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And I would like to remind our listeners that Victor Davis Hansen is the Martin and Ellie Andlerson Senior Fellow in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskie Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

Hi Victor, how are you doing today?

Very good, Sammy.

Very good.

Yeah.

Well, we have a lot of court cases going on, but I was hoping even before we got into the court cases and maybe some reflections broadly on what they mean we could say or talk a little bit about the new book out and giving press to miranda devine's laptop from hell book a very fascinating and a wonderful picture on the front of the illustrious hunter biden but you have anything any reflections i just have one question and then i'll let you say whatever you want how did she get the access to so much information about that laptop?

Did she have a copy of it?

She was within the larger media team that when the owner of the computer store notified, I guess, the FBI, but he also notified the media, and the New York Post was trusted.

So there were people in the New York Post that had access to the hard drive.

And then when they started to publish individual columns, That's when, remember, this was just weeks before the election.

So then the entire mainstream media, both Print and Silicon Valley,

polluted to smother that story.

But they didn't take away her access, obviously.

She had it.

So what she's been doing is methodically going through these emails and then following these

strands.

And I have not read the book, but from her appearances on Fox and from her weekly columns, you get the impression that it's a pretty damning case that Hunter Biden was A, funneling money from people like the Russians, the Ukrainians, and the Chinese into a Biden sort of affiliated quote-unquote investment fund, and whose only reason to be was the Biden name, i.e.

that Joe Biden was first vice president.

And then in his retirement, there were still rumors that he was going to run so he had political capital and they wanted influence.

And the $64,000 question is: to what degree was money given to Mr.

10% or the big guy?

And some of the new revelations suggest that many of the Biden's costs to their rather three-home lavish lifestyle were borne by Hunter Biden's financial group.

I guess what we're asking then is: to what degree did Joe Biden get money from his son's dubious grifting?

To To what degree did he report that income to the IRS?

And to what degree did he do something in return, i.e., for the Chinese.

And now

I'll just finish with a very interesting question.

We heard for two and a half years from the likes of James Comey, Andrew McCabe,

indirectly Robert Mueller, but explicitly

from James Clapper, the ex-director of National Intelligence, and

John Brennan, the former director of the CIA, they used adjectives like treasonous and nouns like traitor in crafting this phony collusion hoax that was based on this fraudulent dossier.

What are they going to say now when their 50 former CIA, including those two, signed a letter when this thing came out in the post that this was likely Russian disinformation?

And remember, they had no access to it.

They didn't know anything about it.

They were asked by the Biden team to prostitute themselves and use the currency of their name or title or former employment to discredit.

And that came up in the debate, the second debate in which Trump did very well.

And Trump and Biden said, well, you know, we have 50 experts.

And then he used their names and titles to discredit the idea that this was accurate.

And this was supposedly then in a really Orwellian fashion.

Real collusion with the Chinese and the Russians and the Ukrainians was turned into proof that Donald Trump was colluding with the Russians as if this was a Russian disinformation strategy used on his behalf.

That is a total lie.

And yet, this is why, you know, I've had a lot of correspondence lately.

Why don't you just get off the Pentagon retired generals?

Why don't you get off the CIA?

Do we have to hear Comey's name again, Brennan?

Yeah, you do have to hear it.

Because when you look at the people, Joe Biden, Robert Mueller, Robert Mueller knew from the second week of his investigation that there was no collusion, yet he went ahead with it.

And they leaked and leaked.

And then he staggered the firings of Lisa Page and Peter Schruck to avoid any suggestion that they had had an illicit relationship and were completely biased and were biased in the operation of their investigation.

And then you look at Comey, Anne Clapper, and Brennan, and McCabe.

And these are people who lied under oath, who lied to the public, and there were no consequences.

So

this thing is dynamite.

Will it matter?

Probably not, because Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama, summed it up well when they asked, how did you push an Iran deal that was a treaty without even going to the Senate?

You bypassed the Senate, and you had Republican idiots, complacent Republicans, or, I don't know, colluding Republicans, that allowed you to do it.

And how did you do it?

And you said, well, we created an echo chamber.

We gave out the narrative and then the crazy reporters picked it up and we said it was your narrative, not ours.

You're brilliant people.

Then they came back to us to confirm what we created.

And when they called it an echo chamber, he did.

And he said, you know, these reporters are 30 and they know nothing.

They don't know nothing.

So he had contempt for his appeasers.

And so what I'm getting is this should be an article of impeachment discussion right now.

I hope it is when the Republicans win back the House, which I think they're going to do.

I don't think anybody, I don't think we want to hear Paul Ryan say it's time to be sober and judicious and not lower ourselves to what the Democrats did twice.

No, you've lost all deterrence.

If you find out that the Biden family and Joe Biden was quid pro quoing with foreign powers, all of whom, at least two of three, were hostile to the United States, then yes, that is a grounds for impeachment.

Yeah.

So that was my question.

Where are the Republicans on this?

Because this information is so damning.

Just because they don't have the House, they don't have, you know, they can't.

There's nothing they can do.

They're six or seven seats short.

They can't introduce an, they can't even call an investigation.

They won't be able to do it till January 20th of 2023.

So it's going to be a year and,

I don't know, five weeks before they can do anything.

And let's hope they can do it then.

And maybe they won't.

Maybe there'll be people who will say, you know,

we've got to go to the center and we've got to be sober and judicious.

