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Speaker 3 We are recording on Saturday, March 1st, and this particular episode of the show will be up on Thursday, March 6th. As ever, Ton of things to talk about.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Some really direct threats are not the wrong word, just like tough talk and overdue talk, I think, Victor. But you may have different opinions.
We'll get your thoughts, Victor, on Hankseth and Mexico.

Speaker 3 What else? Inseminated persons?

Speaker 3 I know some guys who might qualify for that. Kamala Harris and Tim Walls still remain in the news.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We'll get to all of that, Victor, right after these important messages.

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Speaker 3 We are back with the Victor Davis-Hansen show. There he is.
Get your strengths, Victor. Get a little hairy fat tea to get my voice nice and warm.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, growing up, we never had, everyone now stays hydrated. Everyone goes out.
They got 10 gallons of water on their

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Speaker 3 I lost town at 33.

Speaker 3 All right, Victor, Pete Hankseth

Speaker 3 has

Speaker 3 I don't know anything anyone that Trump

Speaker 3 cabinet secretary will say that will not cause a kerfuffle with what remains of the liberal media, but he had some tough talk

Speaker 3 related to the,

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 about Pete Hegseth warning Mexico about

Speaker 3 what they do and what his reaction might be? Yeah, the problem is

Speaker 3 Mexico is not in full control of their own country. So

Speaker 3 when he says

Speaker 3 that he might have to deal with the gangs, i.e., like General Pershing and George Patton, and people went in in 1916, they went into Mexico to stop

Speaker 3 VIA and banditry that had come across the border and killed Americans. They weren't very successful.
It was very hard to find them.

Speaker 3 So I guess what he's saying is 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 ametamphetamines, whatever, but laced with fentanyl, and out of that

Speaker 3 75 to 100,000 Americans die per year.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And then you also

Speaker 3 say that Mr. Obador, remember, he said, Isn't it beautiful? 40 million people went into the United States from Mexico, meaning illegally.

Speaker 3 And then

Speaker 3 he said the Mexican prior president Obador said he wanted all expatriate Mexican-Americans to vote against Republicans and especially Trump.

Speaker 3 And then

Speaker 3 Mexico

Speaker 3 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 $178 billion surplus with the United States.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You add the $63 billion with a $20 billion cartel profit, and then you add the $180 billion and

Speaker 3 you're getting close to,

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 we try to suggest something to them, they stonewall us or they

Speaker 3 threaten us or something. And

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And that is a legitimate, we had

Speaker 3 a community Mendota, not very far from where I lived. It was taken over by M13, by Mexican gang, taken over.
They had to get

Speaker 3 FBI SWAT teams to come in.

Speaker 3 On my avenue about

Speaker 3 two years ago, there was a shootout between Norteño and Sereños people. One day I was driving into town, and there was about

Speaker 3 15 law enforcement cars. Most of the law enforcement people had bulletproof vests on, but they were in civilian clothes with the little insignia on the back, you know, of their various agencies.

Speaker 3 And they had maybe 10 people

Speaker 3 stripped down to their boxer shorts,

Speaker 3 handcuffed, sitting on the side of the road waiting to for it to be processed. Right.
I I'd say it's a quarter mile uh half mile from where I live. So it's everywhere.

Speaker 3 Gangs from Mexico here running very and so it has to stop.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And maybe they would give us their permission because they're terrified of the gangs themselves.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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 murderers of American citizens,

Speaker 3 and they wouldn't let us try them here in the United States.

Speaker 3 And now they are. So they're trying to think of ways.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 American companies to assemble products and not Chinese, and they wouldn't try to avoid the tariffs that China should pay.

Speaker 3 So they are thinking of ways.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Aaron Powell,

Speaker 3 Victor, just to be clear,

Speaker 3 the elite of Mexico

Speaker 3 have

Speaker 3 you said they're terrified. I'll accept that.
But

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 The cartels will do anything. So

Speaker 3 here in the United States, there are certain certain taboos. We rarely kill judges or politicians.
They don't have that taboo in Mexico. Everybody is open game.

Speaker 3 And the other thing is, there's also,

Speaker 3 I don't know how to be sensitive and expand-racial component. And by that, I mean

Speaker 3 Much of the gang activity, not all, but much of it is in certain areas of Mexico south of Mexico City, Chiapas, Michokan, Oaxaca, indigenous areas in which there's a much greater degree of poverty.

Speaker 3 And the Mexican elite

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 In other words, they don't identify as mestizos as much as people in the south. And they speak, they feel, the King Spanish.

Speaker 3 So there's a little bit of tension there that this elite has always, Obadar was an exception,

Speaker 3 but until recently, they were not representative of the majority of the population. At least there was tension there.

