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Liberals say it's unfair to call these people communists, but I don't think they object to it. They're not offended by it. They're proud of it. If you look at Pacific Palisades, you want to cry That beautiful neighborhood, it's still in ashes. I could go on and on, but he never talks about any of that. He's never had an original idea. He's been a Nepo baby that was subsidized by the Getty family Everything he's done hasn't worked. He doesn't care about people. and now he's gonna run for president. Welcome ladies and gentlemen, hello. This is Victor Davis Hansen. in his own words. I'm Jack Fowler. I am the happy host thrilled to be asking Victor the questions I think you'd want to ask and we are recording on Sunday, july fifth, twenty twenty six. This episode will be up on Tuesday, july seventh, ton of Patriotic related july fourth related issues to talk about. We have speeches by New York City Mayor Mandami, by California Gvernor Newsom by the President. U We also want to get Victor's take on some patriotism, partisan patriotism We have an interesting little story about can and who can't play soccer for the Egyptian FIFA team. And h if we can get to it, I hope we will. Our good friend U U it has a interestnteresting Thumbnail sketch of what the Democratic Party This like. I think it's very much akin to Victor's take book We're going to get to all these, well, I have to say the things about Victor, who's wearing a daily signal hat This Victory of Sanson is on wheres is a podcast of the daily signal and Victor also does Diffffhanson in a few words and he is the Martin and Eie Anderson senior feellllow at the Hoover Institution, the Wayneam Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College, author of the forthcoming book You'll see it over Victor's, I think that's his right shoulder, counter revolution, the the fall and rise of the There you go. Wave it in the camera bigict of Donald Trump and the MAGA Revolution. If you go to Victor's website at the Blade of Perseus, hanson. com you'll see a link to it. order it. It comes out september eighth. Okay I just want to make a play where you mentioned you, you it. I did a show the other day. I'm always amazed how well informed he is, you know what I mean Yeah He has a He lives in Washington now, doesn't he years? he commities. I think he bounces back and forth, but most he's got a really good balance of distant analysis and then an journal, you know, talking to people in Washington And he's very analytical So he is The other thing I was going to say before we start I watched a Prager you the other day that John Voight was in and he was giving that spee that famous speech Franklin gave to the Continental Congress and What was weird about it was The animation AI, sometimes it's kind of hokey, but he transfer Mogrphied in the middle right as he began into Ben Ben Franklin.. And he was inside with all of the founders, you know, Washington and everybody there nodding their heads and talking And he was able to modulate his voice. I don't know how he did it, but it was like Franklin was talking and even changes accent It look it was an amazing performance. you know, he's a great actor, but I'd never seen anything more realistic out of Franklin's mouth You' you've dealt with him, haven't you Yeah, I like him a lot. I've known him a. He was, I think I've told that story too many times, but I was at Pepperdine visiting and he used to meet me at a restaurant there and we would talk. And then one time it was very strange I was doing some fundraising for Pepper Dine and I went to go speak when I took my daughter who's since passed away, U, she was a pepperdine graduate student and We walked in, and of course, everybody saw John Void. He was there And they all made an exit for him So I went to the head of the room, but it was kind of an L shaped room It was a very Gracious host, I think it was in Beverly Hills. and So my daughter being kind of shy went to the L part of the room you know, and you could barely hear me or see me and Before I started, he said hello, and I said, this is my daughter, and she and then I looked around and he slowly went all the way from his fo area seat in the front all the way over there to sit down with her and talk to her. Andf course, that made a mad rush of people following. but He he was That's it I always My daughter never told anybody we were related, but she also would say that when she was an intern for Hillsdale College U She was at the Kirby Center and she knew all of these, you know, she was at the front desk So you can imagine the heritage and all the people coming in to use this they have a wonderful studio, Hillsdale Brand. And so just one day I ask her who was nobody knows who you are, but who was the nicest to you You she said, without Mar. Mark Levin. Yes. That's what she said. She said he was the nicest, He was the most gracious. Yeah and polite of anybody that she met there. John Void, you should watch this video. It's really impressing. It's out by Pragueer you if anybody wants to watch it And u, He's doing a lot of things that he he he's not really trying to bring attention to himself, but he's doing a lot of films and broadcast about the two hundred fiftieth anniversary. Well he's a strong conservative I've dealt with him a little bit last year with some things related to Catholic University in Washington. he's a graduate of the school there. And he's a very good friend of our friend, Robert. We won't give any last names, but Anyway, terrific. folks do check out Prave Review's videos as Victor suggests. Victor We're going to start off with some of these fourth of July speeches and we'll do that when we come back from these important messages Hey folks, you know that males have inherent athletic advantages over females And no one should be punished for recognizing that truth. And guess what? The US Supreme Court knows it too. Just days ago, the court ruled that under both the US Constitution and under federal law, states are free to protect female athletes. That means girls can compete on a level playing field in twenty seven states. Now we must fight to ensure the remaining twenty three states Stand up for safety and fairness too That's really important for girls like Kayley Keeler, a high school wrestler in Washington state who was sexually assaulted by a male during the middle of a competition No female should have to experience what she did Sign Alliance Defending Freedoms petition to protect female sports now. 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America, they will tell you, becomes only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin, the rest of us they insist should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit how small they are, how weak, how unorigginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning up Ting us against one another. Division is the oldest strick in politics and the cheapest, etceta, etcer. And he talks about asylum and the persecuted Mam. Madamia, I know what you mean by people not having becausecause of the color of their skin. I mean, we had a president pooor guy he had to be president Marack Obama for eight whole years And then got he left office and you know what, Mandam, he's only worth one hundred million buckars. That is so racist. And he has four mansions Can he have six Why not seven And then, you know, look at the NBA, LeBron James, poor guy is so underpaid. guy is worth ten billion. He's only only worth a billion dollars and I don't know. You should know about Race Mandami Because you tried to game the system. why did you say you were an African American when you applied to Colombia a few years ago? Was it because African Americans are systematically discriminated like you just said So then therefore you decided to show your solidarity with African Americans by lying that you were one so that you would ensure you would not get into Columbia. You didn't get into Colombia wasn't because You African