bad.

We're going to get, Zelensky can cancel the elections.

He can outlaw political parties.

He can get rid of habeas corpus.

He does not have to worry about collateral damage.

He would be no coalition government.

There will be no ceasefire.

He will be disproportionate.

They just took whatever they said to Israel and flipped the opposite and said, this is what Europe can do.

And it's not enough.

He doesn't have enough manpower.

I wrote an article this

week called Ukraine and the Winter War

of 1939, November to March, April 1940, when the Soviet Union, 750,000, maybe a million, invaded tiny little Finland.

And it was very similar.

Mannerheim was a genius, Karl Mannerheim, the general, and basically the commander-in-chief of the country.

And for three months, they killed, wounded, or caused to be missing, probably 600,000 to 700,000, at only a cost of about 45,000.

And Britain did not help them.

And France did not help them.

They were worried that Germany was pro-Finland, but Germany wasn't really.

They stabbed them in the back because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

So my point is, finally in March and April, the Soviet Union was starting to wear them down.

Because they poured more and more men, just sort of like the Ukraine war, and they went to Mannerheim and said, we're going to take 9% of your country.

This is what we're going to take.

And he said, okay, if you take anything else, we're going to fight you to the death.

And, you know, we've been inflicted almost 750, and you've got to worry about Germany in a war.

So they said, yes.

And then after the war, the Soviets said, we won.

And Mannerheim said, yes, but I never, I fought with the Germans at Leningrad, but I never invaded the Soviet Union.

We didn't put a...

That's what was my deal.

So if you try to take any more, I'm going to fight you.

And he let them alone.

He said,

don't go into NATO.

They called it the Finlandization, meaning it was neutral.

It wasn't completely Western.

But what I'm getting at is, if Ukraine looked at that and said,

Mr.

Putin, look what we did to you.

You've inflicted probably six, seven hundred thousand casualties.

We're armed to the teeth.

We never thought we could force you out of the Donbass in Crime A.

We're willing to negotiate about the status if you go back to the embarkation point of February 24th, 2022, and we won't join NATO and we'll have a permanent settlement.

Then I think it might work.

But if you say that, you're in a PISA, you're never chamberlain, or I work, you're never.

I had so many emails from people say, how dare you suggest something like that?

It seems to me giving over the Donbass and that other region is

giving over the Crimea.

Oh, the Crimea may be not so bad, but the Donbass is just a bombed-out, completely destroyed.

It's the richest area in oil, natural resources.

That's why Putin wants it.

So it doesn't matter that it's bombed out.

It had a high Russian population at one time, 60 to 70 percent.

Yeah.

Crimea was independent in, I think,

I don't know, 92 to 93, and then the Ukraini took it before Putin could take it.

But all of those have high percentages of Russian speakers.

It's a very convoluted area, and as I said before, western Ukraine, one-third of Ukraine was Polish to 1939.

It was Roman, Catholic, and Polish-speaking since the Middle Ages.

Stalin stole it, ethnically cleansed the Poles.

At Potsdam, then Yalta, they said you could have part of Potsdam, they said you can have part

of Prussia to make up for what we stole from you in Ukraine.

My point is that the borders change in that area all the time.

And

nobody's.

I don't, I want Ukraine to win, but I just don't see anybody giving a plan in England or Britain or

Germany or France or the Biden,

say, this is what we're going to do, and this is going to push him out of the Donbass and Crimea in a way that Obama thought he couldn't do and Trump thought he couldn't do and Biden thought he couldn't do until the invasion.

And we had the spring offensive last year.

We had tanks, Abrams, Challengers, and what happened?

They hit that Maginot-like land,

Siegfried line, like in Italy, Gustav line, and they just bounced off, and they lost probably 100,000 casualties.

For what?

They outnumbered in their population four to one, and they were conducting an offensive.

It was crazy against prepared lines of defense.

You know, we've gotten a little wave

from Starmer's cabinet, and I just have one thing on it that I wanted to probe you about.

He has said that he's going to hold off on the Brexit issue, which was largely supported by the Britons, that a lot of them wanted to get away from being dictated to by the EU.

And yet all of his

except two, I think, of his 25 cabinet members all supported the remain in the EU agenda.

So I was wondering if his statement that he's going to

look at the individual cabinet members,

they're a sad group of people.

They're all hardcore leftists.

They've had, one of them is a plagiarist.

One of them was having an affair with a married MP.

She was an MP.

They're all fanatic transgender supporters.

They're all open borders people.

And the country's broke.

It's about 115%, like we are, we're 123 I guess, of GDP

debt.

Their national debt is 115%

of total annual GDP.

They have no money.

They were too socialist to begin with.

Now they're going to be more socialist.

And they hate Trump and they think

I'll tell you one thing, it's very tragic because that's our closest ally.

And if they think they're going to come over here

and insult him and the media, and they will, given the people in that cabinet, they should not do that because

Trump will just say fine.

