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Well, Victor, there's been a lot going on with Israel and Gaza and Iran, in fact.

And I know that you recently just had an article out for American Greatness, I believe it was.

But I had two questions specifically on that.

It seems, number one, it seems that the Biden administration is trying earnestly to get Netanyahu out and secure the Muslim vote in Michigan.

And I would like your comment on that.

And then also, it seems that Iran is now

equally earnest to maybe

prepare airstrikes against Israel given the

killing of two generals in Damascus with an Israel what they assume is an Israeli airstrike, although I think the Israelis have not claimed it yet.

But I was wondering both of those issues, if you could comment on it.

It's very ironic because the left always told us in the 60s and 70s that we were the ugly Americans, the people who interfered into into the internal affairs of Chile, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Iran, and we tried to alter their elections or to pick and choose leaders that would be conducive for our foreign policy.

And here we are in the year of our Lord 2024, and what is the Biden administration doing?

It publicly outsourced its narrative to Chuck Schumer, who got on the floor of the Senate and essentially said to the Israeli government, you've got to get rid of your elected president,

prime minister.

And so what we're doing is we're interfering in the internal affairs of Israel.

We have Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader on the floor of the Senate, essentially tell Israel you've got to get rid of Netanyahu.

We have

rumors, whispers, that the Pentagon has been slowwalking the transference of arms to send a message to Israel.

We, for the first time, voted,

I guess, absent, abstained, didn't vote on a UN resolution condemning Israel.

There's been talk more recently that people in the United States might get on board some insane idea that Israel should be held accountable in the International Criminal Court for its mistaken bombing that killed a few UN

aid workers.

Might I add here, a parentheses,

the Biden administration should be very wary about anything if those rumors are true because in the skedaddle from Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chief announced that we had had a, quote, righteous strike.

that hit a civilian car and surrounding people and killed 10 innocent people.

And I don't remember the Israeli government saying that is a war crime.

To kill gratuitously, even if it was by mistake, you've got to do better than that, America.

So let's be very careful when we condemn them.

But the long and the short of it is, apparently, the Biden administration thinks that if they can get

Benny Gantz in, Netanyahu out,

then he will be a useful tool of the United States.

And what would that tool then acquiesce to?

He would acquiesce to our demand that they let Hamas

survive.

They would not go into Rafah and finish off Hamas.

Hamas would then, like a phoenix from the ashes, be reborn.

with new gained credibility is killing all these Jews on October 7th, surviving the war, and they would basically be in charge of Gaza.

And we supposedly wouldn't have a war with Iran or Hezbollah or the Houthis in an election year.

That's the whole point, an election year.

Biden blew up the Middle East, but he doesn't want it to result in a theater-wide war.

The irony of all this is, if Biden forces Netanyahu out,

And if he tells the Israeli left, put your guy in because he will be compliant to what we say,

when polls suggest that the entire Israeli population has weighed in on this, and about 70% want them to destroy Hamas.

So I don't know what would be the credibility of any left-wing prime minister that we ushered in if he were to acquiesce

at the expense of the majority views of Israelis.

But that's what the administration is doing.

And

as far as Iran goes, they are terrified of blowing up what they created by their appeasement right before the November election for a variety of reasons.

Think about it.

They just did the following.

They took the Houthis off their little anemic terrorist list.

Remember, they were international terrorists thanks to Trump.

First thing Biden came in and said, you know what, we're going back in the Iran deal.

We're going to give $6 billion for hostages.

We're going to give them $90 billion in sanction relief.

They can sell their oil.

We are going to

give money back to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

And that's all blown up after October 7th.

But they don't want a war because a war will show everybody, look what you did to the Middle East.

You did the same thing to Ukraine when as soon as you came into power, you told Putin your reaction would hinge on whether it was a major or minor offensive.

You froze.

This is what you impeached Donald Trump for for holding back for a while.

Offensive military aid to Ukraine, you froze $100 million and you thought that Putin would say, oh my God,

that's so magnanimous of the United States.

They froze all the stuff that Ukraine needs.

And therefore, we're going to pull back and reciprocate.

No, they thought, what an idiot.

We're going to move faster.

And that's what they did.

And so what you're seeing here is something that's unusual about the left.

We should never believe them when they talk about America did this bad thing or that bad thing.

Because they're doing the same thing.

It's just a tool or a trope or rhetorical nonsense.

for what the acquisition and possession and continuance of power.

And this is what it is.

It does not want to touch the world's oil supply right now.

Just think of it.

It drained about 50 to 55 percent of the strategic petroleum reserve down to about 30 percent right on the eve of the 2022 midterms to lower the price of gas.

It had some effect.

That blowout didn't occur.

And now it had promised that they were going to fill it back up.

They're not filling it back up.

Why are they not filling it back up?

Because they want to unleash as much oil and gas on the world market it can

and keep prices low, especially here.

It does not want to confront Iran and lose that three to four million barrels on the international market.

It even told the Ukrainians, think of this, it told the Ukrainians not to target oil supplies, depots, transportation of any oil product in Russia, because at least not until November.

This dirty, oily, icky goo that they hate, they want a lot of it.

And therefore they are willing to let Iran attack, what, 120 military installations?

They want to restrain Israel and they look at Netanyahu and they think, you know what?

This guy's screwing everything up.

He's trying to destroy Hamas.

He just took out

Zahidi and these kingpins that took over from Solemani.

He might have Hezbollah start a war, and then Iran would start a war, and then the Houthis would start Mislane, and then the Red Sea would be closed down, and then the Suez Canal might be closed down, and then Iran's oil may be embargoed or sanctioned.

And the next thing you know, gas could be $6 a gallon on November 1st.

And we don't want that.

We love fossil fuels until November.

That's their attitude.

It's about as cynical as you could get.

Yeah, it sure is.

Victor, I just have one more question on that.

I thought I read somewhere that the administration was thinking about trying to try Netanyahu for war crimes or accuse him of war crimes in the United States.

And I read that and I was like, well, what does Netanyahu care if Netanyahu has an existential threat and he's dealing with it?

I think he would just say, fine, right?

Never go to the United States.

But is that true, or am I just out there in outer space with that story?

Well, remember when

Russia went into Ukraine, Merrick Garland announced to everybody that he was holding Russia account

to account, and he would be willing to charge with war crimes.

I don't know how he had any jurisdiction, Russians he felt that had, and they were war crimes committed by Russians.

I'm sure there were by Ukrainians too, although not to the same frequency.

So taking that model, a lot of people have said, well, Merrick Garland, you did that with the Russians.

