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So, Victor Lot going on this week, especially with Joe Biden and Donald Trump as well.

The Supreme Court has handed down its decision on the Trump versus the United States case and has defended presidential immunity.

And there's lots of press out there that this is going to allow the president to be lawless, to send hit squads out, et cetera.

So the left is having a real heyday with this decision.

I was wondering your thoughts on it.

There would have been no Supreme Court writ.

No one would have gone to the Supreme Court.

If Joe Biden's White House, the legal counsel, remember this limited immunity applies to everything, not just Jack Smith.

It's any court, state, local, federal.

If Jack Smith had not gone after Trump, remember, Jack Smith was a partisan and had a horrific record.

He went after the governor of Virginia McConnell, and he tried to basically frame him.

And he was reversed by the Supreme Court 9-0.

Why would you appoint a man with that record to go after Trump?

What was the

recommendation for him?

That he was a rank partisan.

And then Fanny Willis met with,

excuse me, her paramour, Nathan Wade, met with whom?

On two occasions, the White House Counsel's Office.

He even billed them, he was so shameless, for the time he spent with them.

And then

I'd like Joe Biden or I'd like one of our liberal interlocutors to tell us how many times the most prestigious level of federal prosecutorial service, the third highest in the DOJ, says, you know what?

I spent my entire life

and now I'm the third highest federal prosecutor in the United States, but it's just not, I don't know.

I'd rather go work for Alvin Bragg and be the local prosecutor in Manhattan.

And that's what he did, just to go after Trump.

So if they hadn't have done that and weaponized it, so now it's very ironic because they established the idea that the president cannot be hauled into these courts if, if, if he's acting in an official capacity.

And the irony about this, this whole thing is full of irony.

Who's the greatest beneficiary of this?

Joe Biden, Joe Biden, apparently.

Yes, because number one, we know that

his son was active in the first year and was talking to him about his

intrigues, but more importantly, the special counsel said that president, president, not vice president, not senator, president Joe Biden

called up and said, oh my god, I appointed a special counsel to go after Trump for having classified documents in his home resident.

And I just realized that I've had him for 30 years.

And you know what?

I brought him out and gave him to my ghostwriter and he doesn't have a security clearance.

And then they subpoena the tapes and guess what?

He destroys them.

That's destroying federal evidence.

The ghostwriter and Joe Biden should have been prosecuted.

So Mr.

Hurr goes through the whole thing and he says he broke the law, full stop.

But

He's so enfeebled that he would be too empathetic, i.e.

pathetic, for a jury to convict.

So what I'm saying is at some point, we'll see what the statute limitations are, but some wily person will say, let's waive the statute limitations and Trump's in office, let's go after Joe Biden.

And because

he committed a felony while he was president.

And now they can't do that because they can say, I was consulting documents in connection with my job.

So he's the big beneficiary of it.

And then the second auxiliary,

they hate the court now.

It's very rich for Chuck Schumer to say, this marks a very dangerous point in the Supreme Court.

No, Chuck Schumer, you were the one in 2020 that went outside the doors of the court in front of a mob, an au clos, and you yelled out,

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh,

you're going to reap the whirlwind.

You're not going to know what hit you.

What is that with a direct threat?

And then people show show up, including an assassin at the homes of the justices, and Merrick Garland doesn't do anything.

Now Elizabeth Warren is talking again about packing the court.

AOC wants to impeach the justices.

They're the ones that are going after democratic norms.

So

they have...

They are in a full panic.

Every single Russ, con,

scam that they have been engaged has blown up.

They thought, well, we'll just get Fannie Willis just now.

No, don't say, do you've talked to this guy, whoever he is, Wade, but just get her to synchronize her prosecutions with Bragg.

And don't tell anybody that our third guy in the DOJ is working with Bragg, but they're going to synchronize the dates.

And hey, we picked Jack Smith.

He's in on too.

And don't forget.

Eugene Carroll.

We had our friend Reed Hoffman fund the whole thing.

So they're going to tie, he's going to tie.

And don't forget Letita James.

We're going to get him in court the whole campaign season.

We're going to put him behind bars.

No, it's not going to happen now.

He's got immunity, and the Fannie Wills case blew up.

The Jack Smith case is blowing up.

The Alvin Bragg appeal will probably work.

And I think they're going to reverse Letita James' outrageous, obscene settlement.

