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This is our Friday news roundup and we have Biden's border policy, Jamal Bowman loses his seat in Congress, and attack on a Jewish synagogue in L.A.

in the news and on deck.

So stay with us and we'll be right back.

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So Victor Mayorkas has, our Secretary of Homeland Security, has had a press conference and they say to deflect from the coming

debate between Biden and Trump.

But he claims that criminals are to blame for the horrible murders we've been seeing lately rather than the border policy itself.

And I was wondering your comments on that.

How silly.

Who else is to blame?

Duh.

Criminals are to blame.

And so, how did they get here?

They got here through an open border that he and the Biden administration deliberately approved of.

And at Greenlight, they destroyed the border.

So of course criminals did that.

That's what criminals do.

They try to get across a border illegally and you're supposed to stop them and protect U.S.

citizens.

And he didn't do that.

And this whole narrative is

what I like is, I don't like it, but what it's so frustrating or it's so ridiculous is they all go to some university and they get some academic on a grant to say, oh, the illegal alien crime rate is lower than the.

How do they know that?

They don't even know how many illegal aliens are here, right?

They don't even know when they arrest a person if he has necessarily a criminal background.

They just make it up.

And then the second point is there should be zero.

Nobody asked them to come in.

So you go to a person's house and then you break the silverware to tear up the furniture and then say, see ya, and then you say, well,

the guests that come to my house, they have a lower crime rate than the general population.

They're not to have any crime rate.

They're guest.

It's so frustrating.

And it is just right before the debate.

They're trying to preempt that.

He doesn't even know anything about the Marin family and the mother of five.

He doesn't care.

This is all collateral damage.

And the way they look at the border is,

as I said before,

It's going to take you guys, I don't know, 5, 10, 20, 30 years to deal with what we did in just three and a half.

We let in 10 million people.

We destroyed the border.

Psychologically, there is no border as our global utopianism worked.

There is no border.

Now, when you come in,

as soon as you come in and you build a wall, we're going to sue you.

As soon as you stop catch and release, we're going to call you racist.

As soon as you make people, once again, apply for amnesty in their own country, we're going to say you're xenophobic.

We're going to keep doing that, and we're going to cherry-pick judges, and you're not going to get this done.

And then you're going to, what, deport 10 billion?

Don't you know how we work?

Don't you know the leftist mind?

We let in 10 million illegally.

We don't audit it.

We don't care.

They're here illegally.

They entered illegally.

They have probably illegal ID and so.

I shouldn't say that.

Now I was in an airport and you can see that they just fly right through.

So

that's new.

And what they're basically saying to everybody is

the medicine that you're going to use to stop illegal migration will be worse than illegal immigration because you don't know what we're going to say.

We're going to say that you're Nazis trying to round up illegal aliens.

But we can't use the word.

Poor people and the oppressed and the victimized are now being rounded up by the Trump racist clique.

That's what we have to look forward to.

And it won't stop until somebody says, sorry, you're the racist.

You're the one that is trying trying to let in people for demographic and voting purposes.

You're the one that are re-engaged, you're destroying democracy, you don't have a legal right to destroy the border, the president's supposed to

execute the existing laws, he didn't do it.

And that's what we're going to have to do.

We have to have a leader that says that and says, do your worst and I'll do my best.

I don't care.

If you have that attitude, you might make some progress.

But it's going to be very hard to undo the last three and a half years of the Biden administration.

Yeah, it sure is.

And what bothers me, too, about these cases is they always act like, oh, this is the first and only time these people have done this kind of crimes.

You know, somebody who will rape and murder a 12-year-old has probably harassed, raped, murdered, who knows what, other people as well.

So they're never the first time

offenders that are doing those kind of egregious things.

So we're not letting in their best people, as Trump has said.

Well,

we don't even know who they're letting in.

They could be anybody.

And it's sort of a...

The message went out to the world.

If you want free stuff, go to the United States.

If you want to just break the law and go anywhere you want in the United States and be flown at the expense of the U.S.

government, go ahead.

I haven't met any U.S.

citizen, maybe our listeners have, that get a free flight.

And does anybody call up a person in the United States and said, you want to go stay in New York and San Francisco for, I don't know, three months free?

We'll give you a thousand bucks a month.

You can stay free.

And you want to fly somewhere else, we'll fly you.

In fact, if you want to go, if you want to come to the United States, we'll fly you in.

And they've done over a million flights.

So this is unprecedented.

And

I don't know how to stop it.

It's really very frustrating.

Yeah, it sure is.