Speaker 3 They weren't Emilio Zapata-type revolutionary via. They were kind of a

Speaker 3 recuddance of

Speaker 3 the old Spanish elite that ran the country

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Speaker 3 Victor, let's talk about Democrats. We got a lot of Democrat stuff to bring up.
And

Speaker 3 this has to do with Mark Helperin, who we were talking offline you know he used to be a regular on on morning joe every practically every morning every every morning show is very prominent and then he got he was one of the top-notch uh

Speaker 3 pundits and then he was me too and he apologized and thing

Speaker 3 then i think i think newsmax uh chris ruddy uh i think newsmax uh picked him up a little and now he's doing his own uh he's been very successful his own show oh yeah and he's

Speaker 3 Spicer. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think when you look back at me, too, I mean, people even that I don't agree with politically were done

Speaker 3 a a disservice, some of them.

Speaker 3 I mean, some of them uh it's hard

Speaker 3 it's hard in this society when

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 risque, promiscuous,

Speaker 3 provocative, sexually explicit, and that those two don't mix.

Speaker 3 And so I think part of the reason that males, one of the many reasons that there's a problem with young males is

Speaker 3 they are

Speaker 3 they have been told that they're sexual assaulters,

Speaker 3 they're toxic masculinity, and they've kind of dropped out. They really have.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 or have not been married, they don't have children, they're not dating actively, and they're not gay

Speaker 3 is quite large.

Speaker 3 And I think a little bit of it that is

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 what seems to be part of the sexuality of

Speaker 3 the two partners can be later reimagined as aggressiveness.

Speaker 3 I've had a lot of young mothers tell me that they would not send their kids to a Harbor Dale Prince and their male sons because they were afraid they'd have a couple of drinks.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And in an environment where you don't have

Speaker 3 fifth, or sixth amendment. No, none at all.
We had this very famous guy, you know, Joe Longsdale.

Speaker 3 And he 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.

Speaker 3 Was he where? Was he at Stanford in the business school?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And then he just released the

Speaker 3 the emails and her and this the email.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And they tried to destroy his life, they being the university.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 it blew up in their faces. And

Speaker 3 they treated him terribly. They really did.
And he's now at the University of Austin. I mean,

Speaker 3 one of the backers. I think he has a Cicero Institute that he funds.

Speaker 3 I've met

Speaker 3 him.

Speaker 3 Well, the Ford lady with Kavanaugh and Ida Hill, whatever,

Speaker 3 they have wrecked havoc through the culture. There are many more.

Speaker 3 Back to Mark Helprin, Rector.

Speaker 3 On the show, he says

Speaker 3 he and Sean Spicer, and I forget the third guy have a daily show. They've been terrific political analysis.
And Mark's kind of a Democrat.

Speaker 3 He says, I really think the left does not understand what's happening all over the country.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We want to cut a trillion dollars two because you can't borrow $2 trillion a year when you owe $35, and your interest payment is

Speaker 3 your deficit's $2 trillion, and $1 trillion of it is to pay the interest. And here's what we're going to do.

Speaker 3 Like Bill Clinton and Newt Kemmer, they don't do that. Or this is what we, it's unsustainable what we did.

Speaker 3 You cannot have 3 million illegal aliens coming into your country on audited for health reasons alone. But here's our plan.
They always talk about comprehensive immigration. They had no plan.

Speaker 3 It was all amnesty. And what was it for? Oh, we'll only let in 4,000.
You have to let in because it's too much pressure. Well, we're not letting in anybody now.
And it's fine unless they're legal.

Speaker 3 So they don't have an alternate agenda. It's just we're going, they have a three-point strategy.

Speaker 3 Say Donald Trump is Hitler, screaming, yell about he's the worst thing in the world on every single thing he does. Number two,

Speaker 3 mouth all of the

Speaker 3 propaganda of our base. So

Speaker 3 you have no room but to be an LGBTQ fanatic, a Green Deal fanatic, a critical race theory woke DI fanatic, no

Speaker 3 apostates allowed,

Speaker 3 and drive down Donald Trump's 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.

Speaker 3 We'll eat up two years like we did before. With the Mueller investigation,

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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 solved the Ukraine

Speaker 3 Stalingrad, and there's no more killing, and he will come off as a humanist in a peace. And they don't want that to happen.
They really don't. Their idea was to give Zelensky anything he wants,

Speaker 3 just enough so he doesn't win and doesn't lose, or put it that way, and let it go on forever because

Speaker 3 you're bleeding Vladimir Putin and will do this to the last Ukrainian. I think that was their policy.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 a million and a half of them? They'd never talked in those terms.

Speaker 3 They loved the numbers game with Iraq war, right? Wasn't that like a counter up there? Today, yeah, every day. Every day there was Iraq war.
I haven't seen one, have you?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 They haven't had any of that.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 they're not. Everybody should remember this.
The current left is not left.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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, and it's all about powers.

