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So just as we were about to record, this story popped up.

And I'll just read this quickly, Victor.

Palm Springs, a desert city in Southern California.

I have a feeling that's probably a city.

Isn't Bob Hope and wealthy old Republicans used to live in places like that?

Palm Springs will allocate $200,000 to start a program giving transgender and non-binary residents between $600,000 and $900 a monthly income.

The Los Angeles Times has reported the Palm Spring City Council unanimously approved a plan to develop the program last Thursday, unanimously approved.

And according to this piece, and I'm looking at a piece in the blaze, no strings attached.

Here you go.

Take the money, do whatever you want with it.

Just because you say you are, you're non-binary, we're going to give you dough.

I mean, Victor, this is, I guess it's crazy.

I know, but I think it's a virtue of also of a wealthy town, a perversion of wealth.

You wouldn't find a poor town giving away money like this.

Anyway, what are your thoughts quick on this, Victor?

Well, you have to have some exegesis because it makes no sense.

I mean, half of 1%

suffer from gender dysphoria.

That is, their

neurosystem is not matched with their physical system.

And it's a definable physical ailment or challenge.

I don't want to be...

deprecatory, gratuitously so, but we've known it since antiquity.

You know, there's a great poem by Catullus Jack called the Attis, A-T-T-I-S in English, Attis,

and it's a Tau Theta in Greek, and it's about a rite of Sibyl in this form of ecstasy.

This young man, it's kind of the male, unique, sexually ambivalent devotees of the great mother goddess Sibyl from the East and Asia.

They castrate themselves and poor Attis gets caught up in this.

And I think it's the Pandara Ilia.

the weight of his groin, he cuts off, and then he sits on the shore and looks across the ocean, emasculated when he wakes up.

It's a way of Catullus, who was, you know, his poem is openly bisexual, but it's part of that larger malu that he's talking about.

But my point is this: that the left has to have a crisis or a cause, and

whether it's climate change, or whether it's gay rights, or whether it's wokeism

or whether it's social

governance, environmental SCE for corporations are the great reason.

They have to have these things.

And they're running out of oppression.

There's too many

there's too many would-be victimized for the number of victimizers.

So we end up in that situation with juicy smallets everywhere, and they happen all the time.

But this particular cause, which is a subset of that

never let a crisis go to waste, have some manufactured epidemic of fear.

In this case, Jackets, there's a nationwide effort to go after transgender people.

They're just suffering left and right.

They have nowhere to hide if it wasn't for left-wing people.

But it's also, you're right, it's about that phenomenon.

is very predominant in three areas, the media, the wealthy East Coast, West Coast media, and I include Silicon Valley and social media and academia

and

entertainment, Hollywood.

Remember it started with the first time I heard about it as in the word transgendered was Sher's son, remember Chas Bono?

I think he transgendered, he transitioned, I should say.

And I think what it is, it's a way of very wealthy, mostly white people, not all, because it is a biological condition for some.

But for wealthy white people to adopt an oppressed group and they don't, they can feel it's one of their own, they own it.

Because the feminism now, I mean, when you have 55% of all undergraduates are women and the majority of

BAs are female, it's very hard to say that women are oppressed.

So they're on to the transgendered.

So it's a fixation or a tick of the wealthy white urban classes.

And they feel this is somewhere where nobody will say to us, oh, you know, you ain't black or, you know, you're inauthentic or this is something they feel that they've carved out in their cultural social malu.

And it's very predominant.

When I'm here in the San Joaquin Valley of California, I will see somebody who's transgendered, of course, because they're everywhere.

No problem.

I've never seen anybody singled out for hatred or bias.

And it's no big thing, but when I'm in the academic world on the coast or I'm in the media world, it becomes a fixation.

And I think, unfortunately, a lot of people who are very young, this is a trite thing to say because it's been so well discussed by others, far more informed, but it becomes a fad,

a cause celeb, and then people do things to their bodies that are very harmful.

What I don't understand about the left is, see, Jack, they're environmentalists, but they don't care about feces on the sidewalk of major urban centers.

They have to

have open borders, but they don't care about all the trash and stuff that people out here throw when they're illegal.

They

are natural food people.

They don't like cigarette smoke.

They hate meat.

And yet they're willing to put these very dangerous synthetic drugs into the arms of young, you know, preteen people.

It's almost barbaric.

What good would be going on a gluten-free diet and eschewing certain drugs and then shooting yourself with the most powerful hormones in the world.

Well, Victor, speaking of giving injections, Anthony Fauci, our old friend.

You're going to give me an injection of Fauci.

Oh, we are.

Well,

there are two things about him.

One, I noticed on Twitter, someone found an interview that he did on C-SPAN where he was very adamant with the...