Yeah.

And

what else is not working?

Joe Biden, the biggest scam of the American presidency.

They took a non-compos mentes

puppet.

I think that Conrad

Black called him a waxen

facsimile or something to that effect.

Waxon was the word he used.

They just put him up there as a prop and they said, Jill gets to be the most powerful woman in the world and you get to give us your agenda.

And then the two things that they never imagined, because they're such narcissist, happened.

The agenda was absolutely abhorrent and repulsed the American people.

It gave them debt, it gave them inflation, it gave them 12 million illegal aliens, it gave them Venezuelan criminals preying on the innocent.

It gave us that, whatever you want to call that, humiliation in Afghanistan.

It gave us draining the security, the petroleum reserve, it gave us the Chinese balloon, it gave us Gaza war.

It was a total disaster.

And even then, the second half of that Faustian bargain was Joe Biden.

All he had to do was was just kind of snarl with that snaggle puss face.

The idea, Donald Trump, the idea that you would say that.

You're a liar.

Semi-maggot.

Semi-fascist.

Ultra-maggot.

Then he gave that talk about the Supreme Court.

Everybody's sick of him.

They don't want to look at that.

They can't even keep it straight.

We heard 25th Amendment, 25th Amendment, Donald Trump has to go.

Donald Trump has to go.

Now there's no such thing as the 25th Amendment.

It's designed specifically for a guy like Joe Biden, who doesn't have any idea.

Tonight, as I'm broadcasting, I just went, took a break on our break.

I went in the house.

I turned on the news.

You know what the news is?

Joe Biden saying something stupid again.

Worse than that.

He says, well, you know,

talking to donors, I had that debate.

It wasn't my fault.

I almost fell asleep.

And the reason I fell asleep because I just came from overseas travel.

No, you pathological liar.

That was two weeks earlier.

You've been asleep for two weeks.

You took a whole week off work.

Now you admit that you were asleep.

First it was cold medicine.

Now it's narcolepsy.

And that's not working.

And now they're scrambling.

And then the third great humiliation is

after George Floyd.

We're going to be the wokest, most virtue signaling performance art

PC people.

We're going to really get the Republicans.

And you know what we're going to to do in honor of George Floyd?

We're going to have a black woman as vice president.

And they said, now wait a minute, Joe.

Now that you've said it, there's not, I mean, Maxine Waters, Stacey Abrams,

you don't like Andrew Cuomo?

You don't like Gavin Newsom?

Who are you going to get?

Gretchen Whipple?

You can't now.

And so all of a sudden now they're thinking, hmm.

All of us white bicoastal elites are going to have to get rid of a black woman.

Now we're perfectly capable of that.

We want to get rid of her because she's more unpopular and more of an incompetent person than a non-complacementist Biden.

But how do we do it?

That's the problem.

And then the black leadership that's just as tribal and just as racist says, no black woman's going to be taken off the ticket.

They don't care about the polls.

They don't care if she's going to lose.

They're not going to take a black woman off the ticket.

And then the final Iron A paradox,

25th Amendment black vice president is

orange man bad.

They can't even say orange man bad because after he's so waxen and pale and blows the debate, somebody gets the right idea.

Hey,

find out from the Trump campaign.

What's that orange stuff that Trump puts on his skin?

Because it makes you look tan.

And we'll put him in a tanning booth.

So if Joe Biden comes up to blast the court, did you see him last night?

Yeah.

He was orange, like a carrot.

He was.

And I didn't hear one person say, oh, he's an orange man.

It's fake.

No, no, no, no.

There's a divine justice.

There's a God that looks over and is a leveler of all hubris and extremity and tries to balance it out.

And the left has gone completely stark raving mad.

And now the cosmic forces in the universe are leveling them.

And they're unaware of it.

Yeah, and the plot seems to keep thickening and thickening.

And then Trump didn't do it.

I mean, they try to think, well, Trump lied.

Trump exaggerated when he said,

I looked at the fact check in the Wall Street Journal.

It was pathetic.

You know what their fact checks was?

Donald Trump said that illegal aliens were staying in luxury hotels.

Typically, and traditionally, a luxury hotel can only be a four-star.

According to our records, there's only one four-star.

Now, there are three stars and two stars.

So that is a lie.

That's what they were doing.

But did they say anything about Biden?

