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So, Victor, I know you're just back from...

Europe and

in particular, France and Normandy.

And today is

June 6th.

So I hope your travels in Normandy and the lectures all went well.

They did.

And we had a heavyly

represented contingent from Hillsdale College, Tom Conner, Mark Kalkoff, and Ken Colvert.

And of course, my partner of 20 years, Al Phillip.

and from All Aboard Travel.

And we had the largest contingent we've ever had with staff.

It was over 160 people, but it went just like clockwork.

Just a few notes, you know, it was the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and

over 50% of the casualties were on Omaha Beach.

When you walk that beach and you compare it with Utah or

Gold, Juneau, or Sword, the British and Canadian beaches, you can see why it had the tallest cliffs.

Once you got over the cliffs, you were immediately confronted with the Bokaj, and we went and drove all through the Bokaj.

And then you had these panzer divisions that were, although they had been delayed,

were starting to arrive.

I don't know how a kid who was 18 years old on that beach, minding his business in Iowa or Ohio, suddenly Germany declares war on us in December 11th of 1941.

And he finds himself,

maybe he went over in November to the liberation of North Africa.

Maybe he went in July to Sicily and he ended up in Italy.

But most likely he came directly from training in the U.S.

to those four infantry divisions.

And one of them was an armored division on D-Day, and then there was two airborne.

So they had six American divisions and four British.

But

my God, look what they were going up against.

They had Das Reich Division, second SS Panzers, twelve SS Pounders, Hitler Youth.

And when you look at those divisions and what they had been doing, especially

Das Reich, the Empire Division, they had been four years of savage service in

Russia.

I mean, they were outnumbered as far as manpower and equipment, but within that division, they had over 60

Panther and Tiger tanks.

They had 88 millimeter anti-tank weapons.

They had superior light arms at MG-42.

It had a rate of a fire of 1,200 bullets a minute.

Three times more with a rounding-on automatic rifle.

So those kids that were coming off that beach,

I don't know,

it was like a kid drafted into the NBA asked to play against people who had been playing for five years all over the world, and yet they kept going.

And

by the end of the breakout, they had over a million people, and by the time they took Paris, they had two million.

So it was an amazing feat.

And everybody at this 80th anniversary asked, including myself, could they do it again?

I don't think so.

You don't think the modern generation could fight like that?

No.

No.

Well, not in the same numbers.

I think some people in the military could.

When I was in bed in Iraq twice, I got every one of those kids could.

But that was then, and this is now.

And what we saw in Afghanistan, it's not so much the breakdown is not with the individual American soldier.

The breakdown is with the

colonel and I don't think it's I don't think it's captain major lieutenant colonel colonel it's one star two star three star four star there is a different incentive and that incentive it's Washington D-centric and that means if you start to promote through the four star brass then you start to be aware that it's a politicized appointment.

You have to be careful what you say.

There's a lot of lucrative remunerations once you're at that.

Once you retire, you know that if you mouth the platitudes at the Pentagon Bureaucracy on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,

and you virtual signal or you write op-eds, stuff like that,

then you're going to retire and you're going to go into Northrop or, you know, Raytheon or something like that.

It's going to be

with a good pension.

But the problem is when you look at what that generation has done by getting out of Afghanistan or

I'm not talking about the military loan, I'm talking about the State Department.

And you look at what they did with letting the Chinese balloon just come across or this crazy outreach to Iran.

Or, you know, Biden saying that he wouldn't react if there was this minor invasion of Ukraine and this pressure on Israel.

And we're up against some people who, and then just to finish, one of the reasons we won on D-Day was

we unleashed, leashed

out of that New Deal socialism.

Roosevelt got together and he knew that the people who were running the National Recovery Act or civilian consecration, these were not business people.

And he needed enormous production.

So he essentially allowed this war production board

and he let Henry Kaiser go, and he let Henry Ford go, and he let William Knudsen go.

And these were the people who made ships and planes and everything.

And they organized it.

And so when you're making 50 or 60,000 Sherman tanks and 100,000 aircraft, and you're producing 93% of the world's aviation fuel with, you know, standard oil, et cetera, and you're turning out adequate, good weapons, but the idea then was we don't have to have a machine gun that's better than the top German.

We don't need to out-produce,

I shouldn't say that, we don't have to match the tiger tank or the Panther tank.

Yes, on a one-to-one duel, they will blow up a Sherman, but they're never going to see a Sherman in a one-to-one.

They're going to see five Shermans or eight Shermans, or they're not even going to be there, or they can't be transported across

roads.

They're too heavy.

They can't go across a bridge.

A Sherman can be shipped 3,500 miles by sea.

And it takes, you know, an hour to take out a Sherman transmission.

It takes a day or two to take out a Panther.

So the idea was a lot of stuff that's pretty good and swarm them.

