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As ever, ton of things to talk about. We did not get time in our last episode to speak about a big issue.
I think it's big. It's Pete Hankseth's comments and thoughts about what America should be doing with Mexico, Some really direct threats, not the wrong word, just like tough talk and overdue talk, I think, Victor.
But you may have a different opinion. We'll get your thoughts, Victor, on Hank Seth and Mexico.
What else? Inseminated persons. I know some guys who might qualify for that.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walls still remain in the news.

Jeff Bezos telling the Washington Post, telling people what he's going to do with the Washington Post editorial page. Maybe we'll have time for something else.
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There he is. Get your strength, Victor- I'm having some tea to get my voice nice and warm.
Yeah. You know, growing up, we never- Everyone now, like, stay hydrated.
Everyone goes out, they got 10 gallons of water on their back. Growing as kids, we were lucky if we found a puddle on the street.
I was that way until I got kidney stung. Oh, you got 33, I believe.
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All right, Victor. Pete Hankseth has, I don't know anything anyone that Trump cabinet secretary will say that will not cause a kerfuffle with what remains of the liberal media.
but he had some tough talk related to

the, of course, Mexico

and the violent gangs that

have been part and parcel of

the death of hundreds of thousands

of Americans with all the drugs coming

over the border. Victor, what

are your thoughts

about Pete Hegseth warning

Mexico about

what they do and what America's reaction might be yeah the problem is uh mexico is not in full control of their own country so when he says that he might have to deal with the gangs i.e like general General Pershing and George Patton and people went in in 1916.

They went into Mexico to stop via and banditry that had come across the border and killed Americans. They weren't very successful.
It was very hard to find them. so i guess what he's saying is if you if you just rethink our relations and don't have any

preconceptions and just say this is A country, this is B country, and they send in Chinese raw product fentanyl, have special cartel factories that process it into drugs that are disguised as metamphetamines, but laced with fentanyl. know.
And out of that, 75 to 100,000 Americans die per year.

And over 10 years, that's more than all of the American deaths and all of our wars in

history.

Then they're an enemy because they knowingly do it.

And that gives them some $20 billion into the economy.

And then you also say that Mr. Obador, remember he said, isn't it beautiful?

40 million people went into the

United States from Mexico, meaning illegally. And then he said the Mexican prior president, Obador said that he wanted all expatriate Mexican Americans to vote against Republicans, and especially Trump.

And then Mexico gets China around tariffs by having China send in computer parts, manufactured parts, car parts, and then they just assemble them and come in under NAFTA and they're running a $178 billion surplus with the United States, that is on top of $63 billion that expatriate Mexican nationalists, the majority of them here residing illegally and on some sort of health, housing, education, nutritional support from local, state, and federal governments. and that's $63 billion.
You add the $63 billion with a $20 billion cartel profit, and then you add the $180 billion, and you're getting close to, I don't know, $270 billion that's coming out of the United States. And you would think that that would give us a little leverage, especially when they've destroyed our border.
And every time we try to suggest something to them, they stonewall us or they threaten us or something. And I don't know.
And they're very upset. I mean, if you think that this is a racial or ethnic issue, it's not.
When Donald Trump got 46% of the Hispanic vote, most of it Mexican-American vote. So what I'm getting at is he's trying to think out of the box and tell Mexico it's not going to continue any longer.
You're not going to kill American youth and let these gangs come into our country. And that is a legitimate, we had a community, Mendota, not very far from where I live.
It was taken over by M13, by Mexican gang, taken over. They had to get FBI SWAT teams to come in.
On my avenue, about two years ago, there was a shootout between Norteño and Sereños people. One day I was driving into town and there was about 15 law enforcement cars.
Most of the law enforcement people had bulletproof vests on, but they were in civilian clothes with a little insignia on the back, you know, of their various agencies. And they had maybe 10 people stripped down to their boxer shorts, handcuffed, sitting on the side of the road waiting for it to be processed.
Right. I'd say it's a quarter mile, a half mile from where I live.
So it's everywhere. Gangs from Mexico here running.
And so it has to stop. And when Hexas says there's basically everything is possible, I don't know what that would mean, but we've never since 1916 really gone into Mexico territory without their permission.
And maybe they would give us their permission because they're terrified of the gangs themselves. And one of the things that happened in Art of the Deal style, he's been talking about this for a long time, both before he was nominated as secretary and afterwards.
And now we find out that Mexico is allowed to extradite, what is it, 20-something gang members that were killers, including murders of American citizens? And they wouldn't let us try them here in the United States. And now they are.
So they're trying to think of ways. There was another news story this week that Mexico suggested that maybe if the United States would invest money in it, they would be weaned off China, and then they would allow American companies to assemble products and not Chinese, and they wouldn't try to avoid the tariffs that China should pay.
So they are thinking of ways. I mean, they're not quite like the loony Canadian foreign foreign ministers.
I said last episode, where she was on record of saying the French and the British should give us a nuclear deterrent to use against the United States. Victor, just to be clear, the elite of Mexico have – you said they're terrified.
I'll accept that. But they have in some way, though, accommodated themselves to the cartels, haven't they? Or not? I would

think they'd want some kind of strong...

They have no...

Yeah, the cartels will do anything. So, here in the United States, there are certain taboos.

