The Heart of Not-So-Blind Justice

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Speaker 2 Hello, ladies. Hello, gentlemen.
This is the Victor Davis Hanson Show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host, and the star and the namesake is Victor Davis Hansen.

Speaker 2 And he is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne Marshabuski Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. He has an official home on the internet.

Speaker 2 It's called The Blade of Perseus, and you'll find its web address at victorhanson.com. You should be going there, going there frequently, even subscribing, and I'll tell you.
about that later.

Speaker 2 It's been a busy week, a ton of stuff happening. Some of that Victor has already discussed on a previous podcast or two with the great Sammy Wink.

Speaker 2 But today, we'll be talking about lots of things, including the battle of the bulge, not the military action, but the swimsuit battle of the bulge.

Speaker 2 And we'll get to that, Victor, right after these important messages.

Speaker 2 We're back with the Victor Davis Hansen Show. So, hey, Victor, you remember May West? Yes.
And

Speaker 2 why don't you come up and see me sometime?

Speaker 2 That May West, yes. Who also

Speaker 2 asked, is that a gun in your pocket? Are you just happy to see me? How did she get away with that?

Speaker 2 It was even after the code. I don't know how she did it.
By the way, she said that to Carrie Grant in a movie.

Speaker 2 She surely didn't. She surely didn't say it.
I know she didn't say it to W.C. Fields.

Speaker 2 His nose was bigger than his blank.

Speaker 2 Nevertheless, let's go on. That was a bad thing.
Wow.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well,

Speaker 2 let's talk about W.C. Peel some other day because he was a terrific entertainer.
Anyway, I'm going to twist her line and say, is that a gun in your bikini? Are you just happy to see me?

Speaker 2 So, Victor, we know this week, the ongoing madness of the trans issue and corporations putting out front

Speaker 2 faux women, also called men.

Speaker 2 And the latest

Speaker 2 thing, incident is

Speaker 2 Adidas

Speaker 2 promoting a new women's swimwear line. And who's promoting it? A dude.
So let me just read this, Victor, from the Daily Mail. It's headline, the first few articles, the first few

Speaker 2 lines in the article, and get you to comment on it. So here's the headline.
Stop gaslighting women.

Speaker 2 Ex-Olympic swimmer Sharon Davies slams Adidas for an assault on being female after it used biologically male model with hairy chest and bulging crotch for its women's swimwear, swimwear line in Pride collection.

Speaker 2 So, here's the first few sentences: Adidas is facing a boycott after it used a biologically male model with a hairy chest and a bulging crotch to promote a woman's swimsuit in its Pride 2023 collection.

Speaker 2 The sportswear brand has provoked fury for its mockery of women over the advert for the has here 50 pounds, Daily mail is a british publication which forms part of its campaign to quote uphold inclusive values uh end quote south african designer rich minissi is behind the recycled polyester outfit which adidas said was a quote celebration of self-expression imagination and the unwavering belief that love unites the collaboration explores fluidity color and pattern end quote and idiocy Victor, or madness afoot in our culture.

Speaker 2 Your thoughts, my friend.

Speaker 2 I want to be very careful here because

Speaker 2 I want to be very clear. There's three things that I could say about all this, about the whole transgender phenomenon in general.

Speaker 2 I've written about it and suggested that we all remember that around the millennium, statistical studies showed

Speaker 2 traditionally, it wasn't new new in the millennium, 2000, that 10 to 30 people per 100,000 identified as transgender. And then by 2017, that number had gone up to 250 per 100,000.

Speaker 2 And then now, depending on the age cohort, it's 5,000. I don't think people have changed biologically.
I don't think the increased

Speaker 2 increased tolerance, so to speak, to use a word of the left, had allowed people to come out of the woodwork. I think it was a mass movement that has elements of hysteria and fattishness to it.

Speaker 2 It's a very dangerous movement in some cases as it pertains to people under 18, because they're using types of drugs and types of surgical procedures that the left, not me, the left, has traditionally said was the work of the AMA, big pharma, big medicine.

Speaker 2 In other words, that they're not properly tested, examined, and analyzed for their effects years down the road.

Speaker 2 And yet this is the left that's telling a 14-year-old girl or boy, you can have these sexual organs change.

Speaker 2 We can inject you with very, very dangerous hormones, and it's okay because it's transgenderism, as if that gives you an exemption. That's number one.

Speaker 2 Number two, This is not about transgenderism. This is about males transitioning to females.
What I mean by that, Jack, is we're not getting a lot of women all of a sudden who remove their breast

Speaker 2 and have

Speaker 2 artificial

Speaker 2 falloy put on them that are in weightlifting magazines, right? Or male models. I don't see any, do you?

Speaker 2 It seems to be almost entirely an appropriation or an exappropriation of males into the female domain, males who use their biological muscular skeletal system to warp female sports and now to transition into the domain of female fashion, female sexuality, female

Speaker 2 show drag,

Speaker 2 whatever it is. And it's not symmetrical.
Males are not.

Speaker 2 Males who want to be women are not doing that, or they can't do it for some reason. So let's be clear about that.

Speaker 2 It's a warping or a manipulation of femininity by males who are not satisfied with their own domain, but now want to expropriate sports, fashion, glamour from females.

Speaker 2 And females are starting for the first time to say no moths.

Speaker 2 In other words, as you saw with that

Speaker 2 bicycle

Speaker 2 race where the winner was a biological male and the the women refused to go up to the winner's stand because they weren't going to sanction that. And I think if women did that more often,

Speaker 2 it would cease. And third and finally, we in 2023 feel that we've discovered the wheel, that we've discovered transgendism.
You can go back

Speaker 2 and look at Havelock Ellis, a British

Speaker 2 sexologist who wrote right before the World War I and talked about all of this. You can go back to antiquity and read Petronius' Satyricon and Little Encopius and Gaeton and Ascletos.

Speaker 2 You can go read Apuleius's Golden Os. You can go read Catullus's Atus poem.
You can go read

Speaker 2 anecdotes from Athenaeus. And what do you find from the corpus of, say, classical literature? aside from modern sexiology before World War II.

Speaker 2 You find that whether that this is a, I don't want to use deviant, but it is a very, very small minority of the population.

Speaker 2 And as I said, prior to 2000 or right at 2000, it was 10 to 20 to 30 people per 100,000. So in a city like Fresno, 500,000, you would find 50 people.
Okay.

Speaker 2 The second thing about this phenomenon in antiquity was when it became mainstream as it is now, I'm not talking about truly transsexuals or truly people suffering from gender dysphoria, which is a medically recognized symptom, symptomology, that people actually have

Speaker 2 a wrong sexual or a sexual identity in the opposite sex body. That's very rare, but it does occur.
But that is completely different than these other manifestations of transgenderism.