Well, Victor, Jamal, one of those crazy people that advocate for these kinds of policies, Jamal Bowman, has lost his seat.

And he was defeated by a candidate that was supported by APAC, which is the American Israel Political Action Committee.

And his name is George Latimer.

He is also a Democrat, but somewhat better, I suppose, than Bowman himself.

And I thought, did you have any thoughts on that?

defeat.

Well,

he had that crazy lunatic rally the day before the election where

he just kind of lost his mind and he jumped up and down and he got a stool and he tried to be violent and he made threats and then we had AOC.

That's going to hurt AOC because there's films of that where she came out as if she was on stage as a hip-hop artist, jumping around, letting her hair down and they had this vile pornographic.

Cardi B about, if you looked at the lyrics, it was pretty bad.

And they're playing that.

And then they said there was this huge crowd.

There was almost nobody.

Everybody was an onlooker from the media.

And

it's going to hurt her.

Corey Bush, another member of the squad, is in danger.

So we don't know quite what she's going to do.

She's up for re-election.

But after he lost, then he went on to a rant and said that this country was

sick and

it was basically an awful country.

Now, think about that for a minute.

Here's a guy who

plagiarized his

ED,

his doctorate of education, and he was a middle school principal, I guess, in the Bronx.

And there was no consequences.

There's no consequences now.

If it had been anybody else, they would have been fired.

Or

they would be subject to have a removal of the degree.

And then he's at,

I mean, everybody's seen the tape.

He wanted to delay a vote, or he was angry.

He just walked over over into a government building full of people and he pulled the fire alarm.

He knew what a lot was.

That's what vice principals and principals do.

They know about fire alarms and what happened to him.

That's a felony.

They just let him off with nothing.

So in his way of thinking, I am a privileged person and I have all of these grievances against this country and I'm just going to scream and yell that you didn't.

elect me and it's a horrible country that anybody that doesn't elect Representative Bowman is a racist and a horrible person.

That's what he's saying.

And what he doesn't, and he's very angry because after October 7th,

he went on a complete anti-Semitic rant and said it was a lie.

There was mutilation, no decapitations, no rape.

And he infuriated the Jewish community.

And that district has people in Connecticut that are Jewish.

And they said, wisely, we're not going to put up with it anymore.

And it's not going to stop the anti-Semitism by ignoring it.

It's not.

And with all due respect to the non-Jewish community, they're not going to step in.

Nobody's going to step in.

That's the history of anti-Semitism.

It's only going to stop when the Jewish community says we're not going to tolerate this anymore.

And we're going to use our influence and our money and whatever other resources we have to stop this.

And we're going to make sure that any candidate and they're mostly on the left, so it's going to be very difficult for a lot in the Jewish community who are leftist, liberals.

But it's the 11th hour, and your ideology should not prohibit you from stopping this stain, this ancient stain on civilization, and it's not going to stop.

It's not going to stop.

They won't stop.

They will not stop.

And, you know, we had this

Lincoln speech with

the United States representative on religious tolerance, basically.

Is it

Hadid or Rashid?

Ambassador Hussein.

Hussein.

Yeah, I remember him because he was from the Obama administration.

And he was a, I remember when he was in the Obama, people pointed out that he had been a George Soros fellow.

So he was a leftist.

He's an American citizen.

Think about a minute.

Here you have

these flagrant violations of people's civil rights,

this anti-Semitism, that's that's all anti-Semitic, and we'll talk about the attack on the synagogue.

And then you have the Secretary of State,

and by the way, the same Secretary of State whom we're going to have referenced, I imagine, in the debate on Thursday night, because he was the one that cooked up the whole idea of getting the 51 with Mike Morale, 51 intelligence, quote-unquote, authorities, to lie to the American people.

And yet now he's pontificating and giving us, he and Mr.

Hussein, a lecture on religious tolerance.

And Mr.

Hussein was,

I think his title,

I'm doing this by memory, was something in the Obama administration about counterterrorism and Islamic information.

So he was a self-appointed megaphone for the Islamic community.

So you hear, has anybody seen any Islamophobia?

I haven't.

I look at the demonstrations of people from the Middle East.

They attack statues.

They chase Jews into libraries.

They've killed a Jew in L.A.

They scream and yell that they hate the United States.

They block bridges.

They block highways.

They wear masks so you cannot identify them.

And then I look at the people that they're protesting against.

And these are the people who are running, who have their home.

I haven't seen a prominent Muslim

official that people have gone to his home and throwed red paint on his entry.

