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Got so much to talk about.

Victor, I think we might as well begin our episode by talking about White House boobs.

And let's...

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Or lift the horn.

Oh, oh, I'm sorry.

Boobs.

You mean like dummies or dummies?

Yeah, well, maybe even, maybe both.

You mean like what Red Fox used to call breastuses?

Is that

the plural in Latin?

All right, we'll get to that.

Both of those kind of boobs, right?

Mostoi in Greek.

Tithos.

Well, mastus in Latin, and then I think it's tithos in,

from which we obviously get a word in English.

Tithos, Tithoi in Greek.

Okay.

Folks, we haven't even begun discussion.

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Tithos in Greek, I think it's mammilla in Latin, but there is a word that's derivative of masters.

Or maybe it's pectus.

Well, because we're in a transgender community, I'm sure that there's chest, right?

Yeah, pectus is

a man's chest.

And I think a mammilla is a woman's breast.

But

I'll check that.

There was a guy, there was a pectus, enlarged pectus revealed at the White House

at its pride celebration, Victor.

The video has a 55-second, nearly a minute video, a guy pulling his shirt up, showing his surgically enhanced chest.

Rose Montoya, a

transsexual

who in the last few days,

I think actually maybe yesterday from when we're recording, the White House did

say, well, that was inappropriate.

And he apologized in the most, one of those kind of weird 21st century apologies, Victor.

He would apologize for his trans joy, and he apologized for how impactful his actions were

and more of that kind of garbage.

And then separately, Victor, we had the President of the United States having another event at the White House

Rose Garden or whatever, backyard with Eva Longora, the actress who was having a screening of some movie, and the president walked out with his wife holding his wife's hand in one hand and holding Eva Longora's hand.

Looked a little more intimate than he was holding his wife's hand.

And then there's a picture of Joe Biden doing one of his weird, way too close to a woman, squeezing up the sides of Eva Longora's, whatever you call it, mammalias in Latin.

Or

anyway, Victor, you saw this yet another example of creepy Joe,

oddness,

bizarreness, foulness actually at the White House with the trans lunacy that went on there.

Are we surprised, Victor?

No, we're not.

It's one of those iconic moments.

St.

Jerome talks about

grass growing in the forum and

Sfrazes writes about the Roman Forum around, as I said, 480, 470.

Oh, excuse me.

Yeah, about a little earlier in the 400s.

And then we've got the historian Sfrazes, who's Vastes, he's a Byzantine historian, talks about huge fields of weeds within the great walls of the Theodesian walls in Constantinople

and, you know, Camelot, the...

riding in with a horse on the roundtable.

It's one of those, the decline of the United States, when you have

a transsexual person or transgendered or whatever we call them lifting his,

I guess that was those were false breasts or they were induced by hormonal treatments, but that was right at the White House.

I mean, not since Barack Obama's guest ankle bracelet went off have we seen something so gross in the White House.

So, and this is very funny because these are the people who criticized Donald Trump for supposedly introducing Jacksonian crudity into the White House.

But so you just expect that.

Joe's out of, he, he, he,

he has two things on his mind all the time, younger women and getting, catching a cheap feel and ice cream.

And that's all you need to know.

And then whatever they put in his teleprompter, he will try to mutter on through.

We can't do it anymore, but he tries.

So with that Langora, it was very funny.

I saw a Twitter where they tape, I think it it was on Twitter where they did it in slow motion.

It was the typical Biden technique.

He put his arm around her back, and then he kind of slides over and

cops a cheap feel on the side of her breast.

And then the motion by which he sweeps to let go of his creepy embrace slows down as he hits the breast, you know.

So it shows the mark of an amateur, I mean, a professional.

He's no amateur.

He knows how to do that.

And that's, of course, what in the 2000, if you remember the 2019-20 campaign, there were a lot of women came forward and said that's what he does.

And just imagine if Donald Trump had done that.

It's we did, we saw the, you know, he didn't, he said, you know, the access Hollywood tape was gross, but that almost ended his campaign.

But he never can, I don't think anybody can ever think of him in the White House doing anything like that.

So it's

it's, you know, it's that Tucker, is it episode four that Tucker had on about how there is no press score now, that all they do is just overlook things that are so egregious anybody else

would be treated with a career-ending embarrassment.

But with Biden, they're all acculturated to say that he's on the team and this is the progressive project, and

there's no such thing as he's senile or he's a pervert or any of this.

And

so it was really, he's going to do more of it.

I think I've been saying,

somebody wrote me an email about a month ago and said, Victor, I'm so tired of you saying that Biden is declining at a geometric rather than arithmetic rate.

If that was true, he'd be senile.

Now, no, as you get closer to the point, it's harder and harder and harder.

I mean, geometric means he's doubling, doubling, but you never quite get to the end because you keep having the distance.

But my point is that

I think

by Christmas, he he will be dysfunctional.

By that I mean you can't put him on the stage by himself.

He won't know where to go.

He'll trip again.

He'll fall.

He'll have a walker or he will say things that make absolutely no sense.

Victor, you know, at this Longora event, it was actually like Jill Biden that gave the speech.

And of course, Joe Biden was there.

He said something creepy.

uh to her she about langora she was i've known her a long time she saw that yeah 40.

but it was jill Jill Biden who Jill who carried the water because him speaking is, as he gave some address the other night at the well, look at, look at her choices.

Her choice is to fade away from the spotlight and she's no longer Dr.

Jill Biden and live with him for another 10 years in obscurity or be famous Jill Biden and get all the limelight and have to put up with him and the embarrassment.

But her job is she's becoming Edith Wilson and he's Woodrow Wilson only.

He's not yet prone.

And we've already had that experience in, you know, 1919, where the president of the United States was dysfunctional for 10 months and Edith Wilson made a guard around him and the doctor lied about his case.

And that's pretty much everybody think, oh, that would never happen again.

How could you have the White House physician hiding that he was stroke and he was impaired?

