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This is our Friday News roundup, and we've got lots of news stories this week. We will start off with the verdict in the Carmelo Anthony murder case and then also an attempted near beheading in Northern Ireland that has spurred protests. So stay with us for those stories and we'll be right back . What would you say if you found out that some of America's biggest companies, ones you use and support , are paying for gender transition drugs and surgeries for kids. This is really happening. So our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom are doing something about it. Companies like American Express and Home Depot appear to cover irreversible experimental gender transition procedures for minors in their employee healthcare plans . That means kids can get puberty blocks, cross sex hormones , and life altering surgeries and the companies you support foot the bill. This has to stop and you can do something about it. 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I personally don't think he got enough years, but he got nineteen years for murdering nineteen years Metcalf . Yeah, I'm sorry, he got thirty five years and we figure he'll serve nineteen years out of that. There's that , and then also the protests on behalf of behalf of Anthony out there. And I want to read you something. There was an interesting article in Pajamas Media and he was talking about the black intellectuals that defended the verdict this time around different from when we saw the OJ trial . And he said he has one example of a lawyer , he had many examples, but one lawyer said Sheldon Daniels wrote on media, his social media, he wrote , I practice law in Collin County, Texas. Carmela Anthony will be convicted and sentenced to life in prison as he should be. He murdered that boy because he was raised to hate white people and to view himself as a victim in every situation. It's a cultural thing . And I thought that was an interesting quote from a black intellectual, but the whole article was about the damning of these black intellectuals that are in agreement with the verdict. Well there was a very I mean there was protest . There was a very small contingent . Everybody, the subtext of this trial was had they had the confrontation and had young Metcalf had a knife, like a Swiss armor knife and plunge it into Camilla . Then you know what would have happened? There would have been a George Floyd like incident, even though Metcap was not an official. But what I'm getting at is the protest was very small outside the courtroom . There was no riot ing on the back of the sentencing because he killed a white person in an America whether you're on the subway and you're a Ukrainian refugee or you're a young kid that I mean, the facts of the case were so clear. Everybody knows that track meets an athletic event sometimes that people have tents , themed tents of their friends and they and he came deliberately over from the other side and tried to poach into that. And then he just stood there daring people to and many people said leave . And he wouldn't so I think they turned to Metcalf as being six feet tall, he was about the same height as Carmello , and he said get out and he shoved him, and then he stuck a knife in his heart . Had that roles been reversed, there were the whole black community would be up in arms. They would say it was murder . But what I'm getting at is we're so over that now after the Michael Brown case where remember hands up don't shoot that was a complete lie . The Jesse Small case about Maga people, that was a complete li e. The Duke Lacrosse psychodrama, that was a complete lie. The Tawana Brawley that was a complete lie . And so people People and then this is juxtaposed on what we're seeing at the same time with the antithesis to the George Floyd as we talked about with Henry No , a white guy walking mining his own business when a quote unquote person of color, in this case a Sikh immigrant killed him, murdered him , and it was also a knife . And it was a ceremonial supposedly . And I don't know why he gets an exemption from a carrying a knife and a Scottish Highlander says, Well, my ancestors had them in their kilt. But again, it's the DEI thing. But people and then we had the Belfast incident where a Sudanese immigrant who came maybe quasi legally, but was bragging that he was going to behead somebody on the streets of Belfast and he put his eye out . And so the point I'm making is people have had it now with all of this and they just want to have people treated as people . And the whole critical legal theory industry is collapsed. Remember what critical legal theory was? It said that the laws are not based on morality or virtue or logic , they're just based on wealthy white people constructing a legal system that favors them . And as I said before, according to critical legal theory, you don't black people prosecuted, but they're not really when they swarm a sneaker store because white, wealthy people don't buy sneakers . So and then critical legal theory that the whole system is built on racism and therefore the laws are malleable and fluid and you have to calculate or factor in the race of the victim and the victimizer. There were a lot of reports that on certain crimes black and white, which only are about seven or eight percent of violent crime. It was six one on, I think, on murder, but some of the crimes on assault are one hundred to one depending on the local . So everybody knows that and everybody knows you can't talk about it. And everybody knows that black teenagers between the ages of fourteen teenagers starting at fourteen maybe up to forty or vastly overrepresentative in the demographic in violent crime and murder . Everybody knows that and everybody knows that officials and entertainers will contextualize that. They won't talk about. So here we have Cardi B, who is now bleeding support because she spoke , well she's she's bleeding support because she did the mistake and she went into the political arena and she got a furious backlash and she said basically that that Medcap deserved what he got and it was self defense. And then you had Jasmine Crockett who she's on bound. She's lost her senate race. She has no political career lately. She was redistriced out of her congressional district. She wasn't going to run . She says basically that if she had been in his place, she would have stabbed him too . And then she's talked about white people, white people, white people, white people, white people. This is a upper middle class, prep schooled primad a who has never had anything but privilege . And so what I'm getting at is the whole racial binary of people of color , victimized , non people of color or white victim. It doesn't work because it just ignores the actual circumstances of individual behavior, but more importantly, it has nothing to do with class . And as you see, as I've said again, the Indian American community is the most affluent ethnic group, much more than white people. And to have Mandami play victim and say he's going after white neighborhood s is ridiculous. People are sick of it. And they're sick of it in Europe . And so they're sick of the subway murder. They're sick of the Chicago's lighting a person on fire. They feel and they're rightly to do that that they're targeted. So when DiCarlos Brown went into that subway , there were five black people surrounding her . He didn't attack any of them . He didn't attack any of them. He picked out the Ukrainian blonde white girl and Irina, yes. And he slit her throat . And then it was