That's what they're doing to Jews.

And yet here they go today and give a lecture about ecumenical tolerance and we all have to make sure there's religious freedom.

Well, there is religious freedom in the West, but there isn't in the Middle East.

There's none.

Does Mr.

Hussein or Mr.

Blinken say that you want to start a church in Iran?

Does he have any idea what the status of churches are now in Turkey?

Does he have any idea about that?

Versus mosque in Greece?

We can have a mosque in Greece.

You can't open a new church in Turkey.

So it's just la-la-land.

And it's all, I don't know what the point is other than this.

It is to signal Israel that

the United States is now pro-Middle East Islam and to signal the voters in Michigan.

that they are victims and the United States cares about them and to tell the Jewish community, we don't really care about you because you're not going anywhere.

You're still going to give us money.

Mike Bloomberg gave us 20 million bucks.

Just follow suit.

I think Steven Spielberg is going to volunteer his.

They don't care.

We can say anything we want about Jews, but not one thing about people in Michigan.

So

it's just this disinformation.

There is no Islamophobia.

I mean,

Christopher Hitchens said something that

it's a fake word created to fool fool people for moral.

It was really a famous and kind of controversial quote.

But

right now, the United States is in the midst of the greatest resurgence or resurgence of anti-Semitism probably in its history.

And that is not what's being addressed by the administration.

So when they say, when you get an expert from the Obama administration on Islamic affairs and you have him in Blinken and they don't really mention any anti-Semitism at all, then it's patently a political exercise.

It has nothing to do with reality or the truth.

The one attack on a Muslim was by another Muslim in their speeches, so that was kind of very strange.

Lecture Iran said it just, why don't they just for one second say

there are two million Muslims in Israel.

And they do, they

worship as they please.

They vote as they please.

They are protected by the Israeli government,

their human rights.

Why don't you just tell Iran to do that?

Just treat people in Iran or tell the people in Hezbollah or tell the people in Hamas.

What would happen if pre-October 7th, Gaza, you went in and said, I'm going to start a Mormon church.

I'm going to start, I don't know, a Catholic church right here in

Gaza City.

I don't think you'd be alive.

It'd be like saying, I'm gay.

I'm trans.

So

we live in La La.

We live in an age of untruth, and everybody knows it.

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And let's take a few messages and come back and talk a little bit about the Jewish synagogue that

was

attacked, or there were protesters

outside of it in LA.

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

Welcome back to the Victor Davis-Hansen show.

So Victor, just to continue, I suppose mostly just so that people know the news, we're not talking into a vacuum that just this week, a Jewish synagogue was,

there were Hamas protesters outside.

There was some real estate in Israel event going on and the people that wanted to go inside couldn't get inside, and the police were not stopping the protesters from harassing the Jewish people that were wanting to go into the synagogue.

There's a pattern here with the Biden administration and with all Democratic officials, Newsom especially here in California.

It is

radical Islamists, I shouldn't say that, I apologize, Middle Easterners, both on green cards and student visas, but also citizens.

They try to push the envelope, so they take over bridges, they throw paint on statues, they desecrate cemeteries, they scream about go back to Germany, which is basically go back to the ovens or go back to Poland.

That's what their new cry is.

Some of them even mention Hitler.

They get on the street, they try to harass Jews.

They go into a Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles, they go out in front of a synagogue.

Can you imagine if a bunch of people with masks on went to a black neighborhood and they swarmed outside a black church and they started screaming at black people and they were, say, white people with mask on, what would they do?

This would be like Jim Crow, I mean, like the Ku Klux Klan.

They'd get the FBI in there in two seconds.

So the question is, why isn't that happening?

And the reason is multifaceted, it gets back to this Marxist binary that all white people are oppressors and victimizers and then the victims themselves of that oppression, which is not proven but alleged, then they are protected.

They're exempt from their own illiberal and racist and biased.

So all of these protesters that attack these Jewish people in Los Angeles said, nope, I'm a victim.

I am a victim.

And as a victim, I can do whatever I want.

And they won't do anything to me.

Have they ever done anything to us when we shut down the Golden Gate or the Manhattan Bridge?

Nope, not at all.

And so

this is going to go on and on and on.

And Gavin Newsom, and then what happens post facto?

You have

the mayor of Los Angeles or Gavin Newsom say, this is unacceptable.

This is inappropriate.

This is not tolerable.

Well, then why don't you just call the National Guard out or do something, the state police?

They don't do anything.