If you translate that lesson to, say, Taiwan or

what we see in Ukraine, I don't know why we don't have...

I think the F-35 is a wonderful thing.

I'm really proud of the Gerald 4, all these new carriers, you know, $15 billion carriers, $200 million planes.

But

what we're seeing in Ukraine is these off-the-shelf, $300, $5,000 drones that can go stealthily and then land on the top of

a tank and blow up a $5 million tank or ram itself inside to the jet intake of a very expensive jet.

Bottom line, we should be producing thousands, if not millions, of inexpensive aerial drones, missile drones,

drone tank armored vehicles, small armored vehicles,

submarine drones, and ship drones, thousands of them.

So if they decide to go across the

Taiwanese Strait, they're going to be confronted by a whole sky and a whole sea of drones.

And we're going to be coordinated rather than just, you know, to send the

Gerald Ford or the Ronald Reagan through the strait and make it a big target.

And that's how we won D-Day.

That's how we won World War II.

We just out-produced everybody.

And then we got these kids that were really good kids and they really wanted to fight and they had adequate weaponry.

And then the longer the war got on, we not only had better stuff,

but we reacted.

We were always changing, reacting, adopting to conditions.

And then out of that conundrum, we built P-51s, P-47s, Hellcats,

destroyer Escorts, all these new ideas, and they were better than the enemies.

But again, the idea was we're not going to build a perfect weapon system that's very expensive.

We're going to be just good enough, and we're going to swarm the enemy.

And that's what we did, and that's how we won.

Yeah.

Did the French play the Marseilles for you?

Yes, they did.

I hear you.

They played it in a very dramatic fashion.

A young woman, oh, teenage woman,

daughter of one of our esteemed guests, played it at the Treon Hotel, the room in which the Versailles Treaty was accepted,

signed.

And she played both that and the Star-Spangled Banner.

I was really moved.

It's a beautiful song.

It reminded me, I was watching Casablanca, and all of a sudden the French stand up and outplay Deutschland Überal.

We didn't play Deutschland Überal, believe me.

But it was a beautiful song, and I looked over, and here were these long-haired, postmodern, French waiters.

And you thought, well, they're just like Antifa people.

No, they were not.

They were weeping, crying, some of them.

They looked like they're right out of Casablanca.

They had their hands over their hearts.

They were singing.

So I thought it was really moving.

And then walking around the...

You know,

it's very different, the French.

Remember when Macron, who I'm not a big fan of, said there will be no statue toppling in France?

And they honor their past so much more.

I mean, you look at Versailles.

I went in the Versailles War Museum, I mean, at the invalid

of the Army Museum.

And when I was reading the captions, they had things that were just unimaginable in America.

This type of weaponry represented the zenith of the French imperial power and prestige.

The French flag flew all over the world.

Napoleon, it was just amazing.

You go through the hall of the mirrors and the paintings of the great battlefields above, and

something happens when you get to Waterloo.

There's not any more paintings of glorious victories after 1815, although I guess you could say 1944,

Leclerc and all of those people who were attached to the Third Army did very well.

But anyway, Jack and I talked about that.

As an American, when you look at our border and you look at our immigration policy and you look at the crime, and since you and I have talked,

you know, a pregnant woman loses her baby, her husband's beaten up by a savage mob,

they've only catched two, they charge him with misdemeanors, they let them go.

And I just don't think,

I think maybe we got some of these ideas from Europe, but they're going,

they're self-correcting in a way we are not.

We can talk about that, but I

don't know.

I mean, why don't, you know, it's very funny in the left, they attacked Tucker Carlson

mercilessly, and he was one of the first to say what this whole border was up to.

It's a great replacement, Tucker.

It's just a little bowtie, white people are you upset that you're being outnumbered.

And as I said again and again, he knows he just said, you were the people who said that you wanted to outnumber people.

You were the ones who said it was the new Democratic majority, that it was,

this is who we are, this is

who we are.

That you wanted to import bodies to achieve agendas you otherwise could not by appealing

to the present constituency of American citizens.

So they did.

But all of that taken together is very worrisome.

I don't know what we're going to do with 135%

of annual GDP debt and $36 trillion.

And as Neil Ferguson pointed out, the interest on the debt is larger than the defense budget.

And he went through history and showed showed that when that happens, it's all over, basically.

So I just don't hear anybody talking about it.

I hear him talking about Donald Trump's stormy dam.

Who cares about any of this?

We're broke.

And

cities like San Francisco, but especially Chicago and New York, are broke.

And the only people who can help them out, they're driving out.

We're going to see things that we haven't seen in a long time.

And the university system is broke.

All of these university endowments are really suffering.

I've been talking to some people that have knowledge about a lot of these endowments, and they're down 10 to 20%

on the giving.

And remember that the annual giving is the chief source of the operating budget along with tuition.

