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Victor is the Martin and Eli 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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We'll start out with Biden's secret addresses and Trump's trial dates in the 2024 calendar.

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So, Victor,

this is a very strange thing, or maybe not so strange at all.

Joe Biden has some secret

email addresses that he was using, and they are Robin Ware456, Robert L.

Peters, and J.R.

Beware.

Is that Junior Beware?

Anyways, these are email addresses that he was using while he was Vice President of the United States.

And we have lots of information on those.

And I was wondering, what are your thoughts on the recent Biden corruption scandal that is not hitting the courts at all, but we all know it's there?

Well, this just week, the

request for information from the House seems to suggest there's thousands, thousands of emails under those three pseudonyms.

That Joe Biden, when he left office, they were transmitted on government appurtenances and therefore they're public property.

But nobody apparently knew who they belonged to, or they knew that they were Joe Biden's, but they gave him an exemption.

But think of that for a minute.

Here we have the President of the United States who's accused in a 360-degree fashion from a a variety of

sources of being corrupt.

And now we learned that he had three aliases,

and nobody's read those emails, and they're under subpoena.

And so the question is, why did he do it?

Why did he use a fake name to communicate with his son if it was not to dodge public transparency?

So I think that's something.

And remember when we were talking about the EPA director under

Barack Obama, did that?

I think she used the word Richard Windsor, and then she was praising herself and acting as if this person was a high-level EPA official.

They fired her for that.

And of course, we remember everybody who does this, in other words, Sammy,

is a de facto admission that there's something wrong with themselves.

Remember Pierre?

We talked about that with Jack.

Is it Pierre Delecto?

Pierre Delecto, yes.

And then we had

Carlos Dangers.

Carlos Danger.

They always have delecto,

danger,

you beware, JBware.

It's always got to be some little clever hook to disguise the fact that they don't want to.

Wings up a whole lot larger issue.

One thing I don't like is when people send me tweets, I don't go on Twitter, but when they send me face shots of it or photoshops of it or whatever, they have these fake little faces.

You know what I mean?

They have, they all have pseudonyms, and then they have, they don't have their face, they have cartoon faces or movie star faces.

Yes.

And at least I can say that I've never done that.

If I've written anybody, I've always used my name and I don't disguise myself and I take blame or credit for what I write.

And that if you're the president of the United States and you can't do that, there's something wrong with you.

There really is.

And I think

this enters a larger question.

We have all we have really, if you think about it, is September, October, November, December.

And then we have the 12 months.

We have 16 months and then a lame duck January, 17 months.

And the way that this president is acting and the mounting evidence against him and the desperation to coordinate all of these

aggregate all of these prosecutions and indictments against Trump, it really shows that just the sheer desperation, there's no, there's no, Majorkis is not trying to defend the border.

They have Uzbeks that are coming across right now.

This week, there's thousands of them.

If 8 million people have entered the country since Biden took office and just 1%,

1% were criminals or terrorists.

Yes, that's 80,000 people.

The magnitude is staggering.

Nobody defends that.

So I could go on with energy, the economy, foreign policy, Afghanistan, crime.

They don't even try to defend it.

He just makes jokes about biogenomics.

He doesn't try to, nobody in that, there's not one single voice of all of that loud chorus that was demanding that Trump take the Montreal cognitive assessment, that cheered Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe on for trying to tape Trump to prove he was non-compos mentes, stealthily, I may add, or they called in that crackpot psychiatrist Bandy Lee to say that Trump needed an interview.

Not one of those people is saying anything right now about his cognitive decline.

They all know it.

They just cross their fingers and say, oh my God, we got through another 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

day.

We only have two more this week, three a week, and we have 17 months, and maybe we can get the Adderall or whatever, the previgent or something, and get him through this tenure and get over the Kamala Harris problem.

But they're not trying to defend his health.

They're not trying to defend his record.

And they're not trying to defend his honor.

They know he's a crook.

And all they can do now is

they've reduced it down to indict Trump in New York, indict Trump in Washington, indict Trump in Miami, indict Trump

in Atlanta, and that's it.

I don't think it's going to work.

I really don't.

I think that's going to all blow up either an impeachment and conviction or the serious illness of Joe Biden and have to leave office or this collapse of the economy or a massive defection in many of his constituencies, especially, and I say massive, I'm talking about African Americans that might vote 20% against Biden, especially if Cornell West is in their race, you know.

And remember,

he's a,

at first glance, he's a failed rapper, kind of a charlatan, Princeton professor.

On second glance, he really, really is angry at the left.

He's a man of the far left.

And Barack Obama, when he was a nobody

in the state legislature, used to toady up to the famous Cornell West.

And when he was a senator, he used to brag that he was talking on the phone with Cornell West.

As soon as he got to be president, he said, I don't need this guy anymore.

He's crazy.

He's weird looking.

I don't need him.

I don't want him.

and he shunned him he didn't even let his mother and cornell west go to the inauguration so i think he's gonna he's angry he has been and he's mad at the democrats he's a bernie sanders person i think he's gonna run i really do yeah that will be interesting what do you make of this um we see these interviews and such of because trump took his mugshot and it's out everywhere that

according to blacks themselves or the ones that have been interviewed we can now relate to Trump.

And this has turned a good 20, 25 percent to Trump's side because of the mug shot.

Do you buy into that?

It's a very weird phenomenon because nobody knows the extent of it.

The media has focused on the conservative media.

If you look at the left-wing media, they say it's a racist trope.

Oh, the right is exaggerating this because they associate criminality with blacks.

And therefore, they get a few black fake, what Joe Biden would call you ain't black to say that now he's a brother or he's a honorary member.