I forget the guy, Pete.

I know he's interviewed you before, the C-SPAN guy.

But this is from a number of years ago.

fauci looked much younger where someone said what if you got the flu don't you need to get a flu shot

absolutely yeah i mean so so let's talk about that but also more the bigger issue about fauci is this big vanity fair piece that's out he's no longer you know the saint fauci

even with part of the media that's as liberal as vanity fair here's this it's a story by i want to read two things one is vanity fair and the other is daily mail a woman catherine eben

this shouldn't happen inside the virus nonprofit at the center of the lab leak controversy.

So, this is on Vanity Fair's website, March 31st.

So,

going down scale a little bit,

love the Daily Mail because they do a great job on reporting things.

Their headline of this story is revealed.

Dr.

Fauci silenced all Wuhan lab leak theories after being schmoozed by gain of function researcher Pete Dazak, whose controversial bat experiments may have sparked this pandemic, new reports claim.

And they are referring to the Vanity Fair article.

So, Victor, this is the barnacle on the hull of the USS Fauci.

It's not going away.

He had a role in it.

He made us taxpayers complicit in this, that he is being somehow weirdly wooed by the guy that he's giving money to is weird.

But so we have that and we have that video clip we just mentioned.

Have at Anthony Fauci, please, Victor.

You know,

I was very very critical of him in March and April of 2020.

I got attacked by a lot of people for that.

And the reason I was is that it took you about four minutes to go back and look at these YouTube things.

And that one about the efficacy, not just the efficacy, but the superiority of acquired immunity over vaccination.

It wasn't readily available because I didn't see it.

But he had given these pontificating speeches about masks.

Remember, why would anybody want to mask?

Yeah, go on a cruise.

You know, the chances that this thing is going to get over here are very small.

And of course, this was all now we know from the email disclosures of him, of his and Francis Collins via, in reference to people who were inquiring and wanted to know the facts, whether he had helped to Peter Dasik, who remember that guy was what he was an expert on seals or polar bears or something until he hooked up with Fauci and decided to be an Echo Health in the sense of viral researcher.

He's not an MD, but my point is that once they saw that they had exposure that prior to the outbreak of this virus, they wanted gain of function research, it had been outlawed in the United States and they were funneling money to their friend Peter Dossik in millions of dollars, millions of dollars, some of which a small percentage, but some, 600,000 or so, were being rerouted with the full knowledge of Fauci to the Wuhan lab.

And then when you think about that, take a deep breath, everybody, and you think, my God,

Anthony Fauci

was at ground zero of COVID.

He has the same relation to COVID as maybe Hillary Clinton does to Christopher Steele.

She helped fund him or she funded him.

And that's, she's the creator of Russia, the Russian hoax.

he's a creator in some ways of the myth that that the lab had nothing to do with it and so he he lied about masks he said that one wasn't helpful two were better none of all sometimes he praised the who then he's backed off from that then he said herd immunity really was 60 maybe 70 or 80 then he immediately immediately said he had to lie about masks so that people wouldn't go out and buy them so he had zero credibility and now we learn with the released emails in this this latest video that you referenced jack that he never did believe that vaccinations were superior he just he just wanted to scare us and say that natural immunity didn't exist so we'd all get vaccinated maybe it was a noble platonic lie like his mask you know the masks don't work oh thank god they didn't go out and buy masks so that the er people couldn't get them ah herd immunity nah it doesn't work oh thank god he said that that way people will go out and get vax and what if they do get a little greater side effects or unnecessary vax?

But it's for the greater good.

That's how he functions.

You know, he's 80 years old.

He's a multi-billion dollar czar.

He sits there at the Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases with this multi-billion dollar budget.

And then these obsequious researchers write to him, please, please, please, Anthony, you're the greatest guy in the world.

Is there any chance that I could come and see you?

Well, I don't know.

And he doles out our money while he's the highest paid bureaucrat in the government.

And of course, his wife is

an ethics czar that adjudicates people's ethics for a government health bureaucracy.

You know what he reminds me of?

He's 80.

And when I was in high school, there's a guy, I'll just change the last name, Hector Lopez.

That wasn't, Lopez wasn't his last name, but Jack, he was about 5'4, and he had arms that were no bigger than twigs, but he was one of the strongest pound-for-pound people I ever saw.

And if he grabbed you, I mean, people don't believe it, but he was just his body was just taunt, it was just skin and bone, but it was all tendons.

And there was a big guy, I won't mention his name, that pushed him around.

Made him, Hector had a little bit of disabilities, cognitively impaired.

I don't know what it was, but one time Hector grabbed down that guy, big guy, who pushed him and he grabbed him.

