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Hello there, and welcome to the listeners of the Victor Davis-Hanson Show. Victor is a scholar, columnist, essayist, political, and cultural critic.
And I think he has about 27 books.

I hope I got that right, Victor, that he has published. And you can come to the website to have a look at each and every one of them.
We have them all on there.

This is the weekend edition, and we tend to go into things in a little more depth.

This weekend, we are going to look at the Joe Biden speech that he gave in Philadelphia on September 1st and have a look a little bit more deeply.

We've talked a little bit about it in other shows, but we're going to go a little deeper here. Let's take a moment for a break and then come right back after these messages.

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Welcome back.

I would like to remind everybody that Victor is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution, and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

So, Victor, before we go into

the

mishit, or if I can say it seemed like a shocking lack of self-reflection in Biden's speech. But before we go into that, I was wondering how are things going today?

Is there anything on the top of your mind?

Or the bottom of my mind. I got back from Hillsdale College.
I had a good time teaching. I think it's my last actual year teaching there, 19 years.

And

I tried a therapy with one of my friends there, Al Phillip, of shock treatment to ride a bicycle, no matter how bad I felt from long COVID.

And I was working wonderfully, Sammy, until I got up to an hour and 20 minutes. And I kept doing it.
And I crashed.

I got a fever. And so I had to go.
I'm starting back now. I'm kind of of wiped out.
Yeah. But it tells me that this is a self-limiting disease.
And my target date of I,

somebody I saw, I gave a talk in Idaho and somebody reminded me that I said I was going to be perfect by November 1st. Another said November 10th.

I'm sounding like Joe Biden lying all the time. Yeah.
Well, you look a little bit better. I know our listeners might think that as well when you're on Fox News.
So

I don't have the brain fog as I used to. And all these weird things that started to happen to me the last five months, yellow tongue is receding.
I'm smelling a little bit of things.

I'm tasting a little bit of things.

Biggest symptom now besides fatigue is when I use my muscles, especially my legs, to walk, they fill up with lactic acid. They just burn.
And then I have this pins and needles everywhere.

I think that is from coagulation. You know, the blood has some problems from inflammation.

It doesn't get enough exercise, get enough oxygen to the cell at the cellular level when you use those muscles.

So I'm working on that with various strategies, but I'm going to get over it.

I've been working every day, so it's not, I'm very, I'm so blessed because I'm at this house that we're working on, I see all these heroic people. They go up and walk on a 40-foot roof.

They go in and they lacquer and they paint with all these fumes. And a lot of them have had had COVID and got it during the job.
And I thought to myself, you're 69. What if you still had to work?

You were a clerk or you were a truck driver or something when you feel so dizzy and spacey.

So I've been very lucky that I've had a source of employment that didn't require physicality to the same degree that most people do. Yeah.

You know, I had a good thought maybe for our viewers, and maybe some of them can help me. I was remembering Rush Limbaugh today, and

he did a mock poem after the poet Elizabeth Alexander gave a poem for, I think it was Obama's inauguration. And he did a

mock poem of it where

her poem was basically something to the effect of, you know, we get up every day and we go through all these ordinary things making choices. And then so.
I know. Maya Angelou gave one too, I think.

He said he got the person up. He did his little poem and he got his person up.
And of course, they had to drive a,

what do you call it?

Not an EV, but a

climate, you know, a non-polluting car and it broke down

or it ran out of the business. I remember that.

He was an authentic political genius because he

was many. There were many fathers.
I knew him a little bit and talked to him him a lot yeah

but by the end of the poem of course he brought in the iranian nuclear things yeah so it was pretty funny but i i wished i could find the text to that it was hilarious he could he was a brilliant you know sort of rich little

my i mean um

impersonator and he was a political commentator He was an entertainer. He could have been successful in all those roles.

That brings up a point, though, that the so-called conservative movement if you think about it

it it doesn't have the outlets that it used to and by that i mean you'll never replace rush limbaugh and there is no rush limbaugh now and then a lot of these news outlets used to get their

um

what their news aggregation from the drudge report and that thing has just flipped entirely to the left for a lot of, I don't know, there's spurious reasons, genuine reason. I don't know.

There's all these theories, theories, but he is now a man on the left and his Drudge Report is on the left. And then National Review, I won't comment.

And then there's, you know, weekly standard that ceased to exist, that conservative movement,

neocon or whatever you wanted to call them,

they're gone. Or they're writing for the dispatch or the bulk work.
So there's a lot of avenues. And I know that.

things are popping up, but the old standbys that used to fortify the conservative message, they're sort of gone. Yeah, they sure are.

Maybe even before we start, I can get some, you know, some thoughts from you on current news. I mean, I'll just read three things off and you can comment on any one of them you want.

That Denmark has ended the COVID vaccine for nearly everyone under 50.

The Facebook helped the FBI spy on Americans. And the Duke volleyball player who claimed she had a racial

slur shouted at her many times during a game. And it showed that after they investigated, there's absolutely nothing.
Any thoughts on any of those kinds?