He's a thug Trump because he too has a mugshot.

And nobody knows.

I kind of discounted it with Jack.

He touched on it just briefly because I think Fox News really ran with the story.

And

every time somebody says the black community collectively is going to make a historical

change in direction, I haven't seen it.

And yet this president has been the most hostile to blacks.

I mean, he not only has a long record of racist sentiment and expression going way back, but most recently, you know, when he called in a boy, another person in Louisiana, he called Boy.

And, you know, during the campaign, you ain't black, put you in chain, all that's, that whole history of it.

And then when you look at his policies, they've been devastating to the black community, but they continue to support him collectively.

So I don't know, but

things turn quickly in politics.

You know, Ronald Reagan ran in 76,

actually he ran in 68 and he was considered a nut,

a polished version of Goldwater.

And then it was Nixon and then he ran.

Remember, he tried to absurd Gerald Ford in 76 and they said he's too right-wing.

And then they said in 1980, he was not only too outright-wing, he was out of touch.

He was not part of the George H.W.

Bush,

you know, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon.

Wing of the right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so he was just,

and he was too old, they said.

And what happened in 80?

He crushed Jimmy Carter.

So

you never know.

These people, people can change.

People, that race was very close.

People forget that.

In March and April of 1980, it was really close.

And

suddenly, you know, by pretty much September, he started to gradually, but gradually pull out.

And it was, people just collectively shrugged their shoulders and they said, I've had it with Carter.

I'm sick of this stagflation.

I'm sick of the Iranian hostage.

I'm sick of the sanctimonious lectures.

I'm sick of all of this.

And I don't care what you say about Reagan.

I'd rather have him any day of the week than this loser.

And that's what happened.

And that can happen, especially when people are sick of trying to decipher what language Joe Biden is attempting to speak.

They don't know what he's saying.

He stirs his words.

He has no syntax.

He has no vocabulary, no grammar.

He makes things up.

On the most solemn occasions, he's talking about the recent shooting in Jacksonville.

And my gosh, he was just adding deaths.

And it was all racist five years ago when they killed also a white person as well.

It was a blacks.

He just mangles the facts or deliberately interprets, misinterprets them.

He tries to demagogue it.

Everybody's sick of that.

And

the big question everybody has is Donald Trump.

That is,

you can see what they're trying to do.

They're trying to destroy him psychologically and physically.

They're trying to bankrupt his campaign and him personally.

$250 million lawsuit from Letita James on a nothing about quote unquote overvaluing your real estate on a loan application that he got anyway and paid.

There was no sign of any wrongdoing.

But my point is that

just because it's completely bogus in the here and now and just because it's going to be reversed at the appellate level or the Supreme Court level in a year or two doesn't mean that

in real time, it's not going to destroy him as a candidate.

And I don't know what the anecdote is that Trump is thinking about.

What could you do?

I mean, you're going to have to go before a largely non-white, hard-left jury in Atlanta when Fannie Willis is going to be running for governor.

And it's just going to be to the jury, the subtext is going to be nullify the evidence.

He's a

orange, bad person.

He hates blacks.

Convict him.

And they can.

And the same thing with Alvin Bragg with a similar jury in New York.

And the same thing with Letita James in the civil, that big suit in New York, and the same thing in Miami.

And so how you it's it's one thing for people like myself to say this is completely bogus.

And

there's a whole host of Democrats that could easily be indicted on these new protocols, but that doesn't change the reality.

The reality is that we have an asymmetric

double standard jurisprudence, but it has the force of law still.

And I don't know how you stop it.

No.

And they are also timing all of these trials to come out

one right after.

Yeah.

The judge Chutkin in DC wants to have March 4th, but so does Fannie Willis want to have March 4th.

So they have a little bit of a

spasm.

The subtext is what subtext that nobody is talking about.

Nobody is talking about.

We have been told for 50 years that the juries and the prosecutors and the judges must look like America and that Black America suffered at the hands of asymmetrical.

And that's true.

White juries, especially in the South, white DAs

and white judges.

But the African-American community makes up 12% of the population.

But he's got four prosecutors that are going after him.

Letita James, Fannie Willis, and Alvin Bragg.

That's 75% of the prosecutors are black.

And when you look at the judges, there's more than 12% of the judges are black.

And when you look at the jury makeup, the majority of those jurymen are going to be black, which shouldn't mean anything.

in a good America, an interracial America, a diverse America, where race is incidental, but not to people in that leadership of the left who say that race is everything and race is essential, racial essentialism.

And so what they're trying to do is to really drum up hatred of Donald Trump and the black community to pay him back

with disproportionately black juries.

And Trump knows that.

Apparently, that's why he calls Fanny Wills a racist.

He is.

Race is a subtext here of the democratic strategy.

And that's why Joe Biden went down to Jacksonville and lied about the actual numbers of death, the race of the death of those killed five years ago, tried to demagogue that shooting by a white deranged nut, tried to evoke Ron DeSantis.

But the subtext was, if you're a member of the African community,

look at what Donald Trump is like and look what DeSantis, these people do not like you and you have a chance to get them back.

That's the subtext.

You can convict Donald Trump.

And there's nothing anybody can say.

What I just said, I'll get a call

from some diversity, equity, inclusion czar at Stanford and said, did you mention race on a podcast?

That's where we are in this country.

So everybody knows what Fannie Willis is doing.

Everybody knows what Alvin Bragg is doing.

Everybody knows.

what Letita James is.

They have aspirations for higher office.

They're trying to whip up racial hostility and extremism.

They're counting on racial solidarity in the negative sense.