He wouldn't let go, Jack you couldn't peel him off you couldn't he hit him in the head it was like he had an iron grip that is Anthony Fauci and the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease no matter what happens he's clinging to that job he doesn't care about doing research he doesn't care that he was caught lying to Rand Paul he doesn't care that he was a total political operative who went on CNN and trashed the president was talking behind Trump's back he doesn't care about he was wrong he doesn't care.

He's cynical.

He's got a grip on that agency.

And he says, you know what?

I may be 80 years old and I may be decrepit as 80s year olds can be, but I'm not going to let go of this thing because without it, I'm nobody.

And he'll never let go, never.

And that's where we're at.

This is the guy who told us.

that we were going to flatten the curve for three weeks.

And then you can see that he was communicating with Democratic and left-wing people the whole time.

And that took on a life of its own.

And it started to have political usefulness in that 102 million male in-ballot 2020 election year.

And he was always a political operative.

He was distrustful.

He hated Trump's guts.

Everything he said about quarantine, social distancing, masking was predicated on the political ramifications of every decision he made, i.e.

in favor, he was in communication with the left.

He seemed to know about the Pfizer vaccination being viable before the election when they deliberately suppressed that knowledge.

So time to go, be gone with you as Oliver Cromwell.

Can we be done with you?

Bye, shut up, get out.

Well, Victor, the initial comments that masks don't work, I think we'll transition into the borders not working.

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Victor, this is big in many ways.

Of course, you wrote a book about Dying Citizen.

You wrote a book about Mexico.

You've talked many times on these podcasts about the obvious connection between sovereignty, borders, citizenship.

Layer on to this, what we talked about on our most recent podcast and others before that, the declining political fortunes of the Democrats coming up.

And could could there be another

kind of stepping on a landmine by Joe Biden than what he intends to do with this Title 42,

which was a Trump initiative that restricted asylum claims?

Biden is going to, either he's lifting them or they go away unless they're renewed, I think the end of May.

This is a signal to crash the border again.

What is a border, or what's an imaginary border in the United States?

So this is a travesty, I think, Victor, coming up.

What are your thoughts on why

Biden is doing this?

And what does this mean for the United States?

Well, we know why he's doing this because

the left cannot convince the majority of Americans that their agenda is workable.

It's not.

It's a failure.

So they feel that by opening the border, and I mean, it's not, we keep saying this, but 2 million in the fiscal last fiscal year and another million at the rate we're going.

I think there was almost 170,000, Jack, in February alone.

So you can see that you're getting close to 2 million already.

We could have 4 million, is what I'm saying, in Biden's first two years.

And 700,000 people, roughly 750, make up a congressional district.

So you're talking, you know, 20 congressional,

well, excuse me, 750, you're talking

four.

If you do this two, four, and you did it for four years, you get 8 million people.

So you're getting, you know, 10 congressional districts almost, 10 congressional districts worth of new people, all beholden supposedly to the Democratic Party who allowed them to come in unaudited, untested, unvaccinated, without diversity, without legality, with largely without

and

without any concern for the numbers and the ability to assimilate or integrate them.

And so why would they do something so insane?

Often at the expense of minorities and marginalized communities or

social services will be taxed.

And the answer is that they're ideal laws and they want to remake the United States.

and they want to import a new demographic they feel will have fealty toward them in exchange for using other people's money to support them and give them educational legal uh housing food subsidies etc etc and that's why they've opened the border and they don't really care so you have one on the one hand anthony fauci saying oh i don't know about this omicron new variant there's a new variant of the variant of the variant and we could go back to lockdown then you have mallorca saying it's over It's over.

We don't need this 42 rule.

They can just come in.

There's no worry about COVID.

So it shows you that the ideologically of the ideology of illegal immigration is even stronger than the karen paranoia of being infected and that's what that's what they want to do and when you you think the right would be hysterical and say you're destroying the sovereignty of the united states it's not quite united because you have the corporate right and they always want cheap labor where they can use use up young people from that are impoverished, allow them to do, you know, cooks, landscapers, meat packing, whatever, farm labor.

And then, when they're hurt or injured, put them on the social network and let the public pay for them and bring in a new group.

So, that's that's the politics of it.

And Joe Biden, you know, he took an oath to faithfully uphold the laws.

So, if you were in a real world rather than this fantasy land, and these are the following immigration statutes that say if you come in illegally, you shall be detained and returned to your country of origin, or you will have a legal hearing and people aren't even showing up for those.

He would be impeached.

And according to the protocols that the Democrats have established, it's pretty much if you're a first-term president and the opposite party gains control of the house in the midterm elections, they're going to impeach you twice.

So when the Republicans take control, they're going to have a real fight on their hands on whether it's wise or not to impeach him.