Well, we knew that with all the variants, that children were not prone to get seriously ill or to spread it,

although they could become positive. And that the vaccinations

had side effects that were inordinately dangerous for young people. I mean,

it wasn't a wise thing necessarily to demand all these children get not just two RNA vaccinations, but booster, et cetera, et cetera. So

the

cost of benefit analysis was not, I don't think it was really,

it wasn't really publicized. It wasn't discussed by the CDC or the NIH.
And that was, we'll get into that when the Republicans win the House because they're going to have investigations. But

that's clear.

And as far as

the Brigham Young-Duke volleyball case, it's just emblematic that we have far too many would-be victimized and far too few victimizers because we're not a racist society, much less a systemically racist society.

So what does that mean? That there's too much demand and not enough supply. So you get Juicy Smollett and his MAGA

attackers and devise the laws of chemistry where they throw bleach when it freezes and it doesn't freeze.

And somehow he's eating a sandwich with one hand and a cell phone with another with a rope around his neck. And

somehow these two Nigerian or whatever that are caught on tape buying all the necessities for the plot and he writes the check. He did this to what? I don't know.
He was, they were part of it.

So you get get this stuff. And now we have this volleyball player from Duke who alleges that there were all these racial taunts.
And, you know, what gets me about it is nobody waits.

Nobody takes a deep breath and says, been there, done that.

Instead, they just rushed to see who can be the best performance artist or the best virtue signal. And so they did.

The Brigham Young president, with no evidence whatsoever, apologized, et cetera, et cetera, et etc so when they checked all of the sound they had tapes they had official tape they had

requested people send their phone videos they couldn't find one one

sound and this woman's stepmother this woman's father they all further that uh then the further that false narrative and this the so-called accused remember without any evidence they just banned him from all games and he had he was cognitively challenged.

It was really a horrible thing. And it's Jesse Smolin.
It's Duke La Crosse. It's the Covington kids.
I won't mention people's name, but I remember the Covington kids.

As soon as I saw that on a Sunday morning, I texted somebody in a major magazine, Conservative magazine. I said, do not comment on this.
Do not comment. This is fishy.

This Nathan Phillips fellow, his timeline doesn't match. He was not a combat veteran.
He has a checkered history. These kids didn't do anything.
And the guy said to me, it's too late.

I already tweeted. And he tweeted some, you know, rush to judgment, hang the Covington kids tweet.

So that's where we are. And why do people do these victimization melodramas and psychodramas? Because it's careerist.
And that's true of the entire woke movement, if you think about it. It always was.

That's what the Say Them Witch Trials were. That's exactly what the McCarthy period were.

That That was what the guillotine, you under the guise of some ideology, you go out and eliminate your enemies or your rivals or your opponents and you promote yourself. And that's what they're doing.

The other subtext of this whole woke movement is people are lazy and they don't want to do anything.

And so if you're a teacher and you want to go off topic, and relate some woke story, that's a lot harder than teaching physics.

Or if you're some professor at Stanford and you tweet 450,000 times and I'm referring to an actual person rather than write a book or an article and all under the guise of being a woke critic.

So we haven't talked about that, but that's what it's about. It's a lot of mediocre people who are careerists who want to find an outlet because otherwise they they have no talent.

They have no talent. Yeah.
Yeah.

Did you have any thoughts on the Facebook aiding the FBI or is that just

Martin Zuckerberg, remember he had that heart-to-heart talk last week before this information came out? That the FBI asked us to, you know, and it was very weird. No, it wasn't weird.

All you were doing was preempting. Somebody leaked to you that the story was going to come out this week.
And you had a bunch of little snitches and,

you know. algorithms that were working hand in glove with the FBI to root out your common enemy.

That is anybody that posed a threat to Joe Biden and your vision of a progressive future, which you shared with the FBI hierarchy. It's really scary because

the way to look at the FBI

is not isolated. You just have to ask yourself, is there anything that the FBI is not capable of now? Anything.

Will they forge a document for a FISA court? Yes. Will they wipe clean subpoena phone records? Yes.

Will the FBI director lie four times to a federal investigator? Yes. Will the FBI former director claim he can't remember 245 times? Yes.

Will he memorialize a classified document based on a confidential conversation with the President of the United States and then leak it, deliberately leak it? Yes.

Will Robert Mueller base his entire investigation on the Steele Dossi and GPS GPS and claim he doesn't know either one?

Yes. Will an FBI lawyer forge a document? Yes.
Will James Baker try to leak things before the election about the steel dossier? Yes.

Will the FBI hire a foreigner, Christopher Steele and Igor Danschenko, to

find dirt on Donald Trump? Yes.

And I could go on, and that's what they're capable of. Will they pull over Mr.
Pillow with a squad of FBI cars and grab his work phone? Yes.