Speaker 2 One is transvestism from the Latin word vestis, that people who are heterosexual,

Speaker 2 men especially, get sexual gratification and sexual stimulation from wearing women's clothes to have sex with women. So that's one manifestation we don't even talk about.
But this

Speaker 2 transgenderism, when it evolves from a small portion of the population to be mainstream as it appears in classical literature, guess what?

Speaker 2 Not me, not Victor.

Speaker 2 It's considered by Tacitus and Petronius and contemporary Suetonius as a sign of civilizational decline.

Speaker 2 It's associated with infertility, the lack of child rearing, and the abundance of leisure and affluence by which it must have to be manifested to such a wide degree.

Speaker 2 And it's always considered abnormal. So when you read about Attis, who castrates himself, and suddenly in the middle of that poem, the gender nouns change.

Speaker 2 He sits at the end of the poem regretting what he's done after this hysteria wears off.

Speaker 2 If you look at Petronius and you look at the Cana Tromalchionis and you see these characters that are wearing makeup and they're wearing dresses and they're wearing wigs, it's not considered something that embodies the virtues that made the Roman Republic what it was.

Speaker 2 And so

Speaker 2 that's important to see because

Speaker 2 we are fiddling why America burns.

Speaker 2 So we are doing this and we're spending a lot of our collective time, capital, energy, attention in detours like this while the Chinese are aggrandizing the economy, the global economy, the Belt and Road Initiative, their increased defense budget, but why our Pentagon allows drag shows on bases or really highlights its transgendered commercial or uses somebody in drag to

Speaker 2 see if they can enlist people.

Speaker 2 Did you see Victor Blinken saying something in the last day or two about some State Department? Oh,

Speaker 2 pronouns. And if anyone needs psychiatric counseling over this, we will, I mean, I can't believe this is

Speaker 2 the height of our foreign policy. It's a passive aggressive.
It's passive aggressive.

Speaker 2 What I cannot understand is when I look at these demonstrations and they had one, was it at the Nebraska legislature or where they stormed in transgendered people or when we had certain violent acts of transgendered protests?

Speaker 2 At the same time,

Speaker 2 they have to seek the protection of, they act as if they're victims.

Speaker 2 And I'm hurt by a pronoun it's it's very similar to the Antifa the BLM and the student movement like the students who and that was that was caused initially if you go back and have an autopsy of the Stanford disruption at the law school of Judge Duncan the initial spark that set off that combustion was an his what his refusal to use a person who demanded a person's pronouns that this person who said he was transgender demanded from the judge and that set it off.

Speaker 2 But my point is, when they were so rude and so disruptive and so vile and said, you know, rape your dog, all of that stuff.

Speaker 2 And then the moment there was a video released and there was just the suggestion that maybe their identities would be revealed, the perpetrators of that embarrassment,

Speaker 2 they had a feigning spell, hysteria. Oh my God, this is so unfair.

Speaker 2 And it's the same thing about these students when they yell and scream and disrupt speakers, and then they have cookies and brownies and furry dolls and animals to pet when Trump wins the election.

Speaker 2 So what is it? Are you either militants at the barricade and you're going to be tough people in your war for progressive values?

Speaker 2 Or are you schizophrenic and you want to insult and use obscenity and disrupt? But the moment anybody calls you to attention, you don't say, fine, I did that. I'm proud.

Speaker 2 Do your worst and I'll do my best. No, it's, oh my God, I'm a victim.
How dare you? I can't believe this is happening to me.

Speaker 2 And that's what gets people very, very upset about the transgender movement, that it is passive, aggressive, schizophrenic. And, you know,

Speaker 2 I can tell you that

Speaker 2 it has consequences. So.

Speaker 2 When you put so much attention on this one issue and you mainstream it in the Pentagon and you have pride.

Speaker 2 There is a connection between a government that has pride flags on the embassy in Kabul and gender studies programs at $100 million, $700 million in aggregate over 20 years.

Speaker 2 And then you have George Floyd, and then you skedaddle out in the greatest humiliation in a half century.

Speaker 2 There is a cause and effect that your priorities and your values and your emphases are in the wrong place. And that trickles down to the man in the field.
And

Speaker 2 when you get up before Congress under oath, like Secretary Austin did and General Milley did, and you start talking about white rage, white supremacy, white privilege, and what you're going to do about it and how you're going to go through the ranks.

Speaker 2 And then, in addition, you start putting people in drag saying, join the Navy.

Speaker 2 Or you talk about individual base commanders thinking they want promotion, start to freelance, and allow that drag show on base, then guess what happens? The Army is short, one whole division.

Speaker 2 The Air Force is short.

Speaker 2 And then all the people you revile, all the people that you hate, all the people who you say are insensitive and illiberal, and I'm talking about usually a lower middle class white male from rural districts or south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Speaker 2 Then you turn around and you say, you are what we depend on because you're going to die at twice your numbers in the demographic and god-awful places in Hellman province or up at Taji or somewhere at Fallujah.

Speaker 2 That's who we expect to go out there and do it. Now, we don't like you and we think that you're culpable without any evidence.

Speaker 2 But when it comes to dying in the military, you're going to die at twice your rate and the demographic.

Speaker 2 And then when you say that, and I've said that and written it, this is what you get from the military. I can't believe you're doing that.
That's one of the worst things I can see.

Speaker 2 You would actually take a demographic or a percentage and you talk about about dead. We're all in this together.
How dare you talk about the race and the gender of the people who did it?

Speaker 2 This is from people who eat, breathe, and sleep race, gender, race, gender. And they have all they do is talk about when they come up for promotion.
I had this many women in my air wing.

Speaker 2 I had this many blacks. I had this many Latinos.
I had this many gay people under my command. And then and then when anybody says, well, okay, does that extend to the dead?

Speaker 2 Are we going to be equal opportunity? And then they get outraged just in this passive-aggressive fashion. So, and the final comment, and I'll stop, is that

Speaker 2 it's reached the limits of its popularity. And when you start insulting people and ridiculing them, and you have people that show up at Judge Kavanaugh's

Speaker 2 house that is a potential assassin, and you hide the fact that he's transitioning.

Speaker 2 Or you have a shooter who has a manifesto that apparently has a long rant about how the people, the victims for some particular ideological reason, deserve what they got, and you suppress it.

Speaker 2 Or you've got this,

Speaker 2 I don't know what we would call Mr.

Speaker 2 Energy Secretary, Under Secretary of Energy Sam Binkman, is that his name?

Speaker 2 And when he's caught yet again, he's caught stealing fashions, one from an accomplished African designer, steals the design, wears it, and he gets nothing as far as punishment.

Speaker 2 And then that encourages him. He does it again.
When you have these types of stories, then people

Speaker 2 they're saying, well, you know what? You criticize us as a collective. You criticize traditional America.
You criticize conservative America. You criticize red state America.

Speaker 2 You criticize the displorables. You don't count us as individuals.
You don't count us as distinct personalities. You damn us as a collective that you do not like.