And, you know, those impeachments reflected badly on the Democrats.

And the Democrats are going to say to them, well, you know, we didn't really mean it.

There were some firebrands that kind of took over.

It was kind of a hysterical period.

You guys had that January.

They just call it even, okay?

And look what you guys did with Clinton.

You impeached him, and then you lost the House in 98.

You really want to do that to yourself?

Now, I'm not calling for an impeachment as a punitive, you know, gratuitous act.

I'm just saying if there's evidence there, and I do not know that there is, but if there's evidence from Hunter Biden's own laptop, confirmed by Bobolinski and others, that Joe Biden received money indirectly or what, via his son, from foreign governments, and he did not register as a foreign lobbyist, and he did did not pay taxes, then he should be impeached and removed.

And the way the Democrats are going, they may not just lose the Senate, they may lose a super majority.

I mean, they may give the Republicans a super majority of 60 votes.

If they do that, they're in trouble because they could convict him for the first time in American history.

But we'll see.

It's a long way to next year.

Yeah, I would like to talk about all the salacious pictures and

emails on his

just to add a bit of sparse to the i'm sure that some of the more lively and audacious republican congressmen if there were an impeachment would use cicero's praetoratio or the technique of prophosis uh mastered by demostes in which you said i would not lower the standards of this reverend body this revered senate by showing pictures of Hunter Biden.

We don't want to get into whether the Biden family knew that Hunter Biden had sort of strange, bizarre, creepy, sinister sexual relationships.

He even dated his fallen brother's, deceased brother's wife, Cope, but we wouldn't mention that.

It would be below, it would just be so undignified.

And we wouldn't want to have any pictures of it.

But this screen above you, it's just incidental.

I didn't really know that they're on there.

So it'll be a circus if they're, if they have it.

It'd be an entertaining circus.

All right.

And so speaking of law, I I think we better move on to all the court cases recently, the Kenosha and Kyle Rittnaus,

the SUV, otherwise known as Darrell Brooks, who ran over people, and Jesse Smollett also is in the news

recently.

Yeah.

So I would like to hear some of your reflections broadly on these.

you know things about life right these are the absurdity i wish our existence well there's all a tie there's a there's a tie and i think all of our listeners know that.

So when you say Trayvon Martin's 2012 case, George Zimmerman,

and then we go into 2014 Michael Ford, then we go further in to the Jesse Smollett,

and then we have Rittenhouse, and then we have Waukesha, and then we have the Aubury case.

The left has an agenda that does not start with the premise, it has an agenda that does not win 51% of the population.

And when it's out in the open and not disguised and transparent as it is now, it polls about 35%, whether we're talking about critical waste theory, the border, economic policy, inflation, energy, et cetera.

Okay.

And then Joe Biden is down to about 40%.

So they look at events.

They haven't had a Katrina yet, but if it was a natural disaster, they would look at that too.

They've tried to melt COVID for every political possible advantage.

They weaponized it.

When they got through with COVID, Donald Trump had not vaccinated one person, they said, before Biden, I shouldn't say they said, Biden said before he became president.

Biden did Operation Warp Speed.

Biden did this.

So my point is that they need these incidents then to leverage for political advantage.

And that's what they do.

So Trayvon Martin is walking suspiciously around apartment.

George Zimmerman is a volunteer of the community security group of homeowners.

He sees him.

He calls it and said, there's a suspicious looking African-American man.

And he

calls it in.

And then he walks over.

They meet.

And Trayvon, who is not just little Trayvon in a football uniform, eight years old or something, as the media suggested, but he's tall.

I think he's six feet.

He weighs 150 pounds.

And he starts pounding George Zimmerman, who pulls out a gun to save himself and shoots him.

Okay.

That could have been a Latino, because George Zimmerman's mother is named Mesa from Peru.

And he could have gone the whole identity politics route.

He could have been easily called Jorge

Mesa, rather than a Germanic, right-wing-sounding Zimmermann.

But the New York Times knew he was half-Hispanic, so they created a new word, white Hispanic.

Notice that Barack Obama had as little or as much non-white blood, if I could use that archaic term, as George Zimmerman.

But nobody in the New York Times said Barack Obama was a white black.

No, it was only George Zimmerman that was, so they did not want it brown on black, black on brown.

They wanted a case to leverage.

And then they photoshopped.

They, I'm talking about the whole CNN,

the media, the whole print media, Silicon Valley media, and cable television media, and the network news.

And so they photoshopped his injuries, which were quite manifest on his mugshot so that you didn't quite see how much Trayvon had hit him.

And then they took the 911 call and they selectively edited so that he was emphasizing race and which he wasn't.

And then they had that circus.

And then, of course, he was by juries of his peers, he was found innocent.

He had a right of self-defense.

And then everything went nuts.

Okay, Barack Obama waited knee-deep, just like he did in the Cambridge Henry Lewis Gates thing.

He came in and said, Prayvon is the son I never had.

Okay, Bill Clinton during the OJ, you know, said, Mrs.

Simpson would be the second daughter I never had.

What if he'd said that?

So it was a very inappropriate thing to say.

And then BLM started that hashtag Black Lives Matter.

And the three of them, Quellars and Garza and the other woman, were basically, we forget this, but it's very important.