Speaker 3 Well, just one last thing on Helper. And I think

Speaker 3 part of what he's spotlighting is the shock of the breadth, the breadth of assault counter-revolution, as you've written about, Victor, in so many various ways.

Speaker 3 But then the ideology has infected everything in so many ways, so it needs to be rooted out at the White House correspondence and the corporation.

Speaker 3 I wrote that article. Who caused the counter-revolution? It wasn't Donald Trump.
It wasn't Marco Rubio. It wasn't Pete Exeter.

Speaker 3 They took the country so hard left by inventing a third sex, by inventing a new foundational date, 1690, by tearing down statues, by renaming things, by putting biological men and female sports by not a porous but a destroyed border.

Speaker 3 Not a million a year, but 12 million over four years.

Speaker 3 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 frenzied.

Speaker 3 But Donald Trump is not going to be Mitt Romney. I'm sorry.
He's not going to say, well,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We'll have sober and judicious Camilla 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.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 the first Trump

Speaker 3 term, they had his number. In other words, they had the Mueller for 20.

Speaker 3 They went from the Mueller investigation and they waited about three months and then it was the Vinman impeachment and that went for another

Speaker 3 impeachment trial and then

Speaker 3 they had all of the other little shenanigans, disinformation,

Speaker 3 and they had people in that administration. There was anonymous for saying, we have an internal coup and we're stopping all of that guy, whatever his name was.

Speaker 3 Low-ranking

Speaker 3 Homeland Security official, the New York Times said, a high, important official. He wasn't.
Then they had people that, you know, Rex Tillertson's a nice guy, but he wasn't on the MAGA agenda.

Speaker 3 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 Scaramucci's.
It was chaos.

Speaker 3 If Trump gave an order to a cabinet official, they either would ignore it or they'd find ways to counteract it.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 exactly,

Speaker 3 he said, you know know what? Instead of me arguing with my own cabinet, I want what Joe Biden once called ultra-maga. I want them to make suggestions to me.

Speaker 3 So he picked this cabinet, and it's a revolutionary cabinet. It really is.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 They've been in private enterprise, many of them.

Speaker 3 When you hear Tulsi Gabbert talk, she's eloquent, mellifilous.

Speaker 3 So is Pete Heckseth. So is Marco Rubio.

Speaker 3 They all are great. And they are

Speaker 3 the difference is from 2017, Trump would get frustrated

Speaker 3 and give an order that wouldn't be followed. Now he's getting suggestions.

Speaker 3 Hey, President Trump, what do you think of this idea? And he is

Speaker 3 it's not as much

Speaker 3 that he's got loyal people people who are I don't loyal is the wrong word. He's got compadres who agree with him and

Speaker 3 brothers,

Speaker 3 band of brothers, and they're starting to do and they're gonna they're not gonna stop.

Speaker 3 They're just gonna keep pushing to undo this madness and keep the the left off base, and the left doesn't know how to handle it yet.

Speaker 3 And which so let's get some proof of them not knowing how to handle this yet, Victor, as the aforementioned

Speaker 3 inseminated person madness from

Speaker 3 Wisconsin. And

Speaker 3 wow. It's just, I don't know how they go next when that term doesn't qualify.

Speaker 3 What is that point of that? So

Speaker 3 biological

Speaker 3 men

Speaker 3 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? Is that what the?

Speaker 3 I don't understand what the term is supposed to indicate. My mother, your mother.
That's what it's supposed to be. Anyway, why not just say that?

Speaker 3 It must mean that people that are not biologically female are female because they receive things somehow in an orifice or something.

Speaker 3 I don't know what it is. But Ram Emmanuel was on Bill Maher not the other day, the former mayor of Chicago, and he said

Speaker 3 basically what we're talking about, and he said

Speaker 3 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, balanced budgets, fiscal

Speaker 3 pension.

Speaker 3 You've got to stop crime

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 you have to have safety, you have to have good schools. And he's right about that.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You should have been talking about the low test scores, not whether you had tampons in the mailbag.

Speaker 3 Yeah, one of his successors as mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson.

Speaker 3 79.9% of voters. of Chicago disapprove of him.
He holds just a 6.6% favorable rating. His net is a minus 73.3%

Speaker 3 on the favorability scale. Anyway, he's,

Speaker 3 I don't know, he's old news, but he's running the second largest, or maybe it's the third largest city in America,

Speaker 3 hostage.

Speaker 3 Running into the ground. That's what he did.

Speaker 3 It's dysfunctional. I know that Barack Obama doesn't go to his Chicago digs any longer.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 that monolith, that ugliest presidential.

Speaker 3 That's going to be his legacy.

Speaker 3 Barack Obama, the man who has the ugliest presidential library in history.

Speaker 3 Well, when we come back from these important messages, Victor, we're going to still talk about Democrats

Speaker 3 in California and in Minnesota. And we'll do that again when we come back.