American is because they lied that you lied and they found out you weren't African American. So If you people of color are being discriminated, then why do you keep identifying person of color. Why do you think that you got so much intention because you were really the first Indian American mayor, and you went to town with that You know another thing he said was Oh Right If you have to bu America, they will tell you, I don't know who says that, Jack, but he says belongs only to those with the right accent or a right shade of sk the rest of us. Nice this, us The rest of us insist should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit how small they are, how weak how unorigginal Nus spoke me Coner setettler Colonialists from Uganda, where the Indian community, which is not native or indigenous, believe me, to Uganda, came to Uganda as colonial settlers and now controls sixty percent of the GDP of that country and they comprise One Mandali, one percent. You were the one percent And no sooner did you leave the one percent as a settler colonialist, then you came in as a, I don't know, you said you were a visitor. Maybe you would use your own Marxist termament terminology you came in as more settler colonials to another country. And what happened there Your father was an endowed professor at Columbia instantaneously And your mother was a heavily subsidized filmmaker who was very critical of her host school movie in those movies and guess who her chief funder was millions and millions of dollars from Gutter, one of the most illiberal places in the world. And then you were a product of that privilege and you belong to I've said this before, you belong to the wealthiest richest, most privileged of all ethnic minorities in America, the Indian American community who's per Kaita Income is soars above so called white people And so you say that you're Now oided and he said You know, another thing that that really got me, the rest of us He said when he said, the rest of us should be grateful grateful. Hm I think all we ask is you come legally And we don't have twenty to thirty million people who are here illegally And the other thing, all we ask is that you show some gratitude. so that if you're Iien Omar, you don't compare us negatively as a dictatorship, which we're not to Somalia, which it is in which her father was a member of a genocidal dictatorship as were a lot of the refugees who fled to Minnesota That's an un toold story, Jack why we let in so many people who were connected with the Sayid Beri dictatorship in Somalia. We let in his son reportedly. He's here. In Columbus, Ohio. Yes. And why didnt let Yeah, why did we let them in? Because we surely didn't let people come in from U The Nazi government or the Japanese militarist, we didn't let them come in. So this whole idea that this beloved community came over as refugees being oppressed is not the story. In many not all, but in many cases, they were part of what the Marxists call ptimizer Oressor binary And then they would have stayed there and enjoyed their privilege Except Said Berry killed so many people over two hundred thousand in a civil war that he lost power And when he lost power, his regime collapsed and the people who had been dealt an injustice, wanted their revenge and started to go after the Said Beri people who then fled and The gracious America for some reason allowed them to come in. and now They are saying that we are racist and So were hostile to people of color. So Did you see the Somali flag? the stories about flying over var Boston, Buffalo, other I did city I did Yeah And so why is he so angry though? That's what I don't understand. He got every privilege in the world. and He's and he says we don't want to divide him You know, I was just looking at his He said that so called white people try to leverage Rise. this is what he This is what he's said So called APAC mononsters and then he said he wanted to go after richer, whiter neighborhoods And then he had to put in the word wider because if he'd said just richer, he would have had to go after first of all, his own community Which is the richest of all And then his remember the housingzar with that weird name Cia Weaver Oh that shick Yeah. She claimed that home ownership was a weapon of white supremacy And in the past she said she approved of the agenda There should be no more white men in office platforms And then he had He endorsed. Remember this shvel sove say Chevallet Chevalle m Chevallet I'm bunker Yes. And she said that white women who dated people of color were Ugly. colonizer women And then he had Katherine Almonte Da Costa. Now she was his newly appointed director of communications appointments, excuse me And she had gone in on the past Jack as saying that there were money hungry Jews And She said, how And she said, it's very important white people must be defeated What I'm getting at is he surrounded himself with racist people and anti Semitic people, and he used race himself and now on the fourth of July he trashes the country that took him in And more importantly, he accuses white people of being divisive and using race to leverage people when that is his mother's mouth. That is all he has done That's all his father has done. That's what his mother has done. That's what he does. They bring in race, race, race, race, race, oppression, and they're multim millionaires Multim millionaires justust like the Obamas. And I think we're all tired of. We're It's great Yeah it's a great example of the left's projection. if they are in this case, he is attacking division. When he himself is the master of divisions. That's how he got power. He got power by Oganizing about ten percent of the resident population Oh. We're very upset. and angry, partly they were racist because he used race a lot and that appealed to them Partly, they were like him. They were prolonged adolescents that were affluent and had gone to college. and they expected that their degree would translate into two hundred thousand dollars a year job And it didn't forur Mandami. and he was a rapper. he just kind of floated around in campaigns and he was subsidized by his parents. Just like Graham Platner it's a very common to Yeah. Yeah, the mayor of Seattle, same thing. Yeah. same thing sure You know, f is she the one that said told her that some very high paying taxpayers were leaving the billionaires, She said, byye bye She did Bye by. Now she also wants to transform Seattle into the trans surgery of the world. So anyone with need surgery come here, come to Seattle. We will lop off your whatever and And twenty years from now when sanity returns, they're going to they're going there's going to be an accounting for people who temporary bouts. confusion or they were pressured by peers or they felt that it was a national FAadD and they took dangerous hormones Dangerous metabolic drugs. steroids and dangerous operations that altered their physiology and it were irreversible And these people use that as a political tool We're going to talk a little more about these kind of beaches we'll go to California in a second, but first to our Listeners and our viewers, America's big birthday is still being celebrated as we honor our founders' victory over tyranny and the birth of the Republic they founded to ensure and protect the individual rights. of Americans, but you know what's crazy? two hundred and fifty years later, we're drinking whatever the government decided to put in our water without our consent. flluoride for your teeth, chlorine to keep things clean. 