And Edith Wilson basically, we're doing it right now.

And if there was any, if there is such a thing anymore as a White House physician and they examine him, the first thing he'd do would give him the Montreal cognitive assessment.

And on that, he wouldn't know the difference between a dramedary and a camel, one or two homes,

you know, two or what, and he wouldn't pass that.

And I've seen that test.

It's not easy, but Trump got all of them right.

And I don't think he'd get one right.

So they're not going to have any cognitive assessment on him.

And this is a pattern with the Democratic Party, with Diane Feinstein and Federman.

All you have to do

is have your physical presence there somehow in any state whatsoever.

And then the people will write the script and the puppeteers, and that's how they operate.

There is no individual to what I'm saying.

It's all the collective.

It's really creepy Soviet-like that he's just a spokesman for the party line.

And weirdly gave some other talk the other day about building a bridge over the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean.

Indian Ocean.

Yeah, he's going to build a railroad, wasn't it?

I don't know.

It's insane.

And

by the way, the other, the yin to his yang, we didn't discuss this in advance.

I saw John Fetterman at some Senate hearing this week.

I think people have heard about this accident in Philadelphia or fire where part of 95, I-95 major through a fell down, and John Fetterman was given a softball by the chairman of the Senate committee to talk about this.

It's his home state.

He belongs back in the hospital.

Well, he is in a hospital.

The Senate is kind of a creepy hospital.

The kind of people that are in it.

But I mean,

I don't know what you, I don't know who is in worst shape, Federman, Feinstein, or Biden.

But then,

you know, when you have people who are not in bad shape, like AOC in the house or Adam Schiff, what difference does it make?

They're still crazy.

Yeah.

So

we still have another Biden to talk about, Victor, and that is,

well, we'll still talk about Joe, the big guy, and Hunter, and we'll do that right after this important message.

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Victor, I'm going to point out here

a

headline from the Daily Mail.

Will Hunter Biden's business partner dish on the barisma bribe?

Devin Archer is cooperating with Republicans over alleged $10 million payment to the first family.

He is the...

He's made 17 audio recordings of conversations between himself.

This is Devin Archer, and Hunter, and a few of them, allegedly, with Joe Biden.

While he was vice president, the various House Republican efforts to investigate Hunter's, the Corleone family here, the Biden-Corleone Enterprise,

say, again, like per this headline, that Archer is cooperating.

I don't know, Victor.

The noose seems to be tightening, but as you said earlier, also

who's reporting on it.

Go ahead.

We can play the left and Robert Mueller, the bomb,

another bombshell.

The walls are closing in.

But this is real because

there's too many sources of information.

And by that, I mean there's the Biden family in the middle.

And then you have the contents of the laptop, big guy, 10%,

et cetera.

And then you have the...

the first-hand witnesses that have in various to know a Biden is to be screwed over by a Biden.

So Bobolinski, Archer, you have that line that goes into the center.

And then you have the Ukrainian line, and they're not dumb.

They are pastmasters of bribing people.

And when they bribe somebody, they're like the mafia.

They own you.

So when Joe Biden, being Mr.

Blowhard from Delaware, probably got in and started trying to charm this guy.

And like he did, remember the Council on Foreign Relations event he was at and said, son of a bitch, I got him fired.

That kind of bluster that Joe talks talks about, or the would-be Roger Stauback at the Naval Academy, all that stuff, it doesn't cut it with the Ukrainians.

All they say is, look, here's $5 million.

Here's $5 million for Hunter.

You have a deal or not.

And then they record it.

And that's probably what happened.

I think that there's some reason to believe that that allegation is true.

So you got that line of evidence.

You've got personal people that did business with them.

You've got the laptop.

And then we have these IRS whistleblowers.

But but somebody, until they were fired, was trying to correlate Biden expenditures or Biden lifestyles with reported income, and they probably didn't sink.

So that's another avenue.

So when you put them all, and then you put them all together, the FBI had that document for over, what, two years, two or three years that they knew about it.

And so there's a lot of things that are converging on Joe Biden.

And

the question now, Jack, is not, is Joe Biden corrupt?

He always was corrupt.

Is he a mean son of a bitch?

Yes, excuse me.

He was.

He always was.

Is he racist?

Yes.

He always said racially things, things that were just abject racist.

First clean black, first articulate black, put you all in chains.

Look at my corn.

I took a, I stood off with corn pop.

Oh, black kids touch my golden hairs on my leg.

Junkie, you ain't black.

All of that.

But now

we knew knew all that, but

now it's all converging on him.

And the only question that we don't have is:

what's the Democrats' attitude?

Because they've weaponized the government.

And at some point, and you talked about his speeches more recently, where he can't finish the sentence.

If you've got a candidate and he thinks he's going to build a train across the Indian Ocean, you've got problems.

And he can't,

he has something wrong.

I don't know if it's reflux or it's congestive heart failure, but he cannot pronounce words anymore.

You know what I mean?

It's this hoarseness that just all comes out.

It's if I,

it is, is

that kind of stuff.

It is this, I, uh, well,

it just comes out like mush.

And

so the Democrats are going to have to make a decision.

And that is,

Are we going to go down to feet with this guy or can we prop him up again and and play the old Joe Biden from Scranton, nice guy with the aviated glasses, and get us across the finish line?

And I don't think he can do it this time.

I think people are on to him.

Joe the Uniter, Joe is going to bring us together.

That's not going to work.

Not after his ultra-mega semi-fascist speeches.

So

I think his...

culpability or innocence will depend on his

value or lack of same to the Democratic Party.

And at some magical moment, they're going to find him more a liability than a potential savior.

And that's going to allow the wheels of justice to proceed.

And then I think they're going to say, you know what, this is terrible what they're doing to Joe Biden.

It's horrible.

The right is just getting, but you know what?

They forced him out and they made him resign.

That's just horrible.

And then they'll bring in, I guess, Gavin Newsom or somebody like that.

Can't be Camilla Harris.