reported. You could hear it. I listened to the tape , he mentioned that he killed her, the bitch, or whatever he said, excuse my language, white something . And then there was this denial that he ever but that was a racially motivated hate crime . And what we saw in Britain was a racially motivated hate crime . And Jesse Smallett was trying to create a hate crime against MAGA people . And Michael Brown tried to kill a white cop and charged him. He didn't, he wasn't shot in the back. That was all a complete lie . So when you add these lies, and George Floyd was not a as the murals have shown with it's tragic he died , but he was a career felon, and he was passing counterfeit currency when he was arrested and he resisted arrest and he was on a banned substance . And so what I'm getting at, all of these constructs that the race industry uses, they've all blown up and nobody believes them anymore. And then when you have these swarms when teenagers take over intersections or teenagers swarm malls or teenagers drive cars into jewelry stores or they go in and cram into an Apple store . Not all, but inordinately a community of black young people who represent about five, four, or five percent of the demographic is vastly overrepresented and people know that. And you can see it when you read any major site, whether it's liberal or conservative , even New York Post , Fox News website, even conservative ones. They don't when they mention these things, they're careful not to identify the perpetrator, but a study has shown that six times more likely they will if it's a white perpetrator. So the point is then you read the comments and those are clickbait comments. And they are racist. They're saying like why did we ever bring these people or all that , because they're frustrated because people don't tell the truth . All they have to do . I wrote an article that I got really a lot of hate mail with years ago when When there was a number of black intellectuals , remember they had this term the talk , the talk. And we all have to give people the talk . And Black parents give the talk. And it was based on the idea that Black men make up an inordinate amount of those arrested. So young boys who are going to be men and are out in the street . But what the talk lacked was statistics, truth, data , that the Washington Post even admitted that of the eleven million or so interactions between police , unarmed people who were shot were not disproportionately black males . If you look at the incidents of coming in contact, not just the general p opulation . And that was because of the inordinate demographic of black males committing a crime . But if you use that rib, so and in response, I said, Well, I had to talk too . And I said that when my father once took my mother to a judicial hearing, she was a judge in Oakland, he was surrounded by four black males in the parking lot in Oakland . And they said, and he was with my mother, he was a big guy, but there were four of them, and he had to give each one twenty dollars to be let to let go. And he said, I went to the wrong. When I went to Berkeley to help an aged friend of my parents when I was in college , we had a blue pickup on the farm pickup and we were moving things In those days a chevy pickup was. in It nineteen sixty two. They're very easy to hot water. You can almost do it with a knife in there. And all of a sudden we looked out and two black males took off the pickup and they just took off . And we found it we called the police and they found it an abandoned in Richmond and it had alcohol, drugs, conduct, everything trash. It was filthy. It was full of trash . And it had a bad oil leak. That's why they abandoned, I guess. They were going so fast it blew a basket . But my point is , then my dad gave me the talk . He said, Look , I've been a lifelong Democrat. Your mother's lifestone with civil rights. We took you to hear Martin,ah bl,ah bl,ah, blah, bl blah . I try to hire as many qualified black people as I can. He was an administrator at that time . And he had a sizable black, he had a program for people on public assistance , people in prison that came into the State Center Junior College vocational school that he ran . Okay . And what did he say? He said just when you're in college and you're going to go to a concert, if you think you're going to go to Oakland, be very careful. If you're going to Richmond, be very careful. If you're going to at the time, I was living in East Paul Alto , which was the highest murder rate in the United States. And I had just said that somebody put his arm through the roommate and my Jeff Sellers. He forced the door open and reached through and we had a chain lock. So we hit it with a baseball bat. The next day , I walked two days later, I walked into what they called Whisky Roll Gulch. It was the first place that was allowed to sell alcohol. It used to be banned two mile limit for Stanford , I think two or three miles . And I saw a guy with a cast and he, an African American guy, and he threw a six pack of beer at my head and glass and I ducked and exploded. And I was living, I was telling my dad that I said, Well, I live in East Pal to. And then three months later I had I was with my dad and parent and they had a lottery once and we were walking down the street for a road bike, kind of a cheap one and he got a lottery ticket and he won it. So he gave me this road bike . So I was riding to school to Sanford Classics down University Avenue and a car pulled up with three black males and they tried to take the bike from me. But I was sort of like I had been a wrestler in high school, but I just clinched it so hard and they were like throwing me around, but I did not want I didn't have a bike , I lost that. And then police came by and of course didn't arrest them. And my third one, fourth one was we were in a on walk my wife was working at the Paul o Psych ward and she her job was to escort people on day trips that had psychological problems. At that time it was mostly Vietnam veterans . And she saw one person walking down the street and he had a speech impediment and he kind of tipped his head like like kind of Rainman, you know, kind of like this. And he came up and started talking to her and two African American people got right next to him and started I was in a store and I came back out and they were mimicking , you know what I mean ? This disabled person and so one of them pushed me and I was with another guy and we it wasn't good . But my point is if they think the police inordinately harass black males, it might be because black males inordinately are in contact with the police in arrest situations . But that talk didn't include that. But they also didn't say that if so called white Americans try to avoid certain places like East Powalto or Oakland, it's because of empirical data that they are targeted more and it's dangerous . And that's the whole answer to the whole question. It's not about race, it's not about anything. It's about data . And you can talk about the Sikh community that we did with Henry ah, or you can talk about the Asian community, the poor white community, you can do anything, but no community that level of violence among young males. It's just a fact. And so the people who make the necessary judgments Hispanics, other blacks. Jesse Jackson famously said when he was walking down a street and he heard footsteps behind him in Chicago. He was relieved when he turned around and the person was not African American. He said that . So when you hear Jasmine Crockett who is a spoiled upper middle class primed diva to spout this