They started that as sort of an LGBTQ

black advocacy because two of them were gay and they had been very prominent in their lesbianism and they were trying to have an advocacy.

And you can find articles on the internet that says the LGBTQ roots of Black Lives Matter.

And then that mushroom, and then it went dormant.

Then you had Charlottesville.

We don't need to get in that.

That was an actual case.

But we had before Charlottesville, excuse me, we had Michael Ford, the Ferguson shooting.

And the same thing happened.

Michael Ford went in, a huge guy, went into a store, strong arm and humiliated the clerk, grabbed some cigarettes or cigarettes and stuff, and just walked out with it.

Then walked right down the street, sort of high on dope, supposedly.

They call the police Ferguson officer, Darren Wilson, sees him walking down, pulls over.

Next thing they know, they're wrestling in the car.

Ford is assaulting an officer.

They wrestle with a gun.

The gun goes off twice.

Michael Brown runs and turns around finally and charges Officer Wilson, who shoots him five or six times in the front.

So there's witnesses who say that he charged an officer.

There's witnesses say they had a prior altercation.

There's forensic evidence that substantiates that.

There's ballistics that show that he was shot in his chest.

It's pretty clear, but no.

BLM and everybody, we get very unreliable people who say, no, he said hands up, don't shoot, to the extent that cable news network anchors were putting their hands up, hands up, don't shoot.

And that became kind of an academic thing where people did that.

It was a total fabrication.

They ruined that officer.

So he was found innocent.

And as in the Trayvon Martin, Eric Holders, DOJ, went after him.

They went after George Zimmerman.

They did the whole nine yards.

And guess what?

Forget about double jeopardy and whether that's kosher to have the federal government use the word civil rights violations to duplicate a murder trial and put somebody in double jeopardy.

But that's what they did again with Officer Wilson.

And what did they find?

They had everybody.

They had the FBI.

They had the DOJ.

They had the community services people.

And they found nothing.

Nothing.

Eric Holder said that the shooting was justified.

Now, he said a lot of other things, but he said it was justified.

And then we had a DA in St.

Louis, if you remember.

He said, I'm going to have my own investigation.

He found nothing.

Didn't matter.

That was a BLM hashtag.

And those two cases created BLM.

That's how they got so famous.

And then corporate money poured into it.

And people thought, you know what?

I'm kind of afraid of this group because they're a lot slicker than Jesse Jackson's Operation Push and the Rainbow Coalition that used to shake down corporations.

And Al Sharpen, They're refined.

They're cultural Marxist.

They are slick and they've got these, and they're going to leverage every single case.

So then we had the Juicy Smollett.

Now, think of that case.

Here is this guy who's a fading star on, was it Empire that nobody watches?

It had terrible ratings at the time of the incident.

So he stages this guy.

He hires two Nigerian residents that he said helped out on the set.

He was so stupid, he wrote them a check.

And then they were filmed getting the necessary rope and bleach, except in a hardware store.

And he says that he was wandering around at two in the morning on the way home from a sandwich purchase, I guess, Subway or something.

And guess what?

Two white people in a very liberal neighborhood of Chicago with MAGA hats on said, hey.

And they yelled a homosexual slur at him and they said, empire.

And then they threw bleach that I think freezes at the temperature that night.

But suddenly they defy the laws of chemistry.

And the bleach is not frozen, but covers poor Juicy.

So one hand on the cell phone to record it and one hand with a sandwich to eat it.

He manages to have a rope put around his neck, which he keeps on as evidence.

But then heroically, he kicked their ass he said he beats up these two or gets away from these two huge white devils and then he comes home and then he calls the police he's all upset and what what's the result of it kamala harrows nancy pelosi the entire blm movement they all say that this is the cause celeb they've been waiting for this is trayvon and michael brown on steroids And from the very beginning, it was concocted.

And they don't do anything to him.

He's been charged, what, three and a half years ago?

Nothing's happened.

Now he's finally coming to trial.

It's a total fraud.

And you know what that trial is going to be like.

It's going to make OJ look like pikers.

It's going to be a complete fraud.

There was no,

first of all, if you went down and got the biggest racist, MAGA racists, if such people exist, and you said to them, Are you mad at Juicy Smollett?

And do you watch Empire?

They would say, What the F?

What is Empire?

I have no idea what it is.

Have you been up to a Chicago Tony mixed diversity neighborhood?

Where?

You go out at two in the morning hunting for African-American.

What?

I mean, it's ridiculous.

And then if you went into the most sophisticated mixed martial arts expert, maybe we could get Joe Rogan to say, Joe, have you ever seen a mix

martial arts expert have one hand with a phone and one

with a sandwich and have a rope put around his neck neck and yet somehow punch and kick and knock away two big intruders.

So then we, the piece of resistance is the two Nigerians then say, you know what, I'm not taking the fall for this phony thing.

You know, so they kind of made, they kind of roughed up Jesse's eye so he had a genuine wound and said, you know what, the guy paid us off to stage it.

Yeah, so I'm getting the farce of it all.

So where is this all leading to, though, do you think?

They're going to, he's going to say that we can't get, he's written them a check.

So he said, oh, I wrote that.

That check was just for training.

They just,

and you know what?

They, they're lying.

They're just lying.

They don't like me because I didn't pay them enough for their tips on working out.

So they, and they were homophobic.

And so they just came and attacked me and beat me up.

And then.