Not one American has died on my watch.

No.

They don't say anything about...

How dare you, the idea you would say suckers when my son was, he wasn't a sucker who died in Iraq.

No, he didn't die in Iraq.

You're the person who's pandering and insulting the memories of people who did die in Iraq.

Joe Biden has always been, but especially now, an angry, mean person.

You watch him in his face, when he walks across the tarmac on that White House lawn when he gives it

you know what i mean it's just

it's it's that's one of everybody says well why is it why is it today today he had the lowest uh approval we have 36.

and everybody said why is it i said because he's a snaggle puss when i was a little kid that character

nobody wants a president like that no they would rather have a bombastic upbeat

donald trump joe biden you can't do that

and don't we can do anything we're gonna be build a big beautiful iron dorm.

It's going to be beautiful.

It's going to be as beautiful as my wall.

They'd rather be a can-do

than

somebody who's always angry and snarling.

Apparently, he's doing it to the people that are inside and working for him, too.

But no, well, that's true.

But the insiders, the people that are working in the White House, have been leaking out that they don't like the environment, that it's not pleasant to be around Joe Biden when he's being briefed.

You mean

they go in there and they say, hey, did you see Biden today?

Yeah.

Did he know where he was?

No.

Don't mention that.

Does anybody look at what we said?

Because Jill's got spies everywhere and we'll be fired.

Jill's going to get us.

Lady Macbeth's after us.

So that's the climate of suspicion.

Same thing with Camilla Harris.

She's had about seven chiefs of staff.

Remember something about left-wing people?

They love humanity in the abstract, and they hate people in the concrete.

They don't like people, and they like them in the abstract.

Yeah.

They love illegal aliens.

They think, oh, oh my gosh, I think it's very important.

Juanita,

it's five o'clock.

It's time to go home.

Now get back to Redwood City.

And I've done so much for you.

I gave you all my used clothes and I gave you those two tires that'll fit your car in my garage.

And so please.

Okay, she's gone.

That's how they act.

I know, I've seen them my whole life.

The idea that Juanita's kids would come over and play with their kids, or their daughter would date Juanita's son, or any of that, they would never allow any of that.

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So, Victor, did you see Corrine Jean-Pierre at her conference trying to change the narrative of the left?

And this is what she essentially seemed to be saying.

She kept saying, we get it, but it seemed to mean that we understand that you feel like we've been gaslighting you so far.

And so

we're going to cop to the fact that Joe's having some difficulties, although she didn't really get it very well because she didn't caution.

She's right out of the Ministry of Information in 1984.

She's worse than Baghdad Bob.

What she basically said was, everything that you've heard

from us that Joe is perfectly cognitively in control of his faculties

was a lie and we're going to put it in the memory hole.

It doesn't exist anymore.

Nobody ever said that.

He had a bad day.

He doesn't debate quite.

Why didn't she say that when the Wall Street Journal came out?

When they came out and said that all the aides were were complaining that he's you know and foreign leaders at G7?

Why didn't she say

well Joe doesn't Joe admits he doesn't debate as he did.

He's still carrying out his duties, but yes, there is some truth to that.

That's what she said today.

Why did she say that today and not two weeks ago when she called everybody cheap cheap?

Was that that cheap fake?

She was talking cheap fakes.

Because she has to, because she was exposed as an abject liar.

And

I was driving today.

This is my first day in a month I've driven after this long COVID, so I must begin a little better.

I'm taking all sorts of elixirs that some of your readers have sent me and ideas.

And I've tried one that a very nice person gave me the other day, drove all the way from Los Angeles.

I think it's helping.

But my point is, I was actually in the car driving and I was listening to Jean-Pierre.

Yeah, Corrine Jean-Pierre.

And I thought, thank God,

this woman, but I thought it was live.

It was the five with Greg Gutfield.

And he said,

somebody said, well, why is she?

Because she checks all the boxes, meaning she's gay, women,

female, and black.

And that's what's weird about DEI.

When you have this commissaire system and you pick people on their superficial appearance, you get things like they have.

And it's always nemesis.

They're the ones that said DEI is all merucratic.

They're the ones that said it's equal opportunity and not equality of result.

And they're the ones that are paying the price for it because they have an utter empty suit up there, her.

And she doesn't answer anything.

You look at the faces at all those left-wing reporters.

Did you see them on the TV today?