utterly racist stuff about and all if I was under a four hundred pound man, I would do he wasn't four hundred pounds. He wasn't even a man , he was a teenager . And I might have to do resort to that. What is the point of that? It draws in the whole question is when you listen to Hank Johnson or you listen to any of these people in the Black Caucus. And then we have these gerrymandered racial districts . If you didn't gerrymander any district for any particular group, just based on population and geography then you would probably have African Americans like Tim Scott and a lot of them. But the difference would be race would be an incidental to their to their political point of view. They would be interested in water issues. They would be interested in all these, but not exclusively in the realm of race . And then you would have the racial divisions once you are elected by a maj ority black district, then you are prone or in fact required to represent the chauvinist view of your constituents. And that just leads to more and more extremism . Well, Victor, let's welcome back to our show, our sponsor, My Patriots Apply . The bug out bag designed to for elite survivalist preparedness experts and field tested professionals is now available to the public. That's right. Our friends at my Patriot supply have just announced their fully stocked go bag with everything you need to escape a crisis and surv ive on your own, including multiple days worth of food , a water bottle with built in filtration, tools and gear for starting fires, making shelters, staying warm, catching fish, trapping small g ame, cooking off grid, and much, much more. 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And the Native Americans have coined the popular use of that, but all you have to read Caesar's Gallic Wars and the first time that so called Europeans or civilized Europeans come to the British Isles and they see people with red hair and white skin and they're shocked because they'd look so differently. And those are indigenous people . So when you have fifteen , sixteen percent of maybe the general population you're getting close and then you have cities with thirty forty percent from the Middle East, for example, or from the Caribbean . And they're violent in some cases, they're targeting white people , then you have this new word indigenous . Well, we're indigenous. We were the original inhabitants of this. And it's a very funny thing because the left never thinks about that. And the best locust classicus was Mandami who's always lecturing about Israel is in the wrong place, that they're interlopers, even though they have a tradition going back thirty five to four thousand and his family and the Indian community is a nineteenth century , early twentieth century exodus to go into an African country in the fashion that European colonials did and set up shops and businesses they did in South Africa. They're very hardworking, very capable , and they control about sixty five percent of the economic activity in Uganda. And he grew up in privilege , privileged, and his parents had means to be highly educated. They came to the United States, they tapped into the diversity whole thing, and they're very successful. But for him to talk about settlers and colonialists or to people talk about indigenous people, it doesn't mean anything anymore . It's just a coded word for racism . And he's a racist . And so is Cardi B , and so are Jasmine Crockett and a lot of the members of the Black Caucus that are talking about it, I mean, they're racist . They're talking about things that have nothing to do with the actual details of the case. Two teenagers , one teenager is not supposed to be in that place , daring people to touch him will not leave when asked numerous times, even black teenagers who were there said that he was the aggressor. And then to resolve the dispute, he pulls out a knife and plunges it into somebody's heart. And then Jasmine Crockett gives a lecture and says it couldn't really it was only this big, it couldn't do anything. It wasn't even a weapon How do you deal with a person when they have the autopsy? They show that that little weapon five or six inches went right through the ribcage into his heart and destroyed him in about a minute and a half . And yet you know that 's like saying I was hit I was hit by a post in the vineyard guy had to pull up a post and he hit me . He can't be prosecuted for murder because the post is a vineyard post I don't know how to say it. It's just pathetic . It's simply make these arguments are so full of h atred. Hatred . Yeah . I think it is encouraging, though, that the article that I referred to in Pajamas media that was showing that all the black there are quite a few black intellectuals and just blacks that post on X that are coming out and saying, We agree this is a don't understand. Very different. The left black those are mostly conservatives though . I don't understand the whole fear because when you put blacks and you give them ensure equality of opportunity, then you get Shelby Steeles and Tom Souls and very capable people . There's no difference , but when you fixate and you just fixate like a talisman on blackness, blackness, blackness , and you bring up things of one hundred fifty and years ago and Jim all that and then you lose all the whole point is to lose deterrent so that I can do anything and no one will dare say anything about it because they're scared of me calling it racist. Even the word racist is so inflated the currency is worthless now. It doesn't mean anything anymore to be called a racist It really doesn't. It used to be . And it's going to get worse. It's going to get a lot worse because you talk to people and they are and I don't mean just white people. Everybody is sick of it because the irony is the left opened the borders under John Ted Kennedy in nineteen sixty five, and they basically destroyed the idea that Europeans or anybody from the former British Commonwealth could come to the United States. And they got rid of the idea you wanted skilled upper class. They wanted poor people from Africa and Asia and Latin America, okay, Mexico . And once they did that , they didn't quite realize that it was no longer a binary between white people and black people . There were all these different ethnic and racial groups . And so what's the point? The point is once you start to be chauvinistic about your race , then it's not white people that get upset about it or it's Hispanics . Well, how about us White and how about Asians when you have all these mult multiracial groups they brought in , it's kind of ironic because the left then tries to promote one particular race , but effort , every effort of what they call intersectionality, picking up from Jesse Jackson's rainbow coalition , picking up from Barack Obama's diversity, equity, inclusion, every effort that says Asians, Hispanics, indigenous blacks all are solid. They all have any differences they have are minor compared to their hatred of white people. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. I can tell you that as I grew up in a community that is now ninety percent Mexican American or Mexican national. And I went to a school, Eric White School, that was almost all Mexican American. And I can tell you that there were five or six black people in that school and we had a pretty tough principal from Texas of all places and he made sure that no one uttered racial epithets against them. But given the demography, it was not the ten or twelve farm kids that said anything. It was the Mexican American kids in Mexican that were saying all sorts of words. So I know them in Spanish because I grew up with them . But that's another thing up that the upper bicultural white elite doesn't understand because he's not with the middle and lower classes. He doesn't understand that . They think that white people they keep thinking that they can get through life apologizing for being white and then they will be accepted by all of these different pressure groups . It's not going to happen, but more importantly they're not the only perpetrators of racism is what I'm trying to get at. Well, Victor, associated with that is the near beheading of a man by illegal or he was legal, but he was an immigrant in Northern Ireland that has spawned riots. And there was an excellent article in Hot Air by David Strom , and he brought out a few people that were saying this is going to lead to civil war. One of which was Elon Musk, but the other one and probably maybe a little more credible was a general in the probably ret aired general in the British Army saying that these things are happening , the No ak case , this new near beheading, and it's going to lead to civil war and it's not going to be a civil war like the United States had. It's going to be a civil it's going to be protests out on the street. The British people are going to get angry because the government has no answer to the illegal immigration the Liberal Party Labor Party did just what the Democratic Party did. Started with Tony Blair. They opened up the borders because they wanted dependent constituencies on government programs from non white areas and then they wanted to patronize them for votes . And that's what they did. What they didn't understand is when you create a dependency and you create you destroy deterrence . You sent a message that you are now a select group that all you have to do is yell racism for more political reparations and concessions. And then they never , I don't think they understood that that would then escalate to hitting people, attacking them, and expecting not to be arrested because you were a victim. And that the reductio had absurdum that it got absurd when you get on the middle of the streets of Belfast and you happen to be a black Sudanese immigrant and you yell out that you're going to cut this man's head off and you brag about it as he was doing this and yelling and you think you're going to get away with it . And so that's what happened. And Tony Blair started it and then even conservative people went along with it, premier. They didn't stop it . So then Stirmer gets all angry , you know , he's condemning these anger. What did he think was going to happen with this program ? And it's , you know, if you just bring in millions of people from the most wretched places in the world as far as security and economic viability and many of them Muslims, an anthetical religion to Christianity and you bring them in and you don't try to look at them as individuals , but you identify them as collectives . You're going to get chaos So Victor, what I wanted to do though is to look at the rest of the article with David Strom and Odir because he does go on beyond just talking about how the riots were going to happen and it will be like a civil war say that the government is not answering the questions of having so many immigrants, whether they're legal or illegal, coming in and committing crimes . And then the two tiered justice system where Muslims are given lighter sentences for lack of another term than Christian Britons are. And so he says, The government hasn't provided any sort of they're not what they're doing, actually, they have an answer. They're suppressing anybody who notices these problems. The whole immigrant r,ace et,hnic chauvinism is in a doom loop . Since nineteen seventy , we're getting close now to three generations of Europe ans and Americans that did not grow up during institutionalized racism . Jim Crow was over everything . So there were the Civil Rights Acts of nineteen sixty four and sixty five, and what followed was affirmative action . What they did grow up with was affirmative action where if you were white and working class , you lack the connections of the elite bicoal people who got their kids in places and hired and you were prejudicially discriminated against because you were white to accommodate minorities who were given special privileges, either lower SAT scores or grade point in admissions or hiring people , fast tracking them for promotion and tenure , or giving basically bulletproof deterrence from charges that they were incompetent because they were supposedly on the victimized side of the bomb. Okay . So what you're seeing in Ireland today are young people from fifteen to fif ty . And they grew up as poor white working class. And they were looked down on just as the deplorables and the irredeemables are here by the wealthy elite that had the education and globalized skills to make money in the new twenty first century economy . They were looked down upon. And they were virtue signals. So they said you people are racist and that exempts us from anybody calling us racist . At the same time they saw people coming into their country here and then Europe in the UK that were very poor . And correctly formulated that the international left and the American Left wanted to bring in people fit the DEI victimized category who were poor and would need massive massive subsidies to get parity. And that would grow government, increase taxes, and create a loyal constituency. So LA under Sam Yordi, an old conservative Democrat basically was a ninety, ten , maybe ninety percent white , ten percent black . And it was pretty conservative. That's gone now. It's gone. Most people have fled the place . They've had probably two million illegal immigrants in LA County. It's run by DI and Affirmative Action and welfare and welfare fraud . Okay , at the same time this was happening , the idea , I don't know if they thought it out, but the left said we're going to shower you with free health care and free legal care and housing subsidies and educational subsidies and legal subsidies . And this will be a bridge. I think it was Sandra Day O'Connell that said, Well, affirmative action won't last much longer. It's just a bridge. And once we give you all these things for free and we give you special preferences, then you will have an equality not of opportunity, but it'll work out and what they didn't count on or they did count. I don't know, but human nature being what it is. When you give somebody something and you provide a guaranteed lifestyle and you don't object when they call people racist , white people racist , and you say that you can't be racist yourself if you want to cut somebody's head off or you want to stab somebody with a ceremonial sik knife that's only symbolic. It's not a weapon or as Jasmine Crockett said as I mentioned that it was only a little knife, it's not a weapon that killed Mr Metcalf. If you do that, then you encourage laxity . So it didn't work. So all these programs, all this free stuff, all this guaranteed exemption from being responsible created a huge dependent class that was not competitive with certain types of immigrants, Asian immigrants, immigrants India. And so what happened is they created a self fulfilling prophecy. We are not doing well as minorities because you're racist . And they said, We're not racist. We give you privilege. Well, it is racist because we don't have an equality result. And people would say, well, you have you're overrepresented in the NBA, the NFL, the post office , why don't you use that