Did they do that with Jake Sullivan, the current national security advisor, who was knee-deep in peddling this fake dossier? No.

You know, they go up to this John Eastman and grab his phone and says that he's promoting conspiracy theories. Is he like the former Senator Barbara Boxer? who voted not to accept the electors?

Who has more power to obstruct an election? Barbara Boxer in 2004, if she

got in her way,

they would have thrown out the vote in Ohio and got John Kerry as president. Or John Eastman writing an opinion.
Or Benny, what's his name? Benny Thompson? Or is it John?

Benny Thompson, the head of the January 6th Committee. What was he known for? As an election denialist.

He also voted not to accept the election revolts, the electors that would have given, had he gotten his way, John Kerry the vote in 2004. We've got Stacey Abrams barnstorming the country saying that

she's still.

So when I get

this concept in Greece of isonomia was equality under the law. If you go into the Supreme Court, I think it's the West pediment, the entrance, West,

it says equal justice under the law. And that means if you riot for 120 days and you burn up $2 billion worth of property and 40 people die because of you or killed by you, or you

burn down a federal courthouse, or you storm the White House grounds and attempt to get to Donald Trump, or you destroy a police precinct, then you are subject to the same application of the law of the January 6th buffoonish guy who went into the Capitol.

Yeah. If you lie under oath, if I lie tomorrow when the IRS, if I get a letter and they call me and say, we're coming out, Victor Hansen, and I say, okay.

And they say, everything you say is under oath now. I said, fine, but I can't remember.
Did you make this? I can't remember. Did you take this deduction? I have no memory of it.

That's the James Comey defense.

And so there's this unequal application of the law based on your ideology. So do you really believe,

Sammy, that if a bunch of MAGA protesters showed up at the house of Justice Kagan, or so to my ear, and started screaming about them right before or right after a seminal court case to try to intimidate them, and then an assassin showed up, do you think that somebody wouldn't charge those people?

That's a felony? What would happen if a bunch of people went into a restaurant and chased Kagan out of out while she was eating? That would be a horrible thing to do.

Or if Mitch McConnell got a bunch of MAGA, not that he would, but what if he went to the Supreme Court, very doors of the court? I said that before, you know,

you sowed the wind, Gorsuch Kavanaugh. You sowed the wind, Kagan Sotomar.
You're going to reap the world.

Justice Kagan, Justice Sotomar, you won't know what hit you. They would put him in jail.

I think they would. This is what's scary about this country right now.
I don't recognize it. It's some days.
It's an unequal application of the law. You get these people on these crazy

YouTube tapes every single day. They hit people in the head.
They give them concussions. They kill them.
They stomp them. They throw them into the subway.
They kill a jogger.

They attack some woman and

they're out.

They either have been released or they've been, they carjacked their 15th car of the month. Unequal application of the law.

No society will long stand when that happens no it won't and so you've just entered into the game we're going to play this weekend on the biden speech and i'm going to say something from the biden speech and you're going to reply to it and the first thing i was going to say was that he accused trump and mega

um and his mega supporters of wanting to destroy the constitution and being lawless and i was wondering if you could then continue because the whole idea,

I just looked at that, they want to destroy the Constitution. Who are the people talking about changing the Constitution? Yeah, who, I mean,

all these MAGA people are demanding to jump the 233-year-old Electoral College? Is that what they want to do?

Is the MAGA people saying, let's get rid of the constitutional clause about the primary responsibility of the states to establish ballot law?

Let's have a national voting law that just overrides it, rides that. Who's doing that? And then all the customs and traditions, you know 180-year filibuster who wants to pack

after 10 what 60 years who wants to pack the nine person supreme court and enlarge it to 15 justices who do who wants to do that and 180 year filibuster who's doing that and who's taking federal immigration law and fretting it and allowing 3 million people to come across the border without a vaccination and without a test when we're destroying the lives of thousands of city and state and federal employees that won't be vaccinated for health or religious reasons or whatever, but we'll let people cross the border that are doing their first act as an illegal act.

The first thing they do is illegal and they don't have a vaccination. They don't have a test, and yet we apply those standards to our own citizen.

It's insane.

This is a Jacobin, as I keep saying, this is a totalitarian 24 7 360 degree cultural revolution and it's scary because it employs the judicial executive and the legislative branches along with all these institutions yeah you know there were the other thing that joe biden said that in this one i really am not sure what he exactly what he's talking about.

He said

that the MAGA supporters and Trump want to take away the right to choose, the right to privacy, and the right to contraceptive.

Now, the last one I got, but how is he construing the right to choose is the only thing in the world, whether or not to have an abortion is what you should be able to choose?

I didn't quite get it. I don't either.
I think you said you couldn't marry who you love. That was Barack Obama who said marriage is between a man and a woman.
That's what he ran on in 2008.

He was against gay marriage until good old old Joe leaked the fact that they really were for it. And then he flipped after the election, re-election.
But I don't know what he's talking about.