Politically, it may not be wise, but according to the law, he's impeachable.

He deliberately,

he deliberately broke his oath of office.

He really did.

And that issue drives people crazy because whether they're Punjabi first-generation immigrants who are trying to sponsor somebody with a PhD of capital and fluency in English, and they've been waiting five years, or whether it's a Mexican-American person that's in

trying to be upwardly mobile in a predominantly poor neighborhood where the schools are just now getting all English speakers and have an influx of people who don't speak English or people who depend on public health services that are swarmed, ERs are swarmed.

It's again, the elite does not care.

If Joe Biden, you know, I keep going back to that.

I don't want to bore the readers, but I've written two columns in my life that I got the greatest number of hate one was suggesting that the empty corridor from pow

woodside along 280 to the coast to half moon bay all the way to south san francisco you know 45 miles north and south and 35 miles east and west it's pristine since you believed in the illegal aliens and you believed in poor the poor and helping why don't we make high density apartment buildings and put a couple million people in affordable housing in the bay area we have the Crystal Springs Hetchechi Water.

We have 280.

We can get mass trans

people got really angry.

One person even wrote me that they didn't work hard to have a polo field, polo field, so that they could have some illegal aiming squatting on it, really.

He said that.

And then the second one was when I suggested that all of the dorms in the United States had the ability to house about 500,000 people and they were idle in the summer.

So when these influxes, which are predominantly summertime phenomena, when they come in and poor people come in and they don't have a COVID test and they're not vaccinated and they have an array of maladies and they're poor and what do they need, Jack?

They need where I work, they would need expert legal care.

Stanford University's Law School is one of the best in the world.

It's right there.

They would need health care.

Stanford Medical Center is right there.

They would need housing.

They have housing on on campus for six or seven thousand people that's not being used in the summer.

They would need food support.

There's a lot of in-campus food services.

They would be wonderful.

And then they need tutorials and acclimatization and integration.

And there's all these summer interns, these Stanford left-wing students.

Why not?

take the million 2 million that are coming and to direct them to Harvard, Yale, Princeton.

That would be an ideal solution.

And yet people wrote me the most racist things.

No, I'm not going to

be serious.

I am serious.

Don't mess with the man in his polo field.

That's kind of...

That was a Woodside guy who wrote me and said, you know, what do you want me to do?

I don't want squatters on my polo field.

And I went up and gave a talk in San Francisco and I mentioned that.

And a guy got so angry in the audience that he tried to approach me.

and they had to kind of restrain him and then they kicked him out.

He was screaming and yelling and he was kind of a wimpy, really wealthy Silicon Valley type.

I wanted him to come up.

I thought, you know what, this will be interesting.

But he was so angry to be told that he was a snob and an elitist and wanted illegal aliens to live in everybody's backyard except his estate.

Well,

the third mansion, Barack's building the third mansion in Hawaii, and he's already at odds with the environmentalists because he's, you know, it's Barack.

And, you know, he's right on the ocean shore of Hawaii where, you know, climate change will inundate.

So he's got all these drain systems.

I looked at it.

It's a big house, Jack, because he could just fly a lot of illegal aliens into his backyard.

Michelle could tutor him and read him stories.

Well,

hey, Victor, no borders maybe means

one world, right?

World government.

Well, we're going to talk about one of the gurus of that.

We've mentioned Klaus Schwab before on these podcasts, but I don't think we've ever really drilled down on him.

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So Victor, I found a piece.

I sent it to you.

This is kind of the character you would see in 70s movies or this European elite super status leader of the world.

People mock them.

I forget these Bilderbergs or other trilateral commission types, but

I think they're for real.

So Klaus Schwab, this is the headline of a story.

Klaus Schwab calls on global leaders to form world governance.

And Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum, which I believe is the Davos thingamajig that all the people fly to in their private planes to

complain about climate change.

So the World Government Summit has just happened in Dubai and Schwab gave one of, he spoke, he's one of the main speakers there about more inter-government and supra-government cooperation is needed.

There's going to be something he's calling the fourth industrial revolution.

It's arrived.

It's happening fast, much faster than the other

industrial revolutions happen.

And we, the elite, we, the smart people, we need to take charge of this.

I'm making that, you know, compacting his speech there kind of comically.

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Victor, I'd be interested to know if you've ever been to Davos or cross paths with any of these types at any kind of...

formal setting.

I doubt you have.

But if you have, let us know.

But also any thoughts about this character, Klaus Schwab.

You know, I know a little bit.

I don't know him.