overrepresentation and transfer it to the tech center or something ? Because that shows you the society is not prejudicial or we'd be back in the nineteen sixty days of segregated basketball . So it was all contrary to human nature. And what the violence we're seeing now is that the people of East Palestine , Ohio or Belfast are in Turnitive for Deutschland in Germany. When you have white working class people who their whole life have been told they're racist and they have to give up privileges on the basis of race to other people who came into their country late or they're doing well and they're better off than so they're going to get angry . They're not going to do anything about it. But when you start going to the next level cutting the throats of people on sub ways or letting people on fire as happened in Chicago , or faking things like Jesse Smallett and faking things like the Lacrosse and faking things like Tawanuna Brawley and faking things like Michael Brown Hands up Don't Shoot or Trayvon, the little choir boy who's had a football uniform and just mining his own business before he pounded George Zimmerman's head into the ground. If you keep doing that and then in Europe , you don't just attack somebody, but ceremonially you try to behead them , or you stab a kid and then you lie and you've tricked the police basically allowing him to die. If you keep doing that, this generation that grew up with special preferences for non whites and didn't grow up in a racist society is going to get angry and that's what's happening . And it's an anger that it's going to increase unless people say, We did it, it didn't work. So we're going to go back to equal opportunity and we're going to prosecute people who use race to be prejudicial either way, either way, either to promote or to detract and harm a race . And we're going to we're a multiracial society and anybody who wants to talk about themselves in racially superior terms as a racist like Jasmine Crockett. She's the poster girl for the whole problem , a spoiled, rotten, wealthy, upper middle class person who has been a beneficiary of a firmbax in her whole life , and can adopt on spec a ghetto patois and an inner city dialect to radiate false authenticity , but basically is an insecure, incompetent, abject racist . And then she spouts at Congress about white men this and you over there, you're white, you're white, white, white, white. She's white on the brain, which shows that it's You just have to be honest. And if you're not honest , and it's not going to get better until people just take the whole racial spoil system and junk it. So the next time somebody in San Francisco says to a broke state sixteen , we want reparations . You just say, No, it's not going to happen. We're not going to give any race for anything in the distant past. I'm sorry. We tried. It doesn't work. You're going to get nothing. We suggest you get vocational training or you get private schools in the inner city and have uniforms and do what the Asian people do or some white people do and outcompete the competition. But we're not going to feel guilty any longer because when we do that, it ends up in violence I think the turning point the turning point was when we found out there were two turning points, I think, three turning points . Number one was the George Floyd riots because the left legitimized that it was okay to burn and kill and steal two billion in damage, thirty five dead, fifteen hundred police officers, fourteen thousand arrests, all let go basically . And that said, if you want to riot for just cause, it's okay. The second was they locked us down on COVID. They lectured us to death about mask . And then I think it was in Minnesota , seventy thousand healthcare workers walked out violating the curfew, violating the COVID, without mask, screaming and yelling . And what did the healthcare and the left say? Well , this is an exception because we're protesting against the mental stress of black people so they can come out . And then that just made a mockery everything. I mean, you told us you were going to arrest people that went out and skateboarded who walked on the beach, and you've got eighty thousand in a mass . And that just made and then that was the third thing was the latest revelations that the whole reason Joe Biden said he ran explicitly was Charlottesville. And now we know the Southern Poverty Law Center. And Morris Deez was harassing women. He was and he the founder was utterly corrupt . And now we have a new president. He gets before Congress. He looks like an utter idiot. He can't answer questions. He can't explain why he defrauded and mis led all of the donors . You mean a president of the Southern Poverty Law Center? President of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Now we learn that there's too many victims and there's not enough victimiz ers. So they went out and hunted up white supremacists, a weird little group of crazy people and started paying them fantastic amounts of money to help organize unite the right and even paid for their Ku Klux Klan uniforms and staged a big thing so there'd be violence and then they made I guess they raised eight seven, eight hundred thousand dollars and that was sort of the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, those incidents. And now people are so cynical . But I tell you, they're not just cynical and we've got to be very careful because the next time some young white girl gets on a subway and she looks at her phone and there's five African Americans around her and an African American looks at her and then splits her throat and they all tiptoe over the corpse and don't offer any assistance . And then we're told by the mayor that this is this is not a reflection of any racial problem at all and that she's not charged with a hate crime. And then we're even told , well she people have to be socially aware when they're on their phone. She came in and she was just looking at her phone . Don't she know that in America, if you look at your phone, you're fair game and you deserve to be have your throat cut . And if you have more of those, this country is going to go like the UK. So everybody has to just say, you know what ? It didn't work r,acial chauvinism. It doesn't work. Just stop it. We'll see what happens. I doubt they're going to do it and I think they're going to have something like the UK the next time we have one of these incidents . I think to add to that, I just saw Winston Marshall, he's a British commentator talking about what he often does, which is that culture the people who have immigrated in here immigrated because this culture produced a created a beautiful place to live, a great culture to live in. And they need to be that needs to be grilled into them. I mean you can't come here for this all the benefits of the culture that creates gratitude is the most culture. Gratitude is the most important of all the virtues . You can't have an alien Omar come in from a war torn Somalia where her father was a colonel in a genocidal regime , and all of these people who were connected with that regime fled to Minnesota and the Northwest , created separatist racialist enclaves, orchestrated the biggest fraud in the history of Minnesota and then at various times expressed anti Semitic hatred . She said mocked nine hundred and eleven. Something happened on nine hundred and eleven and then called the country a trashy country and that the dictators and then not get angry about it. The same thing with the Rashida Talib . And the same thing with a lot of these immigrants, same thing with these people