We want you to do that with our oldest ally, the Israelis.

But notice the thing.

Have they charged any Hamas person with war crimes?

Exactly.

No, they didn't.

So

let me get this straight.

In this administration's calculus, if you're in the Israeli defensive forces and you're going into Gaza to punish or to end the threat of Hamas

that decapitated, mutilated, burned, raped,

tortured 1,200 civilians in a time of peace, and you want to stop that,

and you drop leaflets, you drop,

you send out text

to

civilians who are in mosques and schools,

mosques, schools, hospitals, surrounded by Hamas, who is hiding there.

These brave fighters who like to cut the throat of innocent Jewish women and rape them are now hiding among the civilians.

And so the theory is we know the Israelis will not kill civilians

gratuitously like we did on October 7th.

Now think about that.

Why wouldn't Israel do the same thing to stop the 7,000 rockets coming in from Hamas?

They should say, well, you know what?

If they're going to put civilians and they're going to hide

their warriors, terrorists, militants, whatever the New York Times calls them, in hospitals and schools and mosques, then we'll put all of our civilians all around our military bases too.

Now, why wouldn't that work?

Because they know two things.

They know that Hamas would deliberately target Israeli civilians.

If you use them as a shield, they say, oh my God, we get to kill even more Jews, both soldiers and civilians, because we have no word in the Hamas vocabulary equivalent to collateral damage.

There is no collateral damage.

A Jew is dead, dead, dead, dead.

We don't care.

We kill them anywhere we can.

We slit their throat in caboots.

There's no collateral dam.

On October 7th, there was no collateral damage.

We killed soldiers, we killed civilians.

It doesn't matter.

And we know that the Israelis don't think like we do.

So that when we put our civilians there, they have to be careful.

And it makes it harder to kill us.

And the more they kill of our civilians, the more useful idiots in Europe and the United States and the Middle East we can use for propaganda purposes, such as

swarming Jews in the Cooper Union library, shutting down the Manhattan Bridge,

terrifying the Biden administration over voters in Michigan.

That's what we do.

So that's what's going on.

And I don't know, Merrick Garland is capable of...

This guy is a severely damaged person.

Ever since he thought he was going to be in the Supreme Court and Mitch McConnell reenacted the Biden rule and said, yeah, sorry, no lame duck president is going, in his last few months in office, is going to put before the Congress a court nominee.

He was traumatized.

And then they brought him back from his trauma and put him as DOJ, and he does anything Biden wants.

When Biden said, oh my God, why hasn't Merrick Garland gone after Trump?

Presto, he went after Trump.

Or he thought, why is he going after Hunter?

He's tried to stop that.

He is the worst, most politicized DOJ head attorney general we've ever seen.

So he's capable of doing that if Biden tells him to do that.

He's a very damaged person.

His whole psyche was destroyed by that failed nomination.

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So, Victor,

I know you've been watching this Alvin Bragg prosecution of Trump, and

the daughter of the judge happens to be in cahoots with the Democratic Party in all so many ways, or at least her business is working for them, her law firm.

And Trump was just making that point that, and maybe the judge should recuse himself because his daughter is tight with all sorts of democratic

cases, especially Adam Schiff, it seems like.

And so

the judge put a gag order on Trump for making these points.

And I was wondering your thoughts on that.

I don't understand that, how he can even try that, because look.

There's two reasons it's absurd.

Donald Trump is not just a defendant in a suit.

He is the leading candidate for the presidency of the United States.

He has rights to comment on anything.

You think that Joe Biden right now does not,

when they asked Joe Biden, is Hunter guilty?

Did you ever meet with your business associates?

He said, no, that's a lie.

Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Joe.

You had Robert Hurr investigating you.

So

what happened when Robert Hurr is trying to to conduct an investigation and the target of his investigation announces to the world that it's a lie?

Is that tampering or interfering with an investigation?

Where was the judge that said, Joe, you do not comment on an ongoing investigation of which you are a target?

That's an obstruction of justice.

No, of course not.

The second thing is,

Well, who is commenting on this case?

It couldn't be Michael Cohen, the guy that's that crooked lawyer lawyer that flipped, or Stormy Daniels.

They're talking about it every day.

So I guess the judge is saying, now listen, Donald Trump,

you are not going to comment on this case.

However, Michael Cohen can call you a liar.

He can call you that you're making things up.

Stormy can go into graphic detail about the size of your phallus.

She can do anything.

And she has, but you can't reply to that.

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

And that's absurd.

So then the question is:

who is Mr.

Sanctimonious Judge?

Well,

Mr.

Sanctimonious Judge Martian, I guess that's how you pronounce his name.

Merkin, I don't know.

Has a daughter.

And a daughter thinking, I'm a big player.

My family's a big player in left-wing

New York politics.

I'll open a political consulting firm.

And she did.

And guess who her biggest client was, who gave her millions of dollars in consulting fees?

It was Adam Schiff.

And what was Adam Schiff doing at the time?

He was engineering the first impeachment of Donald Trump.

And he was leaking things from the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Remember that narrative that Donald Trump was colluding with the Russians?

That all came from Adam Schiff and the people around him.

So here, let's just review it a minute.

You have a judge who is ruling on a case whose daughter

was the biggest client of the biggest Trump hater around, and this, her client, was trying, destroy Donald Trump and get him impeached.

Her client was, as he was paying her to do what?

What was he paying her for?

To advise her politically?

Yes.

To give, call up journalists and media people and make him look good and by extension make Donald Trump look bad.

So basically the judge is sitting there and saying, you can't talk, you can't talk.

No, by the way, my daughter got a lot, millions of dollars

for making sure you can't talk.

or making sure

that when you do talk, you look stupid, or that Adam Schiff makes you look stupid.

It is the the clearest case of

recusal you can imagine.

He's so conflicted, and I don't think anything's going to happen to him.

I really don't.

Yeah, and he's definitely.

All they're doing is if people get the message out, and Donald Trump's strategy is: remember what his strategy is.

I don't necessarily agree with it, but I can understand what it is.

His strategy is:

these people are smooth, elegant, establishment, refined, respected, aristocratic, judicial people.

And they have all the requisite letters after their name.

They have the perkic tie and suit.

They know all the people and they talk and they are absolutely crooked.

And they hate me to such an extent, they're blinded about following the law to which they took an oath to.

And I can't penetrate that

wall because they are protected by the prosecutors,

the government, the DOJ,

the Democratic Party that runs New York, and this Todish, obsequious media.