And the long-term endowments, they're kind of locked up.

So when somebody doesn't give his annual $1 million,

that comes out of something.

And these college presidents are going to have to start going into the endowment, I think, and cashing in these long-term investments because they're not going to get enough money from tuition

and

annual giving to pay their current bills.

That would be something.

So this country

has enormous potential and has enormous history of recovering very rapidly, as we saw in World War I and World War II and the Union and the Civil War.

But

see that?

It's something else to see this complacency.

I just came back from the store yesterday.

I would say that 75% of the people were morbidly obese.

And I'd say 70% of the people who were

morbidly obese had a case of Pepsi or Coke, non-diet.

And I would say that 95% of the people who were checking out were on public assistance with EBT cards, WIC cards.

And I would say 50% of them had multiple cards.

And how you would stop that, I don't know.

But we are bringing in millions of people who are going to fit that paradigm.

And I don't know what the point is.

Yeah.

I do know what the point is.

I'm being recorded.

It's what's Joe Biden.

Yeah.

And the left wants to replace, they want to get new constituents because the constituencies that they have are not enough to support.

and advance their agenda.

Yeah.

Did you see that Bill Malusian video where he was interviewing these people coming across the border?

It looked like the Olympics.

They were coming in.

Hi, we're from Jordan.

We're from Egypt.

We're from Turkey.

I was expecting them to have their little flags out and walk across.

The time

between

you telling us that you're from hostile Turkey, hostile Jordan, hostile Egypt, until we see you on TV saying death to Israel from the river to the sea and shouting and taking over is about a month.

And I don't understand that at all.

No.

I don't understand that at all.

Why do we, and the same thing with 30,000 Chinese males, why, why, is there some rule that says you can only take people into the United States if they come from places that hate you?

And I guess that's the rule.

And now Mexico has a communist, another communist is taking over from Mr.

Obadar.

And, of course, Joe Biden is trying to work with Obadar, and he's promising to shut the border right before the election, just like we're promised to get more

siphoning of the prestige strategic petroleum reserve, just like we're promised we're going to get more unconstitutional willings

canceling debt.

He's going to do anything.

But there is one final thought.

This is a very valuable lesson that the left does not believe that the left works.

If the left believed that the left works, they would be saying, we're coming into an election.

We have a three-year record.

Look at the border.

We brought in 10 million people.

Isn't that great?

We stopped the wall.

We drained that awful, gooey, icky, smelly petroleum reserve.

And when we get it down, we'll have to work with electric vehicles.

This is wonderful.

And by the way, we've canceled all of those student loans.

They don't mean anything anymore.

Take a loan out, we'll just cancel it.

So you guys are getting all free stuff.

The guys are on TV.

you know, you're in this office and that office, take over the president's office at Stanford.

You don't have to pay.

And so, why don't they just say that and run on it?

And why instead say, well, let's get some more oil and let's kind of close the border a little bit and let's just slack off on the student protest if we can.

Because they know that

their ideologues and their agendas are not popular.

Well, their agendas, just as you outlined it, are intended to destroy civilization.

I mean, if you don't have people paying back loans, you don't have a banking system.

And if you don't have a banking system, you don't have a business system.

Well, it is.

It's just anarchy.

They're anarchists, 19th-century anarchists.

If you don't have a border, you don't have a country.

If you can't walk in Chicago, if you're a young couple and you're walking in Chicago, as happened this week, and a bunch of thugs, teens, come up to you and they say, well,

you have no business in our neighborhood.

This is our turf.

And then they start hitting you in the head, kicking you in the stomach,

miscarriaging a poor woman, and nothing happens to them.

Then you don't have a civilization.

Yeah, exactly.

And you don't.

And that's why I wrote an article.

Reagan said that you can lose freedom in one generation when he was governor.

I think that was a 67

inaugural speech of his.

I said that you can lose civilization in one.

Lord of the Flies in one week.

And that's it's kind of like the United States is a

is a big transport plane and it crashed.

And there's nobody in charge, and everybody is in the Lord of the Flies mentality, and they're all freelancing to do whatever they want.

And nobody's going to stop them.

They had those thugs that went in and just walked in and stole some stuff in Nashville.

At least some people tried to block their entrance.

And they called the police.

They said, look, they can't get out.

We've got the door.

And what happened?

The police didn't come for 30 minutes and

the miscreants got out.

Well, with that, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about incendiary bombs into Israel.

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

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Well, Victor, so we have incendiary bombs being dropped into, and so starting forest fires in Israel.

And I was wondering your reflections.

I mean, the the Israelis are not going to be able to tolerate these,

you know, potshot events.

They have

almost 100,000 people can't live there.

And then now that Hezbollah is trying to start forest fires.

And this could have been prevented if Joe Biden had just been quiet.

and not tried to overthrow the elected government of our closest ally, which he has done and is doing, they would have cleaned up

Hamas.