Right.

You know, Victor, I'm betting

that if any of this, what the Daily Mail, which is not, Daily Mail is not insignificant.

Actually, I believe it's the most trafficked website in the world.

I think it is.

I think it is one of them.

It is.

But you're not going to, if you go to CBS, NBC, et cetera, you're not going to, New York Times, Washington Post,

what's being reported here about Devin Archer, it's going to be hard to find.

Now,

when you'll be away,

a lot of listeners listeners should know that you're going to be traveling.

But I bet next week, if there's any reporting on this, it is going to be hit pieces on Devin Archer.

Because

that's the way our media will handle this.

So

if the recordings come out, if there's

clear that

on two audio conversations, the big guy is Joe Biden.

He talked about getting his cut, we will be hearing more about Devin Archer than we will about Joe Biden.

I don't know.

That's my conspiracy theory, Victor.

Do you think that's how the press might play this?

Yeah,

I think your premise is that the press is not objective or empirical.

And

to the degree they cover something or not cover it or accentuate something or

de-emphasize something, it depends on the utility it is for the movement.

And who's going to determine that will be the people in the DNC?

And and then they'll, in lockstep, make the necessary adjustments.

That was always true of Joe Biden.

I mean, during the primary, before they saw how pathetic the candidacies were of Pete Buttigig or Elizabeth Warren

or Corey Booker or Kamala Harris,

Joe Biden was a joke.

I remember Corey Booker, when Joe Biden tried to say something and he couldn't finish what his 1-800 number was to call to give him money, Corey Booker just looked at him and goes, What's going on with this guy?

Who, you know, Camela Harris called him a rape.

Nobody wanted him.

And then all of a sudden,

when his handlers doled out gifts, you, Pete, you know, you're not going to be just a mayor of a 38,000-person city.

You'll be transportation.

Camela, you'll be the first black vice president.

And Bernie and Elizabeth, you're going to run the whole show.

Your agenda is what I'm going to...

Until that moment, the Democrats thought he was of no value because he had done it twice before and he was an utter failure and he was a plagiarist and a liar and et cetera, et cetera, racist.

And he had to drop out.

So we got to remember who he was and what his role was and how he got here.

He's here for one purpose and one purpose only, to put a Bill Clinton-esque-like moderate facade.

veneer over what is the most radical, hard left agenda that's ever been in the White House.

And to the degree he does that, they cover up for him.

To the degree that he can't pull that off because he's 80, but he's biologically 95,

he's of no use to them.

And they're the most ruthless people in the world.

And they will get rid of him.

They'll find a way to do it.

And,

you know, if Fetterman, they'll tell us that he is perfectly well.

There is nothing wrong with him.

But the moment that guy doesn't physically show up in the senate and vote and be told how to do it he he's no value to them and they'll turn on just like they turned on diane feinstein she was the hero of the kavanaugh hearing they cannonized diane and now she doesn't turn up for votes and suddenly they lose their one vote margin and they're out to get her and push her out

and that's how they operate and

so

we'll see it

you know it's kind of like the mafia if you don't have utility they get rid of you

yeah Yeah.

Nobody gets to retire.

And everybody says, well, they all do that.

Well, no, you know, you don't hear the talking point resonate.

Every day through the Mueller, they would say, Mueller's picked his legal team.

The dream team, the all-stars.

Then you change channels.

You turn on an NPR.

It was the exact same phraseology from the DNC that was coming out.

You use whistle, walls are closing in.

You use bombshell.

You use Trump has met his waterloo.

Whatever the phrase was, they all echoed it in lockstep.

That's how they operate.

Well, and for years, Victor, they had the journal list, which was a private list that journalists belong to, lefty journalists.

They got exposed.

It was about 10 years ago, but

them all singing off the same song sheet on a daily basis.

Remember Hillary's emails where we had a couple of New York Times reporters saying, what do you want me to do?

I'm going to run this.

I'm writing a story.

I'm going to run it by you, John Podesta.

I'm really a hack.

This is embarrassing.

But, you know, he admitted that guy was then promoted to the New York Times.

So that's what they do.

They're all in the same Soviet team in a sense.

They have no individuality.

Can you imagine trying to tell Rush Limbaugh, the RNC, you're going to have to say this or you should use this phraseology?

He wouldn't do it.

Oh, my gosh.

What a joke that would be.

No, he wouldn't do it.

Do you think Tucker Carlson's going to,

if the RNC calls up Tucker Carlson on his Twitter account and says, Tucker, we want you to say this?

The RNC, I don't think he's going to listen to one word they say.

He might actually say, the RNC called me up and they wanted me to say this.

Absolutely.

So

these people are not independent thinkers at all.

Let's get into two more important topics

worth your sharing your wisdom on.

And one of them is the news about

more evidence that the Wuhan lab was the origin of the leak.

This is to me is like saying, did you know the news that the sunrise is in the east?

But there is some really interesting news.

And so I'm looking at a piece in the New York Post by Michael Schellenberger, and it's titled Blowing Their Cover-Up.

Let me just read the first few sentences here, Victor.

It is no longer a question that the COVID-19 virus leaked from China's notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory.

What's more, this week, my colleagues Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag and I wrote the explosive story that the first three people sickened by the virus were the scientists experimenting with SARS-like coronaviruses.

Sources within the U.S.

government said that three of the earliest people to become infected were Ben Hu,

Yu Ping, and Zan Zhu, Yan Zhu.

All were members of the Wuhan lab, etc.

Victor, it's kind of hard to believe that our favorite person in the world, Anthony Fauci,

did not know of this, maybe sooner than later, maybe not immediately, and yet still maintained.

uh the uh the the the cover-up and i would say lies about uh the gain of function funding etc but this is pretty uh damning damning news.

What do you think might come of this, Victor, if anything?

Well, this is the

London Times, and these are not right-wing people.

These are across the spectrum.

We had Stephen Quay, the renowned

doctor,

neurobiology, everything.