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I don't think there's anything left where people like Mondami and Governor Newsom, who used his july fourth speech as goovernor to attack Donald Trump Um It's just strictly partartisan politics all the time your thoughts about Newsom or whatever Well, I wish that, you know, Trump gave a partisan speech, mostostly it though was a rant ran an attack that was richly deserved on communist He was wor it was warning about the communist peril. And by the way Liberals say it's unfair to call these people communists, but I don't think they object to it. They really don't They don't want to be just European socialists Melheviks Bolsheviks' some one of these slices. Yeah. No, they they're not offended by it. They're proud of it. They They're proud of the old American Communist Party. They're proud of Mao. He was one of their heroes They're proud of the Bolshevik resvolution. They're proud of the Jacobin revolution. and so I don't think they get upset. I think He's u First of all, I don't know any politician isn't it position of power that had more things gone wrong under his tenure Now we're getting all of these Tw major refineries that say they cannot do business. The Valero people just came out and said, this is the worst place to do business We If you look at Pacific Palisades, you want to cry that beautiful neighborhood, it's still in ashes They will not give the permits They will not rebuild it because their secret agenda really is high rise, you know, European socialists mass transit, poor people housing. The projects Yeahes to water front. That's that's what they want He has no plan about water. He's torn down dams rather than use the people's money that voted for bonds to build them Power now one quarter of all power users in California don't pay their bill And you know, half of the births I keep saying are on Medicare. I could go on and on, but he never talks about any of that. He never says we have the highest taxes in the nation And I'm worried because our roads were recently judged by Reason magazine as fifty, the worst That's unacceptable Our schools test scores are in the bottom ten percent. That's unacceptable. He never talks like that. All he does is prance off to Geneva or prance off to Washington or go and give the once in a while when there's a natural dis disaster He gets on his Amber and Comby Fitch little uniform and he gets six extra doses of hairspray and he goes out with his gloves and he picks up trash along the railway or he gets a little shovel and he scoops some ashes for the camera. He doesn't do anything. He doesn't even talk about doing anything Any except. He has he's going to run for president. And he he's never had an original idea. He's been a Nepo baby that was subsidized by the Getty family. And now he's in a quandary He doesn't know whether he should be a socialist A moderate or just a liberal. He tried the Steve Bannon, the late Charlie Kirk. cast thing to show everybody that he was a moderate. And then when California started electing socialist And they came out of the woodwork, he dropped that And now he's starting to mouth socialism, but he doesn't really know if that's acceptable given Camella Harris lost not because she was too right wing, but because she was too left wing And now he's under investigation. and this lifelong California political that he knew. and worked for Basera, I guess and him. he knew them Podesta I don't think she's any relation to John. I don't think so he Alexis Podesta. Yeah. Alexis She's had a wire on her and it's pretty incriminating to both Visera, I think and Newsom how they tried how Visera people I'm not direct tried to leverage getting campaign funds that were unused for other uses that were not allowed legally Everything he's done hasn't worked. He doesn't care about people. and now he's going to run for president. and I guess it's just based on his shaky head and he moves his head and he moves his body and he has K kind of a graly voice and women think he's good looking And he's slick, but he's destroyed the state. Not that he caused all of it. It was in bad shape when he inherited it But he's it's just dysfunctional society now. And yet he doesn't ever take any responsibility for none. And he's never says, hereere's my plan to lower gas prices because we have twenty one percent below the poverty line. We have the highest gas taxes in the nation and we have the highest gasoline fuel mandates in the nation. And here's what I'm going to do We have the highest houses, housing it's the most unaffordable place for housing. And here's what I'm going to do. We have an insurance crisis. People cannot afford insurance. A quarter of people are not even insuring their homes Here's what I'm going to do. He never does any of that Can I just want to add something else he's done, Victor, that should be disturbing. This I'm reading here from an post by Bridget Gabriel. Gavin Newsom just handed a Saria adherent judge to gavel in Los Angeles This is how Islam conquers America from within, not with bombs, with lawsuits, special accommodations. a devout Muslim who rejected retirement matches for over thirteen years. This is over RBa, I don't know if I'm saying it right, which is forbidden invest interest He sued LA County with Cres. That's the big Muslim group terroride help, force the government to bend to Sharia. now he's sitting judge appointed by what I don't understand that What will Scott Wiener say, he's running for Pelosi seat? What will this is what I'm getting at. The Democratic Party is a mixture of DEI Communism. and Islamicism. And they're not compatible. That those three hydra heads will bite each other's head off they're not compatible. How can you point a Sharia judge whose mainttened as homosexuals should be either punished are killed That's in Saria law Every time people say D don't misinterpret the Quran, somebody says he's going to interpret the Quran literally and then you get these things come out And we can go to that other story about the Egyptian Soccer team here on our shore is it praisise before every game that they want they curse Jews and Christians Let me read this little thing from an next post on that. Egyptian foootball association posted a video titled The seecret to Victory. They openly state that the key to victory is to begin the match by cursing Christians and Jews. Before each match the team gathers to recite Puranic passages calling Christians and Jews infidels under Allah's wrath. Coptic Christians make up fifteen percent of Egypt's population, but they are not allowed to be part of the national team. For some reason P thinks this is okay. Yeah It's so funny because candidates like El Saed in Michigan running for the Senate and of course, the mayor of New York Zoran Mandami They say that Islam is mischaracterized So why don't they come out and say We really don't like mischaracterization and this is We really want to draw attention to the Egyptian national soccer team because getting a lot of play and they are mischaracterizing Islam. They read from the Quran literally Oh invective against Christian Jews, but that doesn't mean it's true That's an interpretation, maybe. what They can say anything they want, but they don't say anything They should be they should ask Mondoma. do you agree with this? See what he says and Al Said I've been to Egypt And the oldest part of Cairo, I mean, there's it's a very ancient Egyptian pre pre Arabic invasion. They're always talking about indigenous people, indigenous people. That was the oldest civilization that we know of except for perhaps some like ites and Sumerians are contemporaneous They were not Arabs. They were Egyptian people and that Egyptian Demography was then settled colonialized by Hellenistic Greeks. Cleopatra was Greek. And out of that mixture came in the second the third century AD a coptic branch of church in Rome. And they were They were Christians and they were the indigenous Egyptian people And then in the seventh century Arab armies swept through conquered The Magrib all of North Africa And they imposed a foreign religion and a foreign people and settled that. And so the You know, I don't understand when they keep talking about indigenous people, indigenous people Islam is not indigenous if you go to the original settlers of North Africa nor the Middle East Not at all R And and yet so this this The soccer team is attacking what fifteen percent of the popul of their own population And I guess if