That one guy said, can you tell us if he's got Alzheimer's?

Another woman said, well, I don't care whether he's got cold medicine.

I want to know what are the medications he's on.

And she says, That's all I can tell you.

He didn't take cold medicine.

Well, then you see what she's thinking?

We told everybody, we came up with a ruse that he's got a cold.

So then we could, we could, you know, he had a cold, and we could say that he was on Benadryl, Nyquil, or something, and that was the only problem.

So they asked him, they said, no, he's not on cold medicine.

So then if he's not on cold medicine,

why why was he non composment?

And what else is he on?

She should have said he had a cold and he took a little bit too much dristan, nasal mist.

Maybe that was it.

But she couldn't even lie

effectively.

It's his own fault.

He didn't take cold medicine.

And then that brings up the question, what did he take?

Well, we're not going to tell you.

We can tell you he didn't take cold medicine.

It would have been much better to say he took cold medicine and then he didn't take anything else.

And we do know he almost fell asleep on the stage because he just admitted it to us.

I laugh, but this is really scary.

And it just shows you the left.

I mean, any means necessary to get power.

Yeah.

All right, Victor, let's go to a break and then come back and talk a little bit about Europe and turn going a little bit right in Europe in their new elections.

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and does an excellent job on all the latest things that come up, especially with Hunter Biden, which we're going to talk about later.

But Europe seems to be having a little bit of a right wave in their elections.

We have Macron's party, which did not do well at all.

In fact, not only did it lose to the national rally, which is called a right-leaning party, which won 32%

in elections on Sunday.

That's the Marine-Le Pen Party.

The next party was the new Popular Front, and that was not Macron's party either, and they won 28%.

And Macron's party, the Ensemble

Alliance, only won 21%.

So Macron was

basically rejected in that election.

And the Green Party in Germany

did not do very well in recent elections there.

They lost 8%.

And that's a lot when all you have is 20%

of the electorate.

Yeah.

Macron is sort of Francis Gavin Newsom, isn't he?

Yeah, he is.

Slick, oily,

fake moderate.

It's happening everywhere.

Germany.

France.

The only places.

And then there's the Reform Party in Britain that's going to split the vote, but at least it shows you that people are angry at the Conservatives for not being conservative.

And Iberia, Mali, and Argentina.

Victor Orban looks pretty good right now because he's basically told Western Europeans, I'm not going to destroy my economy by windmills and

solar panels when we can have nuclear or whatever, and I'm not going to destroy my country with open borders like you did.

And now people in Europe are saying he's kind of right.

And it's happening in the the United States.

So what is it that is happening?

It's the average person says

I want to live in a common sense world that works.

It doesn't mean I'm illiberal.

I'm not racist.

I'm not sexist.

I'm not transphobic.

I'm not homophobic.

I do believe the planet might be in theory heating up maybe for natural reasons.

but I'm not going to destroy 21st century Western civilization by

cutting off access to natural gas like here in California or

not drilling oil or

not developing strategic materials for electric battery.

I'm not going to do that.

I'm not going to blow up dams on the Klamath River anymore.

I'm not going to let transgendered women destroy men, biological men destroy 70 years of women's progress in collegiate sports.

I'm not going to let Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin destroy deterrence.

I'm not going to let Mr.

Mayorkas make a mockery out of the border and lie to us nightly.

I'm not going to let Dr.

Fauci tell us that

we can still get out of the COVID mess by getting more boosters every three months and wearing masks.

So

I think there's a revolt against all of this top-down scolding.

Kind of funny about James Carver, he's 80 years old almost, and he's now had a third resurrection of his career, and he's on these podcasts you know they all quote him as if he's Socrates

and it's very funny he says

you know they tell you you can't eat me you have to wear a condom well if you don't know anybody James Carver that's not being quite a scold oh I picked you up at a party I had sex with you oh you had sex with somebody with herpes yesterday I didn't know That was a stupid comment.

But the point he was making is that they're skulls, but who has been a scold?

He has.

He was the one that said, how dare you say that anything's wrong with Joe Biden?

He's clear as a...

I remember he said stuff like that.

And now he just flips over and we're supposed to think that he's a raging Cajun, a voice of authenticity.

He's not.

He's a George Stephanopoulos with an accent.

That's all he is.

And all of these people were engaged in this gaslighting.