And

they're the most eager to call anybody racist who just said that.

Yes.

Just one more question on that.

Is there anything preventing a judge from inhibiting discovery by refusing enough time to the defense?

Because it seems to me that in the DC

case, that it's for election misconduct, and they're trying to say that Trump knew that he hadn't won.

And in doing,

his defending lawyers will probably need to go through election,

you know, election ballots and recounts and such, wouldn't they?

I mean, to show that, no, he did not believe that Joe Biden had won.

Well, he's, I don't think that he really.

Okay.

I don't even know if they need to do that.

I don't think

they will find one speech.

One interview, one podcast, one TV appearance where Donald Trump said, I lost the election.

I just don't believe they'll find it.

He thought that he won the election.

He didn't think that he lost and he was trying to steal the election.

When they said stop the steal, they meant if the actual accurate ballot count was done, he would win.

I don't know if that's true or not myself.

I think that the fraud happened in March and April of that year, as I said so many times when they changed the balloting laws for 70% of the electorate not voting in most states on Election Day, but absentee or early, where there was far less scrutiny and authenticity possible.

And I just think they flooded those with vote harvesting and ballot curing.

They have a case like that in Michigan where a woman brought in over 10,000 ballots from the city,

and there were only 3,000 registered voters, or wait, 3,000 possible voters that had not registered in the city.

Yeah, I mean, mean they they call that if you say that in 2012

how could 30 000 people in precincts a precinct in philadelphia vote is it 30 000 to one to barack obama that's that's impossible And so we know that that goes on.

And I think it really went on in 2020 because they had four years to prepare and they were given the gift of COVID that gave them an excuse to change the voting laws

contrary to the state legislatures because they didn't do it by a vote in the legislature.

They did it by lawsuits and bureaucratic edicts and de facto absorption of the registers work by people like Mark Zuergerberg and his $419 million.

And so it was really an election election interference.

That's what's so weird about the whole thing.

They keep, Fannie Willis keeps talking about Donald Trump tweeted things that were untrue.

I think, hello, that's what the Twitter is.

It's a cesspool of untruth.

And, you know, it's just incredible.

He was watching One American News.

Okay, so Joe Biden watches Rachel Maddow's lies about Russian collusion and disinformation.

So what?

It's not a crime.

And that shows you how desperate they are.

But that doesn't get back to the, but it doesn't mean just because they're.

themselves crooked and dishonest, it doesn't mean that they can't do Trump a lot of damage is what I'm trying to say.

Yes, I know.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about Ohio as a bellwether for elections.

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So, Victor, the last thing on elections and parties and such that I wanted to ask you about is there was this article in Politico, which I know is a little left-leaning, and I thought it was interesting because Ohio is always considered a bellwether of elections.

Not anymore, it's not

well.

He said that too, and he said, and it's also going very Republican.

So I was wondering, I was actually wondering what you thought about that.

It's like Iowa.

Iowa was always, you know, Tom Hartkin, left-wing, agrarian populism.

And Iowa is right-wing now.

So is Ohio.

So is Florida.

And just when you think the conservatives are winning,

It's not quite true because at the same time, Georgia was always a sure thing red state it's a purple state now and Arizona was a red state it's a purple if not blue state California was a purple state it's a hopelessly blue state

and part of it is the migrations of different populations and part of it is the changes in the parties but

Iowa and Ohio are pretty right wing And, you know,

if you wanted to have

some speculation, if you had a prosecutor in West Virginia, Utah, Ohio, Iowa, a rural prosecutor, and he said that Joe Biden came in

to his state and he said things that were not true, or he said that they changed the balloting laws, whatever they said, or they just said, you know what, Hunter Biden

is getting $16,000 a month in rent and we don't have anything.

And there was an Iowa bank that they could indict him.

They could just indict him.

And everybody said, this is so buggish.

Yes, but he'd have to, his lawyers would have to show up.

And every state could do this.

That's what's so strange about it.

They don't know the

Pandora's box they're opening up.

And that's all predicated on, well, the Republicans, they play by the crazy Marcus of Queensbury rules.

They like to win.

They don't win ugly.

They lose nobly.

We win ugly.

They lose nobly.

They will never do what we do.

Because they know that if they did do that, if a West Virginia DA did what Fanny Willis is doing or Alvin Bragg, racist,

homophobe, transphobe, sexist, and they would rather be called child molesters.

So that's how they operate.

They're really shameless people.

And

the Republicans have to find a formula to get out of this.

And that raises this existential question we've talked about, and that is, do you lose nobly and then shame the winners as they drive you into oblivion?

Or do you go tit for tat, as I said, DEF CON 5, and then hope the Republic can stand tit for tat, tit for tat?

I.e.,

you say to these, listen, you SOBs, you impeached Trump for things he didn't do, but which Joe Biden did in spades.

Joe Biden did not threaten to delay aid.

He threatened to cancel it.

Donald Trump did not fire anybody.

Joe Biden threatened to fire a prosecutor.

Donald Trump did not have family members on the trough in Ukraine.

Joe Biden did.

Donald Trump did not specifically go after Joe Biden, who was not an announced candidate, or not really a viable one.

Joe Biden's going after Donald Trump in the courts to his own DOJ, who's the leading primary, announced primary candidate.

So then, if you're Kevin McCarthy, what do you do?

Do you file?

So they come up with this: well, we're going to have an impeachment inquiry, and that means we're going to put our finger on the pulse of the nation and feel where it is.

But at some point, they're going to have to fish and cut bait.

They're just going to have to say, you know what, we don't want to do this, but you guys do it.

You will never stop.

You will never stop.

