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Victor is the Martin and Nealey Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

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Well, Victor, we've got lots going on, obviously, with the protests and at the universities, and there's so many interesting things in that

whole realm of activity going on.

I know that the police are rounding up right as we speak protesters in UCLA.

And

Joe Biden just gave a speech this morning on how he's not going to tolerate lawlessness on these universities.

I know which you can start in either one.

We have lots going on.

I'll work back.

So Joe Biden has been quiet because

he is a captive.

I take that back.

He's not a captive.

Everybody says, you know, the Obamas are running him.

I've said that.

He's pandering for votes.

But he's just an empty vessel.

He's not captive.

He doesn't know where he is.

All he knows is that he is, on the one hand, or on the other hand, or what classical Greek says, men, de.

Men, de.

And it's, he can't open his mouth.

and condemn 99% of the violence is committed by pro-Hamas students and people here on the student visas from the Middle East and Arab Americans that are in the streets.

He cannot condemn them

without saying Islamophobia.

So he'll say, well, you can't be anti-Semitic, but you can't be Islamic phobic.

That's like, you know, saying,

you know, I have,

I don't know, I have.

measles over 99% of my body, but I have a little tiny thing on my eyelash.

I'm suffering from an eye problem and a body problem.

I mean, it's just crazy.

99% of the pathology comes from these groups who are anti-Semitic.

And all he has to do is say,

while we deplore all violence, the vast majority of it is committed by people favoring Hamas.

Okay, and they, and there was a group of Jewish, supposedly citizens in the Jewish, heavily Jewish Beverly Hills area, Westwood, that finally said no more, and they went out and confronted protesters.

But Joe knows that if you ask yourself a simple battery of questions, who has signs that say, hey, America?

Who is calling for the existential destruction of a whole people?

Who occupies bridges?

Who disrupts church services?

Who screams and yells about killing people?

Who uses violence?

Who's killed somebody?

It's all one-sided.

So

it's worse than saying nothing when you lie like that.

Corinne Jean-Pierre, who is becoming an utter disgrace to the office of press secretary, when she was asked about anti-Semitism, she just looked like she was a deer in the headlights.

Yes, we have, oh, now let's go to Islamophobia.

Remember that?

Yeah, I do.

So

he can't do it.

And so the question everybody has who's listening is, why?

And you guys know the answer better than I do.

The answer is, number one, he's captive or he promotes the Obama pro-Iran, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah vision of the Middle East.

They call it creative tension.

It was,

you know, it was his

deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes.

It was all of them, Robert Malley,

and Obama, who remember when he ran for election in 2008, there was a, Rashid Khalidi had a very inflammatory speech in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times had recorded it, and Obama introduced him, and they did not want to disclose that.

They never have.

They also suppressed pictures of him, remember, smiling with his arm around Farrakhan.

But his sympathies were always with Valerie Jarrett's idea of Iran, and then it was going to balance the Saudis, balance the Israelis, and then we were going to be the adjudicator, and it blew up.

So

that's why he reversed that.

So he is pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, just like Obama was.

And he needs votes.

And there is a multifaceted pandering program.

He knows that his agenda polls less than 40%.

They know people are tired of him.

He is polling about 38%.

They're tired of the White House lying that he's sharp as a knife.

They're tired of the 150-plus corrections in Orwellian fashion they do to the official transcript of his daily, well, I shouldn't say daily, once a week, whenever he says something, they go through it and excise words that people hear.

Or non-words.

Yeah, whatever language he's speaking, it's some kind of pre-Mycenaean dialect or something.

That kind of stuff.

And so they're tired of that.

They're just tired of the lies.

They know he's non-composment.

They know he can't do it.

And they know he's a vessel for a hard left agenda and that Faustian bargain that was made in 2020.

But

he is pandering because my point is he doesn't have 50%

support for either his person or his agenda on the border, on crime, on energy, on foreign policy, etc.

And so what is he doing?

He goes to

the Muslim population that is somewhat concentrated in Illinois and Pennsylvania and Minnesota, but especially in Michigan, and he panders.

And he panders.

And he panders.

You know, that, well, you know, I pressured Israel and I told them that the Iranians, that they could retaliate as long as it's in limits.

And I don't like Netanyahu, and I'm trying to overthrow the government, elected government of Israel.

How's that?

Don't call me Genocide Joe.

You know, that was what the CIA supposedly did, Graham Greene, all those novels, the ugly American.

I'm the ugly president.

I'm trying to overthrow an elected government that's our friend and fighting terrorism.

So won't you vote for me for that?

And also, I drained the strategic petroleum reserve right before we've never refilled it.

Remember that?

And I've now begged.

I begged the Saudis and I've told the Ukrainians, please, please, please do not hit Russian oil facilities.

I've said that.

Isn't that pandering?

I want gas to be cheap.

I hate

the dirty, icky, gooey fluid.

I don't like it.

And as soon as I'm re-elected, I will ban all I can.

I stopped Anwar.

I stopped Keystone.

I stopped new federal leases.

But I do want to pump for you voters to remember that before the election.

So Arab voters.

I'm anti-Israel.