coming illegally from Mexico and burning the American flag and then waving the Mexican flag. And you're so incoherent, you know what I mean? I'm thinking , what I went to the store not too long ago and here's a car drives in with all Mexican flag stickers and all a little flag and I thought, wow. And then the people didn't speak English. And I thought , wow, if I drove down to America, Mexico and I had a bunch of American flags and I went down to Oaxaca or Chiapas or and I just went to a supermarket speaking English and he would be dead . And they have to have some gratitude that they vot ed with their feet to reject their prior culture , but they don't. And they don't because they think they're going to be rewarded and they're right that they're going to be rewarded by hating the country . Which gets back to an existential question , who did all this? And the answer is the universities did. They brainwashed everybody. It was a bunch of very, very wealthy privileged white elites that were in Lala land in these tenured little enclave, beautiful little places like Stan ford and Berkeley , grassy trees, shady, nice little places . Little bubble. All these kids listening on every word like you're a preacher or a sermonizer and you can't be fired and you work nine months a year and you write some stupid little article that nobody reads and you get called a scholar. And they brainwashed three successive generations and they poisoned racial relations in this country . Yeah, they sure have. Well, Victor, let's take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about California. Stay with us. We'll be right back. If you enjoy Victor Davis Hansen, you might enjoy the Daily Signals flagship show, The Tony K , the same common sense perspectives you love weekdays at seven PM Eastern. And unlike some of the other evening shows, we work up until Showtime to bring you the latest breaking news, analysis, and good old American sarc ast Tom Tillis, I'm pretty sure might have been useful at one time as a doorstop. Find the Tony Kinnett cast on YouTube, X, radio, TV, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. This is Victor Dav is Hansen in his own words. You can find Victor on social media on X , his hashtag or his hashtag, his what do you call that? His hashtag? No No link I don't know. VD Hansen is VD Hansen . His handle, thank you. His handle is VD Hansen and Facebook you can find him at Hansen's Morning Cup. So Victor, California polls or the California election results have come in and I was wondering your thoughts espe,cially in LA because there's been lots of news this week and discussion about two things dirty voter rolls. And then the New York Post had an article on how Nit Roman was part and parcel to funding a social services by six hundred thousand dollars and then they went out and paid or got homeless people and anybody else they could to register at that address. So lots of and so my question is this, how many social services do you think have done that? And how what is the impact of the number of votes they can bring in in that fashion given that Nita Raman won by thirty thousand votes over Pratt . Well, with sixty five percent of the vote , she was third. She was seven points behind . She even gave a tearful, teary eyed I'm lost. It's so bad. She thought she but the point was she didn't when all of these mail and ballots came in and troves , they went out and they harvested votes and they went to homeless people and under the rules they said you don't need an address. You just get the lowest corner. Here's five bucks, four dollars. Some people said four dollars and we will register you. Oh, you don't have an ID. You don't have a driver's lic . That's okay . We'll give you an ID number . Well, now you have an ID number, now you're registered. Well turn in your registration. Now we're going to give you a provisionary ballot. Oh, you can't read or write or you're too zoomed out, make a happy face, your mark, and I'll be the witness . And here, you can't read them. Here's who you vote for for. Give me the here's the registration and here's the ballot and I'm going to take it in. And they did that all over Los Angeles to young people, minorities, and homeless people . And they all came in such a I don't even think she won her own district's vote. It was all over the city in specially designed areas that they had contacts as social workers, social work centers . And so everybody said on the left, well you're a conspiracies, you think that show us the fraud. Donald Trump walked out of an interview because they said show us the fraud. They don't understand what the fraud was. The fraud was the legal system that was legalized fraud . It was created to create fraud, but it was technically legal. So in California , you don't need a license to register to vote . If you're an illegal alien, you can get a license . But you wouldn't even need a license. You can have a credit card without without your picture on it. You can have anything. And if you don't have anything, you can be given an ID number . That's the first thing. You can register and vote on the same day and you won't have to show any picture ID either to register or to vote. You don't even have to read English, you don't have to be able to write. You can make a mark. You can have somebody witness a thousand times the same person . Every single person who is registered gets a ballot . They don't care if you're dead, they don't watch it clearfully. They don't care if you moved. They don't care if the names have been changed and you have two ballots. I'm here. I mentioned that before . I have children that lived here. They went to college, they married and for years I got mail in ballots , mail in ballots. Maybe it was William Hansen, maybe he registered on a Bill, maybe he registered on a Billy, and I took the ballots and threw it in. All I would have had to do was make a happy face and have my friend witness it and mail it in. And it would have and that happened. And then they said, illegal aliens don't vote. And then the question was, well why not? If you go to the disability and they do, if you go to unemployment, they do. If you go to Medicare office, they do. If you go to legal services, they do. If you go to school, they do. You're given a registration and you can register without a driver's license. But if you want to be correct and get a driver's license, you go into the DMV and say, I want a driver's license and you don't have to be a U. S. citizen . And so then once that happens, you get all these people that vote, and then you have people in these vote collection centers . And you don't just turn them in. You get the troves and then you postmark them and they can come in for the next seven days as long as they're postmarked on by election day. And then you see if you need them or not. Believe me, if she had been way ahead, she wouldn't have done that. They wouldn't have mattered. They wouldn't have done that. They knew that she was third. They had polls . And then so that's vote harvest ing . Then if you go in and they say, well the person didn't sign their name. It doesn't match the registration. Well, they say, well, if it's forty percent. So Victor Davis Hanson, I write Victor, it's forty percent . That counts. But if it doesn't count , you put it in the seven day vote curing pile . And then you call the candidate and say, We've got all these votes that came in. Do you want to cure this ballot? They open the thing up and they say you know , so the candidates then go to extraordinary measures to find the people , whether it's and then