And the next liberal Supreme Court justice you appoint, they're going to get the Kavanaugh treatment.

And the next time

that you have a Democratic president, we have the House as now,

we're going to impeach him.

And if we have the Senate majority up to 60, we're going to convict him.

And

you screw around with the Senate filibuster and the Blue Wall and Electoral College and New States

and the size of the Supreme Court, you better be careful because we can do it too, unless we all agree to stop.

And I think that's the only thing that's going to get their attention.

Yeah, I think so too.

Well, let's turn to German scientists.

We all know that Germany is hopelessly green, speaking of things that are hopeless.

And yet we have two German scientists that published in, and

its letters are IKE,

which are German words.

So I'm not sure what the actual words are.

But anyways, IKE, a journal.

And they claimed that global warming is a corrupt, fear-mongering scheme headed by the super rich, and they want to impose a CO2 tax for their own benefit and for the government's benefit.

Check, check, check.

And they're basically a contingent of the super rich billionaires who are trying to generate funds for their own machinations.

Boom, period.

So I was wondering your thoughts on this.

You know, they are German scientists and Germany's race position and that stuff.

Yeah.

Goes back to Hitler.

I mean, Hitler was an environmentalist.

That was the whole thing of Hitler Youth.

They were going to go up and breathe the pure Nordic era as good little Aryans on special little mountain pathways.

And they were all going to be good vegetarians and recycle.

And that's a very strong strain in Germany.

But that being said, these scientists are very worried what they've done to the economy because Germany was the powerhouse of Europe.

And one reason that Europe did not recover well from COVID and one reason its GDP is anemic, its joblessness is higher, is not just the structural socialism inherent, because we're almost the same now, but because they're destroying the German productivity by shutting down coal and nuclear and natural gas plants and then relying on solar and wind during the day.

And, you know, it's not very, it's not very, it's not like Arizona if you've been to Germany.

It's more like northern Michigan.

And

believe it or not, it's not always that windy.

And then at night, they count on French nuclear power to supply their nighttime electricity.

which the French like to do because they make a lot of money off it.

But the result of that is that the French industry, believe it or not, are becoming as competitive or more competitive than germany and they're just they're going to have negative gdp if they don't watch it so they've taken the lifestyle of the average german that was upwardly mobile and they've frozen it just like here yeah i think all this week it was so strange this week i had some people out working we were talking about wages uh electricians And they were telling me they went through all the circuit breakers they use, the Romex, the junction boxes, everything, wall plugs.

And there's no way that they can charge more, even though their wages are inflated to make up to the cost of their materials.

And the same thing is for food.

I went to the supermarket the other day and it's like steaks now, ribeye steaks or T-bones.

It's kind of like,

let's view some animal in a zoo.

You see people looking at them, they stare at them like, ooh, that looks so juicy, but I'm not going to buy it.

I couldn't afford 30 or 40 bucks for a thin little cut of ribeye so joe biden did that he inflated the economy when we had natural demand reoccurring after covet supply chains disruption he printed six million dollars and then he had a complete fraudulent covet program and

all he had to do was he just had to take a nap for six hours a day let the border wall finish and say, I close the border.

And then he just had to let the economy go on autopilot.

And he could have said, this is the Biden economy.

He just had to say, you know what?

This is what I did.

And he would have been inhaling the fumes of the Trump administration and he'd be at 55% popularity.

And then he'd have to give some boilerplate on good old Joe Biden, just Grant, and it's all, can't we all get along?

But his puppeteers, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the Obamas, wouldn't allow that.

They just

couldn't allow that.

You can't do that.

Barack couldn't be the hard-left socialist he wanted to be, but he's dialing it in now, like he always dreamed he could.

And that's where we are.

And he's going to destroy the country.

He's already destroyed a lot of it.

Yeah.

You mean Joe Biden did?

Yeah, he's destroyed a lot of the

military.

You look at

military recruitment, and essentially,

when you look at it very carefully, and not what, you know, CNN says, it's essentially the white male combatant is not joining.

It's just, it's radical.

And maybe it's because they were targeted by Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley

and the chief of naval operation and congressional testimony.

Maybe it's all the wokeness that they have to put up with.

Maybe it's the you know, white privilege, white this, white when they're dying at twice their numbers in the demographics and war zone.

I don't know what it is, but they're not joining.

And believing the trans community and the black community and the Latino have not stepped up to make up for that shortfall.

And so, and that's that's going to be a real problem with the military.

And I don't know how you fix that without just getting rid of.

They should, they've got

whoever is a Republican nominee and president, they've got to go ballistic.

They've just got to clean out that whole Pentagon corrupt hierarchy: FBI, CIA, DOJ.

And they've just got to have a big smile on their face when the left goes ballistic, because when Trump fired a few DOJ permanent apparatches, they said, oh, this can't do this.

And of course, you look at the numbers that Obama fired.

It was not even close.

And so

they're just going to have to shield themselves from this hysterical left counter response.

And they're going to have to develop a new mentality that when they do something that's right and restores the integrity of the country, they're going to say, now that I have done it, I just hope they call me sexist, racist, protectionist, nativist, misogynist, homophobes, transfer.

If they don't, I'm going to be disappointed, please.

And when they have that attitude, when they have that attitude, they're going to win.

Yeah.

And then they're going to have to say, if I write a book and I'm a senator, I'm a major conservative thinker, I just hope that

it's ignored by NPR, PBS,

New York Review of Books, The New Yorker.

Please, please, just don't even think about.

And when they get that attitude, they will be good.

And when they get the idea that they're a talking head and they're never, ever called by NPR or CNN or MSN, that should be good.