If you don't like me and you don't like the United States, fine.

And I think the Europeans understand that.

They understand two things,

that in terms of bolstering NATO, Trump was good.

He made them on.

In terms of deterring Putin, Trump was good.

He didn't go anywhere when Trump was president, president, as he did under Bush and Obama and Biden.

And when it was standing up to the Chinese,

the North Koreans, the radical Palestinians, Iran, he was good.

So they know that in their evil hearts.

But they can't say that because it's destructive to the, because of this narrative that he's a bombastic, ultra-maga-American, obnoxious.

So what they will do is they will make fun of him, make fun of him, make fun of him, make fun of him.

But secretly,

they feel that he's a strong leader.

And they would prefer that.

And if Trump can play his cards right and get some physical discipline, go back and start adopting the old Simpson-Bowles plan, which, by the way,

2010-11, if Obama created that commission, had we adopted it,

They would have reduced the national debt by $7 billion.

Then Then it was only 12 to 13 billion.

It would have been 5 billion right now.

And it would be disappearing in another five years.

It's now 35 billion.

So if Trump can get a handle on that, if he can solve the border and shut it down with a wall and deportations and tax remittances,

and then rebuild the military and fire all these woke Apparatchecks and Pentagon, deport people who came in under Biden as the first step,

start looking at federal prosecutions of all these crime waves that cross interstate line.

He can restore the United States and they will be impressed by that, especially if we start getting up to

where we were

projected to be under Trump with new federal leases, Keystone Pipeline, Anmar, etc.

He can do it.

Especially if he wins the Senate.

And then if he gets a good running mate,

really good running mate.

I have nothing against Mike Pence,

but Mike Pence

did not campaign as charismatically, as enthusiastically, not that he didn't try, he's a good person, but

a Marco Rubio or Glenn Young or Tim Scott,

Tom Cotton even, he's kind of wooden, but he's really smart.

And all those people would reassure people if something happened to Trump, they could take over it immediately.

Yeah.

And they would be loyal and they would be articulate.

Okay, Victor, we're coming to the end of our show, but I did notice a couple of things this week on other subjects.

Eva Marie Saint turned 100 on July 4th, and I was wondering if you have an appraisal of her career.

Her first movie was On the Waterfront.

Yeah.

Very gritty part she played, very, very different from her North by Northwest.

That was in the mid-50s, wasn't it?

Yes, it was.

So

45, 55, 70 years ago.

She was kind of late.

She was already in her late 20s or 30s,

30s, for her first major picture.

She was in Exodus.

She was excellent in that.

But there's something about her.

She w in that North by Northwest, how that chemistry with Carrie Grant played off.

It was, I mean, I Hitchcock was fascinated with beautiful women that were enticing, like Ingrid Bergman or Tippy Hedron or

Kim Novak.

Wasn't Kim Novak in Vertigo?

Vertigo, yeah.

But of all the women, there was something about Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest.

She was very

prim and proper, but she was really pretty, attractive, sexy, and that chemistry just made that movie work.

Yeah.

And

I think she was a great actress.

She was only married to one person her whole life.

And she played it straight and narrow in Hollywood.

A beautiful woman like that, with all the opportunities for all sorts of stuff.

She was

a consummate professional.

She's kinda like Olivia de Havilland, you know what I mean?

They were throwbacks to an earlier age.

And they kind of played their role that they did in life.

I think actors are best when they just act as they are in normal life and they get a role that reflects that.

That's why Robert De Niro is a very good villain and a hothead and a prick, if I can use that, excuse me, that word, because that's what he is in real life.

He's a hothead and he's a blowhard and he's mean.

And that's when he played Max Cady and Cape Fear or a taxi driver.

That was good.

And I think she was a nice person like Olivia Olivia De Haplan it just it just exuded on the screen

same thing with why Kate Hepburn and Betty Davis were good because they were cranky and snarky and kind of snotty and they were like that in real life

and Brando was out of control and overacted and exuberant and he was like that yeah Jimmy Stewart was sober and judicious and that's who he was.

He was reassuring because of that.

Well, the last thing, topic I thought was really interesting, since we often talk about medical

discoveries, et cetera, is in the New York Post they had this very interesting article on Ozimpic, where the title of it was, It Could Save the U.S.

Health System

because it would solve all of the, not solve, but it would be helpful for all of those

diseases that come from obesity.

And I thought that was very interesting.

I was wondering your thoughts on, wow, Ozimpi.

I would be not keen on it just because I don't like the idea that something artificially suppresses your appetite.

That's not a good thing.

It doesn't just suppress your appetite, it changes your metabolism and your immune system.

Wow.

If the person is morbidly obese, the health consequences of

that morbidity are much greater than probably the as now not known long-term effects.

But the weird thing about these

weight reduction injections, the more you learn about it, the more

it's weird.

They know now that they're going to be marketed to cure sleep apnea.