There was never a law that said,

you know, nobody's ever said, no justice ever said, we're going to pass, you know, there's going to be a federal law that says you can't have an abortion. But you can choose.

Just go to a state that that allows it. It'll probably end up 50-50.
And as I said before,

there'll be a fringe group of states that will bar all abortion, incest, rape, and there'll be a fringe

group that will, not a fringe, but a much larger group, to be truthful, that will allow partial birth abortion, 7,000 or 8,000 a year happens.

And then there will be a left center that will say

abortion up until, they'll probably say the eighth month, and there'll be

a center right that that will sort of follow the laws in europe and say you can't have an abortion in the last trimester and that's you can choose each state will make their laws according to the majority of will it's democratic yeah stacey abrams came out and said that she supports abortion until the moment of birth i i was surprised to hear any politician say go that far even her

well she's

No comment. I mean, she's a novelist.

She's

an accomplished novelist. Somehow she ran up her credit card.
I don't know how many and then started playing the race card. She's just a buffoon.
I mean, she's just a joke.

She toured the country for two years as Governor Abram.

And then we were told she was going to, she's not going to win the governorship. They can put $100 billion in that campaign.
Every Hollywood nut can.

And that's a bad investment because she's going to lose. Yeah.

Victor, let's take a moment to go to a break and listen to some some messages, and we'll come back and talk about a couple of other things Joe accused the mega supporters of, but we'll be right back.

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We'd love to have you. Victor, another thing that Joe Biden said is that the MEGA, Trump and MEGA were promoting authoritarianism.

And that was, I mean, when I saw, when I think back at Trump's presidency, I mean, that's the last thing I would accuse him of.

It was about the most loosely organized, disruptive, undisciplined group.

You know, just ask yourself, Sammy,

did he have a lowest learner that went after political opponents and denied them tax-free status? No.

Did he have a bunch of cronies in the FBI that spied on people or lied under oath? No.

Did he have people in the DOJ that were, you know, refusing congressional subpoenas or doing something like hiding the stuff from Fast and Furious and

the fashion of Eric Holder? No.

No, it was just the opposite. It was disrupted.
Did he spy on the Associated Press reporters like the Obama administration did? No.

Was there a James Rosen, it was a version of him at Fox that they went after? No. He just fought openly with them.

Yeah, they had him on the defensive the whole time. All the time.
All he did, I mean, if you look back at the four years,

it was

almost immediately

they filed articles of impeachment. I think 50 representatives did.

And then they were talking in these major journals about impeaching him or having a coup. And all these military people came out, called him Hitler and Mussolini.

And he should be removed the sooner, better. Then we went in after 22 months of Robert Mueller.

Then there was the first that Vinman phone call who pretty much lied about his relationship with the so-called whistleblower and Adam Schiff that they cooked up.

And then we went into,

you know, we went into the second. It was just constant.
Yeah. And the idea that he was using the government to go after people, it's the left that does that.

The only thing that keeps any politician honest is not their innate virtue.

It's an open and transparent media. But when your media is hard left,

left-wing politicians think, wow, that's a ministry of truth. We can do anything.

I'm not saying the right are necessarily always more virtuous, but they know that if they do something, they're going to get attacked by the media, even if they don't do something.

And so they're much more careful than the left is. And it's called projection.
Everything that they think they're doing is wrong and illegal and amoral, they project onto the Republicans.

Yeah, they sure do. You know, do you remember that IRS? They actually went to court because they were

holding back

503 Cs, I think, for exemptions for.

Yeah. And do you know what came of that case? I know she lost, but they just slapped her hand though.

Well, she took the Fifth Amendment and she concocted this little panel where she had a friend to ask her a question because she knew it was going to leak out.

And then she thought she would be better off if she admitted doing it. And then she retired and just disappeared.
And it was the Obama administration. And their attitude was,

well,

she's on our side.

Yeah, look what she did. We won the election, to quote Harry Reid.
You know, we won, didn't we? It worked, didn't we? when he went after Mitt Romney and lied that he hadn't paid his taxes.

Well, that was the attitude because she had delayed all of these tax-exempt conservative groups. And she thought, well, I kind of blunted these people right before Obama's 2012 election.

So she was, they didn't do anything to her. And this all sends a message.
It sends a message to professors, to media people, to government bureaucrats, to politicians. And it goes something like this.

If you are left-wing, the louder, the better, the woke, the more woke, the better. Okay.
If you do that,

then you have an insurance policy. If you're a politician or a bureaucrat, you're not going to end up before a Washington, D.C.

jury that will nullify any evidence and convict you because they hate your conservative guts. And you're going to spend a half a million to a million dollars just to

defend yourself. So when that message goes out to people, they make the necessary adjustments.
They do in academia all the time.

You know, I've been an academic, unfortunately, for 40 years, years, 45 years,

69 this last week. And I started, I guess you could say when you finish your PhD, I was 25.
So my point I'm making is that I saw these people in academia and they make the necessary adjustments.