And I didn't know they were because I thought they were white because they had mask on.

So I didn't know who it was.

That's what he's going to say.

Oh, I didn't know any more than you that it was two Nigerians.

I thought it was two white guys.

I'm sorry.

I jumped to conclusions, but they had mega hats on and they had white makeup around their eyes underneath their hoods or their masks.

So what was I just think?

I just assumed they were what, and that's what his, it's going to be just as ridiculous as OJ.

It's going to be the slip of the imagination.

Yes, and he's going to be acquitted.

He's probably going to be acquitted.

It's going to be a total it's okay sammy we're left with rittenhouse yeah so rittenhouse is 17 years old and we're told the following kyle rittenhouse white supremacist that's the president united space speaking now and kamala harris the vice president nominees during the campaign he crossed state lines lines plural

and he carried an illegal weapon and he was not of an age being 17 so he was illegally carrying an illegal weapon and then he went up to this completely dis distinct town in wisconsin and shot up and killed three heroes shot two lethally wounded

one

and he was a white supremacist vigilante because he hated black people because the noble and tifa blm people were there protesting peacefully the death of Mr.

Blake, who was unwarrantly, unlawfully, unethically, unjustifiably murdered by the evil Kenosha white police.

That was what we heard.

I'm not exaggerating.

And then when you break it down, you find out that Mr.

Blake was at a former girlfriend's home trying to basically kidnap children to which he had no right to because there was a restraining order issued against him due to prior violence.

He had a criminal record.

When the police got there, they had no idea what was going on, except people were afraid of him.

He had a knife.

He struggled with the police.

They saw he had the knife.

Then he failed to stop, you know, as ordered.

So he went into his, he opened the door of his car, and they thought he was going to get a gun.

He turned around with it, carrying it, and they shot him.

And they shot him and they wounded him.

And he's paralyzed.

partially paralyzed.

And that caused all of these riots.

And they had a total investigation.

Everybody found it was a justified, if I could use that harsh term, a justified, if not unfortunate shooting.

So then what happened?

We learned that Mr.

Rittenhouse actually crossed one state line and that Aurora, Illinois is about 20 miles from Waukesha.

So it's not like he went across the United States.

And the gun that he was carrying was not with him.

It was in Kenosha.

Kenosha, yeah.

Yes.

So he went into Kenosha from Aurora, Illinois.

The gun that he was carrying, he was not carrying.

It was sitting in Kenosha.

His friend had bought it for him.

It was not an illegal gun.

It was not a short-barrel AR-15 type Smith ⁇ Wesson version.

It was a long barrel.

There was no law against a 17-year-old carrying that openly in public.

And so what do we have?

Lie, lie, lie, lie.

And the people chasing him.

One was a convicted pedophil with a number of felonies who was let out that day from a middle institution after he supposedly wanted to kill himself, Mr.

Rosenbaum.

Then we had the other fellow, and

he was trying to beat Mr.

Rittenhouse with a skateboard, which is kind of a common tactic by Antifa.

They seem to like to take skateboards and then use them as weapons, dual purpose them.

And then we had the final person who

This was very funny.

I mean, not funny in a tragic situation.

He's a prosecutor's witness.

And he says under oath that the gun was not pointed at him by Rittenhouse until he pointed a gun.

And then we had an African-American person who comes out of nowhere and runs over and jumps on his head.

And Rittenhouse misses him and he takes off.

He was a felon.

And so we had three felons and then one person with a repeated arrest and they were trying to kill the guy.

And then we had the trial.

And this is proof of white supremacy.

The Washington Post said that.

There was no evidence.

Even the Washington Post said there was no evidence for that later.

Joe Biden just completely libeled that kid.

None at all.

And so what did we learn?

We learned that the prosecutor said, well, if he had any guts, he would have turned around.

And there was at least 12 people, if you count them in that film, he would have fought them fist to fist like a man.

He didn't.

Yeah, he's supposed to do that.

He's a coward.

And then we were told,

you know, he was talking about pleading the Fifth Amendment.

And the judge even interrupted and said, there's nothing wrong with pleading the Fifth Amendment.

That's a constitutional right.

Now stop that.

And then they said, and what were they doing wrong?

You know, this guy's walking around.

Yeah, maybe he was cleaning graffiti.

Maybe he was putting out fires.

But what's a little fire, a little arson?

The judge said, arson?

That's a felony.

He was starting.

And so the crazy judge was freaked out by it.

And then, in the aftermath of the Alex Baldwin tragic shooting shooting of pointing a so-called quote-unquote empty gun, he takes up an AR-15-like weapon and points it at the jury with his hand on the trigger.

And that's supposed to say, how does it feel, jurymen?

And they're thinking, who the F is this guy?

He is nuts.

He's crazier than anybody in this entire court.

And then...

It poses the question.

Did these guys never want to prosecute Rittenhouse because they were so incompetent?

They put a witness on the stand and said, This is our star witness who admitted he pointed a gun at Rittenhouse before he got a gun pointed back at him and shot, shot him in the arm.

So, my point is: were they just so incompetent because they didn't want to try the case?

Or were they losing the case and they wanted to screw it up so they can get a mistrial and a second try?

Or were they stupid?

But it was very strange.

And when it was all over, a white-on-white violence, having nothing to do with race suddenly became a metaphor for endemic white-on-black pathology.