You know,

we were Ingrid Bergman looking at the lights and seeing them flicker and hearing sounds and

those lights that were flickering and those sounds we heard in the attic were Joe Biden with rain freezes stumbling and then it was Jill

and

John John Karen Karine, Jean-Pierre and they were saying, oh, how dare you?

You're imagining that.

That's cheap fakes.

We were completely gaslighted.

Some of us weren't.

It didn't bother us.

We knew what the truth was.

And now they have a real existential problem if you think about it.

If they say

that Joe Biden has to exit

his candidacy, they are saying that he is not physically able to run as a candidate, which is a less important task than to be President of the United States and leader of the free world.

So what they're basically saying in their naked admissions is we're so desperate for power

that

we have no choice or we do have a choice whatever the position they take but he's not qualified to be a candidate but he's qualified to be president of all you guys

and so what they're basically saying in addition is you may have him as a child cross guard

person and a crosswalk guard would you want him to be your uber driver Would you want him to fill a prescription?

Would you want him to make a Frosty at Foster Freeze?

Would you want him to cook a...

Put it this way, if you were McDonald's, would you want Joe Biden making your Big Mac?

Who knows what would be in it?

Would you want him

house-sitting your home and saying, feed the cat while I'm gone?

So he can do anything in the world.

Apparently, he can't do anything in the world, but he can be in charge of the U.S.

nuclear codes.

That's what they're telling.

It's mind-boggling, I know.

Well, let's move on then to.

Oh, yes.

So while the right right is winning in Europe to some extent, I don't think it was a big extent.

That's what, as I was reading about it, I was like, well, this isn't a big wave to the right for Europeans.

But nonetheless, they've made it.

But they're moving to the right of us, at least until we find out about that.

Yeah.

Well,

while that's going on, the U.S.

has its bases in Europe on a high level of preparedness.

And I was wondering if you had any idea of what that's about or because

they didn't talk about why this is.

It's about a lot of things.

When we scattered ISIS, they have gone into Syria and Iraq.

And there's a lot of hardened terrorists that want to get back at us.

And they were scared that if they tried it under Trump, they would be bombed, bombed, bombed.

And now they're regrouping and recombobulating because they don't think there's anything.

They look at what the Houthis, look at them.

They took over the Red Sea.

Look at Hezbollah.

They've got 100,000 Israelis not living in their homes, so it's open season on Westerners.

That's part of it.

The great Iraq,

sad to say, the idea of a constitutional government in Iraq now is creating some of the most virulent Shia, anti-Semite Iraqis that are volunteering to go help Hezbollah.

A lot of it's because of the Gaza war.

Remember, in the radical Islamic mind, we go in.

By the way, there's been some recent public

disclosures of what happened on October 7th.

I had the misfortune of watching one.

When you see what they did to people, you would have no mercy for Hamas.

But the point that I'm making is that

they feel that there's daylight between us and Israel, that we let Iran off the hook, that

Trump isn't around, and ISIS is reforming, and Hezbollah

is ascended, and they think Iran survived the sanctions and all of their Western efforts.

And they think the United States is to the left of Europe, and it is.

So they don't think anything's going to happen.

And they've caught, what, eight terrorists in the United States across the border.

And you know, Mr.

Obadar is not a big fan.

He might want to be a big fan temporarily of Joe Biden to make sure he's elected so we have more open borders for Mexico and $60 billion in remittances.

But you would think that there's a big sign at the Mexico City airport that says,

if you're from the Middle East or from

certain countries and you are flying in here, you must show something, visa or something, and not let them come into the United States.

But it's like, come on in.

Join the crowd.

Screw up the United States.

We're doing our best.

We've got 10 million people going across our border.

We killed 100,000 Americans with our cartels and we're making a a fortune from China with,

you know,

selling the fentanyl they supply us and then, you know, recycling the dollars

into Chinese-facilitated cash.

And you'd think that Biden would get very angry about it.

Biden, you know, the left only gets mad about the American right and American.

If you see an AOC or Rachel Madow or

any of those people on television or you see Jill or the Obamas,

you mentioned Chi or you mentioned even Putin, you mention Hezbollah, Hamal.

They don't get angry.

You mentioned Trump or right-wing.

He said that.

I think it was Jake Tapper who wanted to pin him down on a debate.

He said, let me get this clear, Mr.