Speaker 2 And so then when your collective is in the news in a very negative fashion, whether it's expropriating women's sports or women's fashion in a very sexist fashion or engaged in violent acts of storming the legislature or running out a federal judge from, then Are we going to do that too?

Speaker 2 Are we going to say, well, just as you think that traditional America can be summarized as a collective, maybe we can summarize this type of behavior from the transgender community?

Speaker 2 Do you really want that? Because that's where we're going.

Speaker 2 And that's where we're going because we're short thousands of recruits in the military. And these aren't not just recruits.

Speaker 2 These are people that the military, by their own criteria, allowed to be overrepresented. And they'd say they're not going to do that.

Speaker 2 They say they're going to, Martin Milley said under oath that his military looks like America, proportional representation so he allowed people in combat units to be heavily overrepresented in one demographic when he knew that was the most dangerous uh profile in the entire military he didn't say a word

Speaker 2 all he could say about that profile was criticism and so

Speaker 2 that that's that's not sustainable jack it's not sustainable and people are going to say you know i've had it

Speaker 2 yeah and and and i think uh energizing the I've had it, you mentioned a trickle-down and sports. And here's

Speaker 2 a story. The Los Angeles Dodgers, every year they have LGBTQ, et cetera.
They have a Pride night. So I'm just going to read this very quickly, Victor.
This is from the Dodgers Twitter account.

Speaker 2 This year, as part of a full night of programming, we invited a number of groups to join us. Full night.
I think the whole freaking baseball game is going to be Pride Night. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 We're now aware aware that our inclusion of one group in particular, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, in this year's Pride Night, has been the source of some controversy.

Speaker 2 Given the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the Sisters' inclusion in our evening, and in an effort not to distract from the great benefits that we have seen over the years of Pride Night, we're deciding to remove them from this year's group of honorees.

Speaker 2 Victor, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is this gross i've seen a drag group that mocks roman catholic nuns nuns and and once upon a time the dodgers were owned by walter o'malley and he had nuns day where nuns would come for free to the baseball game and now this same freaking

Speaker 2 and why why would the dodgers why would why because they rub people's face in this stuff for two reasons for three reasons they put their finger to the wind and they say Where does the pressure come from?

Speaker 2 It doesn't come from Trish America. It comes from a very small, whiny activist that calls us names.
So we're going to bend to them, number one.

Speaker 2 And number two, once we do it, we're going to be among the corporate end crowd. We're going to be up there with Disney.
We're going to be up there with Bud.

Speaker 2 This is what the corporate culture does, and we want to be a part of it.

Speaker 2 And then, number three,

Speaker 2 we have nothing but contempt for religion. We don't care.
And the subtext of this is: why did they back down?

Speaker 2 Do you really believe they had you invite this special commemoration of these so-called sisters and you don't do any research? They knew exactly what they were. They knew exactly their history.

Speaker 2 That's what corporations do. And they just assumed that nobody would say anything and they could get away with that.
Los Angeles has,

Speaker 2 outside of Mexico City, it's the largest number of Mexican-American and Mexican nationals in the world.

Speaker 2 And, you know,

Speaker 2 four and a half million in one city. And many of them, if not most, are still traditional Catholics.

Speaker 2 And many of them are loyal baseball fans, especially because there's a lot of Latino baseball players.

Speaker 2 And so I think what's happening there, they're thinking, do we really want to offend this constituency that is very devoutly Catholic by having an elite group of activists that deliberately try to punch the buttons of one of our most loyal fan bases.

Speaker 2 So, and that should be instructive to everybody.

Speaker 2 This is not going to stop until you say to the left, we don't like your methodologies, just like we don't like ballot harvesting, ballot curing, 70% of people not showing up on, and we have pleaded with you to stop, and you won't.

Speaker 2 So, we're going to have to employ your methodologies to make you stop. So we're going to vote harvest.
We're going to vote cure.

Speaker 2 We're going to do exactly what you do until you get this madness out of your system. And we're going to do the same thing with the boycott and the ostracism and the embargoing and all that.

Speaker 2 So we're not going to go to any more Los Angeles Dodgers games. We're not going to buy any more Bud Beer.
We're not going to go to Disney anymore until you stop it.

Speaker 2 And you should, we're not asking you to be discriminatory. We're not asking you to,

Speaker 2 you know, hijack you. You have to do something for for us.
We're just asking you to put ideological, polarizing politics out of the commercial workspace.

Speaker 2 And if you don't, you're going to end up like the Oscar Awards or the Tony Awards, a subsidized little event for a small group of incestuous grandees, but of no popular appeal.

Speaker 2 Or you're going to go from 30 million people watching the 1998 finals at the NBA to bragging that you have 4 million now. And you're going to call that success when it's failure.

Speaker 2 And your only success is that you're hawking your merchandise in China for $4 or $5 billion a year, but it's not coming from American mass support for the NBA.

Speaker 2 Well, Victor, we have to move on to another subject or two, but I just would like to say, as a Catholic guy who loves nuns, this really

Speaker 2 is a kind of an equivalent of blackface to mock people in this way.

Speaker 2 It's intolerable. And

Speaker 2 I don't laud the Dodgers for backing down. They just chicken pooped out of it.
But their intention

Speaker 2 was to allow it.

Speaker 2 The other thing I'd like to

Speaker 2 recommend on this broad topic, Megan Kelly and her podcast, which is just terrific in general. And Victor, you're on it.

Speaker 2 uh frequently uh she uh broadcasts this week with carrie progene bowler and and others from this uh group the battle cry it's episode 553.

Speaker 2 I really recommend people listen to it to get a real understanding, not only of some of the more outrageous

Speaker 2 incidents and

Speaker 2 efforts by the

Speaker 2 ideological left, but also about the pushback. And

Speaker 2 I think it was really interesting stuff. And Megan is all over this topic.

Speaker 2 She's really good. Victor,

Speaker 2 I think

Speaker 2 we'll go to a break. And when we come back from that, we're going to get your views on the whistleblower hearings that happened earlier this week.

Speaker 2 So let's do that right after these important messages.

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Speaker 2 Again, that's VictorHanson.com. So Victor,

Speaker 2 yeah, I believe it was Monday,

Speaker 2 I should be able to do the math. Maybe that was the 15th, not sure.
Of May, Jim Jordan and his committee held hearings with

Speaker 2 four FBI whistleblowers, and there was the usual

Speaker 2 chaos. There was some media attention from the left that only seemed to be to attack the whistleblowers.
I thought they were sacrosanct once upon a time.

Speaker 2 Anyway, Victor, I'm sure you saw part of the hearings and you have some analysis or observations you'd like to share. You know, what's really weird was there was one witness

Speaker 2 who happened, African-American fellow, FBI agent, who has a name, who shared a name with, remember the great Marcus Allen from USC?