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Speaker 3 you work at this place called Hoover. And Hoover, Bill Whalen is one of the

Speaker 3 guy, Bill Whalen. He's Pete Wilson, former chief of of staff, very astute political mind, especially about California.
He knows every little detail, nook and cranny about California last half-century.

Speaker 3 He owns the California beat, so to say,

Speaker 3 for Hoover. And

Speaker 3 he's got a site there within the Hoover website called California on Your Mind. I recommend it to our listeners.
And he just did a piece the other day.

Speaker 3 Is California Kamalas is California Kamala's for the taking? And there's an Emerson poll, so he cites at some length, even though the primary for governor

Speaker 3 will not, it's another 15 months away.

Speaker 3 Harris has 57% support, six times better than former Congressman Katie Porter. And the rest of the, everyone else is back, way, way back.

Speaker 3 And there's something here, if she didn't run, if she was removed from the ballot,

Speaker 3 Undecided would become the frontrunner at 45%.

Speaker 3 So, you know, Kamala Harris,

Speaker 3 I don't know, isn't Nixon, you want Nixon to kick around anymore.

Speaker 3 If you read that and you read the article, it wasn't suggesting that she's a powerful candidate.

Speaker 3 It was suggesting that there is no other candidate and she's the only person because of the 2024 election that has name recognition.

Speaker 3 So when you give a person that's being polled these names, they say, Porter, who is that?

Speaker 3 Or,

Speaker 3 you know, any name, nobody knows. The only other name they know is Gavin Newsom, and

Speaker 3 he'll be termed out and he may be recalled.

Speaker 3 I think Bill's trying, and they're not trying, the subtext of his article is the days of Nancy Pelosi

Speaker 3 and Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown,

Speaker 3 Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker 3 they're over with. Willie Brown, the people that ran the country came from the Bay Area.
There is nobody else left.

Speaker 3 And so if she runs and the Republicans had a decent candidate in this jungle primary where you could have two Democrats,

Speaker 3 you know, they could beat her. But she's the only one with name recognition.
She's a lousy candidate.

Speaker 3 But we're going to be saved as we talked last time because Gavin has his own, Sammy and I talked about it, he has his own podcast. Oh.

Speaker 3 Where he can talk directly to people. He can endorse people with his clout and his leverage and his name recognition.

Speaker 3 He's going to be filmed in this film. He's going to solve the high-speed rail, $300 billion boondoggle,

Speaker 3 and he's going to solve the rebuilding of Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 in time for the Olympics.

Speaker 3 He'll need another job. He'll need a job.

Speaker 3 Hey, Victor,

Speaker 3 Kamala's running mate, as we all remember. I do not want to forget.
I kind of

Speaker 3 like thinking back to

Speaker 3 Waltz. Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 3 he was such a weirdo, and,

Speaker 3 you know,

Speaker 3 I kind of relish his little hand flaps and all the strutting and the lines.

Speaker 3 Megan Kelly, she had a brilliant comment.

Speaker 3 I was on her show not long ago, and she said something about Tim Waltz, and she asked me about him, and then she kind of broke broke in and had the perfect description.

Speaker 3 He's like he's constantly trying to bat away a stinging bee.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 herky jerky with his kind of two tight suits and ankles.

Speaker 3 That's a little fruit factor going on there. I just

Speaker 3 let a baby single.

Speaker 3 He can't tell the truth.

Speaker 3 Well, that's where we want to get your picture. Yeah, he can't tell the truth.
He lies. The first thing comes in his mind, he spouts off.
He's herky jerky.

Speaker 3 When he came out and he walks like he's on a fashion show, walks out and he screams and he

Speaker 3 he's just not a very sympathetic character. Well, he is.

Speaker 3 I've never seen a debate.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You're here. You don't know what you're doing.
You don't know the optics.

Speaker 3 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 Bant'Coff come off-root, but it's not what you think it is when it gets down to the nitty-gritty.

Speaker 3 And that's kind of what

Speaker 3 Waltz and all those people were. They think, you know, this is neat, they're Nazis, they're Hitler, but

Speaker 3 he almost I mean, they only won, what, Minnesota by six points?

Speaker 3 Minnesota, usually some elections, I think the Mondale, it was the only state that voted for Mondale. It was so blue.

Speaker 3 I don't know why.

Speaker 3 It's a nation of Scandinavians, but they're social Scandinavians.

Speaker 3 He was giving, he, Tim Walls, was giving a talk before a quote-unquote friendly audience of union nurses, and he complained, I see the pundits on TV. What's wrong with the Democrat Party?

Speaker 3 What's wrong is our country is being stolen by fascists and Nazis, and we're trying to do all we can.

Speaker 3 So our good friend at Power Line, Scott Johnson, has been all over this, says he's been all over Tim Walls for the last couple of years. And Walls was then pressed on this.

Speaker 3 Who are the Nazis? Yeah, who are the Nazis?