We rarely kill judges or politicians. They don't have that taboo in Mexico.
Everybody

is open game. And the other thing is, there's also, I don't know how to be sensitive and

I'll take it. We don't have that taboo in Mexico.
Everybody is open game. And the other thing is, there's also, I don't know how to be sensitive.
There's also an ethnic racial component. And by that, I mean, much of the gang activity, not all, but much of it is in certain areas of Mexico, south of Mexico City, Chiapas, Michoacan, Oaxaca, indigenous areas in which there's a much greater degree of poverty.
And the Mexican elite in Mexico City and some of the northern states of Mexico, and I've talked to a lot of them, feel very proudly that they are more European than indigenous. In other words, they don't identify as mestizos as much as people in the South.

And they speak, they feel the king's Spanish.

So there's a little bit of tension there that this elite has always, Obadar was an exception.

But until recently, they were not representative of the majority of the population at least there was tension there they weren't Emilio Zapata type revolutionary via they were kind of a recrudence of the old Spanish elite that ran the country for 400 years or the area.

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I think Newsmax, Chris Ruddy, I think Newsmax picked him up a little, and now he's doing his own... He's been very successful with his own show.
Oh, yeah. He and Sean Spicer.

Yeah.

There are, I think when you look back at Me Too, I mean, people even that I don't agree with politically were done a disservice, some of them. I mean, some of them, it's hard in this society when radical feminism almost has a Victorianism about sexual contact and the protocols that are involved in it.
At the same time, popular culture is more risque, promiscuous, provocative, sexually explicit, and that those two don't mix. And so I think part of the reason that males, one of the many reasons that there's a problem with young males is they have been told that they're sexual assaulters, they're toxic masculinity, and they've kind of dropped out.
They really have. I know in my immediate circle, my nieces, nephews, larger family and friends, the number of young men ages 25 to 40 who are not married or have not been married, they don't have children, they're not dating actively, and they're not gay is quite large.
And I think a little bit of it that is, they've just been told that you've got to be very careful that if you have a normal mating or courtship or whatever term you use, that what seems to be part of the sexuality of the two partners can be later reimagined as aggressiveness. I've had a lot of young mothers tell me that they would not send their kids to a Harvard Yale prince and their male sons because they were afraid they'd have a couple of drinks and hook up with a young woman in a consensual fashion.
And then the next day, if they didn't call or they were considered a lout, L-O-U-T, that that would be then repackaged as sexual assault. And in an environment where you don't have due process.
There's no fourth, fifth, or sixth amendment. No, none at all.
We had this very famous guy, Joe Longsdale. And had a consensual relationship, and he was very, very wealthy.
It didn't work out. The person, he was a part-time teacher, and he was doing it for free.
Where? Was he at? At Stanford in the business school. Stanford, I mean, yeah.
Okay. And then one of the students that was, I shouldn't even say student, she was very, you know, she was an adult, and they had a relationship.
And then, of course, it didn't lead to marriage or permanency. And she began to say retroactively she was sexually assaulted and all that.
And then he just released the emails. But the point I'm making is they didn't give him any due process.

They just banned him from campus. Even though he was an alumni, he was a very successful entrepreneur, very wealthy.
And they tried to destroy his life. They being the university.
Then all of a sudden, when they had the he said, she said, and he showed the types of emails he was getting from someone who was prompting him for this type of relationship.

It blew up in their faces.

And they treated him terribly.

They really did.

And he's now at the University of Austin.

I mean, he's one of the backers.

I think he has a Cicero Institute that he funds.

I've met him.

He's a wonderful person.

Yeah.

Well, the Ford lady with Kavanaugh, Anita Hill, whatever, they have wreaked havoc through the culture.

Yeah.

Back to Mark Halperin, Victor.

He, on the show, he says, he and Sean Spicer, and I forget the third guy, have a daily show.

They've been terrific political analysis.

And he's, Mark's kind of a Democrat.

He says, I really think the left does not understand what's happening all over the country. MAGA is on fire with a sense of retribution and a sense of opportunity to make big change, to pressure corporations, to pressure universities, to pressure the media, to pressure Hollywood to say, new sheriff in town, always don't count.
We are going to change it. And he goes on to say, and they don't, they, the Democrats, the left, just do not get what's happening to them.
And it is happening to them. They don't have an alternate.
I know everybody says, well, they don't have an alternate plan, but they don't. All they have to do is say, this is our agenda.
We want to cut a trillion dollars, too, because you can't borrow two trillion dollars a year when you owe 35 and your interest payment.

is your deficit's $2 trillion and $1 trillion of it is to pay the interest.

And here's what we're going to do.

Like Bill Clinton and Newcomb, they don't do that.

Or this is what we, it's unsustainable what we did.

You cannot have 3 million illegal aliens coming into your country on audit for health reasons alone. But here's our plan.
They always talk about comprehensive immigration. They had no plan.
It was all amnesty. And what was it for? Well, we'll only let in 4 4 000 you you have to let in because it's too