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 And he didn't, Marcus Allen, the celebrity, the football player, had retweeted something that could be interpreted as, I guess, sympathizing with the protesters on January 6th and represented, was it Garza, her name is, or I can't remember what her name is, but she's one of our California Latino representatives.

Speaker 2 And she

Speaker 2 fixated on this whistleblower. And when he made it clear that that was not his account, he just happened to share the same name.
It's kind of like the poet Senna who was executed in Shakespeare.

Speaker 2 And that goes back to antiquity. It was a true story because he happened to share the same name as one of the Caesarean

Speaker 2 tyrannicides. He just happened to have the same name, and he kept telling her,

Speaker 2 It's not me. And she just interrupted, it's my time, it's my time.
And then she wanted to know, well, it doesn't really matter if it was you. You'd ask anybody off the street, you agree or not agree.

Speaker 2 It's none of her business.

Speaker 2 And what he happens to think personally. And then he said he didn't agree.
But that was the type of harassment. What was just dumbfound,

Speaker 2 just startling was that we have now gone 360 degrees from canonizing Eric Ciramella, Ciramella, Kiramella, and

Speaker 2 Lieutenant Colonel Representative Nunez. It's Lieutenant Colonel Vinman.
Remember that?

Speaker 2 Mr. Vinman, yes, on the phone call.
And we were idolizing. the whistleblower.
We were idolizing the so-called anonymous, an important senior Trump administration. No, he wasn't.

Speaker 2 He was a nobody in the Homeland Security who kept writing these

Speaker 2 op-eds about how he was deliberately undermining and disrupting the executive branch as an act of revolutionary resistance to the popular claim. But he was a sort of whistleblower.

Speaker 2 You couldn't even mention the idea of whistleblower without,

Speaker 2 they were sanctified. You couldn't, and now all these same people,

Speaker 2 all they did was try to destroy these people's lives. And they did via the FBI.

Speaker 2 And it was really shocking to see

Speaker 2 what all of this. And I thought to myself, wow,

Speaker 2 what is, it's a larger question of what do you do with the FBI? Because we all, we've had this conversation before, but we all grew up with the idea that the FBI traditionally drew its,

Speaker 2 it was always under attack for its, you know, every once in a while, it was under attack for its excesses of the age, especially in the J. Edward Hoover period.

Speaker 2 But we all supported it because we thought on average, its advantages outweighed its disadvantages of having a national investigatory body. But it's that the actual agents were noble.
I mean,

Speaker 2 I felt that way.

Speaker 2 And so

Speaker 2 as I was watching, I said to myself, you know, I was thinking of all these people there.

Speaker 2 And I thought,

Speaker 2 The last four directors,

Speaker 2 Mueller basically lied when he said he didn't know what fusion GPS was or the steel dossier. Comey lied when he claimed amnesia 245 times under oath.

Speaker 2 McCabe admitted to lying four times, three under oath.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 Ray basically just stonewalls. And I thought, and then I looked, I was thinking as I was listening to this about the whole sordid history of the FBI since what?

Speaker 2 2015 when they started to become politicized. So what will they not do? Will they forge documents that they submit to a court? Yes, check, they'll do that.

Speaker 2 Will they offer $1 million to a foreign national who illegally is involved in a political campaign to hire him to accumulate dirt as they did with Chris? Yes, they will do that.

Speaker 2 Will they swipe clean

Speaker 2 subpoenaed cell phones from FBI personnel as happened during the Mueller investment? Yes, they'll do that.

Speaker 2 Will

Speaker 2 they

Speaker 2 promise in private textual communications

Speaker 2 referencing McCabe, Strzok, and

Speaker 2 Page that there's no way that Donald Trump, a presidential candidate, will win the election? They'll stop it. Yes, they'll do that.

Speaker 2 Will the FBI go in and infiltrate Latin Mass Catholic Church services, or for that matter, Jack, school board meetings in Virginia to monitor church, the devout, and and parents to see if any of the ideas that they espouse is contrary to what progressivism thinks is suitable.

Speaker 2 Yes, they'll do that.

Speaker 2 Will they dress up as SWAT teams in

Speaker 2 performance art fashion, swoop into private homes to arrest suspects, many of them for low-level felonies or maybe even misdemeanors, as Roger Stone or the protester

Speaker 2 at an abortion clinic where they showed up at the man's home. Who offered to come in? Who offered to come in? Will they go to Silicon Valley and will they say to a company like Twitter?

Speaker 2 And I would mention Facebook, but we don't have the information that they've suppressed it, and say, here's $3 million

Speaker 2 and we want these news stories suppressed.

Speaker 2 And we want you to be a contract. Will they do that? Yes, they will.

Speaker 2 Will they take a laptop that they know is authentic and they know it is in the public domain and its contents will affect an election. Will they suppress it?

Speaker 2 And during their suppression, will they allow the CIA former officials or former intelligence officials to lie and say that this is Russian disinformation? Yes, they'll do that.

Speaker 2 And will they go after whistleblowers? Yes, they'll do that. Will they pay Christopher Steele $1 million, Jack, to find one statement in that fallacious file that was true.

Speaker 2 And when they could not find one thing to give him $1 million, they'll still use that file and pass it off to a judge as if it is a valid document. Will they pay Mr.
Dashenko $300,000?

Speaker 2 to lie and say that he has information that corroborates the steel dossier he's the source of it when he's not even in russia anymore he's getting it from a clinton operative, Mr. Dolan.

Speaker 2 They'll do that. So my question finally is, what will they not do? What will they not do? I tell you what they won't do, Victor.
They won't investigate Hillary Clinton either. You saw that

Speaker 2 they won't. That was what Mr.
McCabe lied on four occasions because he was leaking, leaking, leaking, leaking that to the Wall Street Journal and others.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, we were still investigating it when he wasn't. And then when he was caught and said, we're going to find out who's leaking that.
Well, he was leaking it deliberately.

Speaker 2 And the inspector general said, you know, he really brought him to chaos. That's my biggest criticism of Bill Barr, by the way.

Speaker 2 I don't want to get into whether he was good or bad, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, but he had under his jurisdiction the interim head of the FBI who had lied three times of the four times under oath to a federal investigator.

Speaker 2 And he is the Attorney General of the United States. And how he let Andrew McCabe go away without any consequences will be, I think, a mark against him for the rest of his life.
How can you do that?

Speaker 2 The FBI director, more than any other American, has to tell the truth. And when he lies under oath to a federal investigator, you destroy the whole corpus of jurisprudence.
And Bill Barr did that.

Speaker 2 And I don't know why he did it. I guess he thought that he didn't want to retaliate or something.