So the only thing I can do is use my True Social, because I can't use Twitter because I was banned and now I can't, I'm a competitor, I don't want to you know, give business to my competitor.

So I'm going to use a smaller venue, True Social.

And to get people's attention, I'm going to go kind of like my angry reader fashion.

I'm going to print everything in capital letters.

I'm going to say crooked judge and crooked daughter,

sold off, and I'm going to say the most outrageous things I can.

So the media that won't cover it, otherwise,

what do I mean by that?

If Donald Trump tweeted the following:

The judge

in this case, according to

established judicial consensus, seems to be conflicted.

For example, his own daughter, of which he must talk to regularly, was paid substantial sums of money to consult politically and give advice to Adam Schiff, who engineered the impeachment of me, and has been a purveyor of anti-Trump hatred.

So it seems to me that the judge judge can't, in a disinterested fashion, adjudicate my case when his family has a financial interest in helping people make me look stupid.

That's all he had to say.

And he has, I would have written that, but he would say,

Victor, nobody's going to read it.

No, and they're not going to re-report it.

They're not going to report it.

And I have no megaphone.

Maybe Fox will report it.

But I say, crooked, crooked, stupid, horrible.

They're going to report it.

Now, they may say that I'm insane, and that may lose me some independent, but I'm going to take that chance.

So that's what he's doing.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, we have a break coming up, and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about the Easter party, which seems to, or sorry, the Trans Day of Visibility versus the Easter party for Joe Biden.

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So, Victor,

we've been hearing so much this week about the Transgender Day of Visibility that the White House celebrated that I almost thought they didn't have an Easter party.

But in fact, they did also have an Easter party, if we are to say, you know, to give Biden his

due.

But my question is this, after all of this chatter this week, because Biden came out and said that he didn't do it on the Transgender Day of Visibility.

And so I thought

the most important question then is, who's in charge of the White House?

And I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that.

It doesn't seem Biden is.

Well,

they have a notorious reputation for their Easter parties because they're they're not Easter parties.

I think the Easter comes from an Anglo-Saxon German word associated with spring, right?

Renewal.

And that is associated with the most holy sacrament in the Christian faith, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And it's a spring-like idea that...

After the horrible winter killing of Christ, then you have just like the flowers sprout, everybody gets a second chance, and the world comes back alive.

It's a classical myth of Persephone and Hades and all of that.

Okay.

So there's 30, what, 35 days of, there's only one Easter.

And Easter represents, as I said, the foundational religion.

It's part of the parse, part and parcel of the foundational religion of the United States.

So when you look at the United States' holiest documents, what do you find?

Declaration of Independence, a Christian God.

I know it says says God, but it's a Christian.

It was written by Christians in deist.

And you look at the Pledge of Region.

Oh, there it is.

God again.

You look at our money and God we trust.

God again.

It's got one holy day for that Christianity, Christmas and Easter, but Easter especially.

So what does Biden do?

He puts it on the

morally equivalent plane as a day of visibility for transgenderism.

And there's 35 of these days.

They're everywhere.

And they involve 0.001, if you talk about true biological gender dysphoria before this epidemic of transgenderism hysteria took hold.

And so what he's really doing is telling hundreds of millions of Christians, your

one day in the world that we celebrate is now the moral equivalent in my eyes and defined by how much attention I give it as one of 35 or 30 days of transgender promotion.

And people got very angry.

And then

they

disallowed Christian insignia like a cross or anything on their Christian their Easter eggs at the White House.

They didn't seem to do much.

Was it last year, the year before, when the trans person pulled up his chest and showed his

or his artificial or his contoured breast.

No, they didn't say anything.

They didn't say anything more than that.

Then the young man stripped down naked and was

engaged in passive homosexual intercourse in a sacred

chamber of the Senate and then put it broadcast it.

Nobody did anything to him.

But,

but,

question a transgender viability day on Easter and some, and you're just illiberal.

So, what does this do?

Because

do they really think that the transgendered movement is going to get all these young people out to vote?

I don't think so.

I think it's the Dane gold.

It's the bribe money that they have to pay periodically.

It's just like a little business in the Godfather.

You come around and you say, okay,

you want protection.

It all goes back to that Faustian

bargain of 2020 in March.

Joe Biden was flailing after New Hampshire and Iowa.

Jim Clamburt said, we're going to back you with a black vote in South Carolina, and you will win in Nevada with a Latino vote, SCIU, but,

but,

you stay in your basement and you outsource that agenda to BLM, Black Lives Matter,

Black Caucus.

global warming, transgender,

radical abortion, Antifa people, hate Israel crowd, all of that.

And he said, okay.

And so as part of that bargain, every once in a while they'll call him up, like every day, and say, hey, Joe, it's time for a transgender thing and do it right at Easter.

Or, you know, it's time to get out of Afghanistan no matter what.

Or it's time to overthrow the Netanyahu government.

And that's the price he's paid for.

The most radical agenda.

It really is.

I'm not exaggerating that we've ever seen in my lifetime.

They have the House,

they had the House, they had the Senate, they had the Presidency, and they ushered through a Marxist

binary agenda, oppressor-oppressed agenda.

And it's all blowing up on every front if you think about it very carefully.

Foreign policy, Afghanistan blew up.

China is threatening Taiwan daily.

The Middle East, they blew it up, blew it up.

Everything has been blown up.

Inflation, 30 to 40% higher in things that matter, food, essential food, power, fuel, rent, insurance, blew it up.

Crime, critical racial theory, first three years, blew it up.

And now they can't get it any higher without people being shot on site.

So they say, well, crime's going down.

No, it's not.

Not since when you started.

It's just like food inflated.

It's so high.

And they're letting these career felon violent people out.

No bail, arrest.

And I know that they passed it in the state legislature, but ultimately it comes back to this movement that put Joe Biden in.

They blew it up.

They blew up energy.

They spiked gasoline.

They said we're going to have EVs.

They started out.

Don't don't drill.

Don't build pipeline.

And then all of a sudden they thought, oh my God, this is not going to get us elected.

Drill, baby, drill, but don't tell anybody.

Beg the awful Saudis that we said were pariahs.

Don't touch Iran.

No matter how many Americans they attack or kill, do not touch Iran.

Tell the Ruskies, hey,

you shouldn't have gone into Ukraine, but we promise we will not touch one drop of oil that we're sanctioning.

And that's what they're doing.

This leftist agenda blew up in their faces, and they're going to lose power.

And from time to time, they make these ostentatious, trivial, irrelevant,

they fob off to the left like this transgendered or this Easter day or whatever.