And

he has so many fields of expertise.

And he was saying this a long time ago.

He testified many times before Congress.

Remember, Tom Cotton said this like in 2020, and they went after him?

I wrote,

I said that.

I wrote an article, and a woman,

I think it was in Slate,

attacked me for this, this and that.

And then when the Stanford Faculty Senate was trying to censor me, I had to go, I was given a list of Fox News appearances to see if I'd said anything about the 2020 election or the origins of the Wuhan virus, which I had,

because anybody in their right mind knew it came from the,

you know, even

what was this

Jon Stewart, the guy that was the comedy show, you know.

And he was

on, he was on Stephen Colbert's show.

And Colbert was still a fossilized party mind.

And he said,

he said,

COVID came from Wuhan the world's most reckless advanced virus lab is in Wuhan people got sick in the Wuhan lab what more do I have to tell you China was not letting anybody travel outside Wuhan and they were allowing people to travel to LA, San Francisco, New York.

So even he knew it.

Everybody knew it.

The scariest scariest thing is

these reports that are coming out, and that was in the London Times too,

that

we might have missed the bullet with SARS-2 escaping because that was the initial step in much more serious, deadly 25% of the hosts dying in laboratory experiments of more sophisticated viruses that the Chinese were working on.

I mean, this was was run by the people.

Why would the People's Liberation Army even have anything to do with it, you know, if it wasn't a bioweapon?

And they were working on vaccines.

And they, you know,

their virology expertise is not up to ours.

And yet they came out pretty quickly with a vaccine for it.

Not as quickly quite as we did, but they had been working on it.

And you can see where all this is leading.

They were trying to find a vaccine that either they could get every, they could mix in with a regular flu vaccine and not tell anybody and vaccinate the whole population or they could create a virus that would protect DNA that were Chinese or something.

That's how they were thinking.

That's not a conspiracy.

There's a lot of evidence for that.

And

that's what they were trying to do.

And they and they got aborted.

It got out.

And

somebody said, well, that's not true.

And then all they have to do is tell us it's not true.

All they have to do is say, come in, look at all the records, interview all the people.

We won't have any retaliations.

Just come in.

I know we've killed 50 million people worldwide.

We feel terrible about it.

We shouldn't have been doing it.

Here's the record.

They won't do that.

Instead, what they try to do is call people racists.

They try to pay off people.

Peter Dosick, the Echo Health, he was giving them expertise and money from Fauci.

The whole thing about Fauci, people, I don't think still, my God, Rand Paul really understands this.

That's why he's such a bulldog on Fauci.

The central problem with Anthony Fauci is not that he's a narcissist, he is.

Not that he's an egomaniac,

he is, not that he's

starving for celebrity status, he is, not that he's arrogant, SOB, he is, not that he's incompetent given what he should have been doing, he is.

The problem with Anthony Fauci is he knew that it was against law to engage in gain of function.

Whether he was cynical or he actually believed that the process was of some utility or he was naive about the Chinese or whatever the reason,

he approved money that went to Echo Health that he knew was going to the Wuhan lab, and they were conducting the type of dangerous, dangerous research that was outlawed in the United States under under conditions that were far less

careful and observant of international protocols.

And he knew that.

And when that virus leaked, he went crazy.

And you could see it from those redacted emails.

And by the way, that was not a classified document, his email exchanges with Francis Collins and others.

And yet when they released those, those were redacted, kind of like the FBI document, they redacted even though it wasn't classified.

And so

his whole essence right now and from the moment of COVID was trying to deny, deny, deny that he was in any way culpable.

And so

right out from the beginning, he said it was a bat or a pangolin.

Then when the evidence showed he was completely bankrupt, then he said, well, he developed a new fusion thesis.

You remember that it could have been

a pangolin or a bat virus that they were experimenting and they'd extract it from a pangolin and then it was in the lab as a pangolin virus, and it wasn't gained a function, but it escaped that way.

This strained

credulity.

And so, everybody knows what his central dilemma is, and he has a rendezvous with total disgrace.

He understands that.

He's 80 years old.

He's just a heartthrob for a shrinking number of leftists who feel that he was the anti-Trump, the anti-Scott Atlas, the anti-freedom to do it, you know, to do what you want as an American, that and to be locked down.

And almost everything he said,

don't worry about the vaccinations, Jack.

Don't worry about it.

Because if you get vaccinated, you won't infect anybody and you won't be infected.

And if some idiot wants to go and take us, that's okay.

Well, that lasted about a nanosecond.

And then the moment they had those

breakthrough infections, and

as you remember, late summer of 21, then all of a sudden it was public enemy number one was a person who doesn't get vaccinated.

And then there was, no, this is perfectly safe.

This is perfectly safe.

And

it was all a lie.

And everything you said was a lie.

And

also depraved, Victor.

This gain of function, and two things, it's on its, if even Obama thinks there's something morally wrong with it, that's...

And then if you're going to do it, you're going to do it with the one country that other than Korea, maybe, would definitely use it to kill people?

There's two great dangers to humanity, and it's not the atomic bomb and it's not climate change.

It's gain of function biology and it's artificial intelligence.

Unfortunately for us, they're both centered and focused on and specialized by in China.

And the Chinese hate us.

The only other, the other danger is that the people in our country that experiment with or do research with artificial intelligence, so many of them come out of Silicon Valley.

That's a morally bankrupt place.

It's highly ideological, political, and weaponized.

So we've got to be very careful, as we saw with these algorithms that warp the searches on Google or,

you know, we saw with Facebook and Twitter censoring information.

You add that.

artificial intelligence, intelligence accelerator, and you've got a real monster.

And the same thing with virology and the Chinese.

The Chinese are the scariest system, I think, in the history of civilization, Chinese communism.

It's really scary.

And I don't know why.

What I don't understand is this, Jack.

Every once in a while, Pentagon guy comes up and he says in public, China's our chief threat.