And they don't do anything because they feel that this is an election year and they don't they take the Jewish vote for granted, A, but they don't take the Muslim vote for granted, which is much smaller.

And they're looking to virtue signal that you can basically do anything you want to Jews because they won't do anything about it.

And maybe they will.

Mr.

Bowman lost largely because Jewish Americans decided that enough was enough and they gave money to stop that anti-Semitenus tracks.

But until they do something, I don't see how it's going to end.

I mean, there was always anti-Semitism.

Remember, Gentleman's Agreement with Gregory Peck, all this Hollywood focus on it.

It was always sort of the country club.

You couldn't get into a country club if you're Jewish in its most raw form.

And it was not just their hard right.

It was the Republican aristocracy, but it was also the Democratic Party of poor whites in the South.

And it was also,

in addition to that, it was institutionalized by the Roosevelt administration.

A lot of left-wing

bureaucrats made sure that there was not open access to the United States for Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust.

Some of them were sent back and gassed.

But

this is primarily now a left-wing DEI-woke university project.

Let's be fair about it.

And they can say whatever they want about January 6th and everything.

But you could ask yourself a question.

If you were a Jewish American, you had a yarmic on, would you feel safer walking along a Washington Boulevard during the January 6th protest?

Or would you feel safer walking on campus during a Middle East protest by Middle East students?

It's not a hard question to answer.

No.

Not at all.

Yes, so I wanted to turn back to the border for just a second because I missed one of the stories that I've been thinking is very interesting.

There's a writer, Todd

Brinsman, in The American Mine, and he wrote a really good summary article about those eight Tajiki

or Tajikistani terrorists with ISIS-K, I guess, is the organization.

And he says, and there's 1,500 more Tajikis that have come into the United States through our porous borders.

And yet we are hearing nothing in the news about this.

And that is one thing that's very suspicious, I think.

And I was wondering your thoughts on that.

Well, there's a lot of things going on because from the so-called Tajikistan or Aberbajan or all of these Stan

former Soviet republics, there's about 5,000 to 6,000 people who have entered illegally.

Now, why is this happening?

I mean,

they just killed not too long ago 145 people in Russia on a terrorist attack.

Well, during the Trump administration, he did get rid of ISIS.

He bombed the proverbial crap out of them in Iraq.

A lot of them were from the Stans.

And then people got emboldened because ISIS was ridiculed, humiliated, decimated.

So individual governments in the region, in Muslim countries, started to get get tough on ISIS.

And the result is there's still a lot of dead enders that are floating around,

veterans from that ISIS brief caliphate, and they're trying to get in the United States.

We had eight of them,

the Tajistan eight, I think we called them, that were apparently planning a terrorist act.

We have no idea of four or five thousand of these people what they're doing.

We have no idea what 30,000 Chinese males are doing.

We have no idea of anybody what they're doing.

And the administration's attitude is:

well,

this is collateral damage, just like a few murders here, a few terrorist acts there.

But they probably, and if there is a terrorist act, we'll just blame Trump and the Republicans.

We'll just say they did not want comprehensive immigration reform, which is a synonym.

synonym for amnesty.

So

I don't know what to say until the unspeakable happens, and that will happen.

They'll kill a lot of people.

But we know what happens in San Bernardino and at Fort Hood.

What happened?

At Fort Hood, we weren't even told it was a radical Islamic soldier that did it.

And in San Bernardino, we weren't told that Islam was the catalyst behind the attacks.

And so I don't, I think everybody listening is really troubled.

They don't understand

why people don't just say that a lot of these terrorists, the majority of these terrorist acts, are

religiously inspired from people who have connections to the Middle East.

And they're directed at Jews, they're directed at Americans, they're directed at the West.

And everybody knows it.

And why you would let them into the country

and then release them once you've captured them, it makes no sense.

And then you don't care except right before a debate, you send New Yorkists down to the border to lie.

When he used to go down and talk about immigration, it was all about Border Patrol people whipping victims from Haiti, remember?

Yeah.

On horses?

That was a complete lie.

And so

they just don't have it in their constitution to

stand up for the United States or stand up for middle America or just follow the law.

They're so arrogant, this bicosta elite.

They think we are so credentialed, we're so wealthy, we have such good zip codes, we're so shielded from the consequences of our own ideology.

We can do anything we want.

And if you don't like it, we're going to call you all sorts of names and demonize you.

And it's all predicated on the idea that a bunch of people from Tazijistan don't come into Chevy Chase, Maryland, right?

Or Cambridge, Mass, or Berkeley, California, and hurt people

that are left-wing.