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So, Victor,

I want to turn to a little bit grim talking about that.

Could I just say one thing, though?

Because I was talking about this neo-socialist agenda.

I had an email that someone wrote me and said,

I resent you calling the Democratic agenda neo-socialist or socialist.

It's not.

It is.

It is.

Joe Biden wants to raise the taxes up to 39 to 40% percent.

In states like California that have a 14 percent, that's 54.

Add Obamacare on, add gas taxes on property taxes.

You're up to 60 percent.

But more importantly, 50, 50, 50 percent of all wage earners and salaried employees in California do not pay California income tax.

1%,

1%

of tax filers pay 50% of the income.

I mentioned in a prior broadcast that we have the largest black market economy in the United States.

Millions of dollars are exchanged every day through mobile canteens, roadside sales, swap meets, cash services, paying labor in cash.

And this California franchise board doesn't say a word because they feel that most of these people are DEI or they're on the bottom end of the spectrum, whatever.

Some of it may be justified, but they feel that this is part of the redistributionary philosophy.

And more importantly, we have 14 million, which was pointed out to me by a friend not long ago, 14 million households that pay PG ⁇ E and Southern California Edison

electric bills.

You know how many are in default right now?

Take a guess.

50%.

4 million.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, 4 million.

30%.

30%, yeah.

4 million people do not pay their electric bill.

Is there any consequence?

No.

And how are they going to make up that?

They're going to make it up very easily.

They're raising rates on everybody.

If you don't pay any, who cares?

If your rate goes up, they are adjusting your power bill on your income.

The higher the income, the higher the surtax, so that the person who, let's say, came from Oaxaca illegally into the United States and has his own apartment doesn't have to pay power.

The person who defaults doesn't have to pay power.

And if you have solar panels and they told you, this is, we're going to subscribe, you got to get solar panels, you got a tax right, but more importantly, it'll earn you money.

Well, that's not true now because they are recalibrating and refiguring the compensatory system.

So if you put on new panels, it's not going to pay back in three, six, seven years anymore because there's going to be a vast reduction in the compensation the power companies pay for you.

Why?

Because they got 4 million people who don't pay them a cent.

And that's what we call socialism in this country.

Socialism.

And it's okay.

Maybe some of you are in the bottom totem.

You want free power.

You don't want to pay income tax.

Fine.

You want to be paid in cash and you want to pay cash so you don't have to pay sales tax.

Fine.

But don't tell me when you do that that this is a heartless, mean society and everybody's out to get you and you're a victim.

No, no, no.

You're victimizing the system yourself.

It's very predatory to come into a system, especially if you are one of the 27% of people who came into the United States and reside in California, and you're not paying state income tax, you're not paying your power bill, and you're conducting your business largely in cash, where your income is much, much higher because you're not paying what other Californians end up paying about 50% of their income

goes to the federal and state government.

Well, Victor,

so.

On to our grim, that's grim.

You know, when you said that about the franchise tax board, I just thought they don't have any incentive for going after the black market because those are their voters.

They want those guys to vote left-wing, and you can keep that black market going if you do vote left-wing.

But let's turn to the

immigration issue.

And we've just recently had another killing of a Ruby Garcia whose body was riddled with gunshot from an illegal alien who killed her.

And just bringing back memories of Lake and Riley whose head was bashed in by her illegal alien killer.

So we have these cases out there and I know that there were another couple and I was thinking that this border is clearly, it's clearly a risk not only just for individual things like that but also terrorists and such.

And it feels like that everybody knows that and we're all just waiting around for the concert to be attacked, a building to be attacked, a plane to come down.

It just seems like we're all waiting for that and nobody's doing anything about it, but we all know it's coming, right?

Yes, and there are two types of dangers.

It's the 9-11 scenario that you outline,

but there's also, it's kind of like the time machine when they, the Morlocks harvested the little Eloys, they came up.

We're harvesting people every day.

Miss Garcia in Michigan that was killed by an ill illegal alien.

The people down by the border who were killed, Lake and Riley.

So the idea is that, according to the Biden administration, this is called collateral damage.

You let in 10 million people.

1%

may be criminally mined.

A lot of them from Venezuela are coming out of the jails.

Trump was prescient about that.

So 1%.

99% of the people are not criminal, but you let in 10 million, so you've got 100,000 circulating criminals.

And every day they harvest somebody, and the Biden administration is, their attitude is

collateral damage.

And you know what?

You're a racist.

You're a xenophobic for even mentioning it.

How dare you say that?

Some of the best people I know are illegal aliens.

That's how they deal with it.

And as far as

a 9-11 event, they feel that they have the

retaliatory clout leveraged through the media, through the university, through popular culture, through Hollywood, through

you name it, that they can handle that.

So if somebody comes in

and shoots 30 people or San Bernardino, look how they handled the Fort Hood mass terrorist attack.

Remember that?

Fort Hood?

Yes.

They didn't...

Did you ever hear that he was an Islamicist?

No.

He just killed and and you know what?

Nobody cared.

How about the San Bernardino?

Did anybody ever tell you they were Islamicists?

All the people who helped keep that quiet and that family and were hushed up, they never got full sentences.

They killed a lot of people.

So my point is if there is a big terrorist incident, these socialists that are running the country will say, you know what?

It's either guns or it was hate crimes against Muslims that caused it.

or this or that.

Unless they're letting in somebody from South Africa or a deranged Frenchman or somebody, and he does it, then it's going to be

white privilege.

But they're taking enormous risk and they know it.

But this also is very important.

Everybody should listen because it shows you just how committed they are to destroying the border deliberately.

They and their councils think something like this.

Well,

everybody's starting to get really, really angry.

Joe Biden couldn't even remember Lakin Riley's name.

It was so insignificant to him.

He called her Lincoln Riley, the USC coach.

So we got to be careful.

But, but

next year, two years, people will look back and say, Joe Biden let in 10

million illegal aliens from the poorest port places in the world.

And guess what happened?

Three good things happened.

They were counted in the census.

They helped recalibrate congressional districts.

Number two,

they went into, most of them are in Florida and Texas.

They will repay that generosity that we waived the law and we broke the law and allow them to come in

and they will vote.

Now, maybe they'll vote long term, but

70% of the votes are not going to be cast on election day.

Do you really think the right's going to be able to audit these votes when they get a mailed-in automatic registration form, same-day registration from the DMV, the welfare office, the disability office?

You name it.

So there's going to be a lot of people who are going to get to vote.

That's number two.

And that was worth it.

And you know what?

10 million people.

They're going to need, what is it now, $1,800 a month in EBT transfers.