much pressure well never we're not letting anybody now and it's fine unless they're legal so they don't have an alternate agenda it's just we're going they have a three-point strategy say donald trump is hitler screaming yell about he's the worst thing in the world on every single thing he does. Number two, mouth all of the, I don't know what, the propaganda of our base.
So you have no room but to be an LGBTQ fanatic, a Green Deal fanatic, a critical race theory woke DI fanatic. No apostatesates allowed and drive down donald trump's uh ratings so that by the time of the midterms no senate candidate no house candidate will want to associate with him in a purple district we'll get back the house we'll eat up two years like we did before with the mueller investigation we'll get a bunch of uh we'll get a control of the congress we'll start subpoenaing people, they'll refuse, we'll put them in jail like Navarro and Bannon, and we will eat up the end of the Trump, that's their plan.
And that's why it's very important, if Trump just does two things by the time the midterm, If he is very close to a balanced budget somehow or showing that he's going to get there in two years, and if the Ukraine war ends with a peace that's not fragile, he will win the midterms. And that's why I think they are so fanatic to stop the cutting of the waste and fraud.
They do not want that to happen. They do not want him to claim that he got the first balance budget since Bill Clinton.
And they're paranoid that he will say, I saw the Ukraine, Stalingrad, and there's no more killing and he will come off as a humanist and a peace, and they don't want that to happen. They really don't.
Their idea was give Zelensky anything he wants, just enough so he doesn't win and doesn't lose, or put it that way, and let it go on forever because you're bleeding Vladimir Putin and will do this to the last Ukrainian. I think that was their policy.
Did you ever hear Joe Biden say it was a humanitarian crisis, and the idea of 18, 19, 20-year-old, 30-year-old just being wasted on that battlefield, killed, maimed, destroyed a million and a half of them? They'd never talked in those terms. They loved the numbers game with Iraq war, right? Wasn't there like a counter up there? And today, after 2,396...
Yeah, every day. Every day there was Iraq war.
I haven't seen one, have you? Where is the Iraq-Afghanistan war dead counter? They had it every single day. I used to look at it.
It would get me very depressed, but I wanted to know how many people were being killed. They haven't had any of that.
So, they're not... Everybody should remember this.
The current left is not left. They're not socialist, communist, or anybody.
These are Jacobin revolutionary people who want to get power and change the system so that they have perpetual power. That's all their ideology is.
And that means if the filibuster is bad when they're in power, it's good when they're not in power. If you have a blue wall, the electoral college is wonderful.
When it crumbles, it's racist. If you're behind in the Senate, then you want Puerto Rico and D.C.
to come in to get four Senate seats. If you've got the Warren Court and everything, you just damn the FDR 1937 court packing.
If you're a minority on the court, you only have three liberal judges, then you've got to pack the court. It's all transactional.
It's all about powers. Well, just one last thing on Helper, and I think part of what he's spotlighting is the shock of the breadth of assault counter-revolution, as you've written about, Victor, in so many various ways.
But then the ideology has infected everything in so many ways. So it needs to be rooted out at the White House.
Correspondence, the corporation. I wrote that article, who caused the counter-revolution? It wasn't Donald Trump.
It wasn't Marco Rubio. It wasn't Peter Exeth.
They took the country so hard left by inventing a third sex, by inventing a new foundational date, 1698, by tearing down statues, by renaming things, by putting biological men and female sports, by not a porous, but a destroyed border. Not a million a year, but 12 million over four years.
Not just a defeat in Afghanistan, but an utter humiliation and turning over weapons to terror. It was something we'd never seen.
And to correct that, they're going frenzy. But Donald Trump is not going to be Mitt Romney.
I'm sorry. He's not going to say, well, they've kind of been a little extreme and I've appointed six committees and they're going to report back to me in a year with commission results.
It'll be bipartisan. We can work across the aisle.
We'll have sober and judicious Kamala Harris will be on the commission. She's a very responsible person.
And then they'll give us a set of recommendations, and I will take them to the Congress. And we'll see if we can address the problem.
That's what they want.

That's what a Republican would do.

And so the other thing they're really angry about, they thought that after the first Trump term, they had his number.

In other words, they had the Mueller for 20.

They went from the Mueller investigation and they waited about three months and then it was the Vindman impeachment, and that went for another impeachment trial, and then they had all of the other little shenanigans, disinformation, and they had people in that administration. There was anonymous saying, we have an internal coup and we're stopping all of that guy, whatever his name was.

Low ranking Homeland Security officials. Economists are saying that we have an internal coup and we're stopping all of that guy, whatever his name was.

Low ranking Homeland Security official, the New York Times, said a high important official.

He wasn't.

Then they had people that, you know, Rex Tillerson's a nice guy, but he wasn't on the MAGA agenda.

Jim Mattis is a nice guy.

He wasn't on the MAGA agenda.

John Bolton wasn't on the agenda.

And they had the Omarosos and the Scaramucchis. It was chaos.
If Trump gave an order to a cabinet official, they either would ignore it or they'd find ways to counteract it. And so he had four years in the wilderness to ponder all this and four years of being five civil and criminal, 83 indictments.
And when he came back out of the wilderness, kind of like with a bullet. Church owned.
Exactly. He said, you know what? Instead of me arguing with my own cabinet, I want what Joe Biden once called ultra mega.
I want them to make suggestions to me. So he picked this cabinet, and it's a revolutionary cabinet.
It really is. And I think Elon Musk said that the other day.
They're very good at what they do. They're fearless.
They're competent. They have enormously successful communication skills.
They've been in private enterprise, many of them. When you hear Tulsi Gabbert talk.
she's eloquent, mellifluous. So is Pete Hexeth.
So is Marco Rubio. They all are great.
And the difference is from 2017, Trump would get frustrated and give an order that wouldn't be followed. Now he's getting suggestions.
Hey, President Trump, what do you think of this idea? And he is, it's not as much that he's got loyal people who are, loyal is the wrong word. He's got compadres who agree with him.
And the brothers. Band of brothers.
And they're starting to do, and they're not going to stop.