But there's no, once you let the border open, there's no escaping it.

And this is why there's been a big shake-up in the Jewish American community.

It's their friends.

I don't say, I don't like to categorize or collectivize people when I say they're,

but 70% of the Jewish community votes liberal or Democratic.

And they know that this hatred is either coming from the left or it is empowered by Democrats by appeasing it.

And it's not going to stop, as I said earlier in connection with Mr.

Bowman and everything else.

And

boy, when the squad comes up, and they need to, Corey Bush may be in trouble, but they need to

they, meaning all people who are sick of anti-Semitism, but especially the Jewish American community, they need to mobilize against Ilian Omar and Corey Bush and Rashid

Taib.

Yes, Taib or whatever her name is.

And they need to let the people know that if you vote for these people, you are endorsing anti-Semitism.

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So, Victor, the

Colorado

races are heating up.

Apparently, Lauren Boebert has won the primary for the GOP for Ken Buck's seat.

And that was, there was, I think, five other candidates.

So she took it, surprisingly.

Well, that district was more conservative than her.

her existing district, and she benefited from the fact that Ken Buck, who was considered himself a strong conservative, something happened to him.

I don't know what it was.

I've met him before.

He seemed like a nice guy, but he was not so conservative.

He kind of turned on Trump.

He left the district early.

I don't understand that.

Why?

It's only a two-year term.

Why would you represent your district and then you just bail?

You know what I mean?

Can't you finish the two years?

Yeah.

I mean,

I agree to do stuff.

I don't feel very good right now in Long Code.

Can I just call somebody up and say, I'm bailing?

No.

We don't do that.

But he bailed, and I think the result of that is people thought he became a rhino, and he bailed, and he's on TV, and sometimes they mess him up, and they just said, you know, we're tired of it.

We want somebody who we can, we know.

Whatever things about Congresswoman Barbara.

Prepared.

Whatever you say about her, she's not left-wing.

And I think that's the reductionist that's going on in that district.

I don't know quite what she's been doing lately other than that weird video when she's with, I guess, her boyfriend.

She's a grandmother.

I met her once.

She was very nice.

And I met her children.

They were very nice.

I was speaking in Colorado while in Denver.

And she was carrying her loaded guns.

I think, I didn't ask her

the status of the weapon,

but I found her to be very nice.

Her children were very nice.

And she's in a much more conservative district.

I thought she was going to win the primary.

She's going to win the general election, too.

Yeah.

I just hope she sees that she has a responsibility to her electorate if she does get elected not to be in those situations anymore where she was in.

Yeah.

Well, before we go to another break, I was wondering if you had heard about Juliana Assange reaching an agreement with the U.S.

DOJ to plead guilty to conspiracy charges to obtain and disclose national security information in order to avoid extradition to the U.S.

so that he might return to his native Australia.

Yeah, I mean, he suffered a lot.

His health is shock.

He probably did disclose secrets, but that bar, I'm afraid to say, has been quite low.

Is what he did by releasing or publishing people...

publishing secrets

on WikiLeaks that people gave him.

Was that any worse than Joe Biden telling his ghostwriter that that's a classified document and then the ghostwriter

talking about the contents of that classified document without a security clearance and then when that tape was subpoenaed destroying a federally subpoenaed

document or recording,

and what happened to him?

Nothing.

So

whatever he did, he is paid for.

He was years locked up in an embassy.

His health is shot.

He's going to go to Australia.

He'll never be able to come back in the United States.

So at least home.

I have no problem with that.

Yeah.

Well, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about the Supreme Court decision on Murthy versus Missouri.

Stay with us and we'll be right back.

Welcome back.

So Victor, the Murthy versus Missouri case was about the government asking social media companies to censor content, particularly that was sensitive to the election or to vaccination.

And the Supreme Court came down six to three that they found no evidence of coercion of social media companies.

And that's what the decision was.

But this definitely opens it up for the government to do any sort of requesting they want.

I mean, I know that there's complexities in the case, and

not being a lawyer, you shouldn't pontificate.

I shouldn't say that word again, but you shouldn't weigh in when you're not qualified in the legal sense.

But I think Miranda Devine and other public commentators made it pretty clear that the old Twitter was working with and being paid by as consultants, the FBI, to massage the news.

Everybody knows that.

And same thing with Facebook.

And I was really disappointed.

Amy

Comey Barrett, and

Kavanaugh voted with the left wing.

Can I ask a question?

Why is it that in any you have these six conservatives, right?