They're going to need medical care.

And guess what?

You're going to need more and more social welfare spending and then therefore more and more higher taxes and you can redistribute more and more money and you can hire more and more left-wing employees in

HHS.

So what I'm getting at is

Yes, it's shocking.

And yes, they're taking a deep risk that they're going to incur a major terrorist.

And yes, they will be blamed.

But A, they don't think that the blame will stick because they control the media and they feel they can fob it off on Trump or guns or white supremacists or just suppress it.

And they have done that in the past.

They put the Boston mass shooter, didn't he?

Wasn't he on the cover of Vanity Fair?

As if he was a model.

They made him...

Sarnoff Sarnita.

Sarnov brothers.

Yeah, he was how handsome he was, we were told.

And

they feel they're going to

redistrict congressional districts.

They feel they're going to flip Texas and Florida one day from red to purple to blue.

And they feel a lot of people are going to be voting.

And they've already prepared the rejoinder.

If you object, then you're a denialist or you're a voter suppressionist.

So they think it's a win-win-win situation.

And if you say to them, well, every day one of these people that you don't audit, especially from places like Venezuela, kill people.

They don't kill us.

Exactly.

They just kill poor black people and poor white people and poor brown people.

They don't kill us.

Not in our zip code, they don't.

And then if you say to them, well,

There's 100,000 people dying from fentanyl.

Well, our kids aren't dying.

They're not stupid enough to take a drug that looks like it's an Atavan or Benadryl or something and it's fentanyl.

So that's, we don't, I mean, it's terrible that Mexico and China joined together to kill more people than all of the people we lost in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq per year.

If you came from Mars and you said, who did that, you pointed your finger at Mr.

Obadar and the cartels, you would say, these are the most existential enemies the United States have.

And so they know that the open border is going to kill 100,000 people in 2000, maybe 80 to 100,000 in 2024.

They know that a lot, hundreds are going to be harvested, maimed, killed, raped, injured, hit and run, leave the scene in 2024.

They know they're taking a big risk about a major terror, and they don't care.

Because for them, the upside far outweighs the downside.

We're not dealing with the people who are, Mr.

Mayorkas and the the people around Biden are not nice people.

No.

At least in the sense of caring for people's welfare versus the they are ideologues and you don't cross an ideologue would rather be

I don't know he'd rather be purely ideological even if it's not practical and hurt people.

They don't care.

I was listening to an interview of a sheriff that was going to be testifying in front of his county

in Texas.

And he said that they had, in his county or the broader area, arrested over 200,000 illegal aliens for various crimes.

They were all arrested for crime.

And he said a quarter of them were child abuse crimes.

So they're doing damage to a lot of young kids as well.

It's just,

that's just what, that's a quarter of those would be 50,000 of them.

They don't care.

There's only two two things that would make them care.

You know what they are?

Number one,

in the next election,

post-election polling shows that the majority of Latino voters, some of them as recent as first and second generation voters, did what?

They voted for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump right now is leading Joe Biden 46 to 42 percent.

If that were to be true, and we're told by all the Democratic Latino, that's not true.

These right-wing people are just crazy.

It's not going to happen.

If that were to happen, they would close the border immediately.

And number two,

if all of a sudden...

You started getting a mass influx of Ukrainians, our Russians, our

Eastern Europeans, our South Africans, or Australians, so-called white people, they would close the border in two seconds.

Two seconds.

Because they would feel that these people,

on average, came with a high school diploma, some skills, they didn't contribute to the multiculturalism of the United States, and they were of no value.

And they would stop it.

It's not that they believe just in globalized non-existence borders, although they do.

They believe that what open borders does, and it fulfills a lot of their political objectives, because they don't have a message that's conducive to most people.

Socialism is not the natural order of things.

Your brain is hardwired as a person, as an animal, as a human, not to want to work all day and hand something over to somebody not working in its extreme form.

People like to have property.

People like to be rewarded for what they do.

People like

to

not think of each other necessarily in primitive tribal terms.

They don't.

And so they know people don't like this.

They don't like it and they're going to lose.

And so they have to find mechanisms to get this agenda across.

Sometimes they use the foundations and the institutions.

everything from the order of a Google search to getting the FBI to work with the old Twitter.

Sometimes they they need new constituencies and they just open the border.

But they cannot run on their record because nobody ever, in a fair and

transparent election where all the issues are out there,

that agenda does not work.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about RFK Jr.

and J.K.

Rawlings.

Stay with us and we'll be back.

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Victor

RFK Jr.

was recently on a talk show and he, or actually he wrote an article about this too.

The article's title was Weaponized Agency Makes Biden Worse Than Trump.

And he gave a sort of an endorsement of it would be better to vote for Trump than Biden if you wanted that deep state not to be offending all of our natural rights.

Well,

that is in reaction.

Some of it is very sincere.

And what he's saying is when he surveys the Trump four years and he surveys the last year or two of Obiden and the four

of Obiden.

Obama.

It is Obiden.

Obama's years and Biden's, he comes to the conclusion empirically.

He just goes off a checklist.

FBI.

Did Trump order the FBI to go after his enemies?

Did the FBI interfere in an election on Trump's behalf?

Did the director of the FBI lie for Trump?

No, they did the opposite.

They were weaponized.

Andrew McCabe lied to hurt Trump.

James Comey lied to hurt Trump.

Robert Mueller, I guess he lied.

He says he didn't know what the Steele dossier and GPS, which were fundamental to his investigation, to hurt Trump.

If he looks at the IRS, whether it's Lois Lerner, who tried to stop

conservative PACs or nonprofits to participate in the 2012 election, it was to hurt Trump.

If they look at the CIA and what went on under John Brennan, who lied under oath twice and was one of the architects of the 51 intelligence authorities who lied to us that Hunter laptop was a product, likely of Russian disinformation,

did Trump do that?

No.

So they look at people in the FBI,

the CIA,

the DOJ.

You think that Joe Biden would ever fire Merrick Garland and put in a special, that's what Donald Trump did with Jeff Sessions.

He was under so much pressure and appointed a special counsel.

He would never do that, Joe Biden, an independent to go after,

basically to go after himself.

He made sure that he got Robert her at the same time he got Jack Smith to balance each other off.

And Robert Hurr found the same thing that Jack Smith did, but Jack Smith was a targeted headhunter, and Robert Hurr was not.

So what I'm getting at is

Robert Kennedy is looking at the actual record.

He's no friend of Trump's.

And he says, you know what?