I'm trying to overthrow the government in Israel.

Commuters, people want cheap gas.

I'm draining the petroleum reserve as fast as I can.

I'm trying to get every illiberal regime in the world to pump what I won't pump here at home.

And

for all you people who are part of the $1.7 to $2 trillion student loan program, I'm going to cancel $6, $8, $10 billion, another round of it, even though the Supreme Court said it was illegal.

I don't care.

I don't respect the Supreme Court.

I want your vote.

And as for all of you Americans, 18 to 30, half of that age cohort that didn't want to go to college because you think that, you don't know, it's not really college anymore.

It's just indoctrination.

And you're plumbers and electricians and you're woofers, you're going to pay for this.

You're going to pay for this debt relief.

So all you people that are protesting, all you young voters, get out there along with the Arab American Muslim vote.

and the commuter vote and vote for me because I'm pandering for your vote.

And I'm capable of doing anything before this election to win over people.

And you know, Mr.

Obadar,

I want you to help me because if Trump gets elected, you're going to be in bad shape and I'm not going to be here.

So, would you please patrol the border, not permanently, just for a little while to calm it down?

And that's what Biden is doing.

He's really doing that.

And

as far as the protest,

I wrote a tweet, The Cry Bullies.

It's so weird that nothing has done more

to damage

the brand of Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, you name the Ivy League, the so-called elite, because they had such high snobbery and expectations that everybody would kowtow to them.

And they were going to pay $90,000 a year so their kid could get a cattle brand on his rear end that said Ivy League or Stanford, and then they could be on the high trajectory to money and riches and glory and influence and the bicosto.

That was the whole idea.

And then what did they do privately?

As we said before, they just used the most neo-Confederate racial quotas and discrimination.

So there's 20%

white at Stanford, 40% white at Harvard and Yale, 30% white at USC when there's 67% of the demographic, no SAT required.

So

part of the the subtext of these protests are

two things.

One-third of Columbia's students are not U.S.

citizens.

They're here on student visas.

That's outrageous.

It is.

And I'm sure it's almost as high otherwise.

Number two, you've got a lot of students who don't meet the requirements that these universities insisted were necessary to do their so-called demanding preeminent curricula just three years ago.

So they're out on the street.

I'm thinking, wow, when I was an undergraduate classics major, I can't remember one day I didn't study eight hours.

And these kids are just out there playing around in finals cycle because they don't belong there and they and they professors, I think it was the, was it a USC professor said, the class projects canceled, you all get A's.

I'm not going to even require that.

So they're all getting inflated grades.

They're insecure that they can't do the work.

They're calling everybody names unless they either give them them A's or they

dilute the course requirements or they add new gut courses.

So that's one subtext.

But the other is that you have so many foreign students.

You have so many foreign students because the Middle East gutter alone is given almost $7 billion.

But the total from Gulf Oil

is about $10 to $15 billion.

And what does that billion do?

That goes into a university and says, would you like $100 million

at $6 million, $7 million an endowed professor?

We can give you, I don't know, 10 or 12 endowed professors of Middle Eastern studies.

And then they hire all their friends from the Middle East.

They come over and then they endow scholarships, and you get a Middle East radical pro-Iran, pro-Hamas department.

And that's been happening for 20 years, and there are fruits of it we're seeing on the street.

There is one good thing, though.

I don't want to be too depressing.

These

protests have shown moral clarity.

And now we see

these are one-eyed Jack universities, and they flipped over the card, and we can see the other side of that Jack's face.

It's not pretty.

First of all, there is no difference between saying,

I'm anti-Israel, but I'm not anti-Semitic.

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

You told us that for years, but when you look at those protests, half of the placards and the chants are killing Jews.

From the river to the sea is killing Jews.

Get rid of of them all.

And when Jewish students walk by, they're harassed, etc.,

and pushed.

Why people like Steven Spielberg would go work for Joe Biden, given that, and try to help his campaign?

I mean, that's.

He's trying to overthrow, whatever you think of Netanyahu, he's trying to overthrow the government of Israel.

And yet, he's not doing anything to protect Jewish Americans who are a foundation of this nation.

And so we get moral clarity.

That scab has been torn off and we see the putrid stuff beneath.

Number two, there is no difference anymore by saying, well, I'm pro-Palestinian, but I'm not quite pro-Hamas.

No, no, no, no, no.

There's Hezbollah flags, there's pro-Hamas.

These people are pro-Hamas.

Remember, October 7th, massacred 1,200 people nearly, rape, mutilation, decapitation, you name it, every horrific medieval crime you can imagine.

And the IDF did not go into Gaza to the 27th of October.

And the first three weeks of this madness was not anti-IDF.

It was glorification and the killing of Jews by Hamas.

Number two, there's no difference.

Don't let anybody fool you.

These kids out there are pro-Hamas.

They want to destroy Israel.

And they're anti-Semitic.

And number three,

this has been very valuable.

There is no elite university anymore.

When you interview those students and they ask you, why are you protesting, they don't know.

They can't, you ask them, what's the Balfour Decoration?

I don't know.

What's 1947?

I don't know.

What's the Yom Kippur War?