So you had all of these African-American elites and left-wing elites saying, this is horrible.

It shows you how racist America is.

Then two days later, we go to Waukesha.

And what happens there?

Mr.

Brooks, lifelong 20-year felon.

I guess there must be something called black privilege because if you look at his rap sheet, 40-some pages, and ask yourself, why was this man habitually, serially, repeatedly let out?

What explains it?

Were they afraid of him?

Do they feel that he was disadvantaged?

He had all these sob stories he told the authorities every time that anybody objected.

Who knows?

But the point I'm making is he was let out, what, two days before, after attempting the same type of running somebody down and trying to kill them.

And apparently he'd done that more than once.

And he was on a $1,000 bail by this crazy DA Who had, I'm not making this up, Sammy.

The DA had earlier said to the Milwaukee Sentinel that I'm not going to put queer criminals in prison and I'm not having them pay bail.

And I'm going to let them out.

You know what?

Some people are going to get killed, but that's an acceptable price to pay to be more fair and just.

Acceptable price for whom to pay?

Who's supposed to pay that price?

The DA?

No.

The poor people of Waukuza, yes.

And so then the guy gets in his car

and he races through a Christmas parade and mows down, what, 65 people, 66 people, 68 people, kills six, little boy, innocent people, just trying to enjoy themselves, 62 injured, six killed.

And what does the media do?

For hour upon hour that Sunday and Monday, they did not report the truth.

They said he was fleeing from an altercation.

And we're supposed to think, hmm, poor man, he was probably jumped by somebody.

And then, in defending himself, he tried to get away, but he took the wrong turn and he tried to avoid people.

And then everybody said, well, I saw the tape.

He deliberately went through a barrier.

He could have taken any side street.

He kept on.

He was trying to treat human life like bowling pins, like he was a bowling ball.

He kept hunting for them.

And then, how did they report it finally?

They said it was like a mad love bug or Herbie, the animated car.

The SUV killed people.

The collision killed people.

The accident killed people.

And so something that had nothing to do with race

and the propensity of guns in general to be dangerous is considered an indictment of white racism and the gun culture.

And then another case, two days later, has something to do with a African-American career criminal who killed mostly white people and said that basically on his social media when he had posted and advised people to go out and hit white people and had celebrated about any notice in the world seeing when white people were shrinking or their demography was been reduced and posted things with Hitler about anti-Semites.

They didn't say a thing about that.

And so this is a sick media.

It's not a media anymore.

It's a fused apparat of the Democratic Progressive Project.

And they look at the news cycle and they say to themselves, how can I lie

and promote a left-wing message without looking too ridiculous?

But they jumped the shark this time.

It is completely unbelievable what they've done.

And Joe Biden said he called Rittenhouse a white supremacist.

He conveyed his heartfelt.

sympathies to the Blake family.

He didn't say a word to the families in Waukesha.

And he said that there were too many assets or I don't know what the excuse was why he wouldn't go there.

The real reason he wouldn't go there is A, he doesn't really care about the dead and the wounded and the families.

And two, if he were to go there, there might be people who would tell him that.

And so it's a very sick culture we're in.

The legal system has just been completely.

Yeah, but it must not be something all that new.

Because remember, and I know you're going to think I'm stepping maybe too far away from the particular instance, but remember Camus, the stranger.

While you're talking, I'm thinking, okay, we've read about this before.

He talks about the absurdity of

trying a guy for killing somebody, but the jury and the prosecutor are more interested in the fact that he didn't cry at his mother's funeral, right?

And so the point is just how absurd the court case could be,

you know, that it's

i understand the lindbergh case and

sacco vanzetti the dreyfus case so these court cases can be occasions for real social political economic fault lines in a society and they can be adjudicated that way and they can show bias but these things are farces there was no issue in america about black on white that made mr brooks a representative of that issue this was a completely gratuitous effort to kill people.

He was a murderer.

He was a lifelong felon.

There was no redeeming value in him.

He had no political agenda other than hatred.

And you know what was very funny?

BLM, a regional person, I think his name was Mays.

He came right out and said, this is the start of revolution.

We even had a low-level democratic operative, low-level meaning very minor, but nevertheless, he posted and said that this was karma.

And even the children that died were payback for Rittenhouse.

These are just bizarre.

There's nothing there.

It's like the OJ trials.

They told farce.

And I think people,

I hope my listeners agree, our listeners and not mine, but I hope that anybody listening in agrees that this is cumulative.

You get Juicy Smollett and you get...

the lies about Trevon case and the lies about Michael Ford case.

And you put that in the context of the lies about Charlottesville, Charlottesville, that Trump praised white supremacists and didn't say a word about, you know, when he said there were good people on both sides, etc.

Read the entire transcript, and that was completely distorted.

And then you look at the Duke La Crosse, and then the Virginia fraternity so-called rape case and the OJ case and the Tawana Brawley case and the nooses that are found everywhere.

I remember that.

NASCAR driver that he had a garage, you know, a little pool in his garage, a rope, and somebody said, I saw that.

And that was the African-American driver said that was proof that when he saw it in the garage, that that was a noose.

And so my point is

the common theme is that there are not enough oppressors for the oppressed.

There's not enough victimizers for the victims.

So they have to create them, the media and the social activists.

And they do, and they make them up all the time.

And that's the fuel that keeps us going.