If you're empirical, Trump may talk a great game, but it was Joe Biden and Barack Obama who weaponized these agencies.

And then

there's other things that he knows, that these people are mean in a very petty, scary fashion.

They have done their best to keep him off the ballot.

Keep him off the ballot.

And he says to me, and he says to people, who else did they try to keep off the ballot?

They tried to keep Donald Trump off.

Did Donald Trump try to keep me off the ballot?

No.

Maybe it was in his interest not to, but nevertheless, people said that originally Kennedy could take votes from Trump.

So they tried to keep Trump off the ballot.

They're trying to keep me off the ballot.

And then he says, you know what, in a very petty way, here my uncle was assassinated when he ran for my, when he was president.

My very father was assassinated when he ran for president.

And all I asked for, given the threats that I'm getting, and he's going to get a lot of threats if he polls higher and endangered.

Can't they give me some, they gave other candidates?

No, they won't do that.

Oh, what did they say?

Corinne, Jean-Pierre.

Oh, we don't know anything about that.

That's a Homeland Security.

No, no, they don't do anything unless they clear it with Left Wing Central and the West Wing.

So he's got a lot of,

he's got a lot of anger, and he has a right to, and he's now appointed.

This is what they're getting really angry.

It was very brilliant when he appointed his run.

His Silicon Valley running mate because what he did was she was very, very left-wing.

so when he appointed her

he basically said did two things by that appointment he said are you going to get mad at me for appointing one of your own favorite very wealthy

movers and shakers in west in Silicon Valley no you can't but then number two he thought hmm but that definitely moves my campaign away from the Ross Perot populism to left-wing orthodoxy and it's going to hurt you a lot more than Trump.

So, when they look at all this now, what are they going to do?

This is going to be very interesting, Sammy, because they've got

Robert Kennedy Jr.

pulling what, in most states, 10 to 15 percent.

They've got Cornell West, crazy Cornell West, 2%.

They've got crazy Jill Stein, 1 to 2%.

Adam Up, they've got 20%.

And I would say that 85% of that 20% is going to go against Joe Biden.

And so everybody should watch this very carefully as they offer these people all sorts of rewards, appointments, financial help, you name it.

Remember when Bernie got out and all of a sudden he got out of the race?

And all of a sudden, we learned some weird things that his wife had been the president of a small college, I think it was in

Connecticut.

Was it upstate?

I can't remember where it was, but yeah, she was in Connecticut.

Yeah, it was.

And all of a sudden,

she was in financial trouble.

She had taken a huge settlement.

She had tried to make a new campus that was harebrained, and it collapsed.

And it cost, it bankrupt the college and broke it.

But she got a huge, generous settlement, and there were people who investigated her, the FBI, all of a sudden, that disappeared.

It disappeared.

And all of a sudden, Bernie jumped out.

He just left.

I thought he was going to, he was ahead of Joe Biden.

Remember that?

And

he was making the case that I'm older than Joe Biden and I'm a lot more sane than he is.

And then he just left.

And next thing we knew, he had three houses.

I didn't know that he had a pricey

lakeside home.

I didn't know he still had his original home in Vermont.

That's the socialist for you.

Yeah, I didn't,

but I didn't know that he had his Vermont home, must be up near Burlington.

He had his Seaside Vermont home, and he had his Washington condo, a socialist does.

And his wife got a big settlement as a reward for destroying her college.

So

I don't know what to say, but

they got everybody out of that race.

Everybody.

Pete Buttigieg got out by being transportation secretary.

So they said, Pete, if you get out of the race, you'll be transportation secretary, and you can do all the nutty things you'll do.

If you want to say that

clover leafs on highways are racist, go ahead.

If you want to say low bridges in New York were designed to stop buses who were busing kids, go ahead.

Any crazy, if you want to get on a bike and be chauffeured to your job and then call up the media as you ride the last hundred yards as your green persona, go ahead.

But get out of the race.

Same thing with Elizabeth Warren.

Same thing with all of them.

And they did.

They probably won't have too much trouble with Stein and the crazy.

Oh.

The other guy that's on there, not J R F K, but

the professor.

Which professor was that?

Isn't Cornell West?

Isn't he still a professor?

Yeah,

he and Stein will just disappear from the same.

No, no, no.

Cornell West is a very funny person because you've got to remember when Obama was a nobody, like a state legislator, if I'm Illinois,

his hero was Cornell West, the big

intellectual at Harvard and then Princeton.

and

part-time rapper.

I didn't know you're joking.

Did he he really?

No, he was.

He told everybody that he was going to combine his superior knowledge of blackness and popular culture and his intellect, and he was going to be a famous rapper in a way that Kenya West or

Puff Daddy was.

He wasn't.

That's why Larry Summers got rid of him, because he was just screwing around, he thought, not publishing, not doing serious research.

But anyway, the point I'm making is

once Obama got to be a senator and then a presidential candidate, he thought he had outgrown his need.

See, Obama never wants to let anybody know that he needed something from them or he required wisdom from them because he's all-knowing and all-powerful and he's a genius.

So Cornell West was still thinking that he was his mentor and telling everybody.

So when Obama heard that, he just started saying, blank, blank, blank him.

I don't need him.

He's some crazy black intellectual at Princeton now.

And so when the inauguration came for Obama in 2009,

Cornell West didn't get a ticket.

So he showed up with his mother.

They bought new clothes and they showed up and they said, Who the hell are you?

And I said, I'm Cornell West, the intellectual godfather of Obama.

And I said, Sorry, where's your ticket?

And he just went on a warpath.

So if you collate all the things that Cornell West had written before 2009

with everything since.

And I think this in large part explains his candidacy that he hates Obama with a passion.

And now he's going to say that he is the true socialist.

And Obama was a Netflix, Martha's Vineyard, Hawaii, Fourth Home, Calorama Mansion Living, sellout.

And he'd be correct.

He's not going to get out.

I don't think they can buy him off on anything.

And Jill Stein is Jill Stein.

I mean, she didn't get out before.

They tried to get her out.

Everybody has a price, Victor.

Everybody has a price.

Well, when you get Reid Hoffman in there and he gave millions to get a top legal team for Eugene Carroll to sue Donald Trump, and you had Mark Zuckerberg put $419 million to absorb the work of the registrars, and you had Michael Bloomberg be the second highest donor to the Biden cause in 2020, and you had Mr.

Sam Bankman Freed, formerly free, now in jail for what, 20, 40 years?

25 or something?

25 years as the second large, I guess he was the third largest.

I guess George Soros' PAC money was the largest.

So you're dealing with people who, who are the bulwark of the Democratic Party?