And say you're watching Fox News and they say, you know, they go,

Biden appeased them in Anchorage.

Biden appeased them with the balloon.

Biden appeased them with the biology lab.

Biden appeased them when they

try to ram our ships or get too close to our jets.

True, true, true, true.

But then they show these clips.

If you're seeing the clips of the march, the perfect order, they look like Nazi soldiers.

They turn their head at the right moment in perfect unison.

They have these battle tanks.

They show their missiles to scare us.

And for me, it has a different effect.

It's, wait a minute, that missile looks like our missile.

Wow.

That type of tank design looks like our tank design.

Wow, even the uniforms are the same.

Even the chest of metals are the same.

Does anybody understand what these people are doing?

They're sending 380,000 students over here and lockstock and barrel.

They are leaping, leapfrogging and jumping over decades of...

trial and error research and just stealing our stuff.

And then they're Xeroxing it and doing just their military has the same

equipment the same everything as ours they look the same they can't even be imaginative why don't they have a uniform that reflects traditional Chinese custom and practice right couldn't they do that I mean they have a glorious martial tradition why don't they do that but even the uniforms are the same Can't they have a new, a radical new design of Chinese trucks?

Can't they say, you know what, this is how the West makes jets.

But we have our own science because everybody believes in relativism anyway.

This is a Chinese jet.

Maybe it'll have three wings, huh?

Or seven engines or something.

But

they've just stolen all of our military equipment.

It's really quite stunning what they do.

And nobody seems to say much about it.

And if you do, what I just said, I'll get some letter from somebody.

You had a racist rant and you accused Chinese students of stealing.

No, I've said before, it's 1% are actively engaged.

Although most students, when they leave China, are advised that at some point they will be debriefed by the Chinese

Communist Party,

you know, APARAT.

But 1%

is, you know, 3,000 plus

people who are actively engaged in accessing us.

And that's just students.

Never mind

the leverage they hold over other Chinese nationals or even American citizens of Chinese descent who are here, but we'll take care of grandma back home if you don't do X, Y, or Z.

And if you say that Stanford University, where I work, hired a Chinese neuroscientist who is a member of the People's Liberation Army here for spying, and she just disappeared once they indicted her.

And if you say the Confucius Institutes are

met sinners to spy on students to make sure they're not becoming Americanized, and that's the good take on it then

you get a stanford faculty petition saying this is racist that you're fixating on the chinese uh expatriate but

this is what's so strange that we're a society in complete paralysis we we

you know when i get in these moods i go back and read livvi's description of what was the roman the late roman republic was like and if if you know what the disease is and you cannot apply the medicine because it's either worse than the disease or you're afraid to do it, then you're stuck.

And so on all these issues we talk about, you know, Jack, we know how to solve the homeless problem.

We do know how to solve the

crime problem.

We did it.

Giuliani did it.

We know how to solve the energy problem.

We know how to solve.

the military recruitment problem.

We know how to do all this, but we can't do it because to do so would, I guess, make us feel less than saintly and or or that we wouldn't feel good about ourselves or we wouldn't be we wouldn't be liked by the right people so well we'd have to say there are certain norms and uh and if you if if things if you set norms and then then people who are outside the norm somehow you're you're treating them unjustly so everybody you know i when joe biden said we have your back at that recent talk about transgenderedism, I'm thinking,

well, wait a minute, if you're going to collectivize all transgender people as saintly and everybody else, especially white male heterosexuals as the oppressing class, then

you're just inviting stereotypes.

So at your own White House, was it some white male guy that pulled down his pants?

No.

It was a transgender person who either...

exposed his breast scar tissue in a gross fashion or his pseudo-breast

or who

or who's covering up a manifesto?

We still haven't seen the manifesto of the Tennessee Killer.

Why is that?

Who showed up to kill Kavanaugh?

It was a transgendered person.

So

as I said to Sammy, if you're going to start stereotyping people as collectives, as Biden does in his little simplistic

cookie cut out,

world of simplicity, it's

I'm the father of all the transgendered people.

They're my children.

I'm protecting.

And they're all the same.

And there's all these people out there that are out to get them.

And then when you actually look at the facts, I don't see Catholics going out and trying to demonize transgender people.

I see transgender people.

I was telling Sammy, you know, I mean, this Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, just a complete facade, what they actually do.

They've convinced everybody that they're some kind of charity organization and they would never insult anybody, Jack.

They don't want to be any way offensive, they just mock themselves.

And then all of these transphobic people are out to get them.

It would be very interesting to see what they actually do when they get to Dodger Stadium.

Because, on the one hand, their constituent wants to see what they became famous for, and that would be, you know, simulating sex with a cross, or

putting Jesus in a sexually promiscuous mode, or making fun of nuns as sort of horny perverts or making fun of the Catholic protocols or

will they not do any of that?

Don't do their work because they're under scrutiny.

And it'll be also very interesting to see what will be the reaction of the Hispanic community in Greater Los Angeles.

Will they go to the game and boo or will there be nobody there?

It'd be kind of interesting to see.

Well,

Victor, they have

disrupted Catholic masses.

I saw some guy on Twitter say, no, my daughter's confirmation, they came in and destroyed it.

Whatever charity they're engaged in

is BS.

This is the sisters.

And

I'd love to see them do the Imams of the Perpetual Indulgence.

Yeah, I just know that would last.

one second.

And I mean,

I wrote an article called Push the Envelope, but they're pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing it.

And they're in everybody's face

and they're unapologetic.

If there's children at a drag show, then

that's okay.

If there's books about instructing people in trans sex and it's in a library with

diagram, then that's okay too.

And get with it.

And same thing with homelessness.

If a guy is defecating, injecting, urinating, fornicate, your problem, not his.

Or if California is

going to pass the Senate where the

shopkeeper, business owner cannot

try to intervene and stop somebody stealing from him.

If you keep doing that and doing that and doing that, then the response to it,

the pushback accelerates because it gets pent up and it gets people very frustrated.