It will go until somebody says it has no effect on me.

Just lie, lie.

It will not affect me.

And I think we saw in the Virginia election, we saw with even people like Bill Maher that was sick of it.

We see people,

Dave Chappelle is sick of it.

We see a lot of Latino voters in California and Texas that are sick of it.

People are getting very, very sick of it.

And we're at the point now that if they keep this up, the left, both their policies and these psychodramas, I think we're going to see the largest defeat in American political history in this midterm election.

I hope so.

I hope so.

Yeah, I had two more questions, but I don't know if they're really answerable.

Or you're kind of answering them, how we get out of this quandary of looking at race before the individual.

I mean, how is somebody going to start a new doctrine that we judge individuals, we don't judge their race, right?

It has to be, you just forget abstractions, just to forget tribes, you you forget stereotypes, and you just treat people as people.

And that would require white people to be fair to some of the complaints against the white elite.

White people stop condescending and stop ordering black people around and start telling them that they have to be left-wing or they have to be anti-abortion or they have to be in favor of their particular transgender.

or abortion.

That would just say, you know what?

You're a unique individual and your color is irrelevant.

It's not essential to who you are.

You can vote for whomever you want, but I'm not going to tell you you ain't black as Joe Biden did.

I'm not going to tell any more corn pop stories.

I'm not going to say, hey, junkie.

Again, I've beaten this in the ground, but I do believe that most of the things that we've been talking about the last 40 minutes are created or enabled or fueled by white, wealthy, left-wing people, primarily on the coast.

And they have some inability, unwillingness, unease, any adjective you want.

They do not want to go out and mix it up with people that are not like themselves.

And they fabricate this entire abstraction.

Oh,

Brittenhouse.

Oh, we're going to call it, you know, an SUV crash, but I just don't want to be around black people.

I'm afraid.

I just feel that, you know, that I've got my curses of norm and my kids are in prep school and they're all going to go to Harvard or Yale or Stanford and they're going to have beautiful, wonderful, wealthy, sophisticated, liberal, progressive lives.

And I just can't endanger that.

So I'll go pick on the forklift driver from Bakersfield.

He's the enemy.

Tom Wolf wrote about this, what, 1965, Mau Mau catchers and that Leonard Bernstein party when he basically summed it all.

It was a brilliant essay in New York magazine.

I think it became a book.

Remember, he just said that all of these wealthy upper east side Manhattan multi-millionaires and artsy wartsy people that they called in the Black Panthers.

And, you know, that was 55 years ago.

And they just wooed and awed over him.

But don't get too close.

We support you.

I like that leather jacket.

He looks cool.

Oh, you have Fidel Casto sunglasses.

Ooh.

But you know what?

And I'll give you 300, 500, 6,000.

I'll give you all this money.

And that's what they did.

But I don't want to be, you know, I'm not going to put my kid in a public school in Harlem, and you're not going to be coming over to my house and hanging around with me.

And that, and so when people just don't treat people like people, they don't feel comfortable.

And again, I think it has something to do with the end of muscular labor and physicality and confidence that you can never be confident as a human being unless you have some confidence that you're doing something physical with nature.

You're pruning a tree, you're fixing a car, you're cleaning your home, whatever it is,

that you have confidence that you're a physical being and you're more than just an intellectual or an academic or a thinker.

And you meet people who may be brutish, but you have a commonality with them and they respect you and you respect them because of that.

But when you're isolated like some drone insect, and you're innervated, they spot that and they ridicule you and you know they'll ridicule you.

So then you overcompensate and become artificially sympathetic.

Then they see that that's insincere.

Then you see that they don't appreciate your liberality.

Then they see, what the hell do you think I should?

And there you're off to the races.

Yeah, sure.

And they ruffle and smooth their moral feathers on all these occasions.

Yeah,

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And Victor, so after all of that legal legalese, I wanted to ask you a little bit about Kamala Harris.

And she seems to be, and the Democrats from everything I can see seem to be kind of acknowledging and uncomfortable that she's the weak link here.

And we haven't really, I mean, everybody can kind of see her when she has her press conferences and they're often failures or she falls into laughing horribly or, and doesn't seem to really have the ability to answer questions seriously.

And so we're all a little bit uncomfortable with the idea that she was the first female president for 85 minutes.

But there's more to her story than that.

And I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about it, just how weak of a link she is.

Well,

okay.

That's like saying, you want to put a noose around your neck and jump off the bridge onto a bunch of rocks.

I mean, where do you begin?

It's just, it's a total lie.

It's about as honest as old Joe Biden from Scranton, the working man's every man.

I mean, her father was on the Stanford campus as a Caribbean-born economist, PhD.

Okay.

So he was the elite of elite Stanford professor.

I don't think a Stanford professor is the elite elite, but a lot of people do.

Her mother was a PhD, an Indian immigrant.

So she grew up with two PhDs in Palo Alto.

They got a divorce when she was seven or eight.

Out of that came the homeless person who was bussed and moved to Berkeley.

But her fact of the matter was her mother was a cancer researcher with a PhD.

So she was not poor.

She was not deprived of cultural stimulation.

She was not a member of the black lower class.

She was like Obama.

Obama went to prep school.

His white grandmother paid his whole tab.

And I could go on and on about people

who

are of mixed ancestry and very privileged elite who compensate by suggesting that white people did a lot of terrible things about them.