they bring them in and they re their name . And that's why the ballots take so long because they don't come in for seven days and they and then when you have all this fraud , guess what the rejection rate was in twenty twenty four of all the ballots that were cast in California zero point zero nine percent . Not even one percent were thrown out just a fraction of a percent . In other words, they have all these people and they didn't do anything. They didn't say, Well, this person's not registered, this person's registered on this name, but we have three ballots with this. This witness didn't spell a name . There's none of that . They just went ahead and did it . And that was designed to do what? That was designed to get a supermajority in the House the Assembly and the State Senate in California check to get fifteen years of straight Democratic governors . Check to get a whole generation of liberal judges appointed by Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. Check to get the Congressional District , not forty percent the delegations of the fifty two, to get it down to seven . thirteen percent of the state's congress people are Republican and the state votes about thirty eight percent, forty percent Republican statewide . And so it worked. And then finally, why did it work ? What happened to the Pete Wilson group? What happened to Nomaji? The middle class three hundred to five hundred thousand a year said, You know what ? This is crazy . We pay the highest taxes and we're down like forty fifth in test scores. We pay the highest gas taxes and we're rated forty ninth in roads Pi speed rail is rusting . Palisades burns down, it's not rebuilt . We passed a water bomb. They took the money and blew up four dams. They didn't build one dam. We did a gerrymandering anti gerrymandering bill , and we had five Democrats, five Republicans for it. And guess what? The activists, the lawsuits, the racialists, they all went in and they warped the spirit . And they did that. And so people said, I've had it. And they're leaving theer Cvativeons vot er. And then we imported about ten million people over thirty years that said, I don't I love this country, but you know, if I say I hate the country and it's racist and it's horrible , the more stuff I get , and the more I'm patronized and the more I can't be a racist. So they created that dependent. And I saw that when I taught as a professor . I saw students that came in and they were basically, you know I think I told that story twice to this crowd. As a Latina, I don't have to listen to the illiad. It's not relevant to me. Okay , I said as a white person , your argument's not relative to me. And then I got not she didn't get chastised. I did. So the point I'm making is and then finally the coup degras was we had fourteen trillion dollars in Silicon Valley , and that took the political nexus from the LA Conservative places once conservative to the Bay Area. And we got Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Kamara Hallas, Willie Brown. That's what we got . And they ran the state into the ground with the money and backing of this new juggernaut world juggernaut . And the whole by Coastal elite were the upper, upper Asian and white professional classes that said I'm so wealthy now. I want to create heaven on earth. I want to get rid of fossil fuels . I want diversity . I want to defund the police. I want to do all this stuff. And I live in Brentwood and I live in Carmel and I live in Montecito and I'm safe . I'm safe from the disasters I'm creating for the Ho i Polo. Yeah. So Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then we'll come back for our final segment. Hey, I'm Bradley Devlin. And just like you, I'm a huge fan of Victor Davis Hanson. Whether it's his long form podcast, Victor Davis Hansen in his own words, or his short form content for the Daily Signal, Victor Davis Hansen in a few words, I always leave an episode learning something new. I think they forgot the nineteen eighty two Falklands War. 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So Victor, let's go ahead and turn to Graham Platiner since we're on election stuff. And all the skeletons falling out this week, Graham Platin has received or is become the Democratic candidate for Senate to face off with the main one that woman that doesn't always vote on Trump's line. Susan Collins and he's still got skeletons falling out of his closet everywhere . But my thing with him is that he has this amazing propensity to lie. And I don't see why anybody would believe anything he says, even though he gets up and says, Oh, I have so much contrition. I'm gonna change and be better every day. So I was wondering your thoughts. There's three elements about him that make him dangerous . One is he wore a Nazi emblem . He lied about it and he bragged about the totem cop. It's not just a skull and crossbook bones. It's a easily identified element and he did it to shock people . And then he has a history of going on podcasts and interviews with anti Semites, and he bragged to his girlfriends about it. He said that he didn't rough up people . He twisted the armor on one woman. He locked another in a room . He put her hands behind back. Nobody does that unless they're diminished . And then in addition to that , he got married and they went on this predator type Snapchat type social media platform and then sexted with people. He hasn't been honest about that . And then so that's one thing. He's a creepy person , a degenerate. He really is. Second , he's part of this phenomenon where the left is so elitist and they thought that they were going to create this we are the white, brilliant people with all the money and we're going to let in all these people from different countries and we're going to pander the minorities and we can win . And that's not Victor saying that. That's books with the title New Democratic Majority and The New Demography and Demography Demography is destiny. They bragged about it . And they lost the white working class. And the white vote is going fifty five percent. So they can't win without it . That's why they lose on this last election . And that's why they lose the swing states. So they came up with this idea, well, we don't we hate the East Palatine. That's why we call them deplorables and garbage and clingers , but we got to fake it. So they did the old Joe Biden from Scrant, and it worked as a waxen effigy . And then they got Talerico, the evangelical Christian from Texas. He was a joke . And now they've got Graham Plattner who talks about unfairness. His mother has a upscale boutique restaurant and his father is a wealthy lawyer investor developer . And so then he said, well I got my VA housing, I'm on traumatic stress syndrome . Of course , he changes that story. He gets, I guess, almost five thousand a month, but he now always says it's his shoulders and his knees because if you say you're suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome and you're middlely on balance and you can't be a U. S. Senator . So now he says that the injury are really physical knees, but his brain is okay . And then we find out that he's a Maine oysterman, and nobody really says they're an oyster man in Maine. I haven't heard that word in California when there's a lot of oysters . So basically he went out to a little island and put about five thousand bucks and given money to him and got a little boat and rigging and his daddy's friend let him use the island and he just took the oyst ers to one person, his mom's restaurant and that gave him an occupation. And then he said he grew up