They're just going to keep pushing to undo this madness and keep the left off base. And the left doesn't know how to handle it yet.
So let's get some proof of them not knowing how to handle this yet, Victor. as the aforementioned inseminated person madness from Wisconsin.

And wow, it's just, I don't know how they go next when that term doesn't qualify enough. What is that point of that? So biological men that take female hormones and haven't had corrective sex changes, are they inseminated in the fashion of gay men and that's what they are? I don't understand what the term is supposed to indicate.
My mother, your mother, that's what it's supposed to indicate. Why not just say women? Because it must mean that people that are not biologically female or female, because they receive things somehow and they're an orifice or something.
I don't know what it is. But Rahm Emanuel was on Bill Maher not the other day, the former mayor of Chicago.
And he said basically what we're talking about. And he said, the blue model doesn't work.
The blue cities are run by Democrats because there's only three things you have to do. You have to control cost, balance budgets, fiscal pension.
You've got to stop crime and you have to have safety, you have to have good schools. And he's right about that.
And then he said something that was kind of weird and funny, and he said, our problem is we worried about the bathrooms at the schools but not the classrooms. We should have been talking about the low test scores, not whether you had tampons in the mailbag.
Yeah, one of his successors as mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, 79.9% of voters of Chicago disapprove of him. He holds just a 6.6% favorable rating.
His net is at minus 73.3% on the favorability scale. Anyway, he's, I don't know that he's old news, but he's running the second largest, or maybe it's the third largest city in America, hostage.
running into the ground. That's what he did.
It's dysfunctional. I know that Barack Obama doesn't go to his Chicago digs

any longer.

That monolith, that ugliest

presidential... he did.
It's dysfunctional. I know that Barack Obama doesn't go to his Chicago digs any longer.

Well, I want to... That monolith, that ugliest presidential...
That's going to be his legacy. Barack Obama, the man who has the ugliest presidential library in history.
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Bill Whalen is one of the... He's a very good guy, Bill Whalen.
He's Pete Wilson, former chief of staff, very astute political mind, especially about California. He knows every little detail, looking cranny, about California last half century.

treat. He owns the California beat, so to say, for Hoover.
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And the rest, everyone else is back, way, way back. And there's something here, if she didn't run, if she was removed from the ballot, Undecided would become the front runner at 45%.
So, you know, Kamala Harris, I don't know, is Nixon, you want to have Nixon to kick around anymore? If you read the article, it wasn't suggesting that she's a powerful candidate. It was suggesting that there is no other candidate and she's the only person because of the 2024 election that has name recognition.
So, when you give a person that's being polled these names, they say, Porter, who is that? Or, you know, any name, nobody knows. The only other name they know is Gavin Newsom, and he'll be termed out, and he may be recalled.
I think Bill's trying, and not trying, the subtext of his article is the days of Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, they're over with. Willie Brown, the people that ran the country who came from the Bay Area.
There is nobody else left.

And so if she runs and the Republicans had a decent candidate in this jungle primary where you could have two Democrats, you know, they could beat her.

But she's the only one with name recognition.

She's a lousy candidate.

But we're going to be saved as we talked last time because Gavin has his own, Sammy and I talked about, he has his own podcast. Oh.
Where he can talk directly to people. He can endorse people with his clout and his leverage and his name recognition.
He's going to be filmed in the French bakery. He's going to solve the high-speed rail, $300 billion boondoggle, and he's going to solve the rebuilding of Los Angeles in time for the Olympics.
He'll need a job. Hey, Victor, Kamala's running mate, as we all remember.
I don't want to forget. I kind of like thinking back on Himmel.
He was such a weirdo, and you know, I kind of relish his little hand flaps and all the strutting and the lines. That's what said Megan Kelly.
She had a brilliant comment. I was on her show not long ago, and she said something about Tim Walton.
and she asked me about him and then she kind of broke in and had the perfect description he's like he's constantly tried to bat away a stinging bee uh yeah that's true yeah jerky with his kind of too tight suits and ankles. There's a little fruit factor going on there.

I don't know what it is about him.

I wouldn't let the baby sit the kids.

He can't tell the truth.

Well, that's where we want to get your opinion on.

Yeah, he can't tell the truth.

He lies.

The first thing that comes in his mind, he spouts off.

He's herky-jerky.

When he came out and he walks like he's on a fashion show,

walks out and he screamed. He's just not a very sympathetic character.
I've never seen a debate. I do have a lot of empathy.
I had empathy for Zelensky. When I watched him, I thought, you know, I feel sorry for you.
You're having trouble with English. You're here.
You don't know what you're doing. You don't know the optics.
Yes, it's playing well to your left-wing audience in Europe, and yes, it's playing well to the left-wing network news, and yes, you think that Trump and Banskoff come off rude, but it's not what you think it is when it gets down to the nitty-gritty. And that's kind of what Waltz and all those people were.
They think, you know, this is neat, they're Nazis, they're Hitler, but he almost, I mean, they only won, what, Minnesota by six points? Minnesota, usually, some elections, I think the Mondale, it was the only state that voted for Mondale, it was so blue. I don't know why, It's a nation of Scandinavians, but they're social Scandinavians.
He was giving, he, Tim Walls, was giving a talk before a friendly audience of union nurses, and he complained, I see the pundits on TV. What's wrong with the Democrat Party? What's wrong is our country is being stolen by fascists and Nazis, and we're trying to do all we can.
So our good friend at Powerline, Scott Johnson, has been all over this, as he's been all over Tim Walsh the last couple of years. And Walsh was then pressed on this.
Who were the Nazis? Yeah, who were the Nazis? Why does he define it? They always say that.