So usually,

Gorsuch is pretty good.

Alito's wonderful.

Roberts is back and forth.

Thomas is great.

And Kavanaugh is back and forth.

And apparently, Comey Barrett's back and forth.

But

why don't the other three do that?

Why do the three liberals always vote in every single case in lockstep?

They never defect.

It's kind of like

Earl Warren or

Hugo Black.

And then more recently,

all of those Republican appointees that were made by Jerry Ford and David Souter, that type of, they all defect.

But they never do in the left.

No, because the left is not independent.

If I can answer your question, they're not independent thinkers, and so they just follow in lockstep.

And part of it, I think, also, the Republicans get angry and they just say, what are you doing?

But

they don't make their life miserable.

They don't show up at their house.

People should remember how this left-wing mind, this Jacobin mind works.

When you're Chuck Schumer and you go out in front of the court and you say,

you don't know what's going to hit you, Gorsuch, you don't know what's going to hit you

Kavanaugh,

and then you say that you're going to reap the whirlwind, and then people show up at their homes, including an assassin, and nothing happens, and that sends a message to a judge that it's okay, it's open season.

And remember that these leftist judges think if I go conservative, these nutty people will show up at my house.

And they know that if I vote against a conservative every single time nobody's going to do that they follow the law it's only the left that does those things and

it's a we're in a very strange time it reminds me so much of the late Roman Republic you know

the oh the period between the Sulla Marius

and Milo and Claudius and then the final Caesar Pompey Crassus and the destruction that whole 70-year period when there was a quasi-legal system, the Senate, the tribunal councils, the consuls were still being elected, but the fact of the matter is it was just thuggery.

That's what's happening.

Yeah.

Well, the New York Post has a new article out on the 51 spies who signed on that the Hunter laptop was disinformation or a hoax, but that many of them were working for the CIA at the time, and that's the new

news that came out.

But I wanted to put that in with a really interesting, real clear investigation article by Paul Sperry, where he was looking at the influence that James Clapper had on the 2016 and the 2020 election with his Russian government and Trump collusion hoax.

And then, of course, in 2020, it was the Hunter laptop was

a Russian disinformation campaign.

And he was really showing that Clappers, it's drip, drip, drip how much he was interfering in U.S.

elections.

And it's just, it was, it's just shocking.

And he brings it all together in that.

And I was thinking maybe on either one of those, the 51, or on that article about Clapper, your thoughts.

A lot of them were still,

at the time that that was happening, I think they were still contractors.

They said they were retired.

They were working for the CIA when they wrote that.

So it's not quite fair to say retired

intelligence.

They should have said ongoing CIA contracted employees and former full-time employees.

So that was what was really dangerous about it.

Everybody's giving Trump advice what to say.

I would just hope that he would at least very calmly, quietly say, Mr.

Biden, President Biden, you have an opportunity.

Nearly four years ago, you looked the American people

in the eye and said, I was lying.

And people who had the laptop

in the FBI, it was under their possession,

along with 51 intelligence authorities, had proven, certified that it was Russian collusion.

You knew that was a lie then.

We know it's a lie now.

You want to apologize to the American people?

See what he would do.

Yeah.

We are recording this on Wednesday, and it won't be played until Friday, so it is going to be after the election.

But there were two other things that I thought were interesting.

Recent news articles on inflation are touting how great it is that Biden's inflation rate is going down, and I thought that was interesting.

And then the other thing was, and these are two things that may have very small to do with the debate, that the pollster star Nate Silver has predicted that the chances of winning for Trump is 65.7%

and for Biden 33.7%.

And he's kind of well known.

I thought that was an interesting new prediction he came out with.

I think he's looking at the black vote and the Latino vote.

They haven't changed much.

They've jumped up about 10%

from where they were 2020 and they haven't changed.

And it's very hard to see how they would change, right?

Yeah.

Because they've weathered all of the anti-Trump narratives, the indictments, the mugshot,

possible the fines, all of the lurid attacks on him.

And I don't see

Joe Biden.

Maybe for this debate, he'll have a cognitive stimulant.

After being in

bed for a week, I suppose maybe he can work an hour and a half.

But otherwise, I don't see why anything would change unless there's another October surprise.

And usually when they have

the Access Hollywood tape, or the Access Hollywood tape, remember, that was what they knew all along, and they dumped it right before that debate on Trump.

And he'd handled it very well.

He brought all of the victims of Bill Clinton's sexual assault and put them in the front row in front of Hillary.

And then next

October surprise was right before the debate.