Speaker 2 But that is what we're dealing now with the FBI. And we know now, we know that

Speaker 2 when you say Russian collusion, it's not a myth. There was Russian collusion.
And it happened with Hillary Clinton

Speaker 2 paying money to the DNC, who paid it to the Perkins-Coey law firm, who paid it to Fusion GPS, who paid it to Christopher Steele to revive a dossier that he had been peddling to some conservative, not conservative, never Trump alternatives to Trump, a stale old bunch of lies to reactivate it and then to peddle it,

Speaker 2 peddle it through his contacts and the FBI contacts and the State Department contacts, Bruce Orr, Nelly, all of that throughout the government and to leak it to the press before the election with the intent purpose, express purpose, to damage a presidential candidate.

Speaker 2 And then on top of all that, once it was known, they continued, continued to to do it to go after Michael Flynn after the election. And they continued to leak and lie so that they got Robert Mueller.

Speaker 2 And that was the Comey release of a confidential document that he had memorialized as a conversation with Donald Trump. They continued to do that.
And during this whole process,

Speaker 2 Hillary Clinton, who knew all of this, because she was the perpetrator of it, kept saying that A, the election was illegitimate. That was her words.
Donald Trump was not a legitimate president.

Speaker 2 That she was a member of La Résistance. Remember that? She bragged about that.
And then she kept saying that Donald Trump had stole the election. Why they haven't gone after her, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I always thought it was a felony to hire a foreign national to participate in a U.S. election.

Speaker 2 She did.

Speaker 2 I always thought it was a felony to communicate if you were a high government official on a private sewer. She did.

Speaker 2 I thought it was a felony to destroy devices and material that were under federal subpoena, because I think that's what the special prosecutor is going to do to Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 He's going to say, well, he doctored some of the videos or he didn't give us what we subpoenaed quickly enough. That's exactly what Hillary Clinton did.

Speaker 2 So this asymmetry of the application of the laws, and you can really see it in this country now.

Speaker 2 If you are of a particular race or ideology, the federal bureaucracy and the state and local, even to some degree will massage or warp the law in a very asymmetrical fashion.

Speaker 2 Whether it's the, you can be January 6th protester versus 120 days of riot, looting, arson, killing, $2 billion in damage, and they're not going to do anything to you.

Speaker 2 You can say that they took over the Capitol, but if you go down and try to burn a federal courthouse or police precinct with people in it,

Speaker 2 Or they didn't, you have to put,

Speaker 2 you have to get them out of the Capitol, make sure they never come back.

Speaker 2 So you put barbed wire and 20,000 federal soldiers, but you can turn over downtown Seattle to a bunch of thugs with the automatic weapons or a BLM sacrosanct spot right in downtown Washington.

Speaker 2 No problem. That asymmetry really bothers people.
It really does because

Speaker 2 that goes to the whole heart of blind justice.

Speaker 2 And it's. Yeah, and Victor, the...
The hardball they play with their own agent, with these whistleblowers, like that one guy,

Speaker 2 O'Boyle,

Speaker 2 who they forced them to move across country, which is always a tactic to punish people, you know, agents or, you know, other areas of the federal government.

Speaker 2 If you're pissed off at somebody, we'll move you from Kentucky to New York City or to Washington to kind of break you financially. And they moved him because he was complaining.

Speaker 2 And then he gets to Washington and he was suspended without pay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And then you're initializing.
So I mean, let's talk about the hardball. How about these very liberal

Speaker 2 men and women of the people?

Speaker 2 And what did they focus on? They focused on a black FBI agent much more than they did any of the others and tried to humiliate him for doing nothing wrong. And then they, and then Mr.

Speaker 2 Goldman, as that was his name was, the representative, is he from Massachusetts, who's the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, a child of privilege. Then he attacks Julio Rosas,

Speaker 2 the

Speaker 2 town hall columnist and person who spent a lot of dangerous hours on the border. And he starts mocking him on immigration

Speaker 2 because he's a, because of his title, title. He says, you don't have an FBI, you are a town hall columnist.

Speaker 2 You're not supposed to leave the plantation. No, that's really.
And so, what their whole point is, you know, it's,

Speaker 2 I guess that's in Candide, the Voltaire's knowledge that,

Speaker 2 you know, Admiral Bing,

Speaker 2 when he was supposed to, I think it was Menorca that he was supposed to relieve and he came late, kind of like the ostracism of Thucydides. And the British, it wasn't really that serious,

Speaker 2 you know, crime, but they thought, you know what?

Speaker 2 We've got too, there's too much laxity, so we're going to shoot Bing.

Speaker 2 and execute him. And that was kind of a minor thing to send the message that nobody ever would cross the Admiralty.
But it was made famous in Voltaire's Candid, I think.

Speaker 2 He said they have a peculiar custom of every once in a while, I think he said hanging or killing a British officer to it, to encourage the others.

Speaker 2 And that's what they're doing with these whistleblowers. They're singling them out.
They're trying to humiliate them.

Speaker 2 The FBI is working in concert with the liberal members of the

Speaker 2 Congress to humiliate them. And they're sending the message, do not ever cross us or disseminate information about our wrongdoing, because this is how you're going to end up.

Speaker 2 You're going to be poor and broke by us and you're going to be humiliated by our friends in the Congress.

Speaker 2 And I, you know, I did a show that'll be on, I guess it'll be on this Sunday. I'm speaking on the 20th,

Speaker 2 and it's going to be on Mark Levin on the 21st. So it'll probably already have been aired when this is released.
But that was one of the things we talked about, the FBI, what to do with it.

Speaker 2 And I offered some suggestions, none of them necessarily original.

Speaker 2 One of them was to move the headquarters out to Kansas City or Casper, Wyoming, or somewhere away from that New York Washington cesspool. And that would end things, I think.

Speaker 2 Such things as Andrew McKay being in charge of the Hillary Clinton investigation while his wife is running for a state legislature post in Virginia, getting money from Terry McAuliffe's Clinton-affiliated PAC, while James Comey says, there's no conflict of interest here.

Speaker 2 And you have all of these marriages and networks between these or Mike Morrell calling up, you know, Blinken, hey, Tony, Mike here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Hey, you know what? I'd like to be CIA.
I was the only interim. I want to be CIA director, but what do you, what do you, why'd you call me? And Blinken says, well, I need to do a favor.

Speaker 2 You know, we're looking at you for CIA director, but you got to round up a lot of people because we got Joe coming up for a debate. And my God, you know,

Speaker 2 this laptop is dynamite. It's toxic.
We've got the Bidens on there referring to

Speaker 2 Joe as 10%, Mr. Big Guy, right on the edge of election.
We've got crazy Trump in that debate. He'll eat Joe alive.

Speaker 2 But not if Joe can say there's 50 former intelligence authorities that swear this is likely,

Speaker 2 okay, no problem. I'll get them going.

Speaker 2 That's what that swamp does. And you have to break it up.
So if you took it away from there, especially in the age of Zoom, that would be one thing.