Mr.

Sinma or whatever he is, he's in the tunnel.

He's about the last of them.

And remember what they're doing?

They're trying to defang, emasculate, neuter a group that said, we are going to do this ten times, a hundred times, a thousand.

We're going to do it again and again and again and again.

And they planned it for over a year.

The butchery of

1,200 Israeli, mostly unarmed citizens, women, rape, medieval.

Okay, so

you're trying to stop that, and the international community is against you, and the international community has paid for the tunnels.

They have billions of dollars of tunnel complex.

Just think of what they could have done with all those tunnels.

All that reinforced rebar and concrete and prefab,

concrete arches that are down there.

It's just amazing that they were able to do that.

So they have some ingenuity, evil though it is.

Why didn't they just use that and build the whole coastline with Marriott Hotels?

They would be rich right now.

They'd be like Dubai.

Does Dubai say, oh, we can't do it because we don't have enough land.

The Israelis over there took it?

No, they don't.

And so

it's just

disgusting.

But

Hezbollah has a rendezvous with the IDF because as soon as they finish this, they're going to go in.

And they're going to push back what they should have done earlier and they couldn't because they had a two-front war.

Remember

that

Israel had said to, in the 2006 war, that we will pull back and there will be a demilitarized zone along the Lebanese border.

And they broke it.

And they bring in platforms in to launch missiles, et cetera.

And Israel will clean that out.

And then

we'll see what happens.

Iran, I think the next time, if they go into Hezbollah,

Hezbollah knows that they have the ability, i.e.

the IDF has the ability, to do what they did in 2006, and that is to make the Shia neighborhoods of Beirut unlivable.

And as the economic minister said of Beirut, we better be very careful because we have not recovered from 2006 and they will do it again.

And why we have a billion-dollar embassy there that was just attacked yesterday, I don't know.

We don't need any embassy there.

The country doesn't exist.

It's in the hands of Hezbollah and Iran.

We should just pull out.

Say, we don't want anything to do with you.

We have a travel ban from everybody in this country.

And Iran, too, you cannot come to the West.

That would be very good.

But, you know, when Biden says, what are you going to do if Iran attacks?

What's your message to Iran if they were to send missiles into Israel?

Don't.

Don't.

Just like.

And there was an old guy called Cornpop, and I measured off some chain, and I just went out there and I said, Cornpop, you and I.

Or Donald Trump, you know, in my day, we just took a guy like that behind the gym and beat him.

I get so sick of that braggadatio from him.

And when he says, don't, that means go ahead.

I'm not going to do anything.

Yeah.

I haven't said anything to you.

He was just like to Obama.

When I see WMD moving in and about, that's a red line for me.

Remember when you said that to Assad?

Yes.

And they kept moving it.

And they kept gassing and killing people.

And then you said, well, let me go talk to the Russians.

Maybe I can invite them back into the Middle East.

They haven't been here for 40 years.

So they came back in, and they were supposed to help us and our partner in peace.

And now we wonder why they went into Crimea, Donbass, and Ukraine.

Do you think that these incendiary bombs and starting forest fires in Israel is part of a 100,000 cuts with Israel, including October 7th and disrupting shipping in the Red Sea and all of these things?

Yes,

what the the Israelis are telling us is we are an elected government.

You may not like Netanyahu, but his pressure is not from the left to stop.

It's the pressure from the middle and the left and the right to keep going because they know that they cannot continue to exist as a modern nation when you have people

coming into your country and butchering and raping and mutilating and beheading your

or sending missiles every single day to destroy a whole community along its border.

And so they've been very methodical.

They would have been done in Hamas if we hadn't have stopped them.

But just let them deal with Hamas.

And then when they're done with Hamas in three or four weeks, then let them deal with Hezbollah.

And they will deal with Hezbollah.

And they're doing the world a favor.

And then our job traditionally was to tell Iran: do not interfere.

You have surrogates.

We We have a surrogate.

It's called Israel.

Yours are Hezbollah, the Houthis,

and Hamas.

And let the surrogates fight it out.

But you're not going to join in.

And that's what's missing from this morally bankrupt administration.

Well, there's new legislation in the California legislature coming through, the proposal that all CSUs, UCs, and community colleges must now hire illegal illegal immigrants for

their jobs, I guess, jobs are on the campus.

And I was wondering, that's just another weird thing about California, and it's almost as weird as Joe Biden's executive order of 2,500 a day.

There's all these

subtexts to California that we're not supposed to talk about.

So

45% of the population identify as Mexican-American, Hispanic.

27% of the people who live here were not born in the United States.

Yes, you are getting a second, third, and fourth generation Hispanic, if I could use that vague term, generation that is starting to become conservative.

They have property, they're thriving,

they emulate the Italian experience of the 19th century.