The 51 intelligence authorities came out.

I would expect something like that might happen today, today.

recording on a Wednesday, and it will be tomorrow night.

We'll see if there's something late-breaking story today or tomorrow.

But that's how the left thinks.

It's a little early for an October surprise.

But that's their trademark.

And

I don't know, but the CIA is corrupt.

And

I hate to say that, the FBI is corrupt.

At least

it's

intelligentsia, the hierarchy in Washington and New York.

They're not,

I mean,

they're not protecting us.

They're not protecting us from cartel people that are coming across the border, from terrorists, from ISIS-related terrorists.

And they're doing other things.

They're swarming the home.

You know, they're swarming the home of Donald Trump.

They're going into school board meetings.

They're going after anti-abortion people.

They're going after people who

question the safety and the morality of court-order trans surgery on minors.

So they're not serving the general collective need.

And they haven't had a good record of stopping the Saarnev brothers, the San Bernardino terrorists, the Fort Hood.

They had Major Hassan.

They knew all about that in advance.

All of that was leaked to them and they had intel, and they didn't stop it.

No.

Well, I think the Biden syndicate is well known to them, and they don't seem to be pushing, what did Clapper say?

We push the boundaries on the Trump collusion with Russia hoax, but they don't seem to be pushing the boundaries on a collusion between Biden and China.

That's such a euphemism and a lie.

He didn't push the boundaries.

He said on national TV that Donald Trump, the President of the United States, was a Russian asset.

What did you mean, Mr.

Clapper?

Are you just lying like you did before under oath?

And you said the NSA didn't spy on people.

And then they caught you in an absolute perjury, lying before a congressional committee.

under oath and you said I gave the least untruthful answer I could.

All you had to do is said I cannot answer that in open testimony.

Instead, you chose to lie to the American people.

You had no, no, no consequences.

If there was any justice in the United States, they would have a special prosecutor as soon as this administration is over with, and that special prosecutor would just review all of the felony perjury, go after Mr.

Brennan, Mr.

Comey, Mr.

Clapper, and say,

did you do this?

We're talking about Julia Assange.

Nobody Nobody even, it's just so,

you know, I mentioned the Biden speechwriter, but remember James Comey?

He went and had a private conversation with the President of the United States.

He lied and assured him he was not the object of an investigation, of which he was.

Then he went out on FBI time and on FBI devices and memorialized a private conversation with the United States.

Then the left said it wasn't classified.

Well, it was confidential.

It should have been classified.

And then what did he do?

He used a third party to

leak it to the New York Times.

He had no consequences.

And that's what gets people so angry, is that right now there's a sense in the United States that

whether you're going to be charged for a crime or not has nothing to do with the crime itself.

It's your ideology or what side of the woke DI or left-wing divide you're on.

It's not sustainable.

Well, last thing, Victor, we're at the end of our podcast, but they did just come out this week with the

they being the National Transportation Safety Board came out with their report on the East Palestinian, Ohio derailing of the train and all of that toxic plume that they sent into the air by burning.

And they

said it was an overheated wheel bearing that derailed the train, and that they probably shouldn't have burned off the vinyl chloride that put a toxic flume into the air and plagues people to this day with

coughs,

headaches, lack of sleep, type of things.

So I was wondering your final thoughts on that.

Well, remember that Pete Buttigig didn't come for weeks and the president didn't come for months.

So that was more collateral damage.

If that train of polyvinyl chloride had derailed in a Democratic constituency, they would have been there that day and they would have been yelling at corporate malfeasance

and the railroads for not inspecting their cars and

the idea that that toxic chemical should not have been on that particular crane on that particular rail.

But it was East Palestine.

And they were deplorables.

They were irredeemables.

They were dregs.

They were chumps.

They were hobbits.

They were crazies.

They were clingers.

As

Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did.

So they were expendable, is what I'm saying.

That's the truth.

It is.

And so nobody really cared about them.

Nobody cares about them now.

But boy, you know, this Democratic Party,

I keep driving that nail down, but my gosh, it is so obsessed with identity politics.

rather than just citizens.

People in East Palestine, when that tragedy happened, they should have been treated no better and no worse than any other community.

And they couldn't do that.

It became political.

And

it's just, I guess they thought, you know, this is a constituency that A, we don't like and we make fun of, and B, we're not going to carry Ohio, right?

That's how they think.

So why spend any time on it?

And if you do spend time, then the media will pick it up that you're concerned about these people.

And the AOC squad base won't like that.

That's how they think.

They really do.