as a you know, he went to Hotskiss one of the and he got kicked out one of the most precious he was. So an elite , he was an elite . And that was a lie . And then the third thing is the Democrats don't care. They thrown already they've already thrown out me too once Tara Reed came in and had legitimate charges against Joe Biden. They kind of revived it with Trump and Stormy Daniels and IJink, but it was dead because all of these left wing people and Epstein, everybody was doing it. And then they thought, you know what? We got to protect these people . Once they started to go after Alfrankin , you know, and liberal icons, Kevin Space y and you could tell it was going to die out . They thought Harvey Weinstein would be the receptacle of all their hatred, but there was way beyond him on the left. So the point I'm making, they don't care about his record. They don't. They'll just say Trump is worse. So the third thing about him is he is a boutique communist. So when he gets up on stage, he has no platform. He doesn't say I want a new power plant in Maine. I think we should look at hydrogen, power, atomic power, nuclear power. I think that we need to bring in more industry, or I think we need to develop the roads, or I think we need to cut taxes and regulations. Or he doesn't say any of that. He just gives the same speech. And it's kind of like recycled Obama. The wealthy elite have all the money in your county. It's not affordable and yeah . And he's talking about his parents Yeah . And he's talking in front of these working class and he says, you're paying so much out of your check that you can't make ends meet with your check, but don't these main working class realize that the government is taking it and that the government taking a form taking a form Democratic governments are spending on everything unusable. They're spending on entitlements. Illegal immigration is half a trillion dollars. It has been . And he won't speak about that. So I think that he and Puerto Rico like the squad and all of these people , the Governor of Virginia, the Governor of New Jersey, the Mayor of Portland or Seattle, I mean, they're all fake and they do well in either local environments , general elections that are tied down to left wing constituencies , but they don't do well when the constituency is the American people. So I would imagine that Susan Collins will beat him . And I will say one final thing the left don't ever, ever believe the left when they say , well, I would like a principal Republican, the old John Mc Cain . I'm thinking no, no, no, no, no. When Jerry Ford was a principal republican, he was about as moderate as you get. You called him football head and he stumbled and he was deminented . And then when you got Reagan, he was Hitler. And then when you got George H. W. Bush, Reagan was a grand old guy with no power. And George HW Bush was poppy bush and a coward and a whiny. And then when you got the son, you said he was a Nazi. And why couldn't W. Be like his dad who was bipartisan ? And then when you got Trump, oh, wow, George W. wasn't that bad. He was a good guy. That's what they always do. And the point I'm making is Susan Collins is not an ideologue. She's not really a conservative. She's just a moderate Republican . And she's got a lot of seniority and she gets she gets more things back to Maine than Maine contributes in taxes and they're willing to throw all that away for him he'll be a pariah in the Senate. He won't have any power and he'll be obnoxious and he'll be on TV every night for sport and entertainment. Should remember in two thousand eight, we were told why couldn't we get principled Republicans? George W. Bush. So they who did the Republicans run ? They ran the most principled Republican, the one that all the left loved . And that was John McCain . He was moderate . He was for abortion . He hated he would turn out to be Trump's biggest enemy later on. And he gave the vote that ensured Obam acare after saying he would never vote for it. He ran on, I'm going to ball it for Senate. But in two thousand eight, he ran for president . And I thought, you know, this is going to be very interesting for Obama because he said there's no blue state, there's no red states . And he was running really against George W. Bush and Texas conservatism. And then he found out he wanted to be president . As a senator, he was trashing the right. He got what he wanted . He said, Oh, Joe Lieberman and John McCain are the type of Democrat, Republican, you know, all that stuff. So what did they do in that campaign? John McCain said, do not use the word Obama. I will not be at a rally when you say Barack, Hussein, Obama. He got angry. And next thing we knew, John McCain has eleven houses and he doesn't know where he is. Remember that? John McCain has an affair with a New York Times at a New Yorker Stafford Stafford John McCain is dying of cancer and he won't tell us all that stuff . So don't ever believe that they like moderate Republicans. No . So Victor, we are on a hard break, and I just want to let the audience know that Steve Hilton was advanced to the final ballot in California, so he will have a chance even if Spincer Pratt was not for the Not under this voting system . Do you think he'll still be ? We know he Baserra is one of the weakest candidates. He's a total incompetent. He was homeland security people when they lost track of eight hundred thousand children. I mean, eighty thousand children . Maybe it was eight, I don't know. It was a huge amount. And he made excuse after excuse . He was a disaster as a congressman from the LA area. He's just bad news, but he will win because of this voting. When this vote comes out, the SEIU , California Teachers Association , all the healthcare unions , they will get everybody enlisted. They will canvass single ethnic district, racial district, homeless, they will register people that day, they will get ballots , they will fill them out, they will harvest them. And it will be very hard to beat them. Yes, I know, but he's on the final ballot. That's all I wanted to say. So he did make it to the final ballot. And then I want to encourage everybody to go look at pictures if you can't actually go to it of the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They hated that. It looks beautiful. Yeah, they have you seen the juxtaposed pictures of what it looked like or mossy. All the cement was cracked. There was moss in it was algae, it was trash . And now it's immaculate and scrub and it actually reflects things and they hate it . They think it's horrible he did it. Yep. He did a great thing so we love it. And I would like to thank Victor and our audience for choosing to join us. We will, by the way, audience be talking about on the Saturday episode , Iran and Mandami's outreach office and Mike y Cheryl , who has been stirring up hostilities against them. And the presidencies of Joe Biden and John Adams were working backwards. That's right. We are Joe Biden, John Adams But wait a second, I thought you were going to talk about Washington today. Did or I did. I talked about didn't I talk about Washington Donald Trump or did I not? I think you just did Trump and you were going to do Washington Washington? Yeah, I think what I'm going to do is shorter ones, but on both ends at once. Okay. That's what I thought . I'll do five minutes on Washington and five minutes on Joe Biden. Okay . We're working into the middle. We'll end up somewhere around Garfield or somewhere . Okay . All right, thanks to everyone for choosing to join us. 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