And I know some of you are saying, well, Victor, you have to get your view to the other side.

Well, you can't get your view to the other side.

Believe me, you cannot do it.

They're not going to let you do it.

You just have to get the idea that you're going to have to change their hearts and mind.

And if you're captivated by their enticements, you're done for.

Or if you're afraid of their slurs, you're done for.

So just, you've got to get a new, it doesn't mean you have to be mean and nasty and confrontational.

But you have to understand where they're coming from.

They despise conservatives.

They despise the nuclear family.

They despise the heterosexual paradigm.

They despise, they

absolutely despise the working middle class.

They despise the middle of the country and just accept it and then deal with it and teach them the error of their ways.

And if you don't do that, you've lost the country.

Because they're serious people.

They want to take over the power.

They don't believe in elections.

We talked about that.

There's, you know, New York Times wrote an op-ed, or was it the Washington Post or both about why elections are dangerous?

Well, I have, if we can move on to another subject, I have a couple of stories on energy that I thought were interesting in the papers this week.

Navajo Reservation is opposing a ban on drilling near Chaco Canyon, so they're upset about that.

And then on the other side, a Pew poll came out showing that Americans are for nuclear power at 57% in 2023, which is up from 43%

in 2016.

I was wondering if you had any thoughts either on drilling for oil or nuclear power.

Yeah, isn't that funny about Native Americans that

support for oil drilling on their own property where they live on it?

is analogous to the Burning Man protest where those elite nasal sounding

white noodle armed obnoxious people blocked the road on a reservation byway.

You don't have to go through the reservation in Nevada.

And there are all those cars and sweltering heat that were suffering.

Probably a lot of people were suffering from heat spill, or they would have.

And the Native American police just blew right through their little demonstration where they were shrieking that this can't happen to me.

I can't believe this is happening.

And they're in their proverbial fetal positions, and they just threw their trash to the side and them with it.

And they didn't know what the

intersectionality rationale was.

Wait a minute.

We're left-wing white, wealthy people.

And there's a bunch of hippie, wealthy, white, middle-class people at Burning, but you're people of color, and we're here to patronize you.

You can't do that to us.

You owe us this.

And you don't know anything about your own climate.

so we're here to teach you what's good for you as we go back to Palo Alto when we're done.

And that's the attitude.

So, you know,

when they say they would rather drill, so

you think that, say, I'm Nancy Pelosi up in her Napa estate with her kids all in private school and their grandkids in private school, and they're worth 200 million bucks in sweetheart government deals, and they're all environmentalists, or Tom Steyer from his, let's ban coal after I made made a billion dollars out of it in Indonesia, putting it down the throats of third world people so I could have my Tahoe estate and entertain Joe Biden.

Those people are going to say to Native Americans, now,

you're not, you're going to have to be poor, but you're going to be noble and poor.

We're going to admire your poverty because you're going to be out in this Godforsaken desert and you're sitting right on top of a bonanza.

But you know, because we taught you that it's worth billions and it could enrich, but it would just corrupt you.

So we know how to handle our wealth and we are accustomed to a particular lifestyle, which is necessary for us to be freed up to help you.

So no, no, no, no, no.

You're not going to drill that material under your own soil that would help your own countrymen and the middle class.

Because we have enough money with John Kerry and all of us to fly, you know, at $9 a gallon for aviation for you.

That's no problem on a private Gulf Stream.

But you can't do that.

And we're going to hear to tell you that.

And I think that's what it's all about.

Never, I know at Banal, I've always say it's Kane, but Banal, you know, never subject to the consequences of their own.

The moment they are, boy, the moment Eric Adams and all those New York elites are confronted with all these aliens they romanticize at a distance.

And suddenly the people taking over hotels, they want this, they want that.

They say, screw you, we're here.

As soon as they, you know, are parachuted into Martha's Vineyard and all those weird white people say, oh, we like these little pets.

They're so cute.

Let's go have a little illegal immigration sanctuary shelter.

I'm going to bring my extra milk over.

I have an old blanket I don't use, but I got it at, you know, a really nice place, North Face.

So I'll bring my old North Face blanket over for them oh they're so sweet uh wait a minute they're like joe biden looking at his watch during the afghan thing you know oh let me take a look they've been here 36 hours you guys we just love to have you but we just want to help you and we rented some buses so get the out of here go to northern new york yes that's how they are that's how the left wing

they are and that attitude about how all these racial groups owe them is a really annoying attitude.

It is.

It is.

It reminds me of my father, man.

That guy was a genius.

He took me to UC Santa Cruz in 1971, and he just took me.

And my brother was there at one dorm, and he went over to Cal College, and he walked down that dorm room, and he saw these.

He said, I've never seen anything like it, Victor.

There's holes in the wall where they kick it and they put

Shea Govera posters.

And I said, that guy's got drug prices on his door.

My dad goes.

And he went into urinate in the boys' dorm.

And he said, there's girls and boys in there.

And I said, yeah, he said, what outfit is this?

It's a University of California.

My God.

And I said, these people are crazy.

And he said, you know what?

These people are going to be running the country in 30 years.

And then we've had it.

And he was right.

He was right.

He was right.

And

he couldn't believe it.

He looked around.

He said, you're going to have no problem.

And I I said, Why?

And he said, I do not think I've seen these specimens.

He said, Specimens.

That was kind of cruel.

And he said, I haven't seen a bicep larger than six inches.

And he said, They all speak through their nose.

Why do they speak through their nose?

I go, What do you mean, dad?

He goes, Well, I talked to them.

I went over and asked direction.

Wow, we don't really know.

He said, What's wrong with that?