Who knows?

What's the West Bank?

Search me.

They don't know anything.

They don't know anything about anything.

All of these therapeutic classes, they're not elite places.

They're anti-Semitic, reactionary, medieval enclaves.

I I see it every day when I'm on campus.

I walked by that Gazeth camp at Stanford for four months, and all I heard was from the river to the sea,

Palestine shall be free, and anti-Semitic stuff coming out of these ignoramuses.

These students,

and who's the cause of it?

The faculty.

The faculty is the people who indoctrinate them.

And when I look at

the research and the topics and PhDs, it's just pathetic.

They're not even rigorous at all.

It's plagued by DEI plagiarism, etc.

So these,

I mean,

I guess the thing speaks for itself.

When you have an arch plagiarist as the president of Harvard and you're scared to fire her,

what else can you say?

And the Columbia president has had a long history of not speaking out against anti-Semitism.

So

that's a third thing.

We now know that that these universities are not

elite universities and privilege.

I've had so many people say to me something along the following.

Either write me, call me, email me, or in person.

I've spoken to two, let me see, I spoke at the Heritage

300 or 400 people.

I just spoke at a Hoover

event.

I'm going to speak at a Las Vegas event.

And it's always the same.

It's something along the following.

It's either

my son had a 4.5 and a perfect SAT score, and he did not get into fill-in-the-blanks because he was a white male, and I'm done with that university, okay?

But more commonly, it is, I don't want my kids to apply there.

They'll come home as zombies.

I won't even know who they are.

They're not going to learn anything.

I'm going to have to pay $90,000.

I'm going to subsidize Jew hatred.

I'm going to send them to the University of Florida.

I'm going to send them to the University of Tennessee.

I'm going to send them to the University of Wyoming.

I'm going to send them to the University of Utah.

I'm not going to send them there.

In other words, we're watching right before our eyes the targetization, the Disneyization, the Anheuser-Busch Bud Light

change in that brand.

I don't think they're going to get back.

I think that any corporate person who's looking at all this,

they're saying to themselves, if I hire that SOB, he's going to come into my office, and in two seconds, he's going to go right to human resources and start complaining that I'm illiberal.

Or he's going to go back and he's going to look at every single person who is employed here to see if they have any Jewish connection.

And then he's going to go after them.

Because these are anti-Semites.

And I don't want them here, period.

Gone.

I'm not going to hire from those places.

And you know what?

They're not going to be any good.

I know that a coder from Texas and AM and Georgia Tech is much better now than a Yale or Stanford coder.

I just know that that's what they're saying to themselves.

Yeah.

So that is something.

And finally, the fourth thing that's been morally clear,

we all bought into it, including myself, that there was the old Democratic Party,

Joe Biden, and Bill the Clintons,

and then there was Napelosi,

and then there was this radical squad.

Bowman, that nut, Elena Omar, Presley, Talib,

and there was the Black Law.

Jayapa.

Yeah, whatever her name is, and the Black Lives Matter, Antifa Wing.

But they were in the minority of the party.

No, they run the party.

There is no difference anymore.

Joe Biden cannot condemn,

cannot contempt this violence that's coming from Middle Eastern students and pro-Hamas students.

He cannot say a nice word about the elected government of Israel.

And

he can't differentiate from going into a place on October 7th at a time of peace and offering $10,000 bounties so that civilians would follow you in as you butcher and take hostages.

He can't say right now, all he has to do is have a press conference and say the following, we will have peace if Hamas is a terrorist organization that takes hostages.

Let all of the hostages go and turn over the people who planned this mass murder.

If you do that, the Israelis will stop.

He won't say that because he knows, A, the hostages have probably been executed and

they're never going to come back, or at least the majority won't.

And two,

he cannot say that because people in his own party want to destroy Israel and they're open about it.

So that's something that's new that we now see that the Democratic Party is a pro-Hamas, pro-radical, anti-Israel party.

And it's anti-Semitic, too.

And I don't care how many old fossils and dinosaurs get up.

So did you see, just to finish this rant, did you see Chuck Tumer the other day?

Yes, in the Senate.

But go ahead.

Well, I mean, he, remember, he got up and he's been giving lectures about the Supreme Court.

He was a guy that went to the Supreme Court, remember, and said, Gorsi H.

Kavanaugh, you won't know what hit you.

You reap the whirlwind.

And he attacked Donald Trump.

And he does that every once in a while.

And now he came up and said, this is anti-Semitic.

This is violence against Jewish.

And he wouldn't do that unless he's been getting a lot of calls from the Jewish-American community and said, you know what, Schumer, I've had it with you.

I've given you a lot of money.

I've supported this stupid democratic agenda.

And it's open season on Jews.

And you won't say a word.

And now he's saying,

tweeting out and peeping a little bit.

You know, I don't like what, you know, everybody criticizes Trump when he says things like, Jewish people have to be stupid, you know, to vote for Biden.

He shouldn't say that, but if you were Jewish American and you weren't completely secularized, you know what I mean, so you had no sense, it'd be like me,

Swedish American.

I'm completely secularized.