you're a Christian C be world team. If you're. If you're a Christian Payle Lee, a great soccer player. you're not allowed on the team, I imagine. Is that right? You can't play I wish Pier I keep going back to that interview to did with Pers, Morgan and this on hinged professor from the Middle East. And he was saying anywhere in the Middle East, he can go and speak and it's perfectly all right and he can bring up things challenge him. Why doesn't he go to Egypt onene of the quote unquote moderate Arab countries, have his Piers Morgan show and say, I want to bring on some Coptics and Muslims and then say on the air, why does the Egyptian government allow the national team to curse Fllow. Egyptians who happen to be Christians, and why can't qualified Egyptian copnics play on the national Why don't you do that Piers? That'd be a great show I would suggest that you might not get out alive, but you can try it And if you go to Israel and I don't know what Israel's policies, but I'm pretty sure if you're a great soccer player and you happen to be of Arab ancestry, you can play on the Israeli national team So if you qualify. This is what's so strange about everything about this hatred of Israel and yet B their own liberal standards and doctrines, it's not even close. It's a more liberal, tolerant, progressive society than anything around it that they keep championing And it's just bizarre. they I don't know what's going to happen. I think one of the mistakes strategically the radical Muslim community is making They represent about six million people that we know of. And we have three hundred forty million. so If you do the math, there are you know, they're only about four or five percent depending how we categorize being Muslim And yet They're getting attention as as if they think that they', you know, the Michigan whole experperient diaspora and then in Ohio, that they are taking over, but they're they're still miniscule numbers And they' stories like this bring up so much animosity from people. they don't like it And so I don't know If I had if I were a Muslim cleric and my plan was to bring Sharia law as some people say they want to America, mayaybe this judge. in California, I would tell the Muslim community, let's just be quiet Let's sing God bless America every day to we get twenty or thirty percent of the population like they do in Europe then we'll reveal our true intentions But there see you see so many cases of of this Imam in Alabama is preaching death to America and some other one in a mosque You know, North Dakota, same thing it's It's it's prev. I don't know it maybe tiny, but it's prevalent. The leftft did something I never thought was impossible. The leftft has made legal immigration unpopular among Americans And we've had so many great immigrants. It'd be ashamed that would happen, but people want Fer immigrants. they want more diverse immigrants They want more European, No, not because of race, just because people who come from Europe speak acquainted with Western culture and custom and they often speak English and they're often self supporting more than Africa, Asia, Latin America That's all. Well we're sick of we're humans and what we come to my house. I don't expect you to come to my house and then trash it. Come to my church. We don't come to my church then you want to have some protest in the middle of a service or go to a restaurant, but if you go someplace or you're welcomome someplace, it's supposed to be at least you know, a positive experience, at least not a negative experience But this is what immigration has become. It's hostility and just humans. we don't we don't it's just wrong. What I don't understand is I would say that Be so called white in my local community has been a minority for thirty years. When I was in high school, The Hispanic community was thirty per or forty percent. thirty years ago it was fifty. It's probably ninety percent A lot of Hispanics, I don't think anybody has Anybody can identify if you're Hispanic or white or Hispanic. And apparently half of the people identify as white. but even then the statistics are pretty clear But what I'm worried about is with all of this identity politics, For the first time in my life the last five years, not before In certain stores, if you go really early in the morning, I mentioned this like Walmart at seven And a big supermarket at seven. You see a disproportionate amount of so called white people. And they'll come up and hi, how are you? And they're creating kind of the solidarity that all of these minorities are doing. So you go to these supermarkets in America and there's a big sign Hispanic food Ohoy fififty percent of the people check out are speaking Spanish And there's all these EBD cards. And you're starting to see the Mexican American clerks getting very angry because many of them don't speak Spanish and they don't they're not on public assistance. and they probably, if they do know anything about public assistance, It's a relative who needs it and is being crowded out by illegal aliens. What I'm getting at is Keep it up, you're going to get not just these crazy people like were marching with Confederate flags. Everybody said they were marching with Confederate flags I' looked on. I only saw one or two, but they had masks on. In other words, in Washington, there were some white people who were emulating the Antifa brand by putting masks on and waving flags and having kind of uniform similar clothing and everybody said, Well, these are white races. They probably are They're they're not They're not represent there's other people who are not racist who now feel that since they've been called and I just quoted these passages from Mandami's people if you say I'm going after white neighborhoods, if you say you want white people to be defeated, if you say U that Jews who often or are white. If you say Jews or monsters, APC, a Jewish or a political organization, then the people you're calling all those names are going to be thinking, that person's tribal, that person's tribal, that person's tribal, that person's tribal I guess I have no choice but to identify by my tribal affiliation and That's not going to be good for the people who started. It really isn't It isn't And U I just think it's People who are tribalists should take a deep breath and say we're going in a very dark direction And we better stop becausecause if everybody starts to do this and employ our tactics and our language of exclusion and demonization, And I don't care about the history of the country. There's five generations that have grown up and know nothing about Confederate I say eight generations a civil warar or they know nothing about Jim Crow. They've come they grew up in the era of affirmative action. But But they're still supposed to be culpable for reparations. Yeah. Well it's not going to happen, but they're creating an alternative tribalism and it's I see it in subtal ways. I really do. Just the other day I was in Where was I? I drove to the drug store prescription I went inside for a while and it was predominantly Hispanic and there was a A elderly lady about probably eighty and she came up to, How are you? How are you I said, Do I know you? No, no, I just wandered and see how you are today. And then I was walking around, she started everyverywhere I walk, she walked next to me. You know what I mean down the hall. And I thought, Wow, I have no affiliation with you, but I guess in this new world to come, you're telling me that we should have an affiliation. And I don't think they I don't think people want that. but it could have it could have been the old sppice Victor. I don't know. but I don't know, but yeah All right, well we have to I have to do a little business here. then we'll keep on this. but maybe this is a good segue into Uwitt's thoughts. But first for our Listeners and our viewers, if you've studied enough history, you start to see a pattern. 