President.

Are you saying

that the people who vote for Trump are not very good?

Remember he said that?

Or not.

I don't know if he said not true Americans or not good people or bad people.

And he said if they vote for Trump, they.

That was in the debate.

Wow.

Something to that effect.

I'm not quoting verbatim.

That's when the only time I really saw him angry and fiery and full of energy, the left had a point then, is when they

arrested him.

They must have given him stimulants, but they had that femme of the offer, red light, and the Marine Guard, and they got him all like

he was in a horror movie, and he came out and said, Semi-fascist,

MAGA, Ultra MAGA, yeah, we're not gonna do this.

And then he gets this little, these riffs he does.

The idea of that.

The idea of that.

And he starts yelling and screaming.

It's really scary.

It's so abhorrent to hear him.

I got to the point where when I see his face and it's all screwed up.

It's scratched up.

Yeah.

Screwed up.

It is reptilian.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, let's go to a break and come back and talk a little bit about Hunter Biden's

Fox News and Gavin Newsom's speech.

Stay with us, and we'll be back.

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Victor, so what do you think about this suit filed on Sunday by Hunter Biden against Fox News over explicit images that they used in a streaming series?

And that came from the laptop.

Yes.

I don't see how he's going to win because

the computer repairman, remember he held up the contract and it was very explicit.

I don't know if it was 30 or 90 days.

It said if the owner of the computer does not pick up the device and does not pay for the repair

within X number of days, then it becomes the sole property.

And he signed it.

I think he may claim like he did with the gun incident, oh, I didn't sign it, somebody signed it for me.

But he signed it, and so therefore it became the property of the owner.

So the owner could do anything he wanted with it.

So Fox picked it up.

And if they were going to,

and then I think

equal protection under the law, do you think that

a good attorney would,

he would just hold up a piece of paper and say, these are the following sites, magazines, newspapers.

organizations that have explicit pictures of Hunter Biden that they have used.

Are you suing every single one of them?

Yeah.

Because some of them are very influential.

And how can you calibrate that the damages that you're seeking came from Fox Nation and not these?

It's just another.

Somebody's paying his legal expenses.

I don't know if his guru still lives in Los Angeles, but

I don't know.

There must be a lot of money still.

I thought the Bidens were quite consumptive and they blew all their money, but there must be a big reservoir somewhere because they have this ability to hire all all these lawyers.

Well, let's then turn to Gavin Newsom for the last element of this.

And he just recently gave a speech and many of the people that were talking about it were saying this was his presidential speech.

And if I could just read a couple of things from it.

He talks about how the best minds in the world call California home because they're liberated from the constraints of conformity and tradition.

This is true freedom to invent and make the world a better place.

California has figured out a way to make it work time and time again, decade after decade.

He's such a buffoon.

Translate it means, California's made it work so much that we drove out 10 million people from paradise to humid Florida and arid Texas.

How do you do that?

We are so...

Ahead of everybody.

We're so creative.

We have half of all the homeless people in the United States here.

We have, just think of it, we have 20% of the population that lives below the poverty line.

And we made the 99 highway the most unsafe freeway in the United States.

We're about,

I don't know, 45 in test scores and even lower in infrastructure.

We've done a lot.

We're working on it.

We've got one rival.

That's Hawaii.

They have higher gas prices and a kilowatt than we do, but we'll catch them.

That's how buffoony she is.

It's funny you're saying those things because he went on to say, we are building a future where everyone feels protected, connected, and respected.

We are building a state that transforms the world over and over again.

He has one point, and that is that he's so intent on ostracizing and alienating the hard-working middle class that over the last

30 years, he's driven out 10 to 15, 300,000 a year.

Do the math.

So he's driven out 10 to 15 million people.

And so he doesn't have anybody left that opposes him.

They're all gone.

And he's got what he wanted.

He's got very, very wealthy people in Silicon Valley subsidizing very, very poor people.

And of the 41 million people, probably 10 to 15 million are illegal alien.

Do you think this was a presidential speech for him?

Everybody's talking about Gavin Newsom's going to be a little bit more.

Ron DeSantis is very workmanlike, but if you looked at that debate,

Gavin Gavin did his canned lines.

He was like a bandy rooster.

He kind of strutted around with his slick hair back and his, you know, his tight little pants, and everybody said he's a good-looking guy and dynamic.