I don't know if that's a question of losing weight or it changes the mechanics of the back of the mouth and

trachea, but

they've also listed that I think there's 13 cancers you're less likely to get when you're on it.

And the pharmaceutical companies warned everybody, hey,

if you stop and you don't pay $1,000 a month for our shot, you're going to get fat again.

And now they found out that wasn't true, that at least half the people either stayed the same weight after they ceased the drug.

or they actually lost more weight.

It suggests that maybe either the body is acculturated to that and

it jumpstarts into a different type of metabolism, or that people get acculturated to not eating as much, and then the brain takes over when the medication is over with.

Yeah.

So they're not,

I think everybody's suspicious because it puts the whole weight reduction industry, you know, like exercise and good food and diet.

That's what we said, but it doesn't work for most people.

Yeah.

It also said that women are, it seems to be, I don't think they had any

scientific evidence in this article but it seems to be making women fertile that they're conceiving babies so I don't know how much to believe it raises sperm counts for men and there's a couple of stories that people who had long COVID and mass cell problems took it and they claimed I'm well

so then Every time I read a story, you know,

I'm such a quack.

I read a story, somebody sends to me and said, chew nicotine gum for a week, two milligrams, then two milligrams, and you're well.

So I did it for a week, and I thought, I'm not well.

There was a very nice person that suggested I pay swish and swallow liquid boot diet on them on one week of that.

Until today, I felt better.

I kind of overdid it.

It's been 115, and I was trying to work in the yard, and that didn't work out very well.

But my point is that

it's kind kind of like a dream drug, isn't it?

They're using it for every type of maladay, like an elixir out west.

Yeah.

And some of it.

You get your shot.

Yeah.

And I like the DEI because I'm already reading articles that this is a wealthy white.

It's in short supply because the whole country was fat and they would be on it.

And people, you know, the insurance won't cover it unless you've got

a medical condition, yeah.

So all the wealthy people and the wealthy doctors are ordering it because it's a thousand bucks a month, I think.

Whoa, that's exactly for injection per week and poor people can't afford that

who are obese.

But

after I read this article yesterday, I went to the uh two days ago, I went to my proverbial local store and I said in a disinterested fashion, I am 6'1 and I weigh 191.

And when they measured me, they said I had a big frame.

So I looked at the weight chart.

Kind of

if you have a large frame, you should be 180 to 205.

Okay, I've been over 205.

So I'm not going to talk.

But anyway, I walked in there and I said, I'm going to count 50 people

that I not look for 50 people.

This is the first 50 people that come within five.

How many would you call morbidly obese that you saw out of 50?

I can't see.

Out of 50

in our neighborhood,

maybe 30.

41.

Wow.

41.

And then I said to myself, I'm going to count, I was in a long line because the 4th of July.

And I said, I'm going to count baskets and see how many have

non-diet Coke, Mountain Dew, Pepsi.

I'm going to count 10.

And there were seven.

That had non-diet.

So they were full sugar.

So that community of people who are overweight, if this thing can work,

think of all, I'm kind of being facetious, but the Army won't admit that they polarize 45,000 white working males who traditionally sign up for combat.

But they said they're all fat.

Well, if they're all fat, give them.

If you want to join the Army, you get free shots.

Ozint.

Exactly.

And you can do that with everything.

You want to work at a fast food, we'll give you free shots.

If you,

oh no, we're short labor, you want to be a roofer, we'll give you free shots as an incentive.

They would probably improve workers at fast food from taking food themselves

from the fast food place.

And they could add that to Ozimpics effect.

Less thieving by

your own employees.

I think everybody is looking to have cancer implications.

So they're freaked out when it says not all cancers, but a whole colorectal, all these horrific cancers, it seems to lower, at least in people who take it, that maybe it was because they were obese and they just lowered it.

And then

if it was true, what they say would put the sleep mask out of business, right?

The breathing apparatus.

So

it's some type of wonder, what do they call it, semi-glutinin or something, glute?

It's

an immune modulator, a metabolic modulator, and

it can have all sorts of things.

I was trying to think the other day if

all the things that can cure long COVID, and there's a whole list that I've tried, but At what point you say no?

Metaphormum, you know what I mean?

That's the insulin drug.

I said, no, I'm not not going to do that.

And that's what people say have cured them.

Ivermedicine, I've tried that for long COVID.

I didn't have a lot of success with that.

Nicotine I've tried.

But a lot of people are out there with all these

chronic problems from long COVID to mast cell to

obesity to luminary diarthritis and this helps.

It's hard to know whether it's changing their metabolism or it's making them lose weight.

The fact that you're losing weight improves their health.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which very well could be.

Well, Victor, thank you for all your reflections today.

We've really enjoyed it.

And also, just a quick from one of your comments, always insights you shouldn't miss, says Cladys.

Make this podcast a habit and you'll be thoroughly informed.

And I second that.

Motion.

Thank you, Claudis.

Thank you, everybody.

Much appreciated.

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