I haven't been to Davos, davos but michael walsh the former time essayist and author yeah our friend yeah yeah our friend he's written a book called the great reset project and it's a collection of contributors and everybody has to contribute 8 000 words about an aspect of the dangers of the great reset and he asked me to give the initial overview and i think my you know the overview of the great reset so i spent you know like um i don't know two or three weeks reading everything i could And I wrote it almost 10,000 words about it.

And it's very scary because it's the John Kerrys of the world from the political world, the

Macron's, the Trudeau's in the political world.

It's Bill Gates, it's George Soros,

it's Michael Bloomberg.

It's the people who are becoming fabulously wealthy in China.

And there's a lot of military ex-generals.

There's all of that elite, what we call bi-coastal elite and their European and Asian counterparts and Middle East counterparts.

And they believe that democracy, they don't say it because they say they're pro-democracy, but when you read what they're really writing, he wrote a book called COVID-19 and the Great Reset.

At least he had the honesty, Jack, to say that this was a wonderful opportunity.

And the only people that I know who, I mean, besides Rama Emmanuel, never let a crisis go to waste, the only two people I really remember was Hillary Clinton said, we can't waste COVID.

We've got to get universal health care, one payer system.

And then Gavin Newsom said, we've got to get a progressive capitalism.

So they admitted, but he did and said, COVID-19 and the Great Reset and this tragedy that's killing, you know, over a million people gave a chance to get this elite group, these platonic guardians.

to go to Davos and these places, the World Economic Forum, and then they could say, these are what we're going to impose, a uniform corporate rate, and that will allow for environmentalism, social justice,

and world governance, the ESG agenda, and then green, the Paris Accord, and

diversity.

And we're going to transcend national sovereignty.

And I, you know, when I first started, I thought, who would ever trust anything to these people?

But, you know, they're very successful and in various walks of life and influential, a lot of entertainers but the funny thing is it's working they have already drafted a world income tax blueprint and everybody we signed on to it jack of minimum taxation of corporations and what they really want to do is they do not want an Ireland, for example, or any Eastern European offering tax incentives to bring a corporation that would hire people and be robust in economic activity rather and then reduce the taxes in exchange for that stimulus because they wouldn't be able to count on the tax revenue going to unelected bureaucrats like themselves for redistribution.

So they're very dangerous people.

And I like to just politely say to the left that The threat to democracy in this country will not come from somebody with epaulettes and sunglasses and an officer's cap or a January 6th look.

It's always going to be some soft-spoken constitutional lawyer like Barack Obama who just, you know, I just have to surveil those associated press reporters.

I just got to find out what James Rosen's saying to his, to his grandmother.

I just got to have Lois Lerner rejecting tax exempt statuses.

I just got to kind of, you know, maybe sort of maybe spy on Donald Trump during the transition, or it's going to be a wonderful Kevin Kleinsmith that just kind of has to alter a document that allows him to snoop on people,

or it just happens to be Hillary Clinton that has a little money that she can give the DNC, can give a little money to Perkins Coe, give a little money to Fusion GPS, can give a little money to Christopher Steele, a foreign nationally interfere and destroy a candidate.

That's where the danger is because you see there's no left-wing audit on them.

They're on the same team.

At least with the right, the media hate you all the time and they don't, whether you're moral or not doesn't matter.

you can't afford to be immoral because they're watching every aspect of their life

but when you give a free pass human nature being what it is the left just takes advantage of that so this great reset is uh it hates the united states more than any other country because these international elites feel that not only are we too capitalist even though i think our tax code is less capitalist than Europe, I think we're more socialist than they are now.

But what they really hate are certain aspects aspects of the United States that are quirky or they represent our Puritan foundation or they're our frontier.

And that's this awful Second Amendment.

There's nothing like it in the world.

And this weird, nutty idea that abortion, even late-term abortion is deathly and murder and violence.

Where do they get that?

And this idea of getting a big pickup truck and owning your own spread and being highly individualistic, like as if it's 1880.

They can't stand that.

And so when you look at the Great Reset's actual protocols, it's aimed really at the United States.

Victor, I'd like to talk just briefly, or hear you talk just briefly, about a court case, and then I'd like to end the podcast talking about the infamous slap, which I know everyone still is talking about.

And that's why I think I want to hear from you about it.

But the court case has to do with that Oberlin College ruling.

So remember the story, there was a bakery in town, a long standing member of the community, some kids from Oberlin, this is in Ohio, they come into the store, they're trying to shoplift, they get into a fight with one of the, I think the grandson of the owner.

He was arrested eventually.

There was a shoplifting thing going on.

But of course, Oberlin College came out furious against this racist.

act, et cetera.

And then the dean of students, there was a protest outside the store, probably several protests, but the dean of students of the college was actually creating and handing out flyers and accusing the family who ran the store of being racist.

Went to trial.

The family sued Oberlin, and I think the decision was two years ago.