Speaker 3 They always say that.

Speaker 3 Just tell me.

Speaker 3 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, the privilege of coming in and sitting where they're accustomed to.

Speaker 3 He's banned the media.

Speaker 3 What has he done? Does he have camped somewhere? Or maybe I could put it this way, Jack.

Speaker 3 Has Donald Trump sent SWAT teams to raid an ex-president's house and then have the FBI come in with little

Speaker 3 guides that say top secret and sprinkle them all over the floor as they throw files on the Biden floor and take pictures of them? Is Donald Trump trying to get,

Speaker 3 I don't know, his maybe Tim Waltz is going to run for president? Is he trying to get his name off state ballots?

Speaker 3 Is he getting a right-wing local prosecutor, state prosecutor in Utah, Wyoming, Montana,

Speaker 3 the Dakotas, to file indictments and writs

Speaker 3 on his political opponents, a la Letita James, Fannie Willis, Eugene Carroll, Jack Smith, and Alvin Bragg. Is he doing any of that? No.

Speaker 3 But they keep saying fascist, fascists, it doesn't mean anything. They don't even know what a fascist is.
They don't know what a Nazi is.

Speaker 3 They don't know what an immigrant is either. I think they do.

Speaker 3 I'm going to throw this in. I think they're called a migrant.

Speaker 3 Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 I meant to bring this up with you before as we were preparing for the show, but I think

Speaker 3 I just have to bring it up now since we're talking about Democrats. This is Marcy Kaptor of Ohio and her comments about Elon Musk.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 she's questioning his loyalty. Mr.
Musk

Speaker 3 has just been here 22 years.

Speaker 3 Just been here 22 years.

Speaker 3 The bracedness of this party. What did he leave? He left the United States.
He went to Stanford? What, was he 19 years old?

Speaker 3 He didn't. And Walter Isaacson's biography said that to the extent that he knew much about, and who knows much about that 19, I mean, he was an assistant, but he was opposed to apartheid.

Speaker 3 He's never spoken out in front of it. And Kay,

Speaker 3 what's her name, Behar?

Speaker 3 Joy Behar, she said that he was pro-apartheid.

Speaker 3 They always talk in the view's little earpiece, hey, whoopee, hey, Joey, you're going to get us sued again.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I think that's the third time on that show that's happened. It happened once on Morning Joe.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 What they're trying to do, I guess they're trying to do, because

Speaker 3 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...

Speaker 3 went online that he was going to kill him. And then they had those

Speaker 3 placards all over D.C. eliminate Elon Musk.

Speaker 3 They're lowering the bar on what's permissible.

Speaker 3 And Elon Musk had that interview I looked at with Joe Rogan, and he mentioned that, that he had to get a security detail much larger than one would think. And he thought that he was a target.

Speaker 3 And they were

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 If you keep calling people Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, fascist, fascists, 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,

Speaker 3 ants, roaches, they're going to come out and they're going to have that.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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, Corsic Kavanaugh,

Speaker 3 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 out

Speaker 3 or picketing their homes. Again, it's all predicated on the left, thinks that they're utopian, moralist, and therefore any means necessary or justified.
Aaron Powell, there might be

Speaker 3 some

Speaker 3 interesting justification behind that fear i want to get to that in a second but for i just want to first uh take a moment for our sponsor factor factor has chef-made gourmet meals that make eating well easy they're dietician approved ready to heat and eat in two minutes so you can feel right and feel great no matter what life throws at you factor arrives fresh fully prepared, perfect for any activity and for your busy lifestyle.

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Speaker 3 Victor, there was a piece

Speaker 3 playing off the

Speaker 3 energizing lunatics out there, related to death and murder. This kid

Speaker 3 at Stanford Review, which is the conservative publication of the college, Ian Dalmas wrote

Speaker 3 an op-ed piece the other day. Stanford is Making Men Without Chests.
And

Speaker 3 let me just read the beginning. He says, When polled, a staggering four in ten young people said that the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was justified.

Speaker 3 And according to a poll on the Stanford internal social app, Fizz, six in ten believe that Luigi is a hero.

Speaker 3 That's

Speaker 3 I

Speaker 3 what's the subtext there that

Speaker 3 Luigi was a spoiled brat who wasn't really actively working.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He had an opportune left-wing ideology based on

Speaker 3 his own security, never had to suffer any of the consequences of his boutique ideology. And that's what most Stanford kids are.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Sam Bankman-Fried was a perfect example. And my point is that

Speaker 3 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 United Health Care policy.

Speaker 3 It's not exorbitantly priced compared to other policies. It's been pretty good.
It serves a social, cultural, and economic need.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 80% of people get A's.

Speaker 3 There's so many therapeutic distractions there. But they're going to be branded with an S on their rear end, like a cattle, cattle.