Just tell me. So Donald Trump has destroyed constitutional government with a crisis, and he is not subject to oversight at all, and he's barred because he doesn't let some reporter have the privilege of coming in and sitting where they're accustomed to.

He's banned the media. What has he done? Does he have camp somewhere? Or maybe I could put it this way, Jack.
Has Donald Trump sent SWAT teams to raid an ex-president's house and then have the FBI come in with little guides that say top secret and sprinkle them all over the floor as they fill files on the Biden floor and take pictures of them? Is Donald Trump trying to get, I don't know, maybe Tim Walz is going to run for president? Is he trying to get his name off state ballots? Is he getting a right wing local prosecutor, state prosecutor in Utah, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas to file indictments and rits on his political opponents, a la Latita James, Fannie Willis, Eugene Carroll,

Jack Smith, and Alvin Bragg?

Is he doing any of that?

No.

But they keep saying fascist, fascist.

It doesn't mean anything.

They don't even know what a fascist is.

They don't know what a Nazi is.

Thank you. Any of that? No.
But they keep saying fascist, fascist. It doesn't mean anything.
They don't even know what a fascist is. They don't know what a Nazi is.
They don't know what an immigrant is either. I think they do.
I'm going to throw this out. No, it's called a migrant.
Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to bring this up with you before as we were preparing for the show, but I think I just have to bring it up now since we're talking about Democrats.
This is Marcy Kaptur of Ohio and her comments about Elon Musk. And she's questioning his loyalty.
Mr. Musk has just been here 22 years.
Just been here 22 years. The brazenness of this party.

What did he leave? He left the United States. He went to Stanford, what, was he 19 years old?

He didn't.

And Walter Isaacson

biography said that

to the extent that he knew much about

and who knows much at that 19, I mean

he was in a system, but he was opposed

to apartheid.

He's never spoken out in front of it. And Kay, what's her name? Behar, Joy Behar.
She said that he was pro-apartheid. Then she, they always talk in the views, a little earpiece.
Hey, whoopee. Hey, Joy, you're going to get us sued again.
We're going to have to settle for 20 million, that, that. And we're going to take it out of your salary.
So the next commercial, you apologize. So she goes, I don't want to get sued.
I think that's the third time on that show that's happened. It happened once on Morning Joe.
Fourth or fifth. Yeah.
What they're trying to do, I guess they're trying to do, because they had that crazy preacher in Tennessee, that African-American preacher that said you have to use violence because of

Elon Musk.

And then they arrested somebody in Indiana that went online that he was going

to kill him.

And then they had those placards all over DC,

eliminate Elon Musk.

They're going,

they're lowering the bar and what's permissible.

And Elon Musk had that interview I looked at with joy,

Joe Wogan.