And there's a long history of that.

The most angry African-American people are mostly

among the left are in the professions and they're highly compensated.

And their entire lives associated and fried with people who were not African-American.

Okay.

Out of that, She gets her degree at Howard.

She goes to law school.

I think it was UC, and I know my listeners will correct me.

I'm off the top of my head.

I think it was UC Law School, Hastings.

And she's a young, semi-attractive woman.

And she hooks up with Willie Brown, the mayor of San Francisco, the famed speaker of the California Assembly, the guy who knows everybody in the Democratic Party in a state that is run by the Democratic Party and run out of San Francisco.

And

she becomes his consort paramour, moves in with him.

He's married still.

There's a huge, I don't know, 30-year, 40-year age difference, no matter.

He fixes it.

He puts her on highly lucrative boards.

Anybody who knows anything about California politics knows that we're one of the few states that has hundreds of positions, state board of equalization, state fire boards, state this board, state that board that pay

$150,000 a year and they don't do anything, but they're designed for sinecures for retiring legislators and the children of the connected.

Okay.

So she becomes city attorney.

And then she becomes the county of San Francisco attorney.

And then she becomes, she says that she's, you know,

a pragmatic African-American DA.

She's not a soros DA, so she's got to win all of this money.

And she starts, you know, going after truant children.

Okay, fine.

She goes after African-American parents whose children didn't.

She goes after marijuana possessors.

She is sort of the new Bill Clinton type Democrat.

And she gets elected to the Attorney General.

And then Barbara Boxer drops out and retires.

And she takes that Senate seat.

I mean, it's a winning ticket.

Nobody's ever heard of her.

Nobody's ever outside the Bay Area.

All they know is she's young and she's black and she's an attorney and she claims she's middle of the road.

She becomes a Senate.

She puts her finger in the air and says, I now am a statewide office holder, and I'm going to be very left-wing.

I'm going to follow my model will be Barack Obama.

And so she's in the Senate, and then bang, bang, bang.

She's now in the 2020 race to get rid of the awful, hated, demonic, devilish Trump.

And she's considered one of the leaders.

She has one rally that seems okay, but then she has, people start to hear her.

To hear her is not to like her because she chuckles.

She laughs at the wrong time, in the wrong place, in the wrong manner.

She's a liar.

She says that Juicy Smollett is an example of how this country is racist.

Juicy Smollett, first to jump in on that, she says that the Rittenhouse case shows that we have more work.

So think about that.

She goes into the Ferguson.

She's kind of like Susan Rice in the sense that she lies all the time.

Just like Susan Rice lied lied about Benghazi.

She lied about weapons of mass destruction.

You know, every time the Obama administration wanted somebody to lie, poor Susan Rice was wheeled out to lie.

Well,

Camilla Harris did that, and she's not a nice person.

And the voters picked that up.

Not the right-wing voters, the Democratic-liberal voters.

And she got zero delegates.

And she crashed and burned.

And that's where she'd be today as a joke in the Senate, except something happened that nobody anticipated.

May 25th of 2020, after she was, you know, gone from the race and Joe Biden was the nominee, de facto nominee.

The convention hadn't happened.

George Floyd was killed.

There was riots.

Andrew Cuomo was at the crest.

He was on his way to an Emmy.

He was the brilliant Andrew Cuomo who snubbed Trump's Javits Center COVID tent city hospital.

He didn't need the hospitals.

He was screaming and yelling, but Trump hadn't given enough ventilators.

And they loved his press conferences.

And they thought he would be vice president.

He would have been, but we had 120 days of rioting, which she kind of egged on, remember.

She said, I will, let's bail out these noble protesters.

I mean, trying to burn down police precincts, federal courthouses, St.

John's Church.

14,000 arrests.

She was out of the picture, but she wasn't out of the picture.

So Joe biden was under enormous pressure claiborne came to him and said hey you would have lost the whole nomination he was right too south carolina and the black vote came out and got rid of buttigig and warren

and got you as the old-time liberal civil rights era moderate democrat we did not i mean let's be honest let's be honest buttigig's campaign ran a focus group with three African-American groups and found out that they had severe reservations about voting for a gay man and so he was not going to win the black vote i mean people are critical but i'm not making that up i'm just reflecting what buttigig himself did he ran the focus group and that's what he found and people did not want to vote for elizabeth warren she was all putting as well so biden won then claiborne said okay George Floyd, Riot, da-da-da-da-da-da, black vote, we'll come out, we'll get the left to come out.

But we have an IOU.

So Bernie Sanders and Warren and the AOC people came to Biden and said, you're an empty vessel.

We know that.

I'm sort of ad-libbing.

And you're going to carry this hard left thing across the finish line now.

We're going to use you because we'll come out and vote.

If you don't do it, we're not going to vote.

You're going to lose.

We don't care anyway because we've got our agenda.

You don't believe in anything, but you better carry it.

So he said, okay, I'll go hard left.

And then Claiborne and the African-American community said, we made you.

You were going nowhere.

As soon as we supported you, you won big in South Carolina.

You went on to win the rest of the primaries almost.

You won Nevada, et cetera.

Okay, we want an African-American on the vice president.

Joe Biden said, hmm, I'll trump that.

I'll get an African-American woman.

Well, when he said that, all of a sudden, poor Andrew Cuomo and everybody said, well, what about Andrew?