I don't,

one of the driving,

one of my driving political causes is not Sweden.

I'm very proud of Sweden.

I think it's a good country.

I like SABs, aircraft, I like Bobos.

But I don't get up in the morning and say, be fair to Sweden.

Because there was not a lot of,

you know, it was assimilation, integration years ago in my family.

Okay, but a lot of

if you're Jewish and you still have a strong tie to the language and the religion and of

Judaism and you you have an emotional tie to the sanctity and the role and the mission of Israel, and you're voting Democratic, that is a suicide wish because these people want to destroy Israel.

They really do.

Yeah, I know that.

And everybody should remember that when Israel wanted to,

when Iran wanted to retaliate against Israel, Lincoln gave them the green light.

It said, within context.

Then they unleashed the greatest barrage since World War II of rocketry.

You know, 320 types of projectiles at Israel.

It was only their incompetence that saved the Israelis,

the Iranian incompetence.

And then when Israel wanted to reply back, they were restricted by us.

Yeah, how many missiles did Israel send in again?

Only three or something?

Between three and six.

You hear different stories.

And they all hit the target.

They not only hit the target,

they hit the supposedly most safe, the safest, most defensive-minded place in all of Iran.

That is a rocket battery intended to knock down a missile.

They went right down his throat and took it out.

And they were saying this, there's no safe place anywhere from Iran.

And then half of, as we said before, half of the ballistic missiles either crashed in the air or failed to launch.

But again, it's an affirmative action war where we have to give concessions to Iran because they're incompetent.

So we can make them equal to the Israelis.

But anybody that supports that, I don't know what you're thinking.

I understand there's a long liberal tradition within the Democratic Party that Jews feel comfortable given the KKK and the old right.

But believe me,

if you were to collate the Charlottesville Klan and all those people, and you look at incident and don't believe the Southern Poverty Center.

Yeah, it's just a complete left-wing Marxist front.

It's incompetent, it's crooked.

Morris Dees has been charged with all sorts of sexual harassment crimes.

One of their lawyers is facing felony charges.

But if you were just looking at empirically, look at all of the hate crimes against Jews and all of the anti-Semitic incidents, they're all coming from the left.

And they're institutionalized.

The squad, they openly say things that are anti-Semitic.

And Bowman the other day, did you see that?

There was a ruse where a Jewish American guy wrote an email to Bowman, something to the effect, we really like you and you'd be really interested in our agenda.

And they just start spouting all this anti-Semitic pro-Hamal stuff.

And then he writes back to them and says, yes, give me more information.

Now I can join forces with you to the next step.

That was so funny.

That was too easy.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and we'll talk a little bit more about this, a few more things on the agenda as far as universities go.

Stay with us, and we'll be back.

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So, Victor, I had one more thing.

Did you notice?

And probably something since you did mention an upbeat, Florida University for its protesters issued a statement saying it's not complicated.

They knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they'll face the consequences.

It's a law and order place, yeah.

And,

you know, it's,

I can't be too graphic, but I mean, it's back to a whiff of grape shot that Napoleon's famous for, or as I said earlier, Voltaire's comment to encourage the others by that.

That's the way human nature is.

Notice that these people are wearing masks for one reason.

They say it's for COVID.

They have AI

technologies on all of these security systems.

You know what I mean?

They did that with the January 6th people.

They took months and they ran every face through those computers to see if they could identify them.

They can go through there and find out everybody who broke the law.

And these kids are terrified.

They're crybullies.

And they do not want to stand with a revolutionary solidarity and fervor and not get that Wall Street job or that job at PBS or that job at Google.

And they're scared.

And so

Florida understands that.

You know, Florida is basically saying, listen, USOB, you come into my campus and you break the law and you use violence and you spout your anti-Semitic

filth, we're not going to suspend you.

We're going to expel you.

And if you commit violence or trespass, you're going to get arrested.

And your little beautiful, your brilliant career, it's going to be suspended.

And your parents are going to get very angry at you.

That's the subtext that they're sending.

But the other presidents don't do that.

The Brown president and the Northwestern president, they're negotiating about divesting.

And the USC president, this Carolyn Feltfolt,

she says, well, there's a, my God, there's a swastika on campus.

I better go talk to the students and we'll discuss.

You know,

I've mentioned before, I have a great admiration for the former president, Max Nikias, who is is really one of the great college presidents.

And he,

at the tail end of the Me Too, people unjustly said that he should have clamped down more on a person.

And in fact, the person later, I think, was exonerated.

But the point I'm making is...

If the USC people, just to take one example, wanted to restore their brand as it starts to descend and the donors start to flee and there's not going to be a lot of money, what they would do, and I hope they they don't because I like him a lot.

And it would be the worst thing personally for him.

But they should bring him back.

If they brought him back for two years and just said, we need some sanity, would you come back as an interim president for two to five years?

You know what would happen?

That campus would calm down immediately.

The faculty would be outraged, but they would secretly say, well, we're going to get...

pay raises, we're going to be in financial, and the campus would be secure.

And I think that's what we're looking for in these college presidents.

We're looking at rare people that have courage to enforce the law and be disliked by these Marxist students and faculty.