They don't, they're scared to say anything. They want to be known as left-wing because it's like a party badge in the Soviet Union.
Bad things don't happen to you.

If you're a conservative and you're outspoken, they're going to go after you. I swear to God, they're going to go after you.
They're going to do that in the bureaucracy.

They're going to do that in professional sports, K through 12. If you're a teacher, administrator, you do that.
You're going to go after you.

If you're a conservative, you have to keep your mouth shut in those institutions. You either have to do two things.
You either have to

open your mouth

and assume that there is a liberal attack bullet

in your future. You have a rendezvous with an attack on you.
I always say this when I get up in the morning. This week or next month, some left-wing person is going to be assigned to

attack me, either a book I wrote 20 years ago or a column and I'm going to have to waste time to respond or where I work, there's going to be somebody who makes an anonymous complaint, or I'm going to be somewhere where somebody in public says, I just assume that's part of being a conservative.

It really is.

And that's what Justice Gorsuch. That's what Justice Thomas.
That's what Justice

Alito, they all go through that. That is not what Justice Soto-Meyer.
And I'm glad they don't. And Kagan and Ryer, the retired.
They don't. They don't have to worry about that.
Yeah.

And that's just everywhere. And Joe Biden, he knows that he can just pathologically lie.
Oh, they have these guns that shoot these AR-15s.

They shoot five times faster than everything he says is a lie. He knows that.

Back to the speech, right?

Well,

one more thing. Yeah, it sure was.
But he also said that the Trump and the MAGA supporters fan political violence. I don't know what that means.

Other than January 6th, is all I can think of if you were actually thinking about what exactly have conservatives done nothing to the tune of what the left has done not well let's go through it we always have to be systematic on this podcast because we don't we just don't say things so did was there a conservative uh supporter of a of a presidential candidate that tried to go and shoot as many democratic key House representatives as James Hodgkins did who worked for Bernie Sandrich?

No.

As I said, was there a conservative assassin that showed up on the lawn of Justice Kagan? No. Do they chase,

do conservative MAGA people go after Maxine Waters and chase her out of buildings? Or do they chase a Supreme Court justice having dinner out of a restaurant? No.

Do they go to the Supreme Court like Chuck Schumer and threaten justices by name? No. Do they try to pack the court? No.

What does he mean?

They don't do any of that do they

let me ask you when you turn on all of you when you turn on your computer and you sort of browse the internet you see these violent incidents where people are

praying on the weak are those mega supporters like jesse smollett says who who's doing that Are all of these conservative people? Are they all homeless people? Are they all coming across?

What are they doing that's so wrong?

I don't understand. As I said earlier, I've said about 20 times.

When he talks about violence and Magus, all I can think of is,

well, if you're talking about the demonized white male, I guess you can say they're violent in that they die at twice the numbers of any other demographic in Afghanistan. and Iraq.

Maybe that they were drawn to the violence, huh? Or maybe they killed too many of the enemy. I don't know.

But give me the evidence and the data that shows that this domestic terrorist threat that he was today he was talking about, today being Thursday, tell me where it is. Give me the data.

There is no data. It's all because of an

impending fear, a fear of an impending defeat in November. And so as I say, you know, we're off to the races for January 6th.
Oh,

ran out of gas. Let's do the raid.
Oh, the raid is kind of running out of gas.

Let's do the semi-fascist MAGA Hitler stuff with a Phantom of the Opera sets and hijack a couple of Marines and make it look so eerie. And now we're,

who knows where we're, it's going to be an indictment in a couple of weeks or three weeks or a month right before the election. They must be very cynical about the masses' ability.

They must just know, well, 51% of the people are going to believe us and our guy's going to win. We don't care.
Or

there's other more nefarious explanations.

They either have a cynicism that they think the American people are so stupid that they can't detect what they're doing, or they think it doesn't matter because with 102 million mail-in ballots and vote harvesting, they have the money.

They can hire the people. They can put $419 million like Mark Zuckerberg did in pre-selected precincts and warp the vote by basically expropriating the role of the registrar.

That's what they think they can do. And again, I keep referring to people, don't believe me, read Molly Ball's February 2021 Time essay.
She laid it out. She gussed.
She was giddy. It was all

braggadaccio about how wonderful this was that they fooled these stupid MAGA people. Yeah.

Yeah, that's just.

And then the last thing that Joe Biden has said is that the Trump and MAGA supporters wanted to nullify 81 million people's votes.

And this is all just complaints or suspicions about election fraud, I guess. But

your thoughts.

Again, Joe Biden, All he has to say is

that under the cover of a COVID lockdown, a team of left-wing lawyers with hundreds of million dollars of resources at their disposal in March, April, and May of 2020 radically changed the voting laws in the sense that they made it far more easy to early vote and they extended that period and also to

cast a mail-in ballot. And the result of it is only 30%, which has never happened in American history, voted on election day, which meant that half the people didn't even hear the second debate.