They're media, they're tech, and they're finance people.

And they are multi-billionaires in the age of globalization.

And they feel that they're entitled to run the government via the Democratic Party.

So they're going to have a lot of money.

So you're right, they may be able to offer them things they can't refuse.

But

Jill Biden was very loyal to them when she lost, and they all started screaming and yelling, You cost Hillary, you cost Hillary, Michigan, you cost her pence.

She said, Okay, I will sue the voting machines.

I'm an election denialist, so help me get some money, and we'll sue.

And we'll say that all of the Dominion voting machines were were crooked.

And also we'll ask the electors who were duly elected with a constitutional duty to reflect the popular vote in their individual states to be false electors.

Remember Charlie Sheen and all those people?

We beg you, we beg you, do your moral duty and do not vote in accordance with your state vote, vote for Hillary, flip, stop this monster.

And everybody said,

that's okay.

That's not election denialism.

That's not subverting democracy.

That's not killing democracy.

That's not threatening.

All I know is that the Dominion Company didn't sue Jill Stein for a billion dollars like they did Fox News.

And they didn't go after Lou Dobbs.

They didn't go after Jill Stein the way they went after Lou Dobbs and other people.

It was okay to be an election denialist, just like it was

Stacey.

I went back and played one of Stacey Abrams' YouTubes the other day.

My gosh, she went around the country for two years as the real governor.

She was introduced as the real governor.

I'm the real governor of Georgia, and she sued to overturn that election.

And she lost it by 50,000 votes.

And they had no problem with election denialism or suing to overturn.

But Donald Trump calls up on a phone call and says, I know there's 10,000 votes, find them.

And now he's facing, what, 30 years in jail for that?

Yeah.

It's just, this is an, you wake up like,

I don't know, I woke up and I'm an insect or Kafka cockroach or something because I don't recognize the country.

I really don't.

It's a scary place.

It really is.

It's this open border, this asymmetrical application of the law.

Anything is possible.

You can go after anybody and destroy them, especially in an electronic social media age.

It's really, it's,

I'm so lucky to live out here on the farm, you know, as a nobody just to be left alone.

But every time I drive, as I get closer to Palo Alto and Silicon Valley, I did an experiment the other day.

I took a blood pressure monitor with me.

So I'm driving along the San Joaquin Valley.

I'm going down Manning Avenue.

I go into San Joaquin.

Fine.

I'm relaxed.

I get a little tense when I get onto I-5 and there's trucks in the left lane, two lanes, hasn't changed in 50 years.

30 million people, no problems, same highway.

Then I get into 152,

stop at Costa Free to get a coffee, pretty nice.

Then I go in the one, the Gilroy, you know, Death Alley, just two lanes, just nutty.

I get into Gilroy, still, I'm okay.

101, packed, thinking, okay.

And then I start getting closer and closer to 85,

280.

And when I take off Page Mill Road, I take my blood pressure, it's like 20 points higher.

Oh my God, I'm coming into Mordor.

Where's Gollum to get me in?

I need to find out how to get in there and get out.

I mean, I'm in this tech center of the world.

I'm in the nexus of Sam Bankman-Fried on the Stanford campus under house arrest, right near my apartment.

I'm right near,

gosh, Mark Zuckerberg.

And then there's the San Francisco nexus of Nancy Pelosi, Camilla Harris's old domain, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown.

Think about that triangle.

On one side, there's Stanford University and the phony academic prestige they give all this stuff.

And then there's the $9 trillion

and the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos and San Bankman Freed People Kuipe in Silicon Valley.

And then at the tip of the triangle, there's the Bay Area politics that used to be a joke and now runs the United States, if you think about it, with Camela Harris and Nancy Pelosi and

the late Dianne Feinstein.

And it's just really, I'm being facetious, but I really do tense up.

And I did take my blood pressure.

It gets higher and higher.

Then when I get on that campus, it's so funny because when you're in the San Joaquin Valley, if somebody recognizes you, they come up.

I was in the store yesterday, a middle-aged Mexican guy I know, hey, Victor, how are you doing?

Give them Alan Fox.

And it was nice.

99% of the people are nice of all walks of life, all ethnic background.

I get on Stanford.

I walk across that campus.

If somebody thinks they recognize me, they do two things.

They go like this, they frown.

Their lips curl up.

Yes.

Or they just do a diagonal veer.

They go in the opposite direction, but at an angle.

They don't turn around.

You destroy all the facework they've had done.

I eat by myself in restaurants, and it's just every once in a while somebody just looks like,

oh, if I could, you know, do something to you.

And I don't know how they know me because I don't think they listen to this.

I don't think they watch Fox, but every once in a while, it's not common, but it's just the opposite of the San Joaquin Valley.

Yeah.

Well, let's have our last topic, J.K.

Rowling.

I don't know how much there is to say about this, but Scotland has a new hate crime that you can't misgender somebody or it's a hate crime.

And apparently she was on a talk show and called a transgendered woman

who was a biological man, a man, and she referred to him as a man.

She's

in the hot seat for potentially being arrested for this.

And I was wondering, any reflections on that?

Boy, she's given it to him, though.

She didn't back down, which is what I like.

Yeah, you know what?

I don't understand about this.

I've been to Scotland and it's crazy.

Yeah.

But Scotland, wasn't it the home of Adam Smith and David Hume and the so-called Scottish Enlightenment that was the catalyst for the British Enlightenment, which was part with the French Enlightenment, the so-called Declaration of Human Rights and Free Speech?

And

David Hume, if you read all of his,

he knew a lot about the ancient world too.

It's all about personal freedom, kind of left-wing.

And you read this about freedom, though, freedom against the restrictive Anglo-Saxon traditions that are anti-enlightenment.

And then you read

Adam Smith, and it's about the freedom of markets.

And here you have Scotland at the vanguard of suppressing free expression.

It doesn't make any sense.

And yet they always pose as they want to get away from Britain to do what?

To be right-wing or go way, way, way into censorship?

It doesn't make any sense.

And then why

would they I mean, J.K.

Rowling is a national hero, right?

Why would they even think about doing anything to her?

You think that

she brings so much money into Scotland, all positive?

And it's really weird.

I was looking the other day at comments on an article at people from Scotland it was in a Scottish

either newspaper magazine or British

and they were all like you destroyed your reputation I threw my book against the wall Harry Potter sucks and I'm thinking no

for every one of you there's somebody else in the world who thinks I didn't agree with her politically,

but I really admire her free speech.