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Even a guy who was neither a communist or a socialist Bos quasi socials, William Janes Bryan went nowhere in three year. Three temps He was a favorite of my grandmother. Every time I was a little boy. She She was a William womomen's Christian Temperance union. te tootal her and she'd w to the state finals as a young girl as speaking against the evils of drink So there was no drink and loud anywhere in the house. And when Christian brothers gave my grandfather a little gift every Christmas of a bottle, because we sent some of our grapes to the winery He was so embarrassed about he hit it ono the bed. He did. And finally, you know, my dads my dad who didn't drink at that time at all, he later he did, what he said Made up for it Yeah, Vict's Christmas Go to that bed up there down there at the big house. and I know there's ten or twelve bottles for years and they've aged well. Let's get them out. We got some people want some wine. So but anyway She would always come up to me You shall not crucify us on a cross of gold. The free silver speech of William Shaines Brian, greatreat speech, but she had memorized it U we to thing, you know, Our founding, our revolution is quite different than the French Revolution, which is the godparent of communism. So it's totally in line with calling our founding and using it as an opportunity to kick Carl Marx in the in the Heiny. Trump also did I love this about him in some of his speeches where he brings attention to great heroes. and he did this in the speech. There were three people, Ken Shubring who was at Pearl Barbara was he was a B twenty nine pilot. Yes then he's one hundred and four He was there, Arthur Rose who commanded thirty six landingcraft at D day, one hundred and seven years old. and then Donald Don Graves, a one hundred one year old Marine corporal who was at Iwoima. and they were there and Donald Trump gave them attention and did in an artful way. they were saluting special flags. I just think that's I think it's great. there's a big debate going on among the alright er wing and Republicans about have you heard this term legacy American yeah, Im go ahead explain it. Well, JD Vance mentioned that America, remember that speech is more than just the Constitution. It's a place. And the messaging is this is a Judeo Christian and everybody got very upset about it Because the notion in the Constitution, it doesn't talk about titles or race or national origin giving anybody an advantage. It just all the closest it comes to is saying the president cannot be a naturalized citizen. U My point is that I think it's in the American tradition that if somebody is naturalized there as much as an American as anybody else. with an asterisk. There's an expectation they would take some interest in the country in which they're living takeake a person that we've had on the show, Max Nkia as the president the former president of USC I will bet my life that he knows more about American heroes and American story than most Americans do When he came from Cyprus, he made it a lifelong journey to learn as much about America as he could Big soul He knows more about most American history than most Americans su I'm not that's an understatement So what I'm getting out is all Americans want is that when a legal immigrant comes here, that they appreciate The reasons why they came here And they can articulate it. It's free, it's prosperous, it's safe It's opp you have a land of opportunity and hope. And then they see how that happened and who died. So when they talk about somebody at Pearl Harbor, they should know what Pearl Harbor is. They should know what Iwojima is And somebody's going to say, Well, Victor, Americans don't even know that that's true. Be given our educational system. they would rather learn about, you know transransphobic America or Trans comic books or something, but It's no excuse. And you won't have a country unless people know what prior generations did. And you don't have to call that legacy Americans. You can just say that anybody naturalized or was born in American for how many generations has a duty to learn about the past. You know, the Romans, we make fun of the Romans, but they had something called the Lares, LA R E S. you walked in, they had a little shelf up here They're notable ancestors, their faces, you know, their heads. Yeah That was a big thing, ancestral worship in a sense of shame, you don't want to do anything that would shame the name your name. We used to say that no America Oh oh, I don't want to do anything that will shame my my family's name or you're ashamed to your family. I haven't heard that expression in years. You know what I mean I don't know if it means there is no family or nobody has a sense of shame or both, but that's more of the latter. Yeah, what happen to shame Yeah But we soon Okay There's a good. We were watching the other night Banda Brothers reiring I guess because the fourourth of July that series basased on Steve Ambroll. That's a great series as well And they need they need to do that more and more and more and more. They really do and, u Well, on the history, it's interesting, Victor. We have to take a little break in a second and then after that we'll We'll get to you he it, but the The White House celebrated U fourth of July by issuing a one hundred and sixty four page report. This is by the Domestic Policy Council it goes after the Smithsonian for its failure to let me just read this. The report by the council demonstrates the National Museum of American History fails in the basic task of illuminating our heritage. Our central finding is not that the museum is simply has simply added overlooked stories, corrected perceived errors, et cetera. Rather, it is that the museum leadership has explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide the spirit and discourage our citizens. And this goes on to talk about And Faya Harting, who is the museum's has been since twenty nineteen. And she has explicitly stated that she sees history as a prime tool of justice One of her royal Institute is to connect research and scholarship to activism and advocacy. She stated that, quote, we work to reframe the traditional celebratory narrative of U. S. history for visitors the last thing here, she is she trying to figure out how we are going to problematize two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration et cet eter. So yeah, this is the, I mean, history is taught in every school inmerica, et ceter but the one great institution we have for American history is a proverse ideological know slop house I think everybody would be I wish every every school in the country had Wilford McLay's land of hope That's such a great book and it's very accessible and You would be you would be dispelled. Wow, you have I'm showing Yeah Yeah. So it's a wonderful book. He's a wonderful person. He's very bright Hillsdale College, no need to say that they're on the front lines enncounter books, Roger Kimbell also trying to make a big change in this country And, uh I think when people say that and they get on these platforms and this person makes these grandstanding statements. they never understand, they never ask themselves two questions gave me opportunity, the freedom, the security to speak like this And who gave me the infrastructure in which I navigate? Does Mandami ever understand that he was speaking from George Washington's desk? Does he ever look at Do he ever look at New York and say, wow, I came from Uganda Kpts talking about calloused hands Cous. His hands are as soft as they come. And when he looks at all of his sky, who built him entire state bill They were very patriotic people that built Wh who designed it? Who were the architects? Who was the architect it des Is it all reduced to whether they're good because they're non white male Christian heterosexuals? Or is it you judge them someomebody made Central Park. Somebody created this highway system Why did Dwight Eisenhower use his genius as a general to make the to insist on the statewide highighway system. Why did he do that? But they