Speaker 2 If that wasn't drastic enough, you could take the anti-terrorism group. You could take the

Speaker 2 liaisons with state and local authorities. You could take

Speaker 2 infractions about drugs, whatever it is, you could say, Homeland Security, you take this FBI division. Department of Justice, take this.
Department of Treasury, take this.

Speaker 2 Department of Interior, take this. And just break it up so that you don't have the concentration of power.
Because

Speaker 2 they're making J. Edgar Hoover look like a saint.
Right. And it's, I mean, they just tap.
people's financial records in Washington

Speaker 2 that coincided with January 6th to see what people people were buying.

Speaker 2 You know, as if you were on a tourist all of a sudden and you decide to get a flashlight and something, oh, wait, that guy bought a flashlight. Let's check him out.
Right.

Speaker 2 Or they were just looking at video of random people and then rounding them up and showing up at their house to scare them if they appeared anywhere near the Capitol.

Speaker 2 It wasn't anything.

Speaker 2 If you were a sightseer and you saw people protesting and you walked over to the mall, that was no more or no less a crime if you saw BLM taking over a whole chunk of downtown Washington.

Speaker 2 But why did they,

Speaker 2 they criminalize that? And so I think you have to break it up

Speaker 2 or you have to move it or you have to do both or you have to abolish it.

Speaker 2 And they don't have a good record, whether it's the Sarnoff Brothers or the San Bernardino terrorists, of having people come to them and saying, you better, whether it's the Russian government or whether it's informants saying, this person is very dangerous.

Speaker 2 Watch out. And they let that go.
They ignore it. And so

Speaker 2 they've lost. The DOJ has lost our support.
The FBI has lost their support. The CIA, Mr.
Brennan, the pathological liar who lied under oath to the U.S. Congress.

Speaker 2 And I hate to say it because I had never thought I'd say that. I have no confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon.
I really don't.

Speaker 2 I think they're completely ideological.

Speaker 2 And I think that when you get up to two or three three star, your promotion depends not on your military efficacy, but to the degree that which you can mouth certain platitudes that fit a woke agenda that will be green fast track to Congress.

Speaker 2 And again, we're going to get back to the symmetry, Jack.

Speaker 2 The only way you're going to stop it is get a new Congress, new Senate, new House, a new president, and have a president with the guts to say, you know what?

Speaker 2 This person is going to be Defense Secretary. This person is going to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
And they have one directive. There's going to be no politics.

Speaker 2 If you're a right-wing nut or a left-wing nut, it's not going to matter. There's going to be no agendas.
They're going to be strictly battlefield performance.

Speaker 2 And we're going to get rid of all of the diversity equity, all of the Comissars are all. We don't have enough money.
We're short javelins. We're short artillery shells.
We're short patriots.

Speaker 2 We're not, we don't have that kind of money. We can't ask the taxpayer for $100, $800 billion

Speaker 2 if we're going to do this. And that's the only thing you can do.
And I don't know if that's possible, but. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Also, Victor, and we need to move on, but we've talked about this before, the

Speaker 2 post-the retirement. uh pot of gold of corporate boards and i get in trouble with that you know i just saw some

Speaker 2 generals not too long ago and And I,

Speaker 2 well, I won't mention any names. When I walk in certain places where I work or where I have to visit, and I see a retired general, they look at me like I'm satanic.

Speaker 2 And all I said was that if you're a Pentagon general, three or four star, and you retire, it would be wise to wait five years, maybe six or seven before you go to work for Raytheon, the Boston Consulting Group, northrop lock whatever it is general dynamic just just take a breathing so that you don't call your immediate subordinates up six weeks later and say hey i want you to look look at this weapon system you didn't give me a good hearing we and the guy thinks oh my god that was my mentor right i know him he's telling And you've got to stop that because it's not necessarily in the nation's interest.

Speaker 2 Right. I think as long as these companies, though, the corporations and their boards are dominated by this ESG or, you know, whatever,

Speaker 2 whatever there's too many acronyms that all stand for socialism,

Speaker 2 these two and three stars who are looking down the road are

Speaker 2 mouthing platitudes, woke platitudes with that objective because they have to be approved by these corporations. Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely. So I agree with you.

Speaker 2 The delay, this five, six year delay, should be a bracer to to that another thing and i i want to be very careful because i have a lot of admiration some of these people are my friends and associates but

Speaker 2 i plead maya coppo because i had supported in print a lot of promotions but i do not think that anyone

Speaker 2 who comes out of a defense contractor board or lobbyist should be appointed to a high position in the Pentagon. It shouldn't happen.
Just shouldn't happen. There's a reason why that shouldn't happen.

Speaker 2 I think we all know about it, because they're bringing in a vested interest. I don't think we have a rule.
We've been giving exemptions.

Speaker 2 We gave one for Secretary Mattis. I think we gave one for Secretary Austin that military officers do not have to have a cooling off period before they become Secretary of Defense.

Speaker 2 I don't want to, I'm neutral on the personalities involved, but I don't think that's a wise idea anymore to give anybody any. I don't care if they're Ulysses S.
Grant reincarnated.

Speaker 2 Nobody gets an exemption. We've got to really get back to

Speaker 2 a professional, disinterested Pentagon that doesn't. And then

Speaker 2 in the same way, if there is such a thing called the Uniform Code of Military Justice,

Speaker 2 if there is such a thing,

Speaker 2 And you have officers at the lower rank of captain, major, lieutenant, colonel who disparage somebody publicly and they are punished,

Speaker 2 or

Speaker 2 they are punished for other violations.

Speaker 2 And you have retired admiral and generals who are calling the President of the United States Mussolini or a pathological liar, or is in the case of Admiral McRaven, that you write an op-ed that

Speaker 2 he should be removed the sooner or better, even though you have scheduled elections to adjudicate that. So you don't need to say the sooner sooner the better,

Speaker 2 or that this person, this president has Nazi, basically Nazi-like tendencies. If you're going to do that and you're ready to be recalled in times of

Speaker 2 emergencies and the statute says you're not to disparage the commander-in-chief, then that has to be enforced. If it's not, what is it? Then

Speaker 2 get rid of the whole code.

Speaker 2 And why did that code come in come in value? It came in in 1951, 52. And why did it come?

Speaker 2 Because Douglas MacArthur, who had some reason to say that Harry Truman was naive about the threat of communism in Korea, and once he went to the Yallo River and it collapsed, and then they went back, he blamed, and it was his fault because it was

Speaker 2 poor leadership. But he did, in a very unprofessional way, keep leaking and attacking Truman.
And finally, the people said, you know what? This doesn't work.

Speaker 2 You cannot have military officers attacking. And MacArthur retired.

Speaker 2 And then they passed the statute and they said, you cannot have people in retirement on the public pension like MacArthur, even though he's running, probably running for president, keep haranguing the current commander-in-chief.