And I shouldn't say faculty.

They're not faculty.

I've been in academia for 50 years.

You know what they are?

They're prolonged adolescents.

They're just young kids that went to graduate school.

and cut up in graduate school and they spouted that Marxist drivel and then they went out and kissed up to everybody.

They were obsequious.

I saw them.

I went to school with them.

And

it's really funny, if I could just detour a second.

When I was in graduate school, there were all these graduate students, and they were all left-wing.

But they were also the people who were left-wing were the most toadish and obsequious.

Isn't that weird?

No, it seems to me quite expected.

I guess it's like it really isn't, it really tells you during the Trotsky period and all that, the biggest kiss asses in the Soviet Union were the Inquisitors.

But what I was thinking about, I went to school with three people.

I'll just say two, I'll name two of them.

And they were the most brilliant of all the students.

There was a guy named Lawrence Woodlock, and he was a former Green Grey officer.

He was one of those people who could read classical Greek-like English.

He was a brilliant philologist.

He was outspoken, but he was not disruptive.

He was not rude.

He was very traditional.

And

he just soared through the program.

He was conservative.

Haven't talked to him in years.

I'd like to.

And

he was not rewarded commiserately with his talent.

And then there was another guy that I co-authored.

I haven't talked to him.

I'd like to talk to him, John Heath.

He was a brilliant pro-stylist.

And he was one of the wittiest guys in the world.

I remember in a class we were,

it wasn't a good class, it was a graduate seminar and he was supposed to show slides of Olympia, but the class was banal.

And

he was giving the graduate students and they were very sober and judicious and this is the temple of Olympia, Zeus at Olympia.

And I questioned the dating on that,

on those

Metopes.

And then all of a sudden as he was showing the slides of all the sites at Olympia, he'd have a sheep in.

A sheep.

Oh my god, how did that get in there?

I don't know.

I'm so sorry.

And then he'd do four more, the Temple of Hera and the Tholos at Olympia.

And then he'd say, oh, there's a puppy.

Look, there's a puppy.

And that was all there was.

And he did that.

It was really hilarious.

He had a great sense of humor, but

he was another brilliant stylist.

And when it came time to get jobs and for the faculty to rally behind, they did not rally behind him.

Just like they didn't rally behind Lawrence Woodlock, because they were independent,

outspoken, and brilliant.

And the people who were head-nodders were all advanced.

And that's what this academic profession is like.

They get right out of graduate school, they kiss up to their professors.

If the professors, I'm telling you, if it paid better, they'd be fascist.

When you see these little dissertations and they say, my work has been

exploring the intersection between feminist ideology and race, class, and gender in the cult of Aphrodite at Dionysus and the transgendered aspect, that kind of stuff.

That's what they think the professors want and we'll get them jobs.

But if a professor, if their department said, you know, actually,

I've been re-examining National Socialism.

And I think Hitler was onto something.

Within one month, you would see that dissertation topic saying, I'm studying the intersectionality between Benito Mussolini's fascism and Hitler's Nazism

and a new

that's what they would do they have so everybody thinks they're left they're about as left wing as Spotty my dog

I don't think that's not fair to poor Spotty but don't be cruel

but the point I'm making is that

These are not faculty members.

They go right out of graduate school.

They try to kiss up and get a job.

And then they get tenure, and they have the same graduate mindset.

They kiss up to the administrators.

They do this.

They don't work hard.

They have lifetime employment.

If you really wanted to stop these riots,

you could stop it in one year.

I hope that the Trump administration is elected and they get somebody that's in the, I don't know, the national

director of the National Endowment for Humanities, Secretary of Education.

They need somebody like Larry Arn.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

President of Fields.

I wouldn't want to wish that anybody, or Max Nicias or USC.

And if they just said, we're going to go to Congress,

we're going to tax the endowment income.

And if you get federal dollars, you have to support the Bill of Rights.

So if you don't give accused, somewhat student accused, a right of cross-examination, or you have racially discriminatory dorms and graduate, you're not going to get any federal money.

And then they could also say, you know what?

I'm tired of the student loan program.

We're going to continue it for, but we're going to make it on the basis of class for community college and working class kids.

We're not going to give it to any elite, sorry.

Anybody that has an endowment of, I don't know, a billion dollars, student loans are not going to be given to you.

You want to loan money to students, you do it against your endowment.

And then they should just say, we don't want to give any money if you have tenure, because we're going to subsidize mediocrity.

And the truck driver doesn't have tenure, the farmer doesn't have tenure, the

drywall guy doesn't have tenure, the plumber doesn't have tenure, but these people do, and look what they do with it.

So you could stop it.

Yeah.

Well, I think one more thing is worth noting in this university protest is that it seems like Texas and Florida are leading the pack, and these Columbia and UCLA are coming in behind.

And

it just reminds me of Louis XVI in the French Revolution.

He kept coming in behind the big bus misser in history, as he's been called.

And these

UCLA, Columbia, they just...

Was that Louis XVI?

It was Louis XVI.

He was the Restoration King, right, after Napoleon.

No,

that was the 18th.

16th was the king during the Revolution who got executed.