And he mentioned that, that he has had to get a security detail much larger than one would think. And he thought that he was a target.
He said something that was true of Donald Trump. They're trying to create an atmosphere in which a nut who shoots Elon Musk will be considered in his own mind a legend and a hero.
If you keep calling people Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, fascist, fascist, and you speak from a position of authority, then you are going to, it's like putting honey and seeing all the insects that come out of the wall, termites, ants, roaches, they're going to come out and they're going to have that. And every nut who's on balance in the country will come out and think that I can shoot somebody because I'll be a hero because he's Hitler.
I know the right can be pretty tough, but you don't see Republican politicians, mainstream Republicans, go out in front of the Supreme Court and say like Schumer, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, you sowed the wind, you're going to reap the world. You're not going to know what hits you in front of a mob while they're in session, calling them up or picketing their homes.
And again, it's all predicated on the left thinks that they're utopian, moralist, and therefore any means necessary or justified. There might be some interesting justification behind that fear.
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Victor, there was a piece, you know, playing off the energizing lunatics out there, related to death and murder. This kid at Stanford Review, which is the conservative publication of the college, Ian Dalmas wrote an op-ed piece the other day, Stanford is making men without chests.
And let me just read the beginning here. He says, when polled, a staggering four and ten young people said that the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was justified.
And according to a poll on the Stanford internal social app, Fizz, 6 in 10 believe that Luigi is a hero. That's...
What's the subtext there? Yes. Luigi was a spoiled brat who wasn't really actively working.
His parents were multi-multi-millionaires. He grew up in extravagance and leisure and pampered.
He kind of kicked around very nice places, Japan, I guess, Hawaii, whatever. And he is a kindred soul.
He had a opportune left-wing ideology based on his own security, never had to suffer any of the consequences of his boutique ideology. And that's what most Stanford kids are.
They're pampered, they're wealthy, they come to Stanford, they feel guilty, they have radical professors that indoctrinate them, and then they spout the same stuff. Sam Bankman-Fried was a perfect example.
And my point is that they don't ever look at class. So the person that Luigi shot was from a poor lower middle class and worked his way up to be a health executive.
I happen to have a UnitedHealthcare policy. It's not exorbitantly priced compared to other policies.
It's been pretty good. It serves a social, cultural, economic need.
So you go out and shoot somebody who was aspiring to be successful in a way that you're successful only because somebody gave you everything, you didn't have to work for it. And that kind of romance appeals to students that are sent to Stanford not to be educated.
The parents know they're not going to be educated because the curriculum is watered down. 80% of people get A's.
There's so many therapeutic distractions there. But they're going to be branded with an S on their rear end, like a cattle.
And when they have that S, they think they're going to go out and say, I'm Stanford. Therefore, I get to go to Harvard Law School.
I get to go to Stanford Medical School. I get to go to Yale.
And then I get to get hired. And I'm very prestigious.
That's what they think. But they don't quite understand what they're doing to their own brand.
And the brand is that if you get 80% A's and you don't have SATs for four years for admissions, then you start to meet people with the brand. So if only 83% of the Stanford top law school in the nation can pass the bar in the first try, that was true.
Why not hire somebody from San Joaquin College and law school in Fresno? They have a better rate usually. Well, with this kind of social mindset, I don't blame Ian Musk or Elon Musk or anyone who hire more public visibility from worrying about their security and safety.
Well, I got a memo the other day that there's a hiring freeze. Stanford has about, I guess it's over $30 billion endowment, way over, maybe closer to $40.
And due to the interest, they're getting about 7%. They have to reinvest 2% or 3%.
So probably getting, you know, on the $40 billion, if I were to take that, just in the interest alone, they're probably getting $2.5, $3 billion. And then they're probably raising another $2 or $3 billion for their $6 billion.
But they're facing a double whammy because they were charging, I think, 54% overhead, at least on government NIH contracts. And Bill Gates was private.
You go to private grant, maybe it's 15 or 20 percent. Melt the government, 54 percent.
But that's going to change with 15 percent. And that is about $180 million.
The second part of that double whammy is the bill has passed the Senate that they're going to tax, I think if the endowment is greater than $500,000 per student, then Stanford is. It has about 16,000 students, but it's got about three times that endowment.
So it's got about, you know, 16,000 students, but it's got a $40 billion endowment. And so they're going to have to pay some tax on that.
The Senate lowered it, I think, to 15 from 25%. But when they start paying 15% on, when the university can only take 15% out of grants, public or private, and they have to pay income tax on some of their endowment income, they're not going to be able to have this huge DEI.
And just the mere thought of that, it hasn't been actualized yet. The mere thought of it has invoked a hiring freeze.
And we're all subject to it, Hoover Institution or not. And that's because they see what's coming.
And who's to blame? They are. Nobody said that, nobody forced them to give 80% A's to everybody.
Nobody forced them to have racially segregated dorms, racially segregated graduations, racially segregated safe spaces. Nobody forced them to go censor people like Scott Atlas or Jay Bacharia.
So they brought it on themselves, and all these universities did. Well, Victor, we just were talking about the richest man in the world.
I guess we should find a few minutes to talk about the second richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos. And again, I'll throw a curveball at you.
But I think I sent you a note about this. We should talk about, you know, activism on campuses has not stopped.
There's crapola happening at Barnard College in New York. And we'll get to those two final topics when we come back from these final important messages.
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Victor, your thoughts about bad, bad Jeff Bezos. He has said that the Washington Post editorial page will no longer be the province of left-wing lunatics.
It will be about free markets, free speech, etc. He's changed the editorial policy.
The usual suspects have yelled and even some have resigned. Your thoughts about him or about this, Victor? It doesn't matter.
Well, they kind of did on the left what—I have to be very careful, Jack. I'll offend your sensibilities—what National Review did in 2016.
Oh, I thought you were going to say something about Italians. Go ahead.
No. But, I mean, that is—the their constituency got smaller and smaller and smaller, and they were an echo chamber.
So, in national review, when I was there for 20, 21 years, 22 years, 21 years. Yeah.
The point I'm making is that when you keep saying that Donald Trump is a troll, no, no, he's a devil. No, he's Satan.
I disagree. He's Lucifer.
And you're still doing, oh, he's an ape in a helicopter, that kind of stuff. You don't have an audience anymore because it's monotonous.
So they just keep drumming that in, drumming that in, this left-wing stuff. And they got, you know, they first, he was reasonable after the election.
They got rid of Jennifer Rubin and they got rid of some of the crazier people there, but it was still, they were still doing it. And finally, he had a Mark Andreessen come to Jesus moment.
Remember that we've talked about that so many times, Jack, that interview he gave where he said, I just realized these people wanted, he's talking about his CEO said to him, these people want to destroy us. In other words, we're capitalists.
We like a free market. And we have to have free inquiry and expression.
That's part of how we do this important productivity. And they want to destroy it.
They think we're capitalist insects, and we're not going to do it anymore. And that's what made them flip over to Trump from Harris Biden.
But the left has this idea that they're so brilliant, they're so creative, and they're so beautiful people that they should be able, like people at the Huffington Post, I don't know what happened there, but they drove that into the ground. and they should write this crazy stuff and that Dr.
Sun in LA Times