don't know anything. They just accept, they take all of the gr, they take all of the benefits of this country And they never they never give any credit to it And they only emphasize what they call deficits or sins or things every country has sins But they never say this country compared to the others has far fewer And I'm so lucky to be here.s why That's why they turn people against immigration And that's why this ent when you look at the names of these socialists that have come in the news in New Jersey, in New York in Colorado sixty five or seventy percent of them are first or second generation immigrants. They are And that's they don't understand that they get in their little cloister and they yell and scream to each other and they pat each other in their back. We really took down Whitey, we really made fun and then they don't understand what most people think when they look at them they thought theseese are in great grrateful people, and grates come to this country and all they can do is say negative things about it And we know the negative things. We've heard it our entire lives, but you don't know the positive things about it They dont they all talk about the Japanese internment and that was a terrible thing. although I must add, that the attorney generenal was Earl Warren and the president who authorized it was a wing progressive FDR and the people who were the mechanics of it were left wing. That being said They don't talk about immmediately it went to the court And the Supreme Court took it up. There were justices who said this is wrong. They don't talk about Americans who were really outraged by it. They don't talk about people here. in the San Joaquin Valley who got together and farmed Japanese farms so they wouldn't be lost and to the degree that there were speculators who bought up Japanese farms when the owners were in turn for a year or two. They were that was a terrible thing. I can remember my grandfather saying We would say to him, why don't you go to that something ranch? And He said, I will not go to that ranch I will not send my fruit to that rantch. And so I said, whyy? why Oh because he got all of these Japanese American farms at a fire sale price. And other people were trying to farm them so that they are and they put the money in the bank so they would come back and have something. So there were that there was that strain, but you never hear about that. You never, never hear about that. Bad day at Black Rock is the mood that prevails on all that, I think. Yeah, and you don't you never see a leptist saying I really was wondering why socialism didid this? Why did the FDR socialists put people in camps They did. I'm really ashamed of it. Why did you know They never say that. Well, why did they sterilize people? whole host of things? Hey, Victor, we're going to take a quick little break and then when we come back, we'll keep up on this topic to we promised you you would mention. We'll do that when we come back We must all hang together. Or most assuredly we shall all hang separate They knew that this would be regarded by the King and Parliament. as an act of treason So the people who signed that We're basically saying we' revoling against the most powerful country in the world The Declaration of Independence reminds Americans who they are Its words are ingrained in our memory. Its virtues are etched into our character. It principles are impressed upon our destiny Its signers carved out a new nation in the new world For two hundred and fifty years, The Declaration of Independence has inspired their descendants to defend their liberties Liberty doesn't want to pass from one generation to the next through the bloodstream. it has to be fought for, defended one every generation. But there there's nothing more important for which we would give our lives But history has a way of making the unthinkable seem inevitable But the Declaration of Independence was never inevitable The Declaration of Independence is the culmination of one of the greatest political traumas in history As ideas clash, as armies gather, as the fate of a continent hung in the balance. 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If they joined the radicals who are already in the House and those radicals are a Balenta of Vermont of AOC, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida. Adelita Gidjalva of Arizona, J J J Paul in Washington, Omar etcet. Presley, Massachusetts. and If the radicals, Sherard Brown in Ohio, Abdul, El Sed in Michigan, Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota, Graam Platinner in Maine and James Talerico in Texas who are all candidates for Senate. If they join The radicals in the Senate Ed Markkey, Jeff Merkeley, Bernie Sanders, Chris Van Holland of Maryland, John Ossof, Georgia Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon, White House of Thanks for n Rhode Island Then this is you Hewittt, then the Democratic Party will be controlled by radicals in both the House and the Senate. It will not be the party of Biden, Obama, and Clinton much less of JFK and FDR, but a wholly new party, never seen in America before Vote Republican in every race everywhere to repudiate the emerging new Democratic party of radical anti West, anti American, anti Israel, anti Semitic convictions and programs. Last thing the graining sound of my voice, Victor for lessness is even th those are not a lot total They they are going to tilt the Democrat Party. I mean if you're an incumbent Democrat, are you really going to Are you not gonna feel you could be knocked off by one of these lunats what primary Quion then though is what are they going to do when they get power? If they take over the Democratic partarty And they win a majority. They said it just theoretically, they win the house. in the Senate. So for now they can stop all of Trump's appppointments they can stop all of the appointments and Hold on a second, Jack. Can you hear me? I was I can hear you Okay, sorry everybody. They can stop they can stop all of his appointments They will Try to impeach Trump And they will have they might even get a majority vote in the Senate to convict him, but they wouldn't get sixty centers, I think And then they would bring in the entire Trump family and investigate them. canan't stop. For the next two years, they can't really do anything because he can veto everything they do and they will not have a super majority So then let's say they elect who would they elect? Let's say they get a ticket of AOC and Elizabeth Warren. and they get in. So what's the first they they say everybody wants what they have. Let's say that right now that was that the top top tax rate is thirty seven, thirty eight percent. Let's say they want to go to fifty five percent. We'll see if the American people will get outraged. Let's say they want to ban an internal combustion engines by twenty thirty, which they said they were going to do in California Let's say they wanted to cut off all aid to Israel and they would vote with the Palestinians one hundred percent in the UN let's say that they would bring back all DEI and do what Stanford University did after George Floyd and only have nine percent white males in the cl in the classes that were admitted I don't think the pare and then they would open the borders and let's say we would get Yeah, we would get another ten to twelve thousand people a day try to get twelve. you think the American people, I mean, they went nuts under Obamacare And the Tea Party was, I don't I think there would be a I don't think they would they would go over with the American people. I really don't. because if they did that with the taxes and brought the regulation it would it would economy, it really would And know if they shut down wells and nuclear power plants, right at the time we're trying, you know trying to AI increased power demands and they shut down, as I said, the grid or I just don't think they get away with it. I really don't I don't see how a sensible person thinking like this is a freight