I've seen it before.

I've seen it in my lifetime.

So have you, because we saw it with Jimmy Carter.

We had come off, you know, Jerry Ford and Nixon, and the Watergate had empowered him.

And he brought in a lot of crazy people.

He started saying he had no inordinate fear of communism.

He started lecturing us about how bad we were.

He got in every night and tried to contextualize the Iranian revolution rather than just deal with it.

And

people just saw the stagflation and finding they said, we're sick of it.

We're not just sick of him.

We're sick of everything he represents.

You had 12 years

of Reagan and Bush.

And I think that's, I mean, it's never in perpetuity, but I think people are just sizing this woke left stuff up.

And they said, you know,

I've got to make a choice.

It's either civilization or extinction, because you cannot have a civilization where people walk in and brazenly walk out with somebody else's property.

You cannot have a civilization where people in

1231 London fashion or 900 AD in Paris

are defecating or urinating everywhere.

It just doesn't work.

You can't do it.

You can't have a civilization where

the sitting president basically indicts his likely presidential opponent.

Just doesn't work.

So I think people are going to say, you know what?

I have to get involved.

I've got to speak out.

Because because if I don't,

it's starting to mean that the basic system, the grid's not going to work, the traffic doesn't move, the planes crash, it doesn't work anymore.

This woke stuff, destroying marital.

And I think that you're going to see, I'm very confident that you're going to see a big,

as Van Jones says, a big backlash.

He called it a white lash.

You remember?

This is a man.

Yeah, I never understood quite what he had done.

He was the green czar, and all I could think of was

the old Valerie,

you know,

yes.

Valerie said, ooh, ah, we've been looking at him a long time.

That was all I'd think he'd ever done.

Wow.

Maybe he may have done more than Pete Buttiger.

Yeah, yeah, Valerie Jarrett, oozing oz, and then that earns something.

But he was the one that, when Trump said, at least he saw that it was a backlash, he called it a white lash.

It wasn't.

Well,

it was just people in the lower and middle classes that said, I'm sick of it.

And

I think, unfortunately, a lot of people were deluded by Biden.

One of the slickest campaign ad

scams I've ever seen in a campaign, what they did in 2020, under the

guys of COVID, they put a guy in a basement who was totally inert.

And then they created a complete composite fake that he was old Joe Biden, who was a wonderful guy, and he was not going to tweet like Trump.

And it worked.

Well, Victor, on the backlash, last week, Gallup released a poll titled Social Conservatism in U.S.

highest in about a decade.

And it says more Americans this year, 38% say they are very conservative or conservative on social issues than said so in 2022 and 2021.

2021, it was 30%.

So in two years, there's an 8% increase.

Yeah, I know it's on social issues, but I think it's things like what is happening today in real time, June 16th, these sisters,

this endlessness of this Pride Month.

Victor, you may get in trouble.

You're leaving the country.

You're not going to be here to celebrate it till the very last day of June, but people are exhausted by the expectation of...

not tolerance, but genuflecting to all this madness.

So anyway,

you're absolutely right.

I can't compare what, I mean, if you had and I had this conversation just four years ago

and we had gone, either one of us had visited San Francisco, we would have said it's just bustling or New York at midnight, you know, or

the million-dollar mile in Chicago.

I know it's bad and all that, but it was still a place where people could function.

Or we were talking about the general scene

right on the eve of COVID.

And woke was kind of a joke, and transgenderism was sort of out there, but nobody really cared.

Let them do what they want.

And then all of a sudden, it became

an obsession of 0.0001% of the population.

It was a litmus test of whether you were condemned and canceled or you were okay, your position on it.

And it was mean-spirited and it was nasty.

And the people who were promoting it were storming in meetings and screaming and yelling.

And then we were told they were victims.

it was it was very weird i we saw a lot of that in the 60s and then we saw it in the carter administration and we saw it with these

insane

fads you know pet rocks and hula hoops and

and what were those little chila chia chia pets are still there victor yes okay

but i mean everybody once you get a democracy like herodotus said once you get people going it's much easier to to get anything done with mass hysteria than it is with smaller groups of

different opinion people.

He was comparing oligarchy to democracy, and he said, you know, it's not

basically, he said, and I mentioned that, I think, before, in the context of whether the Spartans were going to support the Ionian revolt,

it's much harder to

persuade a few outspoken oligarchs to do something than it is 30,000 Athenians.

Because once somebody goes, yeah, on to Ionia, then it's,

they all go, you know.

And so.

Well, we have we have a little more madness to talk about, Victor, and that's at one of your favorite places, the Pentagon.

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Now, Victor, that said, let me

get to this

article.

This again, Daily Mail.

Chime on several times a day.

I mean, it's updates throughout the day, and they really are on top of a lot of the madness happening around the world.

Space Force, that's our military, Space Force general gives a blistering speech at Pentagon Pride event, slamming more than 400 anti-LGBTQ state-level bills, she claims, are forcing her to hire quote-unquote less qualified candidates.

This is Lieutenant General Deanna Burt.

She made the remarks at the DOD Pride event

this past week.

She said that state laws hostile to LGBTQ rights are impacting transfers and promotions, and that family circumstances could make transfers to come to some states, transfers to some states a problem.

So

this is our military supposedly defending our nation.

And

when did a high-ranking military official,

whether in civilian or

military capacity, comment on transgenderedism?

Let's just take some days, 2002, 2009, 2015.

Was that on their radar, Jack?

Or did transgendered people only exist now?

Why didn't she say this 10 years ago?

Or is it part of a fad that she wants to ride the wave of?

Is that what it is?

Because

I never heard any of this before.

And if that's true, then whatever the particular fad is, then the military feels that, what, for budgeting, or because the Democrats control the Senate and the presidency, they got to have the talking points?

Is that it?

I mean, what is,

if

she is the head of Space Force, there's a lot of issues she could discuss.

And this is where we get down to why woke is so toxic, isn't it?