And and she's willing to put her name, her whole market, her whole industry of this children's fiction on the line, just for a simple proposition that someone who is born with testicles, a phallus, a muscular skeletal system that's quite different than women, with a hormonal system, when they transition, they cannot fully transition into women.

And maybe

for

areas of,

I don't know, sexual identity, we could have a third category called transgendered people, or we could have athlete

compete as transgendered.

But the idea that these people are completely women

is fallacious.

And I would only add to her point she's made, this idea of social constructionism, this Foucaultian idea that society creates reality based on power machinations, so that if you, you can be anything you want.

If you say a man and you just put on,

you know, as our

national health officer, the guy, you know, oh, yeah, putting the

admiral, what's his name?

Yeah, he put on his woman skin.

Yeah, so now he's a woman.

So what's stopping me from saying I'm black?

I just, I mean, is it any more radical to construct a

skin color than an entire gender?

Is it more physically demanding?

You could just, as Rachel Dolezell did, she just darkened her face a little bit and she became black.

Why did they get mad at her?

She said, I'm black.

And they said, no, you're not.

Ward Churchill said, I'm Native American.

And he got the, he did, give him credit, he went the whole way.

He lied on his

his application.

He said he was a member of this tribe.

He married a Native

American woman.

I think she disappeared mysteriously.

And then he wore the whole buckskins and the long hair.

He went the whole radical, bury my heart at wounded knee type of advocacy.

And they said he's not Native American.

He just constructed his identity.

But didn't he have a long career as this Native American, like 20 years before they found out he was Indian?

Yeah, he got caught, but he was a trans Indian.

And that's what my point is.

Can't you be trans-black, trans-Indian?

Can't you...

I don't know.

We have these people all the time that do that.

Yeah.

You should be able to.

I agree.

It's called...

There's no reality.

There's no biological reality.

There's no logical reality.

It's just you can construct things once you're aware of how power rewards and punishes.

And you have a right to

be on the side of the oppressed.

And you should be able to construct that identity given your superior morality that you've chosen to be on the winning side.

And your society should reinforce that, otherwise it's a hate crime, as we see with J.K.

Rowling, right?

But you run up against something else called human nature and self-interest.

So a lot of black people and Native American people say, wait a minute.

We're not going to let that white guy come over here and put on a bunch of...

costumes and claim that he's a protected minority and he's eligible as he was as Rachel Delta.

Why did they do it?

They didn't do it because of idealism.

They did it to get stuff.

And

that's, you know,

that's what the admissions officers,

the big lie right now that we all have to deal with is that college admission officers admit people.

I'll go back to Stanford, 21% were white this year.

Out of, say, 2,100, 2,000, I don't know, something around that number.

So 180, and then I think 52% were women.

So out of 2,100 people come in, you have 180 males that are white.

But you really think that they went over to the other 1,800 people who identified as Asian, black, Latino, and said, I want to see your DNA badge?

No.

They just took it at face value, right?

Yes.

Unless it was really strained.

So you know that people are making up identities all the time.

And you know that they're getting very worried about making up the identities.

So they have to have rules.

So if you're a Stanford student as your name is Lopez,

they let you in, but they know that you're not the child of two Hispanic parents that qualify as oppressed Hispanics.

You can't be a Spanish aristocrat mom.

and a Brazilian CEO dad, or maybe you can.

But the point is, they're not talking about the criteria they use to the extent that it's successful that adjudicates who is what and their racially obsessed, tormented minds.

Except

when in doubt, you always go back to the old antebellum South in the Confederacy.

And because they were an utterly racist society, as is the university, they had rules, right?

And the rule was the one-drop rule.

The one-drop rule was defined as what, 1 16th.

I will bet you that if somebody challenges somebody and says, you, as Joe Biden said, you ain't black,

they would say, I'm 1 16th.

And they would get in.

And they would be using the logic of the Confederacy.

You have to have some rules.

Yeah.

If you're going to have this, if you're going to use a quota, you have to say who is eligible and who is ineligible.

And if you're ineligible or eligible, you have to have a quota.

And it doesn't appear to be based on superficial appearance.

And I know a lot of people at Stanford that if you were to say that they were Hispanic or Native American, it would be very hard to say that

without a DNA badge.

That's all I'm saying.

Well, with that, Victor, we're at the end of our podcast, and we often

read some of what your listeners or readers have said.

Sometimes we get it from Apple podcasts and sometimes from your website.

And this is coming from your website.

And the he that Anonymous here is referring to is Trump.

And Anonymous says, I don't think no matter what he does, he can overcome this likely systemic roadblocks caused by the modified voting process.

As Stalin once said, quote, let the people have their vote.

It only matters who counts them, unquote.

This was driven home in 2020 and will be driven home again, but I still plan to vote for him in the hope that I am wrong.

You know, that's a very good letter.

One of the saddest things that I have encountered, both in email and in text, but if I go places,

I would say that I have to go up to Fresno today and I'll meet somebody on the street or at the store

and they say the following.

They say, you know,

I don't think Trump can get elected.

And I'll say, well, why?

You think he's going to be tied up?

No, no, I just don't think

they, they say they, they are not going to let him.

Sometimes it's very dark what they say.

They say things like, they're going to shoot him or he can't win because they're going to control the votes.

But they're so

jaded at what the left is capable of that this election is going to be

it's going to be one of the most

dangerous

potential, especially the convention in Chicago for the Democrats if they get rid of Biden.

It's going to be really, really, it's like 1968, and we've known what the left did for those 120 days of 2020.

And if Trump should be elected, they're going to go crazy.

It's not just going to be Madonna at the inauguration saying out loud that she wants to blow up the White House or people rioting at the inauguration.

It's going to, or milk and cookies and animals to pet at Stanford to ashwitch your fears and your sadness.

It's going to get really nasty.

And it's just so many people have said this that they don't think the vote will be counted.

And I just hope that the Republican Party under Laura Trump, I have a lot of admirer, I think she'll be much better.

I hope that they understand that they've got to send teams out of grassroots people who know the state, state residents in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia,

Arizona.

And they've got to, and those states, they've got to watch every single mail.

ballot collection mail.

It can't have Mark Zuckerberg just dropping mail and ballot things all over.

They have to keep those curtains up like they did not in 2000.

So they just don't close the curtains.

They have to have people in there watching as the ballots, they have to have them immersed.

And if they don't do it,

I'm very worried as this reader was.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, thank you so much for today.

It's really been a pleasure talking to you.

And I know that your listeners love it, and we love our listeners as well.

Thank you, everybody, for listening.

Much appreciated.

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