We talked about it a long time ago, one of the other podcasts.

It was a tremendous financial ruling against the college of over 30.

I think the initial was over 40 million dollars.

It was cut back a little bit, but by

this ruling that came out the other day holds this penalty at over 30 million dollars so that's a fact and you know bravo i'm glad the court said that but the thing that interests me is that the infamous dean of students who was in the streets handing out flyers attacking these people left the college and she was hired by oglethorpe college in georgia earlier this year where she is now the vice president for student affairs it's meredith ramundo and this i just don't get about the academy that somebody who did something so disastrous for an institution

what did she do disastrous jack she was out on the street handing out the pliers that literally lit so far they love that continue right right but it's the 30 million dollar bill so they have a multi-billion dollar endowment go keep going where did she go wrong so she she she cost the university millions of dollars for what a wonderful cause that's going to remind everybody how left-wing they are, right?

I guess so.

I guess that's mad about that.

Some guy with thick glasses that's in a little closet office who's the CFO's assistant and says, if you do this and keep doing this, we have exposure.

Our insurance rates are going up.

But academics, administrators, they're the least knowledgeable people about physical responsibility in the world.

They're tenured for hire for life.

And they don't care about money.

And not until they're laid off.

And they never think it's going to happen to them.

So in their way of thinking, they were speaking truth to power.

The poor, was he 93 years old, the patriarch who died and his son died?

Yeah, he was

died.

Right.

It was terrible.

It was tragic.

And they just, they knew people had been shoplifted and they just caught a guy red-handed.

And then they went out and basically the university unleashed a systemic terrorist campaign against them.

I'll use the word terrorist.

That's got poor Joshua Katz in trouble at Princeton, but I don't mean in the sense of a racial term.

I'm just saying that the universities allowed people to go in there and to disrupt the lives of those owners, and they did so with a boycott and violence and shouting and defaming them.

And the court found that.

And they have no apologies whatsoever to make.

And so that's where it is.

And

the left never apologizes.

They just move on to the next cause.

I mean, maybe Hunter, once in a while, the laptop, it's so embarrassing, but they didn't apologize.

They said, well, you know, somebody may have said

that it was inauthentic or it wasn't just information.

But that's about the extent they'll do it.

They never apologize.

Never apologize, move on to the next psychodrama.

That's what they do.

Well, Victor, let's end today's podcast with a still ongoing psychodrama.

And this is the Will Smith slap of Chris Rock, which we're okay.

You and I are talking on Saturday the second.

This happened six, five or six days ago, Monday, the previous Monday.

And today, just as we're talking, the Daily Mail's top story is now Denzel's Prayers with Will.

Who are we to condemn?

Denzel Washington slams his fellow A-listers for judging Will Smith, et cetera.

This on Daily Mail, which I think is a terrific website, there's probably two or three stories a day about this, and people keep talking about it.

Look, I'm just curious your thoughts.

Why is America

so

taken with this incident?

Is it a stand-in for other issues?

We should have stopped talking about it, I guess, two days after it happened, but we still are, and people still will be, I think, a week from now and months from now.

What are your thoughts?

They're right.

It's a Colin Kaepernick moment.

It's LeBron james not standing up for the national anthem or not saluting the flag but obsequious enthralled to his chinese paymasters so it's the hypocrisy of the whole thing he has an estate in calabasas he's a multi-mult billionaire probably and this idea that after he slapped somebody that he's not arrested, that's an assault.

And then the academy doesn't remove him immediately from the premises.

And he feels contrite.

He's kind of laughing.

Then he's caught when he understands his wife is upset.

So then he wants to be macho.

And I won't get into the whole cuck scenarios that people have been writing about.

But then afterwards, he does get the award and they give him a standing ovation after he just hits somebody like that.

And I don't know why he wasn't arrested.

And then we had to hear all of the other melodramas about the black man and his childhood and all that stuff.

So it was just an encapsulation of this sick country and what happens when the left takes over institutions.

You remember the video music awards, Jack, when Kenya West, was it 2009 came in?

Taylor Swift, and he just disrupted it and started screaming?

Nobody said a word.

And so what's happened to the Oscars, say, 50 years ago, I don't know, 1970, if somebody in the audience, even during the heyday of the 60s generation, if somebody in the audience had stood up and started disrupting and screaming, they would have been removed.

If 30 years ago, 1990s, somebody who was yelling, they wouldn't have been removed.

But if they said the F word on global TV, which he did, they would have been removed.

Now

you can disrupt, you can use profanity, the F word.

and you can hit somebody with a surprise coward.

He was also, this is another thing people don't talk about.

You look at Chris Rock and Will Smith's huge compared to Chris Rock.