Is it air problems in Santa Cruz?

He was so funny.

He just said, you're going to have a hell of a time here, I suppose.

I hope you make it out alive, but it's a lot cheaper than the private school.

So I'm glad you're here because it's going to save me some money, but I don't know what we're doing.

This could be catastrophic.

He said.

And now, you know, I get the UCSC newsletter and he was absolutely, I read about these guys and I have two reactions.

One is the name conjures up this image, you know.

So I was kind of a,

I don't know, a nerd, but a jock.

I don't know what you call me, but there's about five of us.

There's a guy from Odesto, Gary Yeber, and he's a wonderful guy.

And my cousin and brothers, and some guys from Merced and Bakersfield, we were all out of, you know, fish out of water, but all these people from Palos Verdes estate, specific Palisades,

Atherton, you name it.

And they were all there.

And I saw them, and they all had long hair, whiny voice, barefooted, using drugs, disrupting class,

using the F-word to professors, boycotting Cambodia, trying to shut down, all that stuff.

And then I see the alumni news come out and they're all just what you'd think.

Big agent in Hollywood.

Jim Smith, class of 75, now runs talent associates in Hollywood, you know, or runs six hotels or owns 10 restaurants or

Bill Jones now is the ones to announce he's the head of principal hedge funds.

And they all just went right back to what we all knew they were going to do.

Except

except they're not like Henry Ford or Carnegie.

They use their money to destroy things, not build them, once they get them.

So they're the people behind blowing up the four dams in the Klamath River.

They're the people behind

putting this high-speed rail Stonehenge in the valley why they won't let it get near the Bay Area until they find out whether we die with it or not.

And they're the people behind telling Native Americans, don't you dare tap your own natural resources to become rich like us.

Don't dare.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and come back and talk about your website for a bit and an article that you have on it, Who Destroyed San Francisco and Why?

stay with us and we'll be right back

welcome back I would like to remind everybody that Victor can be found at his website victorhanson.com you can join it for a subscription for five dollars a month or fifty dollars a year

or you can come on for a free subscription and just get newsletter but with the subscription you get the VDH ultra articles.

And you have a very interesting one on this week, Victor.

It's called Who Destroyed San Francisco and Why?

And you have a really beautiful first part to it that describes just how beautiful the city had once been.

And

at part two, you turn to, well, what happened to this beautiful, vibrant, culturally, cultural...

culturally, sorry, productive city.

And you do talk a little bit about anarchists, grasping government, guilt-ridden, leading class narcissists and atheists and

community activists.

But then you go to what you call the real culprits.

And I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about that.

Before I do,

you're right.

In the first part, I tried to explain what a beautiful city it was and why it was so successful.

First of all, it's got this climate of of about 65 to 75 year-round.

And San Francisco Bay, it's very hard.

You know, the Piraeus is sort of like that.

And Pearl Harbor is sort of like that.

And

there's places, Chesapeake Bay and things like that, but it's the most beautiful harbor.

And so once you get through the Golden Gate, it's huge.

And so it has this beautiful harbor.

It's got this beautiful climate.

The mountains meet the oceans.

You can have redwoods look overlooking the beach.

And what did our ancestors do?

Once the city had burned down, they created this wonderful transference of water from Hetch Hetchy and the California Water Project.

So you've got this Crystal Springs Reservoir that goes up.

almost the length of 280 and you go into the city.

So they solved that problem.

They gave us the BART system that updated the cable car, the immune system.

So it's got all this mass transportation.

It's tucked right between two powerhouse universities.

You see Berkeley in rivalry with the private counterpart Stanford, and they have these wonderful why they did law schools and medical schools and engineering and computing.

And then it was tied in with this brilliant freeway system in the 1960s.

SFO

was one of the,

you know, really path-breaking airports in the country.

And so

they made a paradise.

And, you know, we've talked about this so often when you look at glimpses in Bullet or any of these movies, Vertigo, you can see it.

You can see how people were honored to go there.

They dressed everybody you talked to.

At my generation, I'm going to be 70 next week.

They say when I was a little boy, my parents maybe put a tie on, or we all got dressed up and we took the train or we took the bus bus, or we drove up to San Francisco, we went to Fisherman's Wharf, we went to Golden Gate Park, we went to the Palace of Fine Arts, we went to the San Francisco Giants at Candles, we went to Kezar Stadium.

It was all, it was like a romance.

The city was immaculate.

And then not since 1964 have you had a Republican mayor.

And we had our last real Republican with Pete Wilson.

But after the Reagan took Major Wilson, the state was over.

I don't count Arnold Schwarzenegger as anything.

He has no politics.

It was just whatever was convenient

for his bluster.

But the result is that we took, and then we had the Richmond Bridge, the Bay Barrier, the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate, the Dumbarden Bridge, the San Mateo.

We inherited it.

We could crisscross the bay at will.

It was absolutely amazing.

And

what did this generation do with all that?

They go there today.

They destroyed it.

They made a law that says if you steal less than 950, it's state law, but city two,

you can just steal.

So people just go in and steal.

And they're closing all of these landmark iconic stores down.

So we did it to ourselves.

And I try to,

you know, go.

go through it.

They defunded the police.

London Breed, the woman who's mayor who was caught at the French laundry without a mask after hectoring everybody about it, she can say all she wants about the police, but she was a big deep funder.

All of them were.

And,

you know, we had this,

what was his name?

Chesa Boudin,

George Gascon first, and then

they got rid of him.

He was so awful.

So they just unleashed the criminal class.

And then the climate's nice, the money was easy.

And people that were homeless targeted that place.

And they let them defecate and urinate and destroy the downtown.