And they don't like this.

But that's not who the legislature represents.

It represents the young Hispanic, the Hispanic women, and they feel, and their leaders will tell you, that

the entry of more and more people normalizes illegality.

So there's so many people, you can't enforce the law.

And then what happens?

We are now $77 billion.

broke.

Gavin Newsom took a surplus and he spent it on everything, including illegal aliens.

We have a defunct

high-speed rail project.

He's now scrambling because he thinks he's a candidate to improve this decrepit road.

So you drive the 99, the I-5, or the 101, and there's construction everywhere.

He could have had it all done if he just said, hold off on these high-speed rail boondoggle.

Let's just get modern freeways.

But my point is that he spent, spent, spent,

and then people said, where is the revenue?

And he said, the revenue is 13.3 income tax, 10 to 12% sales tax, increasing those appraisals on the real estate market so we have higher property taxes and 50 cent new gas taxes.

And they said, Gavin, people are leaving because they're not getting anything for their money.

And his constituents say, go, get them away.

We don't want these people.

We don't want the people who make 100 or 200 or 300.

They're white.

They're just, you know, they're the wrong people.

We don't want them.

We want immigrants.

So they're gone.

And now

what went with them is a trillion dollars in capital.

And then they say, well,

we have Silicon Valley.

Well, look at Silicon Valley.

Look at San Francisco.

Whether it's Oracle or whether it's Charles Swap or whatever these marquee companies are, they're leaving because they don't want to deal with this insanity.

And so when Texas shut its borders, people just walked along the wall and they found openings.

We opened them like ass, and they just flooded into San Diego.

And Gavin is a captivist constituent.

Oh, come on in.

We got free stuff.

We'll just borrow the money, but he can't print the money.

So

what are they doing in California?

Well,

you bring in 10 million poor people the last, I don't know, 15 years, and then you expect them to pay your PG ⁇ E bill?

No.

Southern California Edison bill?

No.

They just default.

One quarter of all Californians are behind on their power bill.

So what do you do?

You say to the guys, hey, don't leave California.

We got an incentive for you to stay.

If you stay, you get to pay $100 or $150 more a month on your power bill as

a goodwill gesture to the poor.

So just stay here and we're going to tax you more.

Now, if you don't want to use any of your power, you have batteries, we're still going to charge you $100 to $150 a month.

That's your obligation because this is California.

That's the attitude.

So they're just leaving in droves.

And for the first time, you're starting to see some of the housing markets crash.

And you're starting to, you know, you're starting to see weird things like the Bakersfield Central Valley area or the Sacramento Central Valley area or even some parts of North Fresno are now being absorbing thousands of people leaving the coast that can't afford it.

So if you're in Monterey, you cannot afford a three-bedroom, two-bath house at $2 million.

So you go over here and get one for $600,000.

And so the whole state is in transition, and then the people who produce and are productive are leaving.

Yeah, didn't Donald Trump come to the Silicon Valley and have a crowd?

Was that, did I see that on the thing?

And then, oh, I thought that he came and then also done Kamala.

He's done that before.

Yeah.

He's done that a lot before.

But again, the problem is that there's all of these people leaving and the people who were coming, just look at it this way.

Joe Blow has a restaurant.

Say he runs three McDonald's and he works from four in the morning to midnight.

And

Gavin Newsom says he has to pay $20 an hour.

And he passes that on and his revenues go down.

And so he says, you know, I can go to Tennessee or Idaho or Utah with my expertise and they'll like me.

And so I'm going to go.

And then Gavin says, one person left.

I want Mr.

So-and-so from Nairobi or Turkey or something to take his place because he's better.

He's not some old white guy and we want to get rid of him.

So we're going to bring in an immigrant.

Now, he has no English, he has no education, he has a big family, he needs health support.

But all of these other people who are privileged take too much of the health dollar.

So we're going to put these people in the waiting room and make it equal.

That's their attitude.

And

a lot of people say, you know what, Gavin?

We know you're going to stay here, and we know Nancy Pelosi is going to stay here, and we know Adam Schiff is going to stay here because you're wealthy.

But

the monster you created is going to get you.

If you look at all of the celebrities or NBA stars, there's a lot of them who are being carjacked, held up, you name it.

You won't be able to escape the consequences of your own ideology.

They won't eventually.

That's just a fact.

There's only so many places you can hide from what you created.

And you drive down I-5.

There's a lot of people who don't know how to drive in California.

27% of them weren't born here.

And the roads are very dangerous.

And there's not a lot of law enforcement anymore.

And people know that if you get a ticket, there's going to be a periodic amnesty.

So they don't worry about it.

So when I drive each week, basically on areas of the 99 or I-5,

I just see Mr.

Trucker going 70 miles an hour.

in the left lane, even on three lanes sometimes, just barreling away and moving back and forth.