And he didn't come up and say to him, listen, after this is over, I want to talk to you.

Or if you're going to make fun of my wife right now, do it to my face.

He didn't do anything.

He just, he gave him a blind sucker punch.

Most cowardly thing to do.

It was disgusting.

And they've destroyed that whole, I mean, that had the second worst ratings.

This was after COVID.

This was supposed to be the resurgence because COVID was over.

You could come out now and they had turned the production over to an African-American team.

And, you know, it's, they've destroyed it.

They've actually destroyed, like they've done the Grammys.

And when, you know, it's kind of like giving an Emmy to Governor Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, or they've destroyed every, they have the on-midas touch.

So the response is that the people are listening to this, they'll say, well, Victor, why do we care?

I haven't been to a Hollywood movie in a theater in 30 years.

Or they'll they'll say, I haven't watched the Oscars in 25 years, or I don't even know what the, I can't know the difference between a Tony and a Grammy and an Emmy.

Who cares?

Or I don't watch the NBA anymore.

Why would I want to watch LeBron James, some half-wit lecturers?

I don't want to watch that.

Tell me that I'm a racist every single day of his life when he's up there in some mansion in LA.

So they've tuned out all of this.

And that's because everything they touch, they have to ruin.

and and that's part of their nihilism and you know it started i guess it was what was her name jack it was that you remember when marlon brando was it uh right

that was the woman

little feather little feather little feather yeah

1972 i think it was yeah yeah no yeah

no it was the 50th anniversary of the uh

Yeah, and he didn't want it.

He got the Academy Award for what, was it the Godfather or it was The Last Tango in paris i can't remember godfather yeah and he didn't want to get it he wanted to say that you know i'm making a statement but he didn't have the guts just to say like george c scott did i don't believe in this is an accurate assessment of action i'm not going to show up i don't want he sent a surrogate to say no you remember and so she got up and the whole ward church will get up and gave this lecture right and kind of just hijacked for the first time really a political hijack and then clint eastwood was the guy following and as i remember he said something like when when she was going on exploitation and death and genocide, and Clint said, well, you know, John, there's a lot of cowboys got killed in John Ford Western.

And that was about the extent of the controversy.

But you could see the slope that we were on, the slippery slope, where the left.

For the left, everything has to be politics, 360 degrees, 24-7.

And the purpose of art, it's not ours

gradia artis, art for the sake of art.

It's art for the sake of politics.

It's a Soviet style and every form of expression has to have an ultimate tell-oss, an ultimate end for political advantage and a political agenda.

And people are so sick of it.

It's another reason that I really do believe, I know that I'm a broken record, but this November midterm is going to be a tsunami.

And every single person has a beef, whether it's gas or inflation or the school board or critical waste theory or what we just talked about, the coarsening of American society and the lies about it, the lies about it.

The other thing, you know, I want to be very careful in finishing what I'm saying, but I'm just going to respond to what the left says about diversity, inclusion, equity, affirmative action, proportion.

I grew up I should say, I came of age with these concepts of proportional representation.

So do you, Jack, you're younger, and disparate impact.

Remember those terms where for hiring and for marquee positions, that the country would be represented according to the ratios of its ethnic groups.

If blacks were 12%, damn it, there should be 12%

neurosurgeons or airline pilots.

That was the argument.

And if there wasn't, you couldn't say,

Well, I know you're not racist, so who cares?

It just happened.

It was called disparate impact.

There were nebulous, cosmic, existential forces that were, we would later be enlightened enough to call them systemic racism, but microaggressions and things like that, that made certain prestige marquee jobs not represent America.

Well, you know what it is today?

It's repertory.

Because when you look at the Oscars, I swear, 40% of them of the people there and participating were African-American.

You look at commercials, I have no problem with it, but 55, 50, 45%, I think statistics say about 40 are African-American, not 12%.

And when you look at, and I didn't understand this Jackson nomination that everybody said it's a racist country and

we have to have an African-American woman, well, we already have,

this will be four of five justices will be women.

And we already have Clarence Thomas.

If we have a second African American, it's according to their own logic is what I'm trying to say.

It will be 20, let me do the 92 divided by 9, 22, 20%

will be African-American.

That's overrepresentation.

So once you go down that trajectory that you're only going to judge people on percentages of the general population until you are represented exactly, you have claims against society.

What happens when you're overrepresented and you assume the role of so-called white people, whether it's 73%

in the NBA or 74% in the NFL, or you're white males and you're only, you know, 33% of the population and you're 75% of the people being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So this is what is so fascinating.

Just as an observer, I'm not, I don't really care.

I mean, I'm just, I'm not involved in it.