And then

they

decided that this was the perfect place to make it the reparations capital of the world.

So you had this weird disconnect where 3% of the state's population was committing 50%.

of the violent crimes, if not more, in San Francisco.

And no one wanted to mention that because we don't like to stereotype people collectively, except the 3% leaders was stereotyping everybody else but themselves.

And they were not speaking any longer about whites of the present as individuals that were unique persons.

But white supremacy, white supremacy, right privilege, white privilege, white rage, white rage, white rage, you owe us, you owe us, you owe us.

And so finally, people look at all this city and they say, well, wait a minute.

Before you want reparations, if you believe that you can speak collectively for a whole people without individual differences, then would you do exercise that ability that you have assumed and tell people,

hey, don't smash and grab, don't swarm a store, don't carjack because we are as a community that I represent, we are doing this at about

20 times our demographic and it's not right.

And so that's another thing about it.

It's just

the legal system and who has it given us?

So I try to name names.

Who has it given us in the national stage?

It's given us Nancy Pelosi and Pelosi-ism, which is hard leftism.

This is that San Francisco is a natural expression of her dreams of utopia.

There's no meritocracy.

It's racially obsessed.

There's no rule of law.

There's homelessness, rampant crime.

And it finally bit her when her husband was attacked, but it wouldn't have bitten her because she's usually at her Napa Valley wall-gated estate.

So she was immune from the consequences of her own ideology.

Then it gave us Diane Feinstein.

Remember her at the Kavanaugh hearing?

All of that rhetoric.

And where was she most of the time?

She has a big estate.

I think she just sold it for 40 million bucks or something up at Lake Tahoe.

And then it gave us the election denialist,

Barbara Boxer.

Remember her?

Senator Barbara Boxer.

Put a boxer in your corner.

Vote for Barb.

And what did she do?

She tried to deny the 2004 election, and she went so far as organizing 32 House members not to certify or to at least delay the count of the Ohio electors, even though she knew that those vote counts and the computers were accurate.

And that's exactly what they're indicting Donald Trump for.

Well, where's she now?

Is she living on Market Street that she helped create?

No, she's down there somewhere in Rancho Mirage.

And then we had Jerry Brown.

And Jerry Brown did the same thing.

He was governor for eight years, and then he was mayor of Oakland, and then he was mayor of San Francisco, and then he was governor again for eight years.

And he doesn't seem to like to work in the private sector.

But he had his vision, and he was the best of them.

But his vision is what we see now.

And so is Jerry Brown now living on Union Square?

And he's walking the streets of San Francisco,

attending to the needs of people who are on the street, protecting himself from smash and grab, parking his car with a window down with a placard that says nothing here,

please pass by.

Is he flying over and seeing the bloom, brown flume from feces that flow out of the storm drains?

No, he's up in Grass Valley, Grass Valley, one of the most picturesque places in Sierra Foot.

And then we go to Gavin Newsom, mayor for eight years.

Now he's been governor.

He usually has two or three Marin County homes.

Or usually we hear about them in the right-wing press that they're laid on their taxes.

But he's not subject to any of it.

So it's like that line in Tassas.

They make a desert and they call it peace.

They ruin a city and then they flee and they say it's a success.

And

it's sad.

They tried to destroy the Merocratic, famous Lowell High School for two or three years, and they got rid of Merocratic.

Yeah, well, the sadder thing is, is that the San Franciscans get very angry at a DA that's very left and has destroyed their city.

And then they just elect another one just like it.

Same thing in New York.

Yeah, absolutely.

And they just elect another mayor.

So the future just has this continuation of these.

Well,

they elected Willie Brown, and he ruined the city.

And they said, we we shouldn't do that and then they elected in 2004 Gavin Newsome they said he was awful the city's getting worse and they elected Bill Lee and it got worse so why did they do they

they elected the worst of all of them London Green and they had all of that warning the same thing with everything about that and this is a city that's in that proverbial doom loop because the state is charges 13.3 on top incomes it has about a 10 to 12 percent sales tax depending on the county that you live in.

It has the highest gas taxes in the United States.

And what do you get for it?

You get schools that are rated

45th in the country.

Infrastructure is rated 47th.

The 99 freeway, the chief

longitudinal artery in the state's freeway system.

It's not even a freeway in every place.

And it's got the most deaths per 100,000 miles driven of any freeway in the United States.

You have a high-speed rail relic, 15 years, 15, 20 billion, not one

track laid.

So people say to themselves,

we pay all this money.

We're insulted.

Their cities are pre-civilizational.

And how are these people elected?

They're nihilists.

They like to destroy things.

They have the on-mitas touch.

They really do like to destroy things.

They do.

And you could stop it really easy.

You know how one way you could stop it?

You could just say, you know what?

California is not that densely populated.

We've got vast

swaths of land, and

we're going to ease up zoning, and we're going to build homes.

We're going to try to build 5 million homes a year.

And if you made homes accessible to people, it would make a huge difference.

Because a lot of the problem is you can't pay $2,000 a square foot for a Bay Area wreck.

of a cottage.

That's true.

And they really need to do that.

They need to cut the taxes way back.

53% of every birth in California is a Medi-Cal birth.

Think of that.

53%.

And you ask, well,

is it going to get higher?

Yes, 600,000 people left in the last 18 months.

And believe me, I don't think they were the people who are having children on Medi-Cal.

So you can see that the people who are coming across the border come to California in numbers about 50% of, they end up about 50% of the aggregate number of illegal entrants come to California eventually.

And it has the most liberal welfare system in the country, and one-third of the country's welfare recipients live here.