But his 6th...

Yeah, it was 16.

They kept passing legislation and then he would a week later say, oh, okay.

And that's how these Columbia look in UCLA.

That was the

Tally Rand said that about

they've learned nothing and forgotten nothing about the 17th, Louis XV.

Yeah.

It was right after Napoleon when the Bourbons came back.

Yeah.

I think it's due to the poor instruction of these administrators that they go to these schools to be

taught leadership, and their leadership is just all about combating the

faculty rather than

good leadership.

Otherwise, they would be at the front of the curve.

But at at least in Texas and Florida, they are.

The subtext of all these demonstrations, and everybody knows it, I don't know why people don't.

I try to say it when I'm on TV, but I was asked the other day on Fox business,

and the person had a good point.

They said,

just what you did: here's Florida, here's Texas, here's the University of Tennessee, here's Vanderbilt, and then look at Northwestern and Brown and Yale.

And why?

Blue, red, blue, red.

These states that host these universities, whether they're public or private, they have conservative populations that put pressure on them.

They have conservative donors.

They have a conservative state attorney general.

They have a conservative state legislature.

They have a conservative president.

And so those universities, and all universities want to be left-wing.

They can't be left-wing.

So if you're a left-wing Marxist, which is the majority, even in those places like University of Texas, the faculty is overwhelmingly left-wing, but they don't get away with it because the taxpayer says, I'm not going to subsidize this.

And the governor knows that, and so does the police chief, and etc.

But in blue states, the subtext is, and Eric Adams is now trying to overreact

and act like he's, you know, Paul Rebec or somebody, but

they know, the faculty knows, the students know, and the college presidents know that deep down in their evil little hearts,

the host city, New York, Washington, Chicago, you name it, is sympathetic to them, and the governor is sympathetic.

And yes, the people who vote are sympathetic and they're getting what they deserve.

And then they're all outraged.

But that's the difference.

They don't tolerate that.

And even within California, I mean, California is a blue state, but there are a few campuses, Cal State, Bakersfield, Cal State, Fresno, Cal State Stanislaw.

Humboldt is a different, it's a conservative area, but it's nuts.

They don't have that wide protest here.

They don't.

Because I don't think people are going to stand for it.

I don't think your average middle-class Mexican-American parent or poor white parent is going to squimp and save and have his son go to Cal State Bakersfield and have to work 30 30 hours a week and then say, and then turn on the TV and see their son shouting, F the police, death to America.

I don't think

they'd want that.

They wouldn't allow it.

No.

Well, Victor, let's then turn to,

you kind of mentioned it, but currently

there is a peace negotiation that Israel has offered, and Blinken is even urging Hamas to accept the generous offer of Israeli negotiators.

And I was wondering what your thoughts were this week.

I think it was John McCain who said that this guy should never be trusted when he was working for Obama.

What planet does he come from?

These are killers.

On October 7th, the only reason they stopped killing and raping and beheading was because they thought the IDF was going to kill them.

If the IDF had not come and they said to Hamas, well, they're not going to be here till tomorrow, they would have kept at it.

So,

and the hostages, the hostages, all he has to say is, we want a list of the hostages.

They can't give him the 130 people's names.

Is he that stupid?

Just because he has an Ivy League stamp on him, does that ensure that he's stupid?

What does he think Hamas is doing?

Why doesn't he say, oh my God, they won't give me a full accounting of the hostages.

You think they killed him?

What does he think?

Oh my God, the people who went in and butchered and beheaded, they're not very responsible negotiators, are they?

He's dealing with, it would be like,

I don't know, Churchill calling up

the head of the SS and saying, you know, Mr.

Himmler,

I'm kind of shocked that you won't give me a full accounting of what the Waffen-SS did.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

They don't, doesn't he he understand who he's dealing with?

They don't want to give you the names of the hostages.

They just don't want to do it because they're either dead and they don't want to negotiate because they think that they have on.

Does he understand the strategy of what Hamas did after October 7th?

They went right back in to Gaza and they burrowed deeply under hospitals and schools and mosques and their multi-billion dollar tunnel labyrinth.

And then they said,

come on, Israel, blow up stuff.

And then they activated their global useful idiots in the West.

Students, Middle Eastern students, Middle Eastern immigrants in Paris, in London, in New York.

And they put pressure and called Israel genocidal.

And that's where we are.

And the only chance Israel had was when they were just about to destroy a mosque at Rathalah.

They should have said to Bank,

we like America, we deeply appreciate your aid, but these are killers and they're going to kill people.

And

we almost have them, so we're going to go ahead and get rid of them.

And yet they paused and they're not going to negotiate.

They think they're winning.

And

we know that.

We know that the only reason that Iran hasn't sent another barrage into Israel is terrified because the missiles that Israel sent back hit the target and theirs didn't.

The only reason that Hezbollah has not invaded Israel and sin in because they know what will happen.

Beirut will make 2006 Beirut look like Beverly Hills.

And they know that.

That's all they understand.

Yeah.

And they get, and so I don't, you know, I understand we give Israel a lot of money and billions of dollars of weaponry, and therefore we have some say, but this idea that

our interests are aligned with Hamas,

they're anti-civilizational, much less Western civilization.