I see the guy right behind me, I'm going 72 miles an hour and 65 mile an hour zone, maybe, and the guy's right in my bumper ready to hit me.

So I temporarily go into the middle lane, boom, he's gone, going 85 miles an hour.

Nothing happens.

It's Road Warrior, and that's the whole state.

It's just, it's lawless.

It really is.

Yeah.

Well, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk about a little more lawlessness in California.

The Stanford president's office was taken over.

Stay with us and we'll be right back.

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Well, Victor, your alma mater had its president's office taken over by pro-Palestinian protesting students.

And I was wondering,

they're angry because they don't want Stanford investing in businesses that

investment is.

If you ask them which business they are, they wouldn't know.

That's true.

So when they had the camp, and then the three presidents at Pennsylvania, remember MIT and Harvard, embarrassed themselves, and there was a little tiny pushback.

The president, Richard Salier, he's a classical scholar.

I've met him before.

He wrote very,

I don't know, very scholarly, valuable books on the Roman family.

And when

Mr.

Tesserly Levine stepped down, he stepped in.

He's an interim president.

But when he said

that

the

encampments are illegal and contrary to Stanford policy, and we are going to to dismantle them.

And it's possible, I'm paraphrasing, that those who break the law and resist could, should, may, might

face suspension.

Well, what was that?

That's not going to do anything.

So

they went in at, what, 5.30 in the morning to the president's office.

They destroyed stuff.

And the police, one of the policemen was injured that had to break through the window they were trying to block.

And then, you know, Stanford is very, very proud of their 1890 period Romanesque sandstone architecture.

It's beautiful.

When you see this anti-Semitic, anti-American graffiti written on that absorbent stone, it's not easy to take off.

And then when you have these spoiled brats who were behind it say, well, we didn't quite, we don't know who did that.

We were more organized.

No, you're responsible.

I'm sorry.

So now they say they're going to be suspended.

Let's see if that is true.

Because we know one thing about Stanford students of the last four years.

They're entitled.

They have exalted views of their abilities.

They feel they deserve top jobs.

They did not.

They were not admitted to Stanford with the same type of SAT scores, excuse me, no SAT scores at all.

And their GPAs did not rank with other students.

In other words, if they got a straight A

from Selma, California, nobody said, well, that's worth 3.5 at Palo Alto High School, they just let them in.

And the admissions were primarily adjudicated, and they get mad.

They're really angry, because people are angry at the admissions office, and they're under the gun.

And

that is why there's behind all of this violence is a sense of insecurity.

It's,

I can't do the work here.

And that's because of their fault.

They let me in, and they said that I could do the work.

And now the work is ossified.

It's old white stuff.

And it was there, I don't know.

And so they knew that they had a new constituency.

So in my French class, my German, my history class, my chemistry, they're going to have to lower the requirements.

And they're going to have to change their grades.

Because we were morally superior and new

constituency, we're the future elite of America.

That's That's how they think.

So they're very angry to begin with.

And then this is the spark that sets them off.

The other thing is that of 16,000 graduate and undergraduate, over a third are not born in the United States.

They're foreign students because as I said earlier, they pay the whole tuition and board package without discounts, without student loans.

And when people are not giving to the

annual budget

in the way that they did in the past, they don't want to kick out any foreign student.

They have little price tags on

their scarves.

So they're just appeasing them.

Now they said they're going to suspend them and you can't graduate.

Let's check in in about six weeks and see what happens to them.

If Richard Sawyer got up in April and he said, look,

I agree with the First Amendment.

And everybody has a right to protest, but you cannot break the law.

And you cannot endanger other students and you cannot engage in what is unqualified hate speech, anti-Semitic speech.

So you people have camped out in the central area of the campus.

People can not walk freely because you're blocking sidewalks, you're blocking pathways, and more importantly, you're coming out of your camp to confront people.

And you're screaming and yelling in front of classrooms.

And people feel afraid of you.

So

you're going to have to stop.

Now we're going to clean it out today.

And I want to warn you that if you are a Sanford student and you resist and you are arrested, you're going to be expelled from campus and you're not going to be back on the campus.

And we will arrest you if you come back on the campus.

And you're not going to graduate if you're a senior.

You're not going to get your degree because you're going to be expelled.

And you people from the Middle East who come over here on visas,

and you break the law, if you break the law and you are arrested, we are going to inform Homeland Security that your student visa should no longer be valid and you can get back home where you're needed and people love you and you love that area.

You tell us how wonderful Gaza is, how wonderful the West Bank is, how wonderful Syria is, how wonderful.

You're going to get a ticket back and everybody will be happy.

We don't have you disrupting classes and screaming and yelling, you know, kill the Jew.

I mean,

they're starting to find people with Hezbollah

outfits on and Hamas outfits.

They've had people on campuses kill hostages.