train coming. Maybe they were even within those who are registered Democrats Maybe there's still a strong majority who are not lunatics The lunatics just seem to have the they power They're young and that's partly because they're young And they're made up of three groups One There's a big fight right now by people. I was reading an American Conservative magazine that werere attacking Ben Shapiro because he said they were mostly white affluent people and the other person said, no, they're not B bothoth right and they're both wrong. It's a triparttheite group It's urban, but there is things in common. They're all urban dwelling almost exclusively They are sixty five to seventy percent college bound, trained agreed and among that group, one third or And I think Ben Shapiro iss right. They're upscale, affluent young people who were told that they went and went into haw couple of hundred thousand and major in environmental studies and minored in studies or something or sociology, they would get they would be on the right side of the ledger and they would be making one hundred fifty thousand. Well, maybe not that much, but in their way Marxist way of thinking they had been taught in the universities, it's not what the price is, it's what you deserve. So if they go to New York City or Chicago or LA or San Francisco and they want to buy a little condo, they're about a million bucks a little one. and then they think, well for me to afford that, I deserve two hundred thousand dollars. It's not what the economy will bear supply and demand. And then they can't get it. And so they're frustrated and they feel they they want to go to Florence and they want to go to Provence every summer and they want to go to Napa on vacations. And they can't do it and Some of them wereid upper middle class and they're angry, so they're going to vote for somebody who gives themself. And then there is DI dash Por Group And that group feels that They vote for these people because they can't finish a sentence without saying, white, white, white, white, white, white, white white And as long as they think there's going to be some huge transference of power or culture or money to non white people And then the third to be frank is These are the immigrant constituencies, and they are either overwhelmingly Islamicist or they're pro Islamicist And their big issues are We want Radical ch Yes. we want we want welfare We want to it's not just we want welfare, We want to run welfare programs Like we do in California and Chicago and Minnesota Minnesota. Yes. And we want open borders and we want More people coming from the Middle East and we want a foreign policy that reflects our minority views So That's who they are. And They all agree The upscale urban metosexual disappointed voter, the DEI who wants to use his or her race or sex or gender, ethnicity for a little For edging an edge or a lever to get ahead And the immigrants who don't like the United States and want to it from a you know, private property, free market capitalist, conservative country to a revolutionary Jacobin society on the side of, I don't know, radical regimes all over the world All of them have one thing in common They don't know much about socialism, but they want it And I say I don't know they don't know much about it because People coming here flee socialism. They AOC Puerto Rico is a socialist mess. It's California, but it's got so much corruption. It's got so many entitlement programs Haiti's a mess. Latin America, many of the countries're coming from are a mess. African countries are a mess. So they're coming here to get away from socialism And I don't know whether they understand that, but they want to recreate it here And the young people just want stuff from wealthy people. Envy is another common theme. They're very envious of people Yeah And I don't know how Obama navigates that, you know, are the Bidens or the Clintons. The Clintons, all three of them made a ton of money out of being if Joe Biden hadn't been vice president and unleashed hunter. And as he said in the laptop They wouldn't have anything. Hunter was right about that He left he said, you guys, if I hadn't have done this and mister the big guy and mister ten percent, I paid for everything He's right about that. And if Obama hadn't present, if he hadn't been president, he leveraged that. I know they're very critical of Trump right now. The news stories are he's made a billion dollars while he's in office No. and And that's a lot more than Obama made, but they all did that as well. And if I were Trump, you know what I would do I'm an art Trum Let's say it's true that he made have you heard the stories how much he's made? Is it a billion A billion in crypto So let's say that he's he he Just for the sake of argument withith the Latita James Fes and the Egene Carrool, let's say that We don't know how he'll get out of that yet, but it's five hundred million dollars. And that's all of his lawsuits from Jack Smith, Fanny Willis, Latita James, Egene Carroll. Albin Bregg. The whole bill and fines and time and legal fees is a half a billion dollars. consonservative. and Let's just say that he made a billion. So he has a billion Let's, by the way The first term, do you remember all those gleeful stories after january sixth that Donald Trump's brand was ruined, that he lost a billion, his businesses were failing. He was debanked So let's say he lost another half a billion from his first term. It's actually more like a billion So he's down a billion dollars And then let's say that the crypto story is true a billion. I've also heard other stories that his family might make another billion So let's say that he lost the first term he lost because of the business community went after him. He was debanked. hisis name was bad Uh he politicized or they politicized his business and then all of his legal a billion a billion dollars or maybe two billion And now let's say he's made one or two billion dollars to make it up But we know what he should do. He should just say, I have been very fortunate And I'm going to pay for the entire ballroom myself four hundred million dollars You know what would happen? if he has made that. I'm not asking to come out of his purse, but if it is true that he made a billion dollars in crypto, he should give a test He said, I lost Hundreds of millions of dollars when people went against my companies and they took it out on me and I was an object of government harassment. lost millions of dollars in fines and legal for trumped up law fair charges. and I've made some money as president in my investments. And you know what I was planning to do all the time? is finish that ballroom for you, the American people and I'll pay for it. You know what happened? It would just end all of that right away. I think it would. Don't you? M. It's possible, although if you had to pay taxes, let's say you cashed in your billion dollars, right? Yeah, but couldn't he It would would be less tax taxes. He would it would be a tax r Well much yeah So I mean he I think he should do that. I really do Well, he listens occasionally I hear he listens to the wisdom of VDH, so maybe he will pick that up. Hey Victor, we're about out of time here. so I just want to as we do at the end of this our episodes We have a few comments I want to read from folks who've left this on YouTube and your website and other places. One was from your show O fourourth of July which came out on Saturday yesterday as we're talking Thomas Saro two five two Very simple. Good morning, Victor and Sammy. What a wonderful way to wake up to our nation's two fiftieth. A lot, a lot of people wrote that made that comment. Then there's a comment from K K P K K P R R Wh writes I just adore you, Victor Davis Hanson. You're such a wise man, so courageous and strong. Thank you for speaking truth about our country, you are a gift. to us all. God bless you and your cancer journey. So that's that I like that term journey. It's journey. Yeah journey. Yeah. Strap yourself in. It's going