They're medieval.

And yet we're aligning with them de facto.

It just boggles the mind.

Victor, Victor, Victor.

I think your listeners and I would say Joe Biden has a voting constituency in Michigan that he's after.

I don't know.

He's trying to juggle that, huh?

I spend

three weeks, spent five weeks for ten years in Michigan.

I drive around Michigan sometimes, and

I know it's a large population, but it's not the whole population of Michigan.

And

Donald Trump is going to win Michigan, I think, but it's not going to be because

he kissed up to the Arab American population.

It's because he told a million people who are in auto-related industries, not just GM and Ford, but the people who spin off and depend on, whether it's Foster Freeze owner or shoe store or whatever, that depends on a vibrant.

This man, Joe Biden, is going to destroy your industry with this EV mandate.

He wants us to destroy the very brand and the car that Americans want.

He's trying to destroy you.

He will destroy you if you vote for him because he wants to cut.

fossil fuels.

He wants to raise the price.

He wants to destroy the internal combustion engine rather than transition slowly.

And the EVs, American people have weighed in, they don't want them.

Maybe to commute back and forth, but not to take the family out on a Sunday drive for 200 miles.

They don't.

And

they're not going to vote for Biden.

It's going to be very weird because he keeps pandering to this Arab-American, mythical, powerful constituency.

Their only power is they get in the street and say death to America, as we saw in Dearborn.

But there's 6 million Jewish Americans.

And he thinks that no matter what they will do, 70% of them will always vote.

Democratic, yeah.

I'm not sure that's true.

I just don't believe it anymore.

I don't think that anybody can watch what goes on day after day after day and see that ingrained hatred of Jews and the emboldened students

and the faculty that hate Jews and the president that won't protect them and the Democratic Party that shields them and panders to

this Arab American vote and not get disgusted with it.

Yeah.

Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about the Ukraine.

Stay with us and we'll be back.

Victor is available at X and his handle is V D Hansen and he has a Facebook page called Hansen's Morning Cup.

So come join him there.

Victor, they had a really good article on the Ukraine in Real Clear Politics this week, and it basically was arguing that they were asking for Ukraine aid because they were going to be aiding freedom and democracy.

And the article points out that Joe Biden as vice president, so in his earlier manifestations, supported overthrowing and elected Yanokovich and that he also sent in billions to influence Ukrainian politics.

And I think the point is that they haven't ever been for freedom and democracy in the Ukraine.

So all of this is empty rhetoric at this point.

And yet we're sending billions and billions of weapons and money.

What are your thoughts?

Well, I think that article was written

for real clear investigations by a leftist, Aaron Mate, who's pretty good.

I mean, he's a disinterested journalist.

And I think, as I remember, it was what 10 years of meddling in Ukrainian affairs have wrought.

And his point was that whether you liked him or not, Yanukovych was

elected.

He was elected.

And there were members of the Obama administration, Victoria Newland in particular, who wanted him gone.

And why did they want him gone?

Because he was pro-Russian.

And people who elected him knew that he was pro-Russian.

And people in the Donbass and Crimea knew he was pro-Russian.

So they elected him.

And he was illiberal.

And he was gravitating Ukraine back toward

Russia.

Does anybody think, by the way,

that Ukraine that has lost 300,000 soldiers, dead, wounded, or missing, that over 10 million people have left the country, an untold wreckage?

is much better off than Belarus right now.

It's much freer than Belarus.

It has the potential to be freer, but it has canceled all elections.

It suspended habeas corpus and has outlawed political parties.

So Matte's article was that once we went in in 2014 and overthrew an elected government, we sort of lost credibility.

And we did so because we thought there was a chance,

a naive chance, that Ukraine that would then decouple, be one of the first former Soviet republics to decouple from Mother Mother Russia and then turn westward.

And all of the Western elites, and he makes some frightening revelations,

the degree to which Ukrainians and Ukrainian Americans were deeply embedded in trying to prevent Donald Trump from being president.

The Ukrainian ambassador wrote an op-ed,

and there were Ukrainian operatives, Ukrainian Americans that were actively working with their Ukrainian counterparts.

And there was Joe Biden, of course, getting Victor Shokin fired because he was looking in.

The worst thing about that firing was not that he fired him alone because he was looking at the $80,000 a month salary of Hunter.

You know what the worst thing was?

They completely slandered and libeled Shokin.

So when Joe Biden opened his big mouth and let the cat out of the bag at that Council Foreign Relations, when he said, and I went over there,

I went over there.

And I just said, you know, I looked at my watch and I said,

I'm going to be gone four hours and I'm not going to give you the billion dollars unless you fire them.

And son of a bitch, they fired him.

Tough Joe, same Joe with the UK.

It's the same corn pop Rogadaccio.

And the point is,

then they libeled him and they said he was corrupt.

Joe had no, he wasn't investigating Hunter.

He was just...

He was a pro-Russian puppet.

So we had to get him fired.

That was a complete lie.