or Jeff Bezos, these billionaires

who are capitalist insects and parasitical on society, all those ill-gotten gains should subsidize brilliant people like ourselves. And we, you know, we're not greedy.
We think we We should get a modest modest sum, four or five hundred thousand dollars a year to write one of our recycled columns each week. And then Jeff Bezos, he didn't do this, Jack.
This is funny. He didn't say, I think that we need to have more columns stressing two things, freedom of speech and free market economics.
He said, we're only going to do this. We're only going to do that.
It almost implies you're not going to talk about anything, but free expression and the wonderful capital system. And it's very different than Lisa Job.
She runs Atlantic, but see, she's not in the productive. She's on the money interest investment.
She's a receptacle of the money from her husband. She never created any money.
So she doesn't care that, you know, and maybe in an abstract, she wants Apple to keep giving her these great returns on the stock or interest. But basically, she's got so much money, she doesn't care.
But if she was actually out there as an Apple CEO trying to do business when your employees are trying to undermine it and the Bay Area is hostile to you, it's hard to be liberal anymore. So, excuse me, it's also applicable to Bezos' ex-wife, who has been giving billions of dollars.
She's done a lot of damage. So is the two of them.
Isn't that funny? We live in this society where white males are so demonized and they're toxic. And so we have these two liberal left-wing white males who are, whatever you think about Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, they are authentic American original geniuses.
And they revolutionize their field. And then they marry, and then one of them dies, and one of them gets divorced.
And then the spouses who are not tainted with the scent, the odor of the marketplace, they just get the money, the fruits of their labors through alimony or inheritance. And then they become very, very left-wing, and they fund all these policies that, if you follow them through their logic conclusion, would destroy the chicken that's laying their golden eggs, but not after they're gone.
It takes a while. It's interesting, Victor.
You work essentially for a non-profit. I work for an entity that helps non-profits, not against non-profits.
They are there for a reason, to help civil society and to engage in charitable activities, etc. But I don't think somebody that comes out of a conservative home or school thinks as they are looking for employment, I want to work for a nonprofit.
But if you're a kid of the left, you do. I've heard from so many who use nonprofits to get into school.
They create these, and then that's what they want to do. But who the hell makes the profits to allow them to be nonprofits? That is the subtext of the entire furor over cutting the LGBT 10 million grant for drag queen shows in Congo.
The whole USAID, the whole EPA, the whole Stacey Abrams 2 billion. What am I saying? I'm saying these people are being turned out from these universities with, I have a minor in ethnic studies.
I have a major in feminist studies. I have a major in black studies.
I have a number in peace studies. I have a minor in confrontation studies.
All of these worthless degrees, but they have a BA and some of them are a Duke BA, a Georgetown BA, Columbia BA. And then they go into these places where they'll hire them because where else would anybody hire them? Nonprofits, government programs, they are the grub.
You know who's written very persuasive? It was Joel Kotkin, the other very gifted observer. I'm sure you would disagree with me on a lot of things.
He's a man of the left, but he's a very fair man of the left. He's empirical.
And he's written about what he calls, and I think a lot of other people have used the word clerisy.

it's not an ancient word it's 18th century

it's not just clerics

but it's the people who feel in the same

fanatical, not fanatical

but religious sense

they're not religious orders but they are religious

and they're adherent It's not just clerics, but it's the people who feel in the same fanatical, not fanatical, but religious sense.

They're not religious orders, but they are religious in their adherence to big government and redistribution. And they run these things and they make, you know, two or three of those salaries were released.
You see what Sheldon Whitehouse's wife had got? And so she's Miss PhD, Oceanic something, giving money to the Oceanic something and then raking her cut off while her husband voted for it. And that's what these universities do.
They turn out these worthless degrees, these left-wing soldiers in the army of progressivism and they get hired by NGOs, non-profits and the government.

And nobody who these left-wing soldiers in the army of progressivism, and they get hired by NGOs, nonprofits, and the government.

And nobody who's got an architectural firm,

or no one's running a fleet of taxi cabs, or nobody who's on a, you know, Alice Chalmers tractor all day

would hire these people.

That's why they're angry.

They're trying to dry it up. They're trying to move these people to the private sector.
Bad chance. Hey, Victor, let's get us here over the finish line today.
One last topic. Activists, I won't say the bad word, at Barnard College in New York.
Anti-Israeli protesters seized academic buildings after two students were expelled. Folks should look it up.
And then there was a related... My gosh, this Columbia University spokesperson enters the building.
Here's a breaking... A Columbia University spokesperson...
Please, please. Yeah.
Please. with a with a pathetic megaphone allow me to use my own restroom you should oh anyone that thinks this bs happening on campus is over that the that the anti-semitic students on campus is over it's not over the Critics of this whole MAGA enterprise are the people like that.