The Chinese are launching dozens of satellites every week.

They have a strategy that if they get into a tense confrontation with the United States, they're going to take out all of our satellites.

That's what she should be talking about.

They are racing to get to the moon.

They've got all sorts of agendas from commercial mining to defense.

And that should keep her up at night, all night long.

And if that doesn't keep her up, she should ask herself why the Army is 15 to 16,000 troops short, the Air Force is, the Navy is 6,000, the Air Force is 5,000.

And that is a critical problem.

And I know one thing, the Pentagon believes very strongly that it has nothing to do with what things that she's talking about.

That is, that the high hierarchy is perceived in the Pentagon and in the military, Pentagon meaning civilian and

uniformed.

They are very sensitive that this transgender advocacy, which she's talking about, or the woke indoctrination or the Millie Austin White Rage, has nothing, nothing to do with why people aren't joining us because they're fat or they're in gangs or they're on drugs.

But that just happened now.

You see, all of a sudden, we had an epidemic of obesity and video games.

It just happened in the last two years since 2020.

We never had fat kids, or we had video-addicted kids.

So that's why they're not joining the military.

That's what we're told.

I can tell you that everybody in the military has that line.

So they are wedded.

The only mystery to me is when

Millie or Austin or any of these people go down the transgendered or the white rage or the woke pathway.

Why do they do it?

Why do they, I don't believe they're sincere people because many of these issues were, they could have done it prior to 2020.

They do it because they sense either A,

that right now at this point, the Democrats control the Congress,

at least.

You can say they control the Senate and they have the presidency and they have the bureaucracy and therefore to get budgets or perks or whatever, you have to deal with them.

And the Republicans are kind of impotent right now.

That might be one.

Or a lot of these people

will go in from the corporate world to these positions and they will go out.

of these positions into the corporate world.

And we know from Disney and Target and the LA Dodgers and

Anheuser-Busch, we know what the corporate world wants.

And so they make, as I always say, the necessary adjustments.

But she's not talking about what her job is.

That's my point.

That's the big problem with diversity, equity, inclusion.

It's not just the harm they do.

It's the sin of omission that they're not doing what they're supposed to do because they're distracted.

And so you end up with things like pride flags flying from Kabul, George Floyd murals, gender studies at the University of Kabul, and $50 billion of equipment abandoned and people fleeing from their lives and Millie lying about collateral damage and saying that innocent civilians that we blew the hell out of or that nobody seems to take the responsibility why 13 Marines were blown up.

That's what you get with wokeness, Coma Sars.

And it's something that's really, I know I'm kind of obsessing on it, but I think it's an existential problem to this country.

It really is.

Countries don't decline or they don't collapse or implode very often from foreign invasion.

And, you know, I'm writing this book and I can tell you that Constantinople

could have held out.

The problem wasn't the Ottomans were overwhelming.

I mean,

in the siege of Vienna in 1683, there were only 20,000 people and they held out an army of 100,000.

So you could argue that 7,000 to 10,000 on the walls, they could have held out, but there was something wrong within the walls.

There was something wrong in France in 1940 and May 10th.

That French army was indomitable.

It had held out

the Germans.

They died in droves tragically at Verdun.

They had the greatest motto in the history of warfare, they shall not pass.

But that wasn't the generation

Mark Bloch called a strange defeat.

That wasn't the generation of 1940.

They just collapsed en masse,

six weeks.

So that's what I'm really worried about.

I think we're all worried about that.

We are, this isn't American homicide.

It's not the Chinese are killing us.

The Chinese would be nothing right now if we were at our prime, or we could be.

They'd be nothing.

We could just tell them, you know what?

You're not going to have any more dumping.

You're not going to have any more copyright infringement.

No more patent infringement.

No more huge trade surpluses.

No more 360, 380,000 students in the United States.

It's going to be tit-for-tat symmetrical.

For every one student that we have in China, you have one here, period.

Period.

You're not going to get any virology stuff from us.

And all these companies are going to have to go elsewhere.

And that would be the end of it.

But

we're so compromised, I guess,

fiddling while we're burning up.

Yeah.

Well,

on that note, Victor.

We have to have a happy note.

Well, you say I got into my.

You say that with Sammy.

You do the happy with the beginning of your podcast.

I know.

I got into my

Eeyore mode, Sammy.

It's okay.

You got to be true to yourself.

So, Victor, we thank our listeners for listening.

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One's very short.

Brilliant, but please pipe down Jack.

Quote, Jack is too long-winded.

End quote.

Gen Goose, G-U-S-C.

Gen Goose.

I'm too long-winded.

It's your show, Victor.

You're supposed to be.

I know, but I think my problem is that

I don't have a lot of social action where I work.

So

I'm vending with my friends that are the audience.

Okay, Victor, as we've said it before,

this podcast.

is typically in the top 10 of the nation's political podcasts.

And we're the only one, maybe the top hundred that are done the way it's done.

Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You're are you?

I resent that.

If you look at, you haven't seen my new little uh annex that we built out of my 1871 garage, have you?

Yeah, but I'm talking about my, I'm, I'm on a

desk next to my bed, next to a closet.

I got them.

Listen, I got a separate microphone over Amazon, and it's plugged into my laptop.

And I'm looking out the window, and Spike,

and Spotty and Spart

are on their Queensland best today, sleeping.

And so we have a quiet studio and I don't have any neon, but you know, I'm going to try to do some videos.

I will have to do something, but.

Oh, yeah.

That'll be, that will be terrific.

But Victor, when the dogs...

do bark in the background, that's quaint and nice and people love that.

Well, anyway, that's the kind of

like pirate radio garage band production we do.

Let me just read one other comment, please, before we go.

And if you, I'll give, it's a question, but you have to answer it in a very short period of time, or maybe we'll save it for longer, for another day.

And this is from Jal XP3.

It's titled

Jury Nullification.

Question mark.

Great podcast.

I listen every day.