to be a pumpy ride. So one final comment. this is a little longer from June JN Z sixty five. What are your best shows yet, Victor? I too reminisce about going to the polls with my parents and seeing the names and if my brother had been there yet and in line with my dad knowing or presuming that our neighbors would vote opposite to us on a school leve or other matters. But everyone was friendly and calmon. Nobody was rude or disrespectful. The maillands have made voting d muchuch like the comments section, just sit at home, no effort, no decorum, no politeness, just anonymity and condescending attitudes. The unity was the thing that made it special and palatable if things didn't go your way. So very nice. I think that's absolutely true Anyway, I appreciate all. I've got one Listener said Are you aware that you're hissing or wheezing as if that was a tale sign about recurrence. I don't think I don't know if it's recurring. I have just so everybody knows E I have two CAT scans a year and three signatteras or five diagnostic tos and they average out every two and a half months. And I'm up for one and I think forty five days But whatever if you put a light bulb in your mouth it it would light up, I think I have a lot of radiation. Maybe that I've made a joke to one of the doctors and said, I think I've had thirty CTs and pets And maybe that will kill the cancer. But you have, you have had that many, right? I've had more if you count ye, if you count x rays, I had an x ray every day in the hospital and I think I've had because I had this sinus operation and all those sinus CTs And then I went to that diagnostic clinic. I probably have had thirty CTs and Mm PT scans and all fifty X rays. If you count everything together X rays CT in the last year and a half safe Well, you know, you're still here amongst the living. Well, they always say something that's kind of double edge. if you make a joke about it blowing up and they said, Well, you were twenty or thirty we'd worry about it, but you know, you're seventy two It's not like you have a lot of replicating new cells that are going to mutate just you've already'm glad you're not in Canada, Victor because God knows what they would have done. Oh man, I just got a letter from I should tell you, I just got a letter from somebody. It was really Bizar I get these signignattera blood biopsy tests, you know, they're cutting edge Silicon Valley. I think a lot of millions of Americans are getting them now where they take once you have surgery, they take the tumor and they type it for your mutations. And then every three or four months, some people quicker, whether just as a diagnostic tool, or whether it's a therapeutic tool They find they give you take vials of blood and they search and see if you have one cell free floating cancer tumor. and then they will tell you within six to twelve months, that tumor is going to appear somewhere. That's where the debate begins Do you do prophylactic? Do you wait to zap it? But here's what I'm saying. Some woman said I felt so bad when I read it It said Here in Canada, can't we're not givven a tests because they're too expensive And I was told by my American oncologist that I should have one every three months after removal of my colon tumor and they're twelve thousand dollars u a test And I it would cost me ty thousand dollars and that's more than half of what I make here in Canada. I just say that because What a strange tests when they were giving me the signignatatera test in the hospital the lab and then to one of the people comes to your home and does it. I would estimate that half the people I saw there were on public assistance by. and the fact that they didn't speak English. And yet we're giving them a wonderful care, but then we're told this Canadian socialist system is so much better than ours And and they they won't even extend this type of test to someone And it's not like they're spending money on defense. They're less than two percent. for I've been for crap for decades. I used to have a side hustle forty years ago. I wrote for a medical journal and I would interview Canadian doctors about the health carere system there, Victor. And if had if you had a cold and a cut, you know, fine. But if you had something that was approaching excuse me, either end of the bell curve You're screwed except for a long time, if you go to Buffalo, Cleveland, Seattle, et cetera Michigan too If you needed a u I don't know a cats There's no way they would give it to you. No they would but at five o'clock they shut down for human beings. But if a veterinarian wanted to put a dog in one of these machines, that was fine. You could not pay your way into health in Canada. Just a terrible system. No. I once I did twenty tours and we had these wonderful people who would go on this tour and there was a really bright just a powerful, confident, but very capable couple from Canada that had sccanning, you know, scanning centers MRI cat Traig. and radiology centers and He had developed a methodology of referrals and clean rooms. that everybody wanted that type of his inst. And he was he was replicating it all through Canada. And then he was told that for every single newew Initute scanning branch that he put he had to go before a board And then they would try to adjudicate whether he was making too much money or he was too he was there were too many scanners in the region and whether he would drive out another one I don't think people realize Canadian socialism or European. It's the same thing with things like pharmacies and grocery stores. will not allow people to have a competitive business too quickly. but in the case of healthcare, they would rather have people wait done wait and wait and wait. You read stories where People are on in waiting lists for pet scans and cat scans for six to eight, ten months. Yeah. and they die in the meanwhile, they ke physician income. att that time forty years ago, the thing was like four hundred thousand dollars, which sounds like a lot of money, but they had to pay their expenses out of that also and staff. So There was there are large communities in the U.S of Canadian expatriate doctors who are just like, we're out of here. We want to be doctors when we can't do it here So it's not it's sad. it's sad and I don't I One thing I came away from from this last year of going to radiologist, internist Thoracic surgeons. oncologist pulmonologist is whether you like it or not country is the most generous country I've ever seen. I when I would go into Stanford Med, there's a little sign and it has twenty different languages And it says point to your and they would get an interpreter within five minutes And when I would go into the big, huge lobby. It was like Grand Central Station And I would just watch people, you know, why in and out. There was very wealthy people from the Gulf states or Latin America that had bodyguards. There were very poor people from Redwood City that had nothing But everybody was treated the same And they got a world class level of health carere. I don't know how we afford it When you bring in, as we did, twelve million people who had enormous health carere needs, but we did. And we keep doing it And u We don't get any credit. So Mondomi I wish on fourth of July he had just said criticize this country, but when you look at the level of health carere that I as a resident alien for a while before I was a citizen and others have received in this country, it is the most generous places and thirty seven percent of my vote came from foreign born and yet you have very generous subsidized housing. Y children will get preference in a I don't think he can say that anymore. but But he could just say that and but he can't do it. It's like it's toxic or it's allergic to him. If he were to say that, he'd get a rash or something. Yeah. well, hate is his motivating. He's a hateful person. He's got this socialist smile like Telo Rico, but it's a hateful smile Stalin smile too. 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