This is getting really weird.

So

we don't have to put up with that, and you don't have to put up with us.

And you get back to glorious Rafah, you get back to glorious

Jericho, you get back to glorious Beirut.

How's that?

Even Stephen, even Stephen.

And we make, we'll add another little incentive into the deal.

We're going to say, so that you don't get angry at us, because you're going to have to leave for breaking our laws as our guest.

But in deference to you, we're going to give up a lot.

We are going to put a travel ban on Americans going to Egypt, Syria, Beirut,

Iraq,

Gaza, and the West Bank.

So you don't see us either.

You don't have to see these horrible Americans that you hate.

They're not going to be able legally to go over to your countries, and you're going to be even happier.

And if he did that,

it would all dissipate.

There'd be nothing.

Well, my last question here is on, there was a Kamala interview once again where she went on the, I believe it was the Jimmy Kimmel show,

and and she was asked really crazy well not in interesting questions like have you ever been bitten by Commander the Biden dog or did you know there's a marijuana named after her etc so these softball questions seem to me she would be better off either not interviewing at all or get into something where she can show she has a strategic mind she's just

doing herself in by these and I don't know what that is.

Oh, the left thinks she's wondering, this is the left that told us that Dan Quayle was a moron.

Dan Quayle was Albert Einstein compared to her.

And then they told us that John McCain was reckless because of Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin knows more than Kamala.

She doesn't know anything.

And she,

don't you, does anybody like a school bus?

Look at the school bus.

That's so nice.

I just love school buses.

That's every single thing she talks about.

That was a pretty good laugh, by the way, Victoria.

I've seen her in that.

They have that brilliant person who emulate her on Gutfield.

I wish they put her on more.

Yeah, they should.

And so

they have a real problem, and it's all in suspended animation because Joe Biden,

what do they call his shoes?

The Air Biden's now.

You know, his duck bill platypus beak-like hocus shoes.

Hocus, yeah.

So

what are they going to do?

I mean,

the Wall Street Journal now is writing this, that the left is starting to leak that he's non-composment.

That's what you've been saying for two years.

He can't do the job.

But then, what do you do with Kamala?

They try to put her out.

She's putting herself out there, but not in a way that, you know what I mean?

You say she's talking to

TV host.

It's not like Kamala Harris is saying, we're having a NATO summit in Washington.

Kamala Harris will be the chair.

And then she says,

Germany, you haven't made your 2%.

Now, what we really need are

some anti-aircraft.

You need patriots?

How are your leopard tanks doing?

That's not going to happen.

So she's going to just talk on television.

Yes, and she's not going to talk.

She's going to talk about electric school buses.

So that's where she is.

And nobody's talking about.

Look, they are borrowing.

Shouldn't say borrowing.

I'm sorry.

They are printing $10 billion

a day.

$100 billion

every 90 days, a little bit more.

Excuse me, $1 trillion.

So we're going to have $4 trillion, $3 to $4 trillion

that

we're printing a day.

And no one, not even the Republican, no one is saying, how do you pay that back?

The Republicans are saying you pay that back by deregulating and getting people back in the game to create wealth.

Okay, that's still not going to balance the budget.

You can make more money.

You ultimately have to cut.

Cut, cut, cut.

So what would that mean?

It meant when little Victor goes into the local supermarket and he sees somebody ahead of him who weighs 270 pounds with two cases, and I did see this of Coke,

you say,

you're going to have to pay for that yourself.

I'm sorry.

Or you can't just take out your cash and pay for that and get something else on.

Although I had an interesting conversation yesterday when I went in.

The guy had two little steaks and they were $33.

And this guy had really thick ones.

He didn't speak very much English.

He had an EBT card.

And I said,

Where did you get those steaks?

I didn't see it.

This place doesn't have a butcher.

And he said, Oh, I talked to the guy, you know.

The guy actually cut him steaks.

They were beautiful.

Really thick rib eyes.

And I thought, wow, this is wonderful.

But he paid with two EBT cards.

And,

you know, I'm just, I know this sounds like

Richmond, North of Richmond, we know, and they say, what?

You shouldn't be eating something when you weigh 300 pounds.

Yeah.

But it that was a prescient sound.

I think he said fudge or something.

Yes.

A lot of people saying, Victor, Victor, Victor, you're missing the point.

Somebody on public assistance buying Coke

cases or big thick rib rib eyes is not where the money is going.

It's going

on stupid programs, it's going on regulations,

Pete Budijic

loses more money for the country in one hour, that's true, than all of the welfare losses.

Although there's a big case in Minnesota about the Scott Johnson on that wonderful power line has been following it like Sherlock Holmes.

And they tried to bribe one of the jurors.

They just went to his home.

And that's the Elon Omar community.

She said she was really remember she said when she got here she was shocked how bad it was.

It was dirty.