Speaker 3 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, you know, Stanford Medical School.
I get to go to

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And the brand is that you see with, if you get 80% A's and you don't have SATs for four years for admissions, then the brand, you start to meet people with the brand.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 They have a better rate usually.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 with

Speaker 3 this kind of social mindset, I don't blame Ian Musk or Elon Musk or anyone of higher, you know, more public visibility from worrying about

Speaker 3 their security and safety.

Speaker 3 Well, I got a memo the other day that there's a hiring freeze. Stanford has about, I guess it's it's over $30 billion endowment, way over, maybe closer to $40.

Speaker 3 And due to the interest, they're getting about 7%. They have to reinvest 2% or 3%.

Speaker 3 So probably getting,

Speaker 3 you know,

Speaker 3 on the $40 billion, if I were to take that, just in the interest alone, they're probably getting $2.5 billion, $3 billion.

Speaker 3 And then they're probably raising another $2 or $3 billion for their $6 billion. But

Speaker 3 they're facing a double whammy because they were charging, I think, 54% overhead, at least on government NIH contracts. And Bill Gates was

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 and that is about $180 million.

Speaker 3 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 five hundred thousand

Speaker 3 per student

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 Stanford is it has about sixteen thousand students

Speaker 3 but it's got about three times that endowment so it's got about

Speaker 3 you know sixteen

Speaker 3 sixteen thousand students but it's got a forty billion dollar endowment and so they're going to have to pay some tax on that. The Senate lowered it, I think, to 15 from 25%.

Speaker 3 But when they start paying 15% on,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And that's because they see what's coming. And who's to blame? They are.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Nobody forced them to go censor people like Scott Atlas or Jay Bacharia. So they brought it on themselves, and all these universities did.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And again, I'll throw a curveball at you, but I think I send you a note about this. We should talk about

Speaker 3 activism on campus has not stopped. There's

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We are back with the Victor Davis-Hansen Show talking on the

Speaker 3 1st of March. And this episode is up on Thursday, March 6th.
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Speaker 3 not officially affiliated with Victor, but good people at the Victor Davis Hansen Fan Club. And I should mention that the mothership of this podcast is John Solomon's justthenews.com.

Speaker 3 And wait, this book,

Speaker 3 about a month ago, Victor started doing a daily five or six-minute video for the daily Signal, and that you can find that on YouTube. And the numbers there are

Speaker 3 kind of staggering. And it's an excellent production.

Speaker 3 Victor, your thoughts thoughts about

Speaker 3 bad, bad Jeff Bezos.

Speaker 3 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, et cetera.
He's changed the editorial policy.

Speaker 3 The usual suspects have yelled, and even some have resigned. Your thoughts about him or about this, Victor? It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 What they kind of did on the left, what I have to be very careful, Jack, I'll offend your sensibilities. What National Eview did in 2016.
Oh, I thought you were going to say something about Italians.

Speaker 3 Go ahead. No.
But I mean,

Speaker 3 that is

Speaker 3 their constituency got smaller and smaller and smaller,

Speaker 3 and they were an echo chamber. So in National Eview, when

Speaker 3 I was there for

Speaker 3 21 years,

Speaker 3 22 years, 21 years.

Speaker 3 The point I'm making is that when you 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 doing, oh, he's an ape in a helicopter.

Speaker 3 That kind of stuff. You don't have an audience anymore.
It gets monotonous. So they just keep drumming that in, drumming that in, this left-wing stuff.

Speaker 3 And they got, you know, they first, he was reasonable after the election.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Remember, we've talked about that so many times, Jack, that interview he gave

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And we have to have free inquiry and expression. That's part of how we do this important product.
activity and they want to destroy it.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And they should write this crazy stuff and that Dr.

Speaker 3 Sun and 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.

Speaker 3 And we, you know, we're not greedy. We think we should get, you know, modest sum, $400,000 or $500,000 a year to write one of our recycled columns each week.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He said that we're only going to do that. We're only going to do that.

Speaker 3 It almost implies you're not going to talk about anything but free expression and the wonderful capital system.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 they

Speaker 3 it's very different than Lisa Jobs. She runs Atlantic, but see, she's...

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 But if she was actually

Speaker 3 out there as an Apple CEO trying to do business when your employees are trying to undermine it and

Speaker 3 the

Speaker 3 Bay Area is hostile to you, it's hard to be liberal anymore. Aaron Powell, Jr.: Excuse me, it's also applicable to Bezos' ex-wife, who has

Speaker 3 been

Speaker 3 giving billions of people. She's done a lot of damage.
So is the two of them. Isn't that funny? We live in

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, they are authentic American original geniuses, and they revolutionize their field.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 the fruits of their labors through alimony or inheritance, and then they become very, very very left-wing, and they fund all these policies that, if you follow them to their logic conclusion, would destroy the chicken that's laying their golden eggs.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But not after they're gone.
It takes a while. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: It's interesting, Victor.
You work essentially for a nonprofit.