It's that simple.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, we're at the end of the show, and I have a question from one of your viewers off of Apple Podcast.

He says he's a new subscriber and he's been listening to you.

And his question is this: In your stories of California politics, you talk about the organized ethnic groups.

I was surprised to hear that the Asians are left-wing.

I have always considered them hard-working

and entrepreneurial.

Why are they leftists?

Is that

changing as they are now considered right adjacent?

That's a very good question.

But Asian is about as inexact a term as white is.

White can mean anything that you just came from.

You're German with a Spanish surname from Argentina.

You're German from Germany.

You're every type of

race.

I go and I just came back from the supermarket and I was the only so-called white person there.

I would say 20 people there were whiter than I am, who were Hispanic.

And if you had 10 Hispanic people from Mexico next to 10 Italians and 10 Greeks and 10 Arabs, I don't think I could, nobody could tell the difference.

So it's absurd.

Getting to Asian, it's a different type of

immigrant community.

When I was growing up, Asian was largely in California, Japanese Americans.

And they

became very successful, even after the Manzanar and the relocation camps.

They were the first Asian group to

they were farmers, they were property owners, they played by all the roles, and they had put an extremely high value on education.

When I was growing up, the ophthalmologists, the

surgeons were Japanese Americans.

And then that community

was not refreshed by immigration.

It had one of the highest rates of intermarriage, by the way, the Japanese community.

And it became, like all other Americans, it became affluent.

And so the third and fourth generations didn't have the same

conservative ideas.

The next community came, was very much poorer.

They came from Southeast Asia, they came from China,

and

they came from Indonesia, they came from the Philippines, and they were far poor, and they came,

a lot of them en masse, Korea as well, and they

were not as, I don't know, they were not as

What's the word, identifiable.

They were more amorphous.

But the most important thing is, and this is what I'm trying to get at, is they didn't come and they didn't mature into an assimilated majority, a minority during the normal,

I mean they didn't do it during DEI.

They did it during the normal times.

What I mean by that?

There was no DEI.

There was content of our character, assimilation, integration before that.

The next group from these poor regions came during DEI woke affirmative action.

You are a victim.

And their kids, they went to college, and that's what they were taught.

They were taught you're not a Japanese American type Asian that has privilege.

You are a

brother of Latinos and blacks and poor people, Native Americans, and you have grievances against the majority.

That's what they were taught.

And

so they're politically they're very different.

But what they didn't quite understand is

people who are anti-Asian and they suffer after Jews the second highest number of hate crimes.

I think they're one of the fewest

by demographic perpetrators, but they're one of the most frequently targeted.

And to be frank,

A lot of left-wing Asians say it's the white racist Klan.

We know it's not.

It's the African-American community and people of color who are targeting Asians.

And why are they targeting them?

A lot of it's envy.

A lot of them they think they have money, a lot of it is racism, a lot of it is

if you look at the 20 top ethnic groups in the United States and you look at them by income, I think at least the top 15,

much more higher than generic, are what?

They're Asian.

They're either from India or they're from

Southeast Asia or Korea or China.

And so it's a very, very affluent, it's becoming an affluent group, but it didn't become affluent in the way that Japanese Americans did under the old.

We're all Americans.

And I say that as a first-hand observer.

When I was in high school, I had some of my best, that sounds bad, but many of my best friends were Asian.

And there was no

You're a victim or you should be eligible for affirmative action.

Most of the Asians I knew intermarried with non-Asians.

It's just a fact.

And they were mostly Japanese.

I think in the entire time I was in high school, I must have met 50 Japanese American students.

I met one from India and I met one from China.

And it was a very successful conservative group.

S.I.

Hayokawa was sort of a good example.

He was a Japanese American senator from California, very right-wing.

And today, almost all Asian candidates, not in Orange County, but it's starting to change.

I think it will change as

Asians start to see that a lot of the hate crimes directed at them are coming from the left.

And that will make a difference.

And then a lot of them are entrepreneurial professionals and they see you can't function in California with the taxes, the regulation, and you're open season as far as crime and homelessness.

So I think there's going to be a

There's going to be a drop-off in the vote left from the Asian community.

It's starting to resemble the Japanese-American experience a little bit rather than the PC woke of the last 20 years.

But my general, as somebody who's been on the campus for 50 years of my life, when I meet Asians, if you were to stereotype, or

I don't mean it in a negative way, is that I just assume that any Asian person under the age of 30 is left-wing on a campus.

But everybody is.

But

that has an

effect.

Yeah, it sure does.

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