Speaker 2 And they've applied that. They've been warning people like Curtis LeMay or General Walker not to do that.
And all of a sudden it was like, well, Trump is a special case.

Speaker 2 He's so diabolical that all great officers have to break their code and go after him. I just don't think that's right.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 this is the larger topic of what to do with the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ,

Speaker 2 the Pentagon, because they're woke and they're destroying the institutions as we knew them and as we loved them and supported them. Yeah.
And it's particularly with the FBI,

Speaker 2 the equal application of the law, which is allegedly the bedrock of our country, has been shot to crap.

Speaker 2 Victor, we have time for one more topic, and it will be about the dementia Ocrats, and we'll get to that right after this final important message.

Speaker 2 Back with the Victor Davis-Hansen show. Victor, I have two headlines I had pulled, and one I wrote a little note to myself.
If Biden were a cross-dresser, would he be Dianne Feinstein?

Speaker 2 And then the other one is

Speaker 2 about John Fetterman. Here's a headline from the Daily Mail.
Nothing to see here.

Speaker 2 Pennsylvania Dem Senator John Fetterman's office is slammed for doctoring transcripts to disguise stroke victims worrying congressional stumbles.

Speaker 2 I'm sure, Victor, you saw and many of our listeners saw this,

Speaker 2 Fetterman

Speaker 2 interviewing or interrogating or whatever, mumbling at some folks folks at a

Speaker 2 Senate hearing related to the Silicon Valley Bank. And he asked a question.
I think he asked a question. It was

Speaker 2 the panelists kind of sat there. They didn't answer because they weren't sure that he actually was asking a question.

Speaker 2 But then, of course, this Fredderman staff afterwards totally takes this incoherent statement and puts out an official transcript, which makes written clear English. He also appears at some

Speaker 2 press briefing with other senators dressed in his

Speaker 2 usual shorts and whatever.

Speaker 2 Bankman Freed slob chic.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, right. So we have Biden,

Speaker 2 wrong way Biden again in Japan and almost stumbling downstairs. We have Feinstein coming back, Feinstein coming back,

Speaker 2 looking really, really

Speaker 2 bedraggled and like she's been through the mill. And Fetterman,

Speaker 2 these are the poster children for the Democratic Party. Victor, your thoughts?

Speaker 2 Well, these are all good case histories and reminders to everybody listening that you've got to remember something, that this isn't the old Democratic Party. This is not

Speaker 2 a group of people who believe that government can have the answer versus a group of people on the conservative Republican side that believe that individuals

Speaker 2 have the answer, that liberty is more important than forced equality. That divide doesn't exist as we knew it.
This is a hardcore neo-socialist

Speaker 2 Jacobin party, and they have no principles other than the acquisition and the maintenance of power and to force down your throat a mandatory equality of result on any means necessary.

Speaker 2 So, when you take the issue of age

Speaker 2 as

Speaker 2 any other issue, Jack, there is no, in their mind, liberal, consistent policy, conservative. There's no such thing as ageism

Speaker 2 or

Speaker 2 genuine concern about a person's debility. No, that doesn't exist.
It's only

Speaker 2 to what degree does this issue further the acquisition of power for us, our agenda. So when you take Donald Trump

Speaker 2 and for one nanosecond, for the only time in his

Speaker 2 presidency, there's a little slick, he makes, he grabs it rail. Then they will tell you that he is non-composment

Speaker 2 because they want him out. They don't believe he is.

Speaker 2 Or when he says to Little Rocket Man that I have a bigger button than yours, they just clamor that he's insane.

Speaker 2 They will get Bandi Yee, a Yale psychiatrist, to testify that he's nuts and to edit a book and to say that there has to be a straitjacket intervention.

Speaker 2 And they'll get Ronnie Jackson, the White House doctor, to give him

Speaker 2 the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which I looked at online and kind of took.

Speaker 2 Not that easy to take a bunch of words and then recite them and then turn the page and recite them backwards. And same way with numbers and things like that.

Speaker 2 So my point is that they have no consistent policy. When it's Donald Trump, then they are very careful that the president must be completely alert, completely.

Speaker 2 And yet, when Diane Feinstein is a critical vote, because it's 50-50 Senate, and that matters, and she's missing an action, then all of a sudden, well,

Speaker 2 they say to the Republicans,

Speaker 2 you have to let us get a temporary substitute. And then they say, well, you never did that for us.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Hmm. What are we going to do? We got to get rid of her somehow.
But she's loyal. She's been there for six terms.
She's an icon of California. And they said, yeah, yeah, we were supporting her.

Speaker 2 We wanted her to run so we'd have a safe seat, but she's no longer any use to us. So let's start leaking that she's nutty and crazy.

Speaker 2 And she's very easy to do that because of her status after having shingles and some

Speaker 2 neuro issues from inflammation involved with the illness. And then they're fighting right now, Jack, over that particular seat because Adam Schiff has ingratiated himself to the Pelosis.

Speaker 2 And they want him to have a clear field, an open primary, but they do not want Barbara Lee, the black activist from L.A.

Speaker 2 I remember, these are people who tell us that marginalized people and women must be believed, and that you have to go back with repertory considerations.

Speaker 2 But when it comes to a black woman who's very radical that wants Adam shifts ambitious seat,

Speaker 2 then you've got to make sure that Diane Feinstein

Speaker 2 somehow finishes her term and is present there.

Speaker 2 because if she quits, Gavin Newsom will appoint Barbara Lee and that'll give supposedly an advantage in the primary, or I should say the general to Adam Schiff.

Speaker 2 And that's how they look at debilitates. And then you look at Joe Biden.
They don't apply.

Speaker 2 I mean, if this was Donald Trump right now, they would be screaming about removing him from office.

Speaker 2 They tried to remove him from office, but with that caper where If you remember, they wanted Andrew McCabe, you remember that, to wear a wire and trap him in in some type of mental confusion so they could evoke the 25th Amendment.

Speaker 2 Rosa Brooks and foreign policy, 11 days into the administration, said there were three ways to get rid of Trump, a coup, impeachment, or the 25th Amendment.

Speaker 2 That was all that they talked about, but not now with Joe Biden. because they know he is completely failing at a geometric rate.
And each week he has let he was in Japan this week. He tripped.

Speaker 2 He was totally confused.

Speaker 2 We had the Japanese prime minister and his wife having to that was so nationally humiliating had to show biden where to go where to stand just like mr obador who had to escort him down the stairs this this is just constant and then we had mr fetterman that they're now they had they're reduced to censoring the transcripts and redoctoring them so if you didn't happen to listen to him you might think that he was coherent.

Speaker 2 Anybody who listened to him, and I listened to that transcript of what he said, when he was talking about bankers, it made no sense at all.

Speaker 2 Zero.

Speaker 2 Zero sense. It was just,

Speaker 2 he's not, he would not, if any employer is out there, I'm going to ask an employer. If you are an accountant, if you are a head of a law firm,

Speaker 2 if you are a landscaper and you need somebody to adjudicate when to mow the lawn.