She goes, I couldn't believe this.

You guys think it's got you got a good this is horrible.

It's just

and then Miss Talib the other day was saying that Joe Biden's anemic

11th hour catch-up little idea about refugees can come in at certain numbers and at certain other ones I'll have to that this was racist and da da da da da

it seems to me that California would be benefit well from having a corruption czar put in somebody who went into all of these systems of entitlements EBT cards etc and started to cut out the corruption because that might save you okay let me just play a game you're the corruption I'm the corruption okay

so you tell me so

you tell me that you as the corruption czar, just, and I'm taking actual cases now, have found 100,000 ballots that were mailed out in an election to illegal aliens.

Okay?

Okay.

You're a racist.

Why did you do that?

Who do you think they were mailed out to?

They were people of color.

So you're a racist.

That's what you're doing.

You're engaging in voter suppression.

Racist.

And I would say I'm the corruption czar.

Okay, no, you're a racist.

You're not a corruption czar.

You're a white woman with privilege.

And you are trying to tell me that a poor person who's got aspirations to vote should be denied because of some minor little clerical error or he was given a ballot in the mail.

But he's a human being and he lives here.

Go ahead to your next scandal.

But I identify as a Filipino woman.

If you did that, then that might be something, but you couldn't do it.

It's so corrupt.

You couldn't do it.

All right.

It's just,

you couldn't do it.

And that's what's everybody belongs to some tribe.

And the only way it's going to happen is

in Nashville, as I go back to that weird scene where all these people of all different colors and backgrounds were blocking the door

when the thieves went in, and they thought they were going to come out, and they couldn't.

So then they broke down the other door, but they did keep them in there for 30 minutes.

Had they had an adequate police response, it would have worked.

Or this Caitlin Clark, or whatever her name is, there were a lot of people who got really angry at that.

And then the two people who complained, or bragging about pushing her and all that, they were kind of ostracized.

So the people have power if they'll use it.

And I think, you know, we're starting to see a few campuses say that, you know, we can't function without the SAT.

We just can't function.

And it's going to be.

We've got to remember one thing that explains all of this, that the country after the death of George Floyd went absolutely stark raving mad because a few hundred thousand hardcore socialist communist Jacobins hijacked the agenda of this country and the

deep state and they started to do things.

And they were riding a crest of guilt, white guilt, et cetera, et cetera.

And they got through, pushed through things that were manifested during the Obama, I mean mean the Biden administration, open borders, Searle's prosecutors on bound,

you know, five, six trillion dollars in debt each year.

Debt, remember, is not just spending the money and giving it to people.

Even the most hardcore leftists, the hardcore modern monetary theorists understands there has to be some reckoning, some system.

And that means the more you print and the more you give to the deserving, the more somebody is going to have to pay it up before the currency crashes.

And that's the real purpose.

You tell Mr.

black mustache, pot-bellied, white person with his derby on like he's in a monopoly game, right?

You tell him you're going to pay a lot higher taxes to make up to the people what you stole.

And you're at 401k.

We'll give you a few years of, I don't know, Social Security credit, but you've got to put it in the pot because it was ill-gotten gains that's what we're talking about that's what the mind of the socialist ultimately wants

all right victor well this is the end of our show and i have a um comment from a viewer from apple podcast and he the title of it is thanks jack kudos to jack you like the entire vdh podcast team are building on your excellence continually improving vdh sammy and jack please keep up the good work.

A special thanks to Just the News, the Mothership.

And that is signed by Spectrum Stinks.

That was from somebody that Jack knows, no doubt.

No, Jack's doing a good thing.

People have to remember, Jack was 30 years, he was the publisher of National Review magazine.

He knows every single pundit.

columnist in the business.

So

and he reads voraciously and he brings a middle-class Bronx

background to these issues, which are really pragmatic and good and essential.

And that's one of the themes of this podcast, that

we're trying to correct the fallacies of the elite, and especially the left-wing elite, that are out of touch and have no concern about the ramifications of their ideology and how they destroy people that they never want to see or talk to, and they think they're morally superior to, and they accept that they must be exempt from their laboratory experiments on the rest of us.

Yeah.

And this podcast we've seen.

And I've been given a great gift by God for some reason for my entire life as an undergraduate graduate.

I grew up in a very poor area with a lot of

farm people, and I work

in the exact antithesis at Stanford or Silicon Valley.

And I was given that gift to be able to see this is one world.

And then somewhere around the coast ranges, I went into Mordor.

And

that was a gift because

it reminded me, don't be a part of Mordor.

But it also said, you know, there are people in Mordor that you people here in the Shire don't understand what they want for you.

And

that was good for me because I learned that all of the beautiful people were not beautiful.

Yeah.

Well, thank you, Victor Davis-Hanson, for your words of wisdom today, and thanks to our audience.

We love you.

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