And they don't believe in deterrence. All one administrator has to do is if she just said, no, you're going to let me get out of the way.
I'm using the restroom. Oh, by the way, you're here against state and city laws and the laws of the university.
Many of you may be, unfortunately, on a green card or should say a student visa. Therefore, when I come out of the bathroom, we have security cameras all over.
I know you're wearing masks, but we'll find out who you are. And if you don't leave, you're not gone when I come back.
You're going to be suspended, expelled. And if you resist that, we are going to file criminal charges against you with the prosecutor.
And more importantly, if you're on a student visa and you're here from a different country, see you, wouldn't want to be you. That's what she said.
That would not would be it and it would be calm we had the same thing happen at stanford we had larry summer speaking of all people he's not a conservative and we had this group it was alleged that they were mostly outsiders not students i don't know but they disrupted the the and they just were allowed to disrupt it. I thought, why don't the police come in here and arrest them? And these are very cowardly people.
They're very pampered. They're very wealthy.
They feel that they can say or do anything. And because of the mere fact that they occupy a campus for a transitory four years, they think they own the campus, not the faculty, not the administration, not the donors, not the alumni, not the board of trustees.
They own the university. You're just passing through like ships in the night.
You don't own it because you're like a renter. It's like a person renting an apartment for four years and he tells the landlord or the person who has the paper on it, this is my apartment.
No, it's not. A subsidized renter in most cases.
Yeah. We're always waiting for that one rare man or woman that says, no moths.
We're not going to do it anymore. I'm sorry.
We're going to. Who's the former senator from California? S.I.
Hayakawa. Yeah.
He just got his little gardening shears and he went out there and they said, he had a very funny accent. This is the law? And there is a regulation of no megaphones in his speech? So I cut the cord.
And then he became famous. He's actually a very gifted linguist.
Wrote a book on introduction to linguistics. Did you ever meet him? No, but I knew knew a person that knew him and he had that little tatter sham or that little thing he wore on his head yeah and then he became a senator they called him sleepy sam because he falls he was about 75 when they elected him as a one-term senator and his mother lived to be 95 i think he did too but he was just he was an old-fashioned roosevelt liberal and he just looked at these snotty pampered wealthy kids and i think his family had suffered in the deportations and you know during the japanese so-called relocation where they put people in you know in manzanar and places in the Sierra Plateau lands.
Anyway, he just thought, this is a circus. These people are not formidable.
They're just, all you have to do is kick out a few of them and the rest will fold. And that's what he did.
It's kind of like those old Western movies where the guy, you know, they all get all worked up in a bar and they all get it. They go to the jail and they say, we're going to hang that SOB.
And then you get John Wayne or somebody comes out on the porch with a double barrel. I, you know, you'll get me, but I'm pointing right at you, Mr.
Loudmouth. Before I go down, my scattershot will kill four of you.
And then they all look at each other and they put down their guns or they go drift, go back home. And that's what students are.
They're bullies. All you have to do is arrest two of them and they'll dissipate.
But they won't do that at Columbia because they sympathize with them. That's the subtext, isn't it? They want them.
They don't like Israel. They don't not like Jewish professors and students.
Let's be honest. They don't.
The polls reflect that. The governor of New York was still waiting for her to work up that law to take to outlaw masks, which is fine if there was a KKK.
Why is it not fine? I never thought I would say that. I never thought I would say what I'm going to say, Jack.
Go ahead. But after watching her, Andrew Cuomo looks...
Oh my gosh, no question. He looks like he has a halo and angel wings.
She's just a horror show. Terrible.
I mean, I didn't like a lot of the stuff he did, but the way they got rid of him was they railroaded him. And he was kind of a randy figure.
But again, they just demonized him and got rid of him. And they put this functionary who never was intended anything other in her life to occupy a minor office, lieutenant governor of New York.
And then once she became governor, you thought, wow, no wonder she was never intended to be governor. Yeah, I think if there's a problem, I think Cuomo will probably run for mayor in New York.
There's a good chance he might be it if people don't forget all the dead bodies coming out of nursing homes. Everybody should remember that when you're a man of the left or a woman of the left and the left goes after you, like, is it Weinstein, the professor?

Was it Evergreen's in Washington or Oregon?

And when they go after and try, he was the guy who called up and said he was scared they were after him because he didn't cancel his classes.

Or you're Mark Halpern.

And they go after and try to destroy you.

You have a, that's a different thing. And they become apostates.
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Wow, that's a lot. I've increased mine from three to five miles while listening to this show.
That's a lot. I've increased mine from three to five.
No, excuse me, three. Yeah, I was doing a mile and a half.
Miling the perimeter, right? Yeah. And then now I've added two miles.
So I'm doing, excuse me, I went from one and a half and three to, I guess it's only three and a half I do a day, almost four.

And you have two dogs with you?

One dog, four dogs?

At one point we had six, but they've all dropped off to old age.

And one of them is decrepit and the other one is insane.

I mean, I'm not all dropped off to old age. And the one of them is decrepit and the other one is insane.
And so the one could walk with me, but he's insane. He would just wander in this, you know, he would wander out in the mountain view and look at a car that plowed over him.
And the other one is a brilliant dog, but she's, I think, 15 and hardly she she's like a bunny rabbit she's big but she hops up on steps because she can't bend her hips or knees i don't know what we're going to do when they pass away uh because we're you're we'll have the choice because there were such great watchdogs but i have all these beware of the dog signs but now you could leave because before you couldn't leave because they had to be fed on the hour, you know. You're a dog person.
And I know Mrs. Hansen's a super dog person, right? I don't know.
Talk about this with Sharon. What happens when George goes? I've never bought a kennel dog, you know, because we were always brought up, and they're more expensive to get a pound dog because you have to pay for the Spain and the vaccinations.
They're just as expensive sometimes. But next time if I do, I like to get an actual pedigree dog because the dogs that we've gotten, every single one has either come through a pound or somebody threw out their car door and they're nice dogs and we're doing a good thing to give them a home but some of them have been so damaged you know what i mean by being maltreated and they're just you know sport was a great dog he would just smile at you but he was so paranoid he'd bite your leg and then spotty would just come up to you and just mark at you like she you were a scarecrow or something just not stop just keep barking yeah that's uh you you watch that guy caesar whatever the guy is supposedly able to train train dogs and you don't try this at home because it doesn't necessarily work out.
But we've had five or six dogs. One we had to give back, but same thing.
All are from the pound. Well, anyway, God is dog spelled backwards or dog is God spelled backwards, one or the other.
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