And so Matte's article is that we have been interfering, and they have been doing everything they can,

working with the CIA and the FBI to make sure Donald Trump was not elected.

And he points out that

had we not done anything and just said, you know what, the Ukrainian people can do what they want.

And we understand they're a former Republic of Russia.

They're much closer to Russia than Cuba or Puerto Rico is to us.

And we would not want a Russian group going into Puerto Rico and overthrowing the elected government because it was too American, right?

Right.

And so

he points out they would probably be something like Belarus, which is a corrupt, autocratic country that apparently most people feel is okay.

they don't their people are not dying

and up to a million people there.

So he's not trying to whitewash what Putin did, but he's trying to say the following argument.

If you think you're going to go right on the doorstep of Russia and you're going to detach a former republic

from all Russian influence and flip it so it is pro-American, pro-EU, Western, and you are eventually very quickly going to put it in NATO with armed troops on the Russian border, and they're not going to say anything, and

you're going to advertise this project as democracy versus autocracy, where Mr.

Zelensky cancels elections and political parties, and you overthrew an elected president to get to him.

This isn't going to work.

It's not going to work.

And it shouldn't work.

That's his article.

It's pretty thought-provoking.

Yeah, it sure is.

And

he's deploring what Putin did.

But, you know, as I mentioned earlier, if you go back to 1942 and see what Erich von Monstein did to Sevastopol, he completely leveled it.

He killed 100,000 Russians.

And there was seven, it is the largest encirclement in military history.

Kani was 100,000, supposedly more like 70 probably,

that were in Hannibal's pocket.

But the Kiev pocket,

that was 650 to 700,000 Russian soldiers were captured in a huge encirclement with Gwadarian coming down from Army Group Center.

But the point is, 90% of them died under German occupation and German prisoner of war camps.

They just starved them to death.

So there's a tradition there of Russians and Ukrainians.

And the idea that it doesn't exist is crazy.

Well, Victor, we're at the end of the podcast, and I was wondering what you thought about some of the one small thing in the news.

Bill Aikman, the hedge fund billionaire, says he's considering voting for Trump.

That'll make him popular.

I know.

I guess he's coming out with it, though.

You also gave...

You know those students, those fraternity students that stood up against the mob when they took down the American American flag and they were putting that back up.

And they have a defense fund.

He gave it, I think he gave $10,000 to them.

He was an interesting person.

He's one of these Elon Musk type of people that obviously are very rich, very talented, and they understand that when they speak up against the grain, people hate them and don't allow them to have free opinions because another one's Larry Ellison, you know, Oracle guy.

And then they start to break free, you know, they break free of all that.

And then the more they break free, the happier they are.

And they discover a whole new world

of not having to cater to these fascists.

No one seems to revel in that more than Elon Musk.

I have to say, he seems to just completely enjoy it.

Let me trip you up a little bit because I think you're going the wrong direction.

You'd pay a high price, too.

I mean,

I go to Menlo Park sometimes and there's a Tesla charging and you would see all these people,

you go to a coffee, I've got my new Tesla.

And now it's like there's nobody charging.

They hate Tesla.

Not enough, probably not to buy them, but

I love my Tesla.

I would love to make advertisements for Tesla.

Everybody loves their Teslas.

Well, I have a comment from a reader or listener, sorry, from occupied upstate New York.

I've been following the professor's writings and some of his presentations on military matters for years.

Only recently discovered his podcast and have been listening to his back catalog.

I think lots of people might want to do that.

Always incisive, on the point, and common sense.

If Trump is half as smart as I think he is, he'll offer Victor a cabinet position, preferably state or defense.

Respectfully, Frank Dovin.

Frank and Carissa Dovin.

There you go.

Nice.

That's nice of them.

Yeah.

And I appreciate that.

And

no, something's going on with this podcast because, as I said, I've been, I crawled out of my farmer's hole and emerged into the daylight.

And I went down to Santa Barbara because I kind of quit traveling.

I have to take this group.

I'm taking, I shouldn't say I have to.

I'm really looking forward to taking 150 people to the 80th anniversary of Normandy in less than three weeks with my partner Al Philip, a real brilliant travel guy.

But I haven't been going out as much after I got that COVID.

And when I go out,

I've probably seen on campus or at these various events, maybe in the last month, a thousand people.

When people come up and say, I like this, it's not so much what I've written anymore.

It's the podcast.

So people are really listening more to the podcast or as much to the podcast as what you write.

Which I mentioned that only because it's a weird genre, you know what I mean?

Anybody can set up a podcast and there's all these, I don't know what the word is for it, all these alternate news sources everywhere and they can't be controlled.

The old days you had to go to the Columbia School of Journalism and then you went through, you know, you had to work for NBC, ABC, or you went to New York Times.

I mean, that's kind of over with.

And you can speak directly to people and you let the market adjudicate the popularity.

Yeah, absolutely.

And so we've been doing very well.

So that was a nice comment, I thought, by your listener.

And I would like to thank you, Victor, for everything.

And thank the audience, too.

We are nothing without you.

So we appreciate all of our audience.

And it's a very intelligent audience, as we well know.

But go ahead.

Thank you, everybody, for listening.

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