More than half, almost. You know, I just about half didn't hear it.
They'd already voted. And then, more importantly,

as I said earlier, the error rate dropped by about a magnitude of eight or nine.

And so, flood, flood the nation with mail-in ballots and then have less

less audit. And so, yeah, there was legitimate questions about that.

There were questions were raised, and they were, and that's over with. And so, Joe Biden is a little, because of our system, he's a legitimate president.
I have no problem with that. But, boy,

he knows what he's saying. And what he's saying is, don't think of the border.
Don't think of gas. Don't worry about inflation.
Don't think about crime. Don't remember Afghanistan.

Don't think about $30 trillion in debt. Don't think about a stagflationary cycle I gave you where we've had two quarters of successive negative growth.

And I'm calling success an 8.1 inflation rate over last year because it's not 9%.

That's what he doesn't want you to talk about. Yeah, exactly.
And then I'll give you one last thing. The mega and Trump voters, quote, embrace anger and, quote, thrive on chaos.

Anger. Anger.
Yeah, talk about anger. That's projection.
That's projection. Anger is trying to get

trying to torch a

Minnesota police precinct with a police in it or a courthouse with people in it.

or trying to storm the White House grounds or trying to burn a historical St.

John's Episcopal Church or trying to on queue chase people out of restaurants, whether it's Sarah Huckleby Sanders or Brett Kavanaugh, or

as I said earlier, swarm going and shooting people like Steve Scalise. That's anger.
That is anger. And

so.

Thriving on chaos is letting almost 4 million. It's getting close to across the border with just.
great abandon. I mean, that's just chaos.
Well, I mean,

Tucker Carlson has gone off on this whole martha vineyard something i've been telling everybody for what 30 years that was sort of a theme in the first edition of mexifornia if you just had a quality of results or everybody was subject to the consequences of their own ideology so you want an open border stanford professors you've got

3,000 dorm rooms sitting empty. Why don't you just allow a humane solution to people down on the border? Bust them to Stanford.
Allow them to stay in the dorms. You have a medical school.

You have a law school. You have tutors.
You've got a humane society that champions diversity and helping the underprivileged.

It's the perfect solution for every Tony University to lend a hand because they all support open borders. Guess what?

The thing about a left-wing person is that when you trap them, trap them in the sense that you freeze them and you say, This is your ideology and this is how you live, they start raving mad.

They get murderous. They get so angry.
And believe me, if they had to put their children in the public schools, they praise so highly about this wonderful unionized teaching staff.

Or if they had to drive 90 miles an hour in an old pickup, they got 12 miles the gallon or not be able to work.

Or if

they lived down in Bakersfield, when it was 108, 110, or Fresno, and they had to pay 30 cents a kilowatt hour to keep cool, then they wouldn't do what they do.

They do what they do because they can do it. They're privileged and they're secure and they're protected.
They hate the Second Amendment.

They don't want anybody carrying a gun, and yet they're security patrols.

And I have driven into Piedmont and I have walked into the nicest district, and believe me, I have been immediately spotted as someone not in that community. And I was asked to identify myself.

And the person who asked to identify me was a security patrol officer, private, and armed.

So they believe in firearms.

Yes, of course. I know.
Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take our last break and then come back and we'll talk about what Joe sees as his agenda that he has either fulfilled or he's on to fulfilling.

We'll be right back after these messages.

We're back. And Victor, so let's just turn to his positive note after all that criticism of the mega supporters.

Joe Biden then went on to say that he is accomplishing things like

building infrastructure, making places.

Exactly. But wait, let me say them all and then you can go at them.
Making places safer by gun laws, prescription drug aid, and then clean energy.

Well, I mean,

making

things safer. The crime rate, the violent crime rate has never been higher in 40 years.

The downtowns of Baltimore, New Orleans, places like Memphis are on

approachable. You can't go there without being in dire danger.
Clean and affordable energy. I'm living in California.
They told us during the last week's heat wave

that you couldn't plug in your electric car because there was no electricity for that.

And I can tell you, I've been scouting out Teslas.

A pretty, you know, standard model is $72,000 with California sales sales tax. Is that affordable?

And

I don't know what he means by clean energy. He shut down Keystone.
He shut down Anwar.

Of all the presidents in the history of the United States since oil was discovered, he has issued the fewest federal oil and gas leases. He contributed to our domestic energy crisis by design.

By design. He is draining.
When he came into office, there was

700 million barrels of oil. 94% of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was full.
It's down. It's all the way getting below 60%,

from 93 to 4% down to 60%.

And it's going at a fantastic rate. It's over a million barrels.
Think of the logic of those people.

It is a mortal sin to pull oil out of the ground, but it is not a mortal sin to pull it out of the ground if it's already been pulled out once and put back in.

And it's not a mortal sin if you use the strategic petroleum reserve to keep the price low before the midterms.