Speaker 2 If you're a farmer, would you allow either Fetterman or Joe Biden to be in any position of authority? No, you wouldn't. I don't think they could even bag groceries.
No,

Speaker 2 you wouldn't.

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 2 They would put the eggs at the bottom of the bag. No, no,

Speaker 2 they can't. They do that.
And there's a history of this. Remember when Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was

Speaker 2 in her mid-80s? She's a cancer survivor. I think she had pancreatic cancer, breast cancer.
She was not able to do that. And they were telling us that she was a virtual virtual weightlifter.

Speaker 2 Remember that? That she was working out and she was, but she was saying all kinds of crazy things. She was attacking Donald Trump from the bench.
I mean, she was a Supreme Court justice.

Speaker 2 She said in an interview, I think with the New Yorker magazine, that why was everybody upset about abortion?

Speaker 2 Weren't we aborting the right people?

Speaker 2 And she said, you know, I always look for foreign examples. I look at the South African, South African Constitution for advice about, you know, ruling opinions.

Speaker 2 So she was way out there, and yet they made movies about her. They canonized her because as long as she was breathing, she was that

Speaker 2 Democratic seat. And then she stayed a little bit too long out of her ambition.
And all of a sudden, she was St.

Speaker 2 Ginsburg. And then they thought, hmm, she's starting to look a little shaky.
And even we don't believe this narrative that she's Arnold Schwarzenegger in the gym.

Speaker 2 And now we've got Donald Trump president. And

Speaker 2 she could kick.

Speaker 2 So then they started to get it, wanted to get rid of her, and they did it too late, and they lost that appointment.

Speaker 2 And then they tried to weasel around saying Trump shouldn't be able to do this and had to respect this Democratic seat.

Speaker 2 But what's the common denominator that ties all of these narratives together? A,

Speaker 2 there is no common denominator. Whatever the particular circumstances are,

Speaker 2 they will take a position based on power and their own benefit. They don't care if it contradicts them in the past.
And then, B,

Speaker 2 they do not care about the welfare of the United States. They don't care whether a senator from Pennsylvania is not representing half the population.
They don't care.

Speaker 2 whether Joe Biden can get us in a lot of trouble overseas. They don't care whether Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants to abort Hispanics and poor people.
They don't care.

Speaker 2 They don't care whether Dianne Feinstein is dysfunctional. In fact,

Speaker 2 they feel almost that

Speaker 2 if it's not involving a vote, that they're useful.

Speaker 2 Because in the case of Biden, to take one example,

Speaker 2 you can tell him anything. If you're the Obamas or Bernie Sanders or the squad or Elizabeth Warren, you can say, you're going to get rid of the border, Joe.

Speaker 2 And he'll say. Put it on his note card.

Speaker 2 Or

Speaker 2 you're going to be for open, you know, you know, you're going to be for all these soils prosecutors. And he might say, well, I said that

Speaker 2 business was a racial jungle. And I gave the eulogy for Strong Thurman and

Speaker 2 Robert Byrd. And I said, James O'Leaston never called me boy.
And I can't do that. Well, yes, you are.
Now you're no longer the racist. Now you're the reverse racist.

Speaker 2 So go to Howard and give this speech about white supremacy. He said, but I call the guy a junkie.
And I said, you ain't black. And I said, Barack Obama was the first clean black and our first one

Speaker 2 could speak basically. And I told all these accomplished professionals that Mitt Romney would put you all back in chains.
So I have a pretty good

Speaker 2 racist record. And I said, no, no, now you're not a racist anymore, Joe.
You're going to go and you're going to be, you're going to be a racist, but the target of your racism now is more convenient.

Speaker 2 Then you were trying to be kind of a conservative, rural, good old Joel,

Speaker 2 good old boy from Pennsylvania. Now you're going to be Mr.

Speaker 2 Bicosto elite left-winger. So now your target

Speaker 2 are white people,

Speaker 2 but your mentality is the same, that you will say or do anything for your own

Speaker 2 position or your own agenda. And so

Speaker 2 they like empty suits. They like a Fetterman.
They tell Fetterman, this is how you're going to vote.

Speaker 2 Tell him to vote this way.

Speaker 2 Don't talk too much. Tell Biden to do this.
Don't talk too much. Feinstein, she's in a wheelchair.
Great. We'll just call her chief of staff and say, this is what she's supposed to do.

Speaker 2 And the commissar order will come on from high and they'll do it.

Speaker 2 If the left have their way, you'd have 51 people in wheelchairs in the Senate with some DNC grandee giving the daily memos to what they're supposed to do, exactly like they do to the mentally challenged media.

Speaker 2 You know, how during the

Speaker 2 all of a sudden we heard Don Lamone and the Cuomo brothers and the people on that idiotic view, what were they saying every week?

Speaker 2 Whistleblower, whistleblower should be believed. Or they were saying, bombshell, Mueller investigation bombshell.
Oh, looks like the walls are closing in.

Speaker 2 It was the exact same vocabulary because it was all being ordered to them and they were automatons. And that's what exactly they like.
They like a Commissar Kremlin apparat that tells them what to do.

Speaker 2 Victor, you, you mentioned empty suit of Fetterman. I think it's empty hoodie.

Speaker 2 That's about almost all the time we have here, Victor, except we'll, we'll do, we'll get to some of that end-of-the-show business. And, you know, the

Speaker 2 recent podcast you did with the great Sammy Wink has elicited a lot of

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Speaker 2 And I'm going to read two today about conquistadors and border disruption. I absolutely love all of Victor's podcasts, but this one was outstanding.

Speaker 2 From his spot on analysis of the open border to the conquest of the Aztecs, he just gave such great perspective. The facts about the Aztecs and the Spanish conquistadors were things I never knew.

Speaker 2 Even the short discussion on farming made me think about how judgmental we can be without knowing anything about a certain subject. I wish I had Professor Hanson when I was in college.

Speaker 2 Thank you for opening my eyes. Every time I listen to you, this is signed by Ready to Learn More.
Thank you, Ready to Learn More. And one more, Victor, titled also Conquistador on the Border.

Speaker 2 I am interested in history podcasts. When VDH talks about history, he tends to be above most.

Speaker 2 I am particularly impressed by his impartial and historical-based views versus the current left-wing interpretations and all the historical facts he mastered expertly.

Speaker 2 He is able to offer a bird's eye view on that period and excellent explanations of the events. It enriches my knowledge of those periods.
Please keep coming. Hayden 15.
Thank you, Hayden 15.

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Thank you, Victor, for all the wisdom that you shared today.

Speaker 2 And thanks, folks, for listening. And we will be back again soon with another episode of the Victor Davis Hansen Show.
Bye-bye. Bye, everybody, and thanks for listening.