Where are we going to get somebody?

Well, they had, who were they going to pick?

Stacey Abrams?

Maybe they had to go to Philadelphia.

Susan Rice.

Yeah, what, the virtual president who goes around the country saying she's really the governor of what, Georgia?

She says, on the first thing she opens her mouth, she says, Oh, the Republicans are subverting democracy by claiming the elections are fraudulent.

Second thing she says is, I was fraudulently a victim of election engineering and I lost, I'm really the governor of Georgia.

So nobody wanted her.

She wrote, you know, kind of pornographic novels and nut.

And then maybe Maxine Waters, you know, in her 80s.

Who else?

I mean, this is not the days of really brilliant black women like Barbara Jordan, right?

Barbara Jordan would be

Shirley Chisholm that ran for president.

These were self-made, articulate, brilliant black women, but not in this generation.

And so there was nobody left.

And so somebody said Camilla Harris and Biden said, well, team said, uh-oh, she called Joe Biden a racist.

She said Tara Reed should be believed.

This is the woman who claimed that Joe Biden digitally penetrated her when she was a staffer.

Virtual rape.

And what are we going to do?

So, you know, Camela Harris made that ritual media circuit where she said, kind of sort of do believe Joe Biden now, kind of sort of don't believe Tara Reed that she was sexual, kind of sort of believed that Joe Biden was not a racist.

I wasn't really that little girl who had to be bussed and endured all that racism because of people like Joe Biden.

Forget that.

Joe Biden is a wonderful man.

Okay.

And that's how we got her.

And that's it.

So then we put her in there and surprise, surprise.

Yeah, she's, she's going to be the border czar and she thinks, hmm, I look at that border.

Two million people coming across in a pandemic.

I'm supposed to wear a mask after I've been vaccinated in the White House.

And these guys are just flowing across without a mask in a pandemic.

I'm not going to get anywhere near that.

And then she's supposed to be what?

Go to funerals in Europe, cackling during solemn moments.

So her staff seems to

be talking to little kids on her video.

Not just little kids, Sammy.

Remember, I'm going to have a video with spontaneous reactions from little kids.

Hey, go out and hire Hollywood actors and fake it like they're little kids.

They were professional actors at Oud and Oddforce.

So my point is that her staff now leak stuff about Biden because they know that Biden doesn't like her, doesn't want her.

She doesn't like Biden, doesn't want him.

So they're going to leak stuff that Biden has difficulties.

And I mean that.

You start looking at some of these stories.

They're emanating from the left.

And they're stories like Biden went in, had to ask somebody where the bathroom was in the West Wing.

Biden went into the wrong room.

Biden addressed somebody who he didn't know.

That kind of stuff.

That comes from her staff.

And some of them have quit.

And then the stories come from Biden's staff that she's difficult.

She's cranky.

She doesn't know what she's doing.

She's out of her depth.

And so they gave her a bunch of crazy jobs that even, you know, Pericles would have had trouble carrying out.

And it's true.

Well, you know, because I did wonder when they told her to go down to the border.

I was like, well, if you were vice president and they told you to do that at a time when it was being stormed by, you know, the hordes.

And the president.

What would you do?

What would you do?

And Biden himself had never been there.

She had that disastrous interview when she said, they kept pressing, you know, an African-American reporter said, Are you going to the board?

Have you ever, ever, ever been to the board?

I've never been to Europe either.

So what?

You know,

it's like, okay, are you insane?

If you think about it, if you think about it, Joe Biden had won the election by hunkering down in his basement so why not just hunker down in her he did one thing though

in his defense he did one brilliant thing which was if you're selfish and an sob like he is he said screw the country i mean look at donald trump donald trump did something for the country because they said donald trump is crazy he has no political experience so he went to his advisors and said if something happens to me who could do the job And who do people will feel will be a soothing

establishment presence?

And it was Mike Pence.

And so that actually hurt Donald Trump because when people wanted to impeach him, they said, at least Pence isn't as bad as Trump.

But Biden did the opposite in a more sinister Machiavellian way.

He did the Agnew tact.

His idea was, She is so incompetent.

She is so obnoxious and off-putting that I can be in la-la land and nobody will want me to step down under the 25th Amendment or be impeached because to do that, you're going to end up with her as president.

So screw the country.

I could have a stroke tomorrow like Woodrow Wilson and then she'd be president and we'd be in trouble, but I don't care because she's valuable to me because it kind of says good old Joe is a lot better than, you know, bad new Kamala.

And so that's what he did.

He kind of created an insurance policy by getting somebody so awful and mediocre that nobody in their right mind would want her.

And I'm not just making this up and ranting.

Joe Biden has about a 40% approval.

Hers is about 35%.

And maybe the popularity question is about 25.

So she is very disliked by the American people and not just the white, deplorable American people.

I'm talking about Regardless of gender, regardless of race, regardless of religion, people do not like her and they do not want her to be president.

And that helps Joe Biden.

Well, Victor, my dogs are calling an end to this podcast today.

Thank you very much.

And we started with Hunter and we ended with Harris, and they're both sort of farcical.

But we're very serious.

They're disagreeing with us.

I mean, they're saying, no, no, we like Kamala.

Park, park.

We object.

All right.

Well, with that, I think we're going to call it a day.

And thank you very much, Victor.

Okay.