It is a mortal sin if you do it in times of war or natural catastrophe, because it won't be there. And he knows that.
So you sum it all up, Sammy, and there's a nihilism,

a nihilism.

What you see at the border is nihilism. It's to screw up.
There's rotting, rusting, decaying elements of the wall that was all ready to go up that would have really helped. It's just destroyed.

It's people coming across just mindlessly. It's just a wave.
It's just destroying immigration law. It'll never be the same.
And gasoline and diesel are not going to go back down.

He's made it almost impossible by the time that a Republican president comes in and he starts to reboot leases and pipelines, and it'll be years before it settles down.

And what he has done with crime and these sorrows DAs and the lack of any interest by federal prosecutors in redressing this dilemma,

it's created a new mentality.

And the mentality is that if I'm a victim, then I have historical grievances that I can act out violently, even if they're for personal gain or just sick enjoyment, a saddest, sadist type of pleasure.

And I'm not going to be prosecuted because I am a victim. And that's just given a blank psychological check to thousands of criminals.
And that's what he's done.

And it's, it's, and then what does he do?

He trots off to Delaware or he goes to one of his big mansions that he got through these quid pro quo, Ukrainian, Chinese deals that Hunter cooked up for him, Mr. 10%, the big guy.
And

we're not even supposed to think about this. And you know what's really strange about it is his non-compos mentes status, that is, he's not in full control of his mind, has been very valuable to him.

When he turns around, he shakes the imaginary hand, or he,

you know, he gets this gravelly voice and his eyes start to spin like those cartoon eyes, and you don't know where, he doesn't know where he is or what he's saying, that everybody says, well you can't really hold him responsible it's just he didn't know what was going on or they put word that's how that's how he is able to do this it's something another thing real quickly is

there is no Joe Biden from Scranton that was a nice guy he was never a nice guy never he was a plagiarist He destroyed Clarence Thomas in a really sick attack on him.

He did the same thing with Robert Bork. He lied about his resume.
He lied about law school. He was suspended for cheating and plagiarism.
And

he was a racist. I mean, he couldn't say, he couldn't mention race without praising some southern segregationist in the Senate or corn pop, that

sick story about how he takes on black ghetto gang members with his little golden hairs on his white legs.

You know what I mean? That's just, he he is a sick person when he blows in the hair or he's accused of these violent sexual assaults. So there was nothing nice about him.
And so when he has lost his

controls through dementia and he starts talking and he gets that anger, you see his eyes? It just, they get little beady and they spin and he gets,

he becomes reptilian. He starts screaming and he's full of hate and anger.

But that's not because suddenly he's lost control of his senses it's because he's lost control of the control of his senses so now it's it's it's not it's not censored it's not you know covered up it's not episodic it's chronic and serial is that a nice thing to say about our president No, it's not a nice thing to say about your president, but he really shouldn't be in that position.

So people are caught in a quandary. Like, we shouldn't have this guy as president.
But if he's going to stay in there, then,

you know i i'm sorry i'm i'm sorry he has you know l either dementia or onset of alzheimer's or whatever it is um you know i'm sorry about that but he's in he has a rendezvous with a reckoning and it's going to start in the midterms i want everybody listening to remember something

If you go back in 1994, right before the Clinton tsunami midterm that we lost well over 50 seats, or you go back to the Tea Party revolt in 2010 that really sidetracked the Obama administration.

Right around Labor Day, when all of the polls for most of the year had shown that Democrats had gone so far left there was going to be a big pushback, suddenly after Labor Day, all of the toadish, obsequious media started publishing, printing, circulating stories like

Republicans ran out of gas, chance to keep the house,

what happened to the

red wave, and they do that. And then the polls start to be tweaked a little bit.
And Joe Biden went from 38 to what, 42? 42%.

How can you win when your president has 42?

And all of a sudden, we're told he's got

Aviator Joe, and he's in a renaissance, and he got this inflation bill passed. The inflation bill is only going to add more to,

it's just a crony green deal. It has nothing to do with reducing inflation.
It's an embarrassment. What else has he done other than just destroy things?

The border, gas, criminal justice, Afghanistan. So he has a reckoning.
And don't, everybody listening, do not be fooled. Do not get depressed.

This is entirely designed so you don't write your check to a Republican candidate that you despair. You stay home.
You don't watch the news.

You think, oh my gosh, you start to say, well, the Republicans blew it, the dumb party. Don't listen to it.
Do exactly the opposite. Get confident and say, look at these people.

They are terrified and they're creating these fantasies that they're going to win. Don't listen to Nate Silver, the Mr.
Scientific pollster that says there's 21.5 or something.

They're only going to take, don't listen to them. Go out and vote.
People are still very, very angry, despite all the media. They're very angry.
They cannot afford gas. They cannot afford electricity.

They cannot afford billing materials. They cannot afford to buy steak or roast.
They cannot afford to buy a house. They cannot afford to see their

$10,000 at what?