And he was kind of plotting DeSantis, and he just parried him.

And then

after 30 minutes, it was like...

He was a deer in the headlights.

Like, where's all my canned lines?

Where's my memory?

I've used them all.

And now this guy is giving me facts and data, data, data, data.

And he just destroyed him.

He really did.

And he's an empty suit.

He's a child of privilege.

He was connected to the Pelosis.

His father was a judge.

He was connected to the Brown family and he had no money.

And so he was an

indigent who was

dependent on the Getty oil fortune.

And they

bankrolled him.

So all of these little business enterprises that he's eng engaged in all came from wealthy white people who are interconnected and know each other.

And then he has the gumption to lecture people about egalitarianism and fairness.

He's the child of privilege.

And,

you know,

I don't think he can win.

I hope that if they're going to get rid of Harris and Biden, I hope they nominate him because he will not do well.

You know, I saw a poll today where he was only one point lower than Kamala Harris, who was the closest to Donald Trump.

He's almost underwater in California.

That's hard to do with a one-party state.

Yeah.

And I think if you look at the,

I looked about a month ago, you look at the ethnic breakdown, the Latino population is getting a little sick of him.

Do you think they would vote him out if he were to come?

I don't know.

I went over to the DMV, which was always,

this was my big day on COVID, get out in the world again.

I had to go.

went to an acupuncture in Fresno, and then I went to the DMV,

and it was like a descent into the inferno.

It was so wild there in California.

And the poor woman that was waiting on me was explaining all of Gavin Newsom's electronic appurtenances and how they don't work.

And everybody goes on the DMV website, it's like going into Dante's Inferno.

It just doesn't work.

And people were confused.

You know, when you have

27% of the population wasn't born in the United States, and you have these sophisticated websites, and I mean, you can't...

about 50 languages here in the state.

It was just a mess, but I was talking to one of the people there,

and I said, What do you think of all this?

He said,

Well, I don't think Newsom ever goes here.

And I said, You don't think so?

Maybe Pelosi, huh?

But there's a lot of anger at him.

Yeah.

Just because what he represents, he represents the Bay Area entitled Snobbish Privilege.

And I don't mean that in a blanket fashion.

Some of the nicest people, I know I shouldn't say that,

but some of the nicest people I have ever met are Bay Area, conservative, white, successful businessmen and entrepreneurs and have done so much for the state.

Their genius and energy.

Some of them are in Silicon Valley.

So I'm not talking about those people.

I'm talking about this convenient left-wing snarky group.

that have all these little privileges and then they they start lecturing everybody about their affordable.

It was kind of funny that speech because he kept kept kind of saying that we might be loopy or weird.

He was taking credit for sort of UC Santa Cruz, you know.

No gap.

And I went to UC Santa Cruz in 1971, and I had old Bill Hansen, the old V-29 vet, come with me.

And he said, Victor, you're going to have a problem.

I smell

marijuana in this dorm.

And then I said, well,

yeah, and I got to go use a restroom.

And he goes, Victor, there's a man and a woman taking a shower, and she's buck naked in your male restroom.

So then we go into the room, and he said, your roommate's not here, but he has a hatchet, a javelin, a sword, and two fake grenades, and it looks like some sort of crossbow.

This is your roommate.

And I said,

what is this place?

It's a lunatic.

What did I do?

I thought it was a UC campus.

It's beautiful.

And then people walk by and my dad would say, that woman hasn't shaved her legs or on her arms in 20 years.

What's the smell I smell?

I said, It's a mixture of petouli oil, dad, and marijuana smoke.

Got it?

They don't use deodorant, they use petouli oil.

It stinks.

And then they smoke marijuana every year.

Well, I thought it was against the law.

It is against the law.

And so that's how he dropped me off.

And then I was really good about him because he says, You know what, Victor?

I got to get going home.

Go to it.

Leave you to the wild.

Yes.

And he said something that was really funny when he left.

I said, so are you just leaving down?

And he said, well, it's not like going to Tenyon and just being told, take some amphetamines.

And if you rupture your eardrums, take, you know, some sulfa drugs and then fly over and bomb Tokyo for 16 hours.

So I think you've got it pretty easy.

You got it made.

All right.

Well, thank you, Victor.

That's the end of the show today.

Thank you, everybody, for listening.

Thanks to all the listeners.

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