And we went from about having

10% below the poverty line up to about 22%,

one out of five more live below the poverty line.

Most of them, I think, right outside my home.

And we did that.

And somebody says, well, what's going to happen to them?

Well, if you come from the poorest place in the world, south of the border, and you come up to this wealthy area, it's got a lot of life left in it.

But not if you are not educated and not if you don't preserve the inheritance from prior generations that were much better than.

No.

Well, Victor, your dogs are announcing the end of our podcast here.

I just have one last final thing.

We're not doing World War II today, are we?

No, we're doing that for tomorrow.

So the weekend podcast will be the end of world war ii and how the allies won um but that one sad thing um samuel joseph wurzerbacher we know him more fondly as joe the plumber joe the plumber yeah he died on the 27th of this month i saw that

cancer and i thought we should just have a little tribute to yeah he was first counseled people he was he was he he came spontaneously at a barack obama rally and he pointed out that he might have a chance to have a chance in life if he could buy a plumbing company that might give him $250,000

in income, but he couldn't do it if Obama was going to raise taxes at the federal level, in addition to high state taxes and then Obamacare and all this.

And what did Obama say to him?

He just dismissed him and said, well,

We've got to do this.

And if you make too much, then you're going to have to pay because you want to give money to people so they can buy your plumbing services.

And that means we spread the wealth.

So he did get Obama to say something that no other politician had been able to do, to admit that he was a socialist.

Yeah.

He said, we want to be sure the people behind you have the opportunity of success as well.

Think of that.

So here's a guy who worked his whole life.

As a plumber, he never made any money.

He finally got married.

He had three kids and he got a brain tumor and died.

And Barack Obama, who's probably worth $400 or $500 million with his sweetheart deals with Netflix and all these other companies for which he did nothing, excuse me, he provided quote-unquote intellectual content for their movies or themes.

And he cut those deals the last three months when he was golfing in the White House where Trump and Clinton went at it.

He realized something very brilliantly that to see and hear Barack Obama was not to like him.

And he was down in the 30s.

And then he thought, wow, I'll just let Hillary fight it out with Donald Trump.

The people get angry at both of us.

I'll be seen golfing.

It's presidential, say some platitudes once in a while, but mostly get in all the Silicon Valley guys and cut lucrative deals for me while I have power.

And that's what he did.

And then he bought his three homes.

Well, did Joe the Plumber that he made fun of as some stupid bourgeoisie did joe the plumber live in martha's val uh vineyard or calorama or have retain his his upscale home in chicago or maybe build a what a 10 million dollar home on oahu a mansion in hawaii yeah on the beach on the on the beach no he didn't do any of that and he cashed in came as i said he had a brilliant formula

don't listen to me because you won't like me don't see me because you won't like me

and i will be popular and i will cut deals and use my office to leverage a huge payoff the moment i get out as soon as he got out of office he got in that private jet and met david giffen and all the guys on the yacht and that celebrity crowd and that's who he was and he made fun of this this blue-collar guy joe the plumber and they really unleashed on him you remember they said oh he owns twelve hundred in back taxes.

Yeah.

It was crazy.

$1,000.

Yeah, they said that.

And unlike Connor Biden that owned probably owed $2 million.

They really went after him.

And it was like, who was the other guy in Florida?

It was the Cuban guy that was the contractor.

Remember, the builder or something?

Trio or something?

Was it Trio, I think?

Yeah.

He was also had his moments of fame.

Yeah, he had the sunglasses on.

Yeah.

Those were the bleak years.

Those were the bleak years of the country went unhinged with Barack Obama.

There's a good article, by the way, in Finishing by David Horshani

that traces back mostly a lot of the dissension, disunity, anger, and failure to the eight static years of Obama, where he increased taxes, he increased regulation, he rammed down the throats of all of us, this disastrous Obamacare, he exploded the debt, and he really decided that that it was time to start talking about race in polarizing terms.

You know, I wish I had a Truvon was the son I never had.

He looked like the son I never had, the Beer Summit,

all of that racial demagoguery.

He started it, you know.

Yeah.

And who wrote this article again?

I'm sorry.

It was.

David Hart Sony, I think his name is.

And he's a very skilled writer.

And he was really, I'd written one like that about a year earlier, that all roads lead back to Obama.

And

that guy, it was just incredible.

When he was running for president in 2008, he had that crooked deal that he never reported the income of Tony Resco.

Remember buying that lot right next to the Obama mansion so they could have an expansive yard.

And he basically sold it at well below the market price.

And that should have been counted as a gift.

He never paid income tax on that gift.

And he just got away.

He was the law professor.

He kept telling everybody, I'm a professional.

No, you weren't.

You got a sabbatical at the University of Chicago to write a book on constitutional law.

And instead, you outsourced your life story to Bill Ayers.

It probably helped ghostwrite your dreams for my father, which you passed off as an autobiography, which was mythography.

It was most of the stuff wasn't true and was exposed as such.

Well, he was just a complete fraud.

He really was.

And he did a lot of damage.

And I think he's very upset now because, you know, nobody wants to hear, and we have hope and we have change.

They just don't, it doesn't resonate.

And Michelle, they are tired of her little lecture.

I know she's very popular with her memoirs, but basically they're angry that they could have been the big radicals and they played it safe.

And now they think they can recoup by running the Biden administration, by phoning it in.

And they may be right.

Joe Biden is the most radical administration in our history.

I think more so than 1933-34 with Global.

And with that, take a good note to end on.

Yes, thank you very much, Victor.

Thank you to all our listeners as well.

Thanks, everybody, for listening.

This is Sammy Wink and Victor David Sanson, and we're signing off.