0.4% interest in their bank, see it erode by 9%.

And then they think, wow, that was stupid of me to put my money into a little tiny account that only got half a percent when Joe Biden spiked inflation up to 9%.

So I went into the stock market where I can get an eight or nine. Oh, oh, I lost 20% of my IRA.
Can't retire now. But you know what? I didn't have a savings.
I got killed in the savings.

I got killed in the stock market. But at least I was investing in real estate.
And I didn't put, oh,

real estate's headed toward what? The biggest crash in about 20 years, maybe even before 2008. Believe me, it is.
Yeah, it sounds like it is.

Just look at how many days it takes a house to sell, to sell. And they were so, people forget the houses were so overpriced, but they were affordable because of the zero interest rate.
Yeah.

When you get interest up, mortgage interest to four to six percent,

then that spike price is unaffordable.

And people, it always takes a while for a person to, that's trying to sell a house for a profit, a big profit, and is used to this crazy bull market to just say, you know what, it's over with.

Music stopped. I don't have a chair.
I waited too long and come down on the price, but that's going to happen. I don't want it to happen, but that's going to happen.

In 2008, didn't a bunch of people just walk away from their mortgages? All of them did.

So my mortgage, that was a whole deal. They were just,

they were just houses. I would ride my bike in Fresno.
It was for sale, for sale, for sale, for sale. And they were all bank.

Bank selling because people lost their job or

they lost their savings or whatever, but they had bought a house that was too

expensive and an interest rate that was too high. And

there was a reckoning and their lives were destroyed. I knew a lot of people.
I can tell you already you can feel it because

when I started this saga of hiring electricians and plumbers and painters and remodelers to fix this house that had a fire, you couldn't find anybody.

And suddenly today, a contractor called up and said, I'm here.

Can I do something for you? And that's happened now. And all of a sudden, I think we're starting to see a slowdown.
And I think the boom is over in remodeling and new construction.

I don't want it to be, but I think it is.

I think Joe Biden has printed so much money and spiked this economy so much for this midterm and created this rampant inflation that he has no choice but to raise interest rates, his Federal Reserve people.

And if they don't, they're going to get hyper inflation. If they do, they're going to get a third quarter of negative growth.
That's exactly what we saw with Jimmy Carter.

I saw in the Wall Street Journal today that the average home interest rate was at 6.2 now. And it's

on a 6. That's getting up there.

Yeah.

But the housing prices, if you look at them, they really haven't gone down that much. They just stayed on the market.

And that tells you that the crash is coming because when you don't sell these homes for discounts, but you still think that the inflation or whatever is going to be 3% or 4%

and we're going to get back a 3% growth. And next year, it's not.
And so it's going to be all at once rather than a gradual descent. I think it's going to be an implosion around the first of the year.

I would do.

It was all avoidable. All he had to do was tell his left-wing base, you wouldn't have got any Democrat

agenda in without me. I was your veneer of

old Joe Biden from Scranton. I'm here.
I did did my job. So, what I'm going to do is this.

I'm going to praise the vaccinations and say that

they were my

work. I'm going to keep Anwar open, finish Keystone, and say that thanks to me, gas prices are affordable when they're not anywhere else in the world.

I'm going to just say, you know what, the materials are there. I'm going to finish the wall.
I'm going to just say, you know.

we don't have illegal immigration. And

on and on and on. Our Afghanistan, I'm just going to follow the 3,500 people.
You know, they guard Bagwin, the biggest Air Force base in Central Asia, and that's ours for a while until the Taliban

says something about it and try to do something. But it's ours, and there's not going to be a million.
All he had to do was do that and then claim it. He's a plagiarist anyway.
That's not trade.

No, he is. That's true.
So all he had to do is

plagiarize the whole Trump mega agenda claim it as his own and then trash trump personally and he's done that but he he turned out to be an ideologue a complete socialist and he's ruined the economy and he's ruined the energy situation and he's ruined a pretty stable country crime-wise that saw it gradually go down.

He's spiked it like we're back to escape from New York and escape from Los Angeles days. All right.
Victor, we're at the end of our hour.

And thank you so much for all of that critique and really just opening our eyes to the lies, actually,

that we've been hearing from the left. And particularly in that speech Joe gave us.
So thank you so much. Now, thank everybody for listening.
And don't give up hope. They have a rendezvous.

They did this. You're not the minority.
You're not crazy. You are the majority of Americans.
You're You're sane. Your common sense.
Your wisdom will prevail.

These people are Jacobin revolutionaries, and they've tried to foist upon us a neo-socialist green agenda, race-based. It's full of anger and venom, and it's not going to work.

You're going to show them that in November, and then I think... it'll slow down.

Don't be afraid of them. They're bullies, and they're not the majority of the country.
All right. I fully agree with you, Victor.
And thanks so much to everybody once again.

And this is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis-Hansen, and we're signing off. Thank you, everybody.

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