Speaker 3 I work for an entity that helps nonprofits, not against nonprofits. They are there for a reason

Speaker 3 to help civil society and to engage in charitable activities, et cetera.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I've heard from so many kids who

Speaker 3 use nonprofits to get into school. They create these things, and then that's what they want to do.
But who the hell makes the profits to allow them to be able to do that? Well, that's not the subtext.

Speaker 3 That is the subtext of the entire Fuhrer 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.

Speaker 3 What am I saying? I'm saying these people are being turned out from these universities with...

Speaker 3 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 study.

Speaker 3 All of these worthless degrees, but they have a BA, and some of them are a Duke BA,

Speaker 3 a Georgetown BA,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You know who's written very persuasively? It's Joel Kotkin, the other very gifted observer.

Speaker 3 I'm sure he 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

Speaker 3 a lot of other people have used the word cleric.

Speaker 3 It's not an ancient word. It's 18th century.

Speaker 3 It's not just clerics, but it's the people who feel in the same fanatical, not fanatical, but religious sense.

Speaker 3 They're not religious orders, but they are religious in their adherence to big government and redistribution. and they

Speaker 3 run these things, and they make, you know, two or three, and those salaries were released. You see what Sheldon White House

Speaker 3 wife had got?

Speaker 3 And so she's Miss Ph.D., oceanic something, giving money to the oceanic something, and then raking her cut off while her husband voted for it. And

Speaker 3 that's what... That's what these universities do.

Speaker 3 They turn out these worthless degrees, these left-wing soldiers in the army of progressivism, and they get hired by NGOs, nonprofits, and the government.

Speaker 3 And nobody who's got an architectural firm, or no one's running a fleet of taxicabs, or nobody who's on an

Speaker 3 Alice Shalmers tractor all day would hire these people.

Speaker 3 That's why they're angry. They're trying to dry it up.
They're trying to move these people to the private sector.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 Barnard College in New York.

Speaker 3 Anti-Israeli protesters seize academic buildings after two students were expelled. Folks should look it up.
And then there was a related.

Speaker 3 My gosh, this Columbia University spokesperson enters the building. Here's a great thing.
A Columbia University spokesperson.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 With a pathetic mega folks. Would you allow me to use my own restroom? You shall.
Oh.

Speaker 3 Anyone that thinks this BS happening on campus is over,

Speaker 3 that the anti-Semitic students on campus is over, it's not over. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: The critics of this whole MAGA enterprise are the people like that,

Speaker 3 and they don't believe in deterrence. All one administrator has to do is if she just said,

Speaker 3 no,

Speaker 3 you're going to let me get out of the way, I'm using the restroom. And oh, by the way, you're here against

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And more importantly, if you're on a student visa and you're here from a different country,

Speaker 3 Sia wouldn't want to be. That's what she said.
That would not happen. That would be it.

Speaker 3 And it would be calm. We had the same thing happen at Stanford.
We had Larry Summers speaking of all people. He's not a conservative.
And we had this group.

Speaker 3 It was alleged that they were mostly outsiders, not students. I don't know, but they disrupted the

Speaker 3 and they just weren't allowed to disrupt it. I thought, why don't the police come in here and arrest them?

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 these are very cowardly people. They're very pampered.
They're very wealthy. They feel that they can say or do anything.

Speaker 3 And because of the mere fact that they occupy a campus for a transitory four years, they think they own the campus.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 No, it's not.

Speaker 3 A subsidized renter in most cases. Yeah,

Speaker 3 we're always waiting for that one rare man or woman that says, no moss, we're not going to do it anymore. I'm sorry.
We're going to

Speaker 3 the former senator from California. S.
I. Hayakawa.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 He just got

Speaker 3 his little gardening shears, and he went out there and they said

Speaker 3 he had a very funny accent. He goes, this is the law, and there is a regulation of no megaphones in a speech.
So I cut the cord.

Speaker 3 And then he became famous.

Speaker 3 He's actually a very gifted linguist. He wrote a book on introduction to linguistics.
Did you ever meet him?

Speaker 3 No, but I knew a person that knew him, and he had that little tattersham or that little thing he wore on his head.

Speaker 3 And then he became a senator. They called him Sleepy Sam

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 But he was just, he was an old-fashioned Roosevelt liberal, and he just looked at these snotty, pampered, wealthy kids.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Anyway,

Speaker 3 he just thought, this is a circus. These people are not formidable.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It's kind of like those old Western movies where the guy, you know, they all get all worked up in the bar, and then they all get, they go to

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You'll get me, but I'm pointing right at you, Mr. Loudmouth.
And 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

Speaker 3 go back home.

Speaker 3 And that's what students are. They're bullies.
All you have to do is arrest two of them, and they all dissipate. But they won't do that at Columbia because they sympathize with them.