What do you think about the concern that perceived FBI and DOJ corruption and asymmetry of justice will lead to jury nullification by angry Americans?

That would be a catastrophe for our rule of law.

It already happens.

It already happens.

They all jury shop or they want change of venues.

So basically, the story is right now that

if you want to convict somebody of a controversial charge that probably does not have a lot of merit, then you

preferably, if it's a high-ranking official, you want to be in the Washington, D.C., New York corridor.

Right.

Barring that, you want to be in one of these failed blue cities.

And barring that, you want to be in a blue state.

And if you want a traditional jury and the left doesn't, but the right does, then you try to have some red state.

There's not very many red big cities.

And most of these trials are in big cities where you have, you know, federal and state courthouses and jurisdictions that are centered.

So,

I mean, nobody's having a change of venue to Bakersfield or Acton, Ohio, or,

you know, Casper, Wyoming.

But that's where you'd get a traditional jury.

That's really scary what's happening because

they're nullifying verdict after verdict.

When John Durham did that methodical report and you read it, you would think that it was so well documented and researched, you thought that that would, it was so egregious, the type of conduct that he delineated, you would think that that would have led to 50 or 60 indictments.

But then what he was basically saying after he learned with Sussman, Sussman was obviously guilty.

I mean, the guy lied.

And he was the front man in all of these schemes.

And

he went before a jury and it was no chance at all.

So I don't, I think one of the reasons he didn't indict people after that point was: what's the point?

The defense lawyers are just going to try him and say he's either transphobic or racist or homophobic or this or that, and he hates you, the jury.

And some of it's racial, some of it's class, but some of it's ideological.

But

we're nullifying verdicts all the time.

It unites me so much when I was in six or seven,

six or seven years, eight, nine, I went to a school where there was 95%

Mexican-American

or Mexican nationals.

There was only about eight of us that were so-called white.

And I remember I wrote about it once.

A guy named Jimmy Hobson was a white guy, poor guy from the Oklahoma migration, very dirt, poorer than any of the Mexican kids.

And we were on a team and he was the captain.

They split the class in two and Jimmy was there and he picked

for our dodgeball, he picked eight white guys, the only eight white guys.

And there were all these teams, you know, picking and they picked Mexican guys.

And then finally, there was the most uncoordinated guy left.

Nobody wanted him.

They were very cruel in those days.

And he was white.

And all the Mexican teams had overpowered.

And then it was our choice, but there was 10 or 12 really talented, like nine-year-old Mexican athletes.

And I said, Jimmy, Jimmy,

Victor, I'm going to do this now.

I said, but we got to get one.

He said, no, we're going to get Georgie.

I said, why?

I said, something like, he can't even kick a ball or throw.

He's white, Victor.

He's white.

Look at what they're doing.

They're all picking Mexican kids.

So I'm going to stand up for the white guy.

I thought, oh, my God, what's going on?

And I saw that happen when people,

you know for their own protection or their sense of racialism or chauvinism they start tribalizing the only difference now is that when you do it and you're not white it's acceptable but it's not going to be acceptable because these are ancient laws Everybody should read the first book of Thucydides' history.

You know, he starts out not with the Peloponnesian War.

He starts out with what Greece was like before the city-state, and it was nomadic tribes.

He just lays it out, there was no civilization as we know it.

They were just tribal people.

And that's how it's so funny about this identity politics.

It is so pre-civilizational.

It's back to the basic elements of human pathology that we're just going to make decisions based on the way we look.

Yeah.

Maybe Hobbes didn't say this, but

that kind of life is dull.

nasty, brutish, and short.

I would say that.

Yes, dull, nasty, solitary, brutish, and short.

That's what it is.

It's a bellum omnium contra omnes, war of everybody against everybody.

And when that happens, people will

they will join up with the tribe that they feel

they can get the most protection with.

And I'm actually kind of worried about it.

You know, I said to Sammy,

I was sitting at a major traffic stop.

on Highway 152, about two-thirds of the way to Stanford from here.

And I was eating by myself day before yesterday, and at least eight people came up, and they were all from the lower middle classes, I think, maybe two exceptions.

They were the nicest people in the world.

They were all white working people, and they all said the same thing.

We like your podcast, but we have nobody speaking for us.

Everybody hates us, and we're sick of it.

And I don't see that I'm talking about race, but what I'm trying to get at is they are saying that they are now

being forced to think of themselves for the first time as I know the left said, well, no, no, that was systemic.

They knew that all the time.

It was just insane.

No, it wasn't.

You are creating an entire alternate identity.

Right.

People's self-protection.

And I can sense it.

It was strangely.

I watch it.

Watching a TV show, commercial break, six, seven, eight commercials come on, right?

Yeah.

Not a single white guy in any of them.

Why am I even looking for it?

But these things are noticeable right now.

I've looked at the data.

Before the George Floyd, African Americans were in about 20% of 10, 15% to 20% of ads, and they were 12% to 13% of the population.

Now they're in about 55% to 65%.

And so it's an obvious, you know, it's post-George Floyd.

Let's do our part.

But it doesn't reflect reality.

That's what I'm trying to say.

You have to reflect reality whether you like it or not.

Whether it's there or it's a college admissions or whatever.

And that's what Target and Disney don't understand.

They're these elite people that come out of these MBA programs and they're going to push this down, but they don't.

The transgender

let a little narcissistic egomaniac like

Mr.

Mulvaney

to go on and talk about his transition and not about the quality of the beer or why he likes it or why you should like it.

And then who dreamed that up?

Some guy could only be in a sheltered MBA woke program.

And then there's no

who hated the regular customers who know that they're hated.

So, you know, well.

We'll see.

We'll see what happens.

They deserve every billion they lost.

Yeah.

And it keeps,

the

losses continue.

Hey, Victor, that's all the time we have.

And you've been great.

Thanks so much.

Thanks, folks, for listening.

And we will be back with another episode of the Victor Davis-Hansen Show.

Bye-bye.

Thank you for listening.