But when I look at it and I see what's going on, that the civil rights movement first was equality of opportunity, and then it was proportional representation, affirmative action to ensure that everybody had a seat at the table.

And now it is, we have to ensure

that extinguishes the threat of white privilege and white hatred and white rage.

And that means that our proportions will be greater than those in the population.

And that's where we're headed.

Nobody seems to articulate that or identify it.

But that's obviously the subtext of everything from the NFL to to commercials and i just wish they would say this the architects of these policies why not just say i don't really care what people look like if

you want to play basketball and the nba is a hundred percent african american that's it's fine with me if you got the best players i don't i don't want quotas for small asian kids or you know overweight white kids or whatever i don't i don't i think it's it's much more demanding game than it was when it was exclusionary.

So I think it's great.

My only, and if it's a marketing decision that you think, well, then only African Americans will watch African American athletes, well, fine, live with it.

Or you can have some white guys that aren't as talented, they didn't make it on merit as much, and you're going to overrepresent them, maybe for marketing purposes.

But let's just be honest about it.

But that doesn't apply to all these things.

I mean, at some point, you get what the subtext is about all this.

It's not proportional representation.

It's not even repertory representation to make up reparations for past sins of somebody's great-great-grandfather, or maybe not somebody's great-great-grandfather.

But it's a hatred.

It really is a hatred of this.

When you hear a Joy Regis spout, white privilege, white privilege, or Maxine Waters, or

there's a real hatred there.

It's a racism, and people should say that.

Right.

And Victor, racism coming from a very small amount of people.

I mean, we've talked about this before i mean i didn't america has made great strides in this and i was the publisher of national review my house every night there were like 12 kids black gay whatever the hell nobody cared america can it because if you look at race you've never had a higher level of intermarriage you've never had more integrated neighborhoods you've never had mixed i look at my own family right whether it's one of my brothers married to a mexican-american woman or my other brother has two mexican american children or my wife's family is multiracial.

I don't understand it.

This white supremacy, white supremacy, it doesn't make any sense.

And then when I look at all of these very talented, I mean, the two smartest people I met at the Hoover Institution in my 18 or 19 years there

have been Shelby Steele and Tom Soule.

And I mean, I know they're Black, but I don't even care.

It never really was an issue because I just looked at the talent that they expressed in their writing and their speaking.

And

so the only good thing about this is it's really weird because of the abuse that black conservatives take from white progressives, they have really had to be courageous.

They've sharpened their skills and they're the best defenders of a meritocracy of any race or anybody or any background.

And when you see a black conservative on television or you see them in the academy, they can out debate white progressives.

I mean, they have to be that because of the abuse they take, but it's been kind of a winnowing out process that they get the most articulate, confident, indomitable people, and they're naturally conservative.

Same is true with Mexican-Americans.

Same is true with French conservatives.

You meet a French conservative,

and they're some of the best conservatives in the world.

They can answer any question and they're courageous.

So I don't know.

I'm really disturbed about this when I see people complaining about race, race, race, race for most of my life,

and we have to have affirmative action.

Now we have affirmative action, now we have a seat at the table, and now we're going to be repertory.

And we hate your don't, your white privilege and your white privilege has to be ended.

And that means we have to have people based on their skin color and numbers greater than the population.

That's just pure hatred.

It really is.

It reminds me so much, as we talked about earlier, the neo-Confederate mind that we're going back to 1850, And you are how you look.

You are what you look.

Well, Martin Luther King is turning over in his grave, I think.

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I've been twitching a lot, Jack.

So I made some noise, but I was all week under the house and up in the attic, and I discovered something.

What?

When you're 68 years old, you can't move around like you did when you're 50 or 40.

And so I go under there, then I...

I'm just a wreck.

And then I have to twitch and move because I have this pain and that ache and that cramp so get some get you some uh i have to get some icy hot or something like that i have that you should see my nightstand

well i'm gonna read one comment so before we go and then i'll shut up i'm gonna shut up i want to listen to it that's okay well a few weeks ago you were talking about the that all of a sudden deluge of rain came so this is titled rain and it's from 2721v whoever that might be and just like that it started to rain.

I listen to all your podcasts.

The classicist is sometimes above my pay grade, but I listen and learn.

As a farm girl from Indiana living in the southern Central Valley, I love the stories about the farm and hope the rain helps.

So, yeah, I hope so too, Victor.

I did for about a week, and I'll take a week over nothing, but we're back to the drought.

Well, let's, we'll do the, we'll do the rain dance.

So, uh, well, that's that is about all the time we do have.

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If you're new, go back and listen to some of the old ones.

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If you really like things classical and historical, Sammy tends to focus on those in her podcast with Victor.

So, anyway, as always, Victor is always brilliant.

Thank you, Victor.

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