Speaker 3 That's the subtext, isn't it? They want them. They don't like Israel.
They do not like Jewish professors and students. Let's be honest.
They don't.

Speaker 3 The polls reflect that.

Speaker 3 The governor of New York was still waiting for her to

Speaker 3 work up that

Speaker 3 law to take to outlaw masks, which

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 Andrew Cuomo looked

Speaker 3 no question. He looks like he has a halo and angel wings.

Speaker 3 She's just a horror show. Terrible.
I mean, I didn't like a lot of the stuff he did,

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 the way they got rid of him was they railroaded him, and he was kind of a Randy figure. But again,

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 a minor office, lieutenant governor of New York.

Speaker 3 And then

Speaker 3 once she became governor, you thought, wow, no wonder she was never intended to be governor.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think if there's a prime, I think Cuomo will probably run for mayor in New York, and there's a good chance he might be it

Speaker 3 if people don't forget all the dead bodies coming out of the nursing.

Speaker 3 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 the is it Weinstein, the professor at Evergreens in Washington or Oregon?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Or you're Mark Halburn,

Speaker 3 or and you go they go after and try to destroy you,

Speaker 3 you have a that's a different thing, and they they become apostates.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 Victor, we have come to almost the end. I do want to thank our listeners, and we have a lot of listeners.

Speaker 3 Before the show, Victor and I were looking at the great Sammy Wink shared some information with us. So there's lots and lots of new listeners.
We greatly appreciate your coming and hope you stay.

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Speaker 3 People leave comments there also on Audible and on Victor's website. We read them and I have one comment from somebody

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It's titled Exceptional Show and it's from Tula and Sal. And it's and I don't know if Tula's, I'll just say Tula's writing this.

Speaker 3 I owe VDH a huge debt of gratitude for keeping me sane during the incredible turmoil of the past few years.

Speaker 3 I felt like we were losing America to a bizarre, twisted, corrupt sect force feeding us lies through a complicit media. My fear was that America could

Speaker 3 go down the same broken path as California. VDH provided the clarity, truth, and insights that gave us hope.

Speaker 3 Today's episode about the complexities of the Ukraine war and the dynamics around Trump's efforts to end it was incredibly insightful.

Speaker 3 President Trump and his team would be wise to take counsel from VDH to help them navigate through the complexities to end this war.

Speaker 3 I also find VDH's world history teaching fascinating, like listening to a storyteller that ties us all together.

Speaker 3 I'm a California expat, grew up in Modesto when we could safely ride bikes all over town as kids in the mid-1960s.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Sadly, that is not possible now, and I appreciate VDH sharing his perspectives on California's path to social insanity. Finally, I want to thank VDH for helping me with my fitness.

Speaker 3 I found it easy to increase my daily walks from three to five miles while listening to this show. Shit.

Speaker 3 I've increased mine

Speaker 3 from

Speaker 3 three to five.

Speaker 3 No, excuse me, three.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I was doing a mile and a half

Speaker 3 miling the perimeter, right? Yeah, and then now I've added two miles. So I'm doing,

Speaker 3 I'm doing, excuse me, I'm doing, I went from one and a half and one at three to,

Speaker 3 I guess it's only three and a half I do a day, almost four.

Speaker 3 And you have two dogs with you? One dog, four dogs, three dogs.

Speaker 3 At one point, we had six, but they've all dropped off to old age. And the one of them is decrepit, and the other one is insane.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And the other one is a brilliant dog, but she's, I think, 15, and she can 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.

Speaker 3 I don't know what we're going to do when they pass away,

Speaker 3 because we're we'll have to choice because there were such great watchdogs, but I have all these beware of the dog signs. But

Speaker 3 now you could leave because before you couldn't leave because they had to be fed on the hour, you know.

Speaker 3 You're a dog person,

Speaker 3 and I know Mrs. Hansen's a super dog person.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I don't know.
I talked about this with Sharon. What happens when George goes?

Speaker 3 I've never bought a kennel dog, you know, because I've always been,

Speaker 3 we were always brought up, you have, and they're more expensive to get a pound dog because you have to pay for the Spain and the

Speaker 3 vaccinations. They're just as expensive sometimes.

Speaker 3 But next time, if I do, I'd 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.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 you know,

Speaker 3 Sport was a great dog. He would just smile at you, but he was so paranoid, he'd bite your leg.

Speaker 3 And then Spotty would just come up to you and just bark at you like you were a scarecrow or something, just not stop, just keep barking. Yeah, that's

Speaker 3 you. You watch that guy, Caesar, whatever.
The guy is supposedly able to

Speaker 3 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 was one we had to give back, but it was the same thing. All are from the pound.

Speaker 3 Well, anyway,

Speaker 3 God is dog spelled backwards, or dog is God spelled backwards, one or the other. Victor, you've been terrific.
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