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It seems to me that so far the critics are out saying it's not going to since it's such a slow rollout of this deal that it shows that there's not been much of a deal made beyond Obama's JCPOA agreement. And then also I have a curiosity myself. JD Bounce has been out on the speaking circuit , even going to the view, which is a pretty hostile environment and talking about this beforehand, why the pre press bl itz before this rolls out. It seems strange , but what do you think? Well, there's a lot of confusion about it . He's getting, of course, he's getting criticism from the left, whatever he did . They call him a taco. Remember Trump always chickens out when he didn't attack last year and when he gave threats this year and then when he did attack they said he was Hitler like, and then when he stopped, they said now he's Neville Chamberlain. So the left is completely discredited. You can't listen to anything they say . On the right , the Tucker , Candace Owen, Megan Kelly group has been against this from the beginning . In various gradations, they're not all the same, but they're not happy they say it was a needless war . And I'll address that in a second. But what's interesting is people that I really respect Mark Tisen , Bin Dominic ? I was on a show yesterday. I was very hesitant about it. Bin Dominic, yeah. Yes, Bin Dominic and General Keen Bing West , they're all afraid that we're giving away too much. We haven't heard Trump is not going to talk about , I guess, until tomorrow . At the G seven, he's talking about bits and pieces, but I haven't heard the whole speech he's given, but I don't think he's going to give it. The problem is this the two how can you reconcile the two ? We have probably done he said one or two trillion, I think, more like a half a trillion, maybe a trillion dollars in damage to the Iranian economy and its military industrial nuclear complex . People say, well, he's not you're not going to bar this cyclotron. There are no cyclocron. They're all destroyed . The mountain complexes are either sealed or destroyed . There's a few missile launch ers, but they're peekaboo missile launchers. We've hit the industrial capacity to create weaponry . And the main thing is they have no air defenses. So if whatever is in that memorand um agreement, it doesn't really matter it doesn't really matter that they lie. They do lie and they cheat and we know they cheat because all the people that are warning of this obvious trait of the Iranians, whether it's the theocrats , the revolutionary Islamic guard , the elected officials, the military, it doesn't matter. They never have told the truth . So they're saying they don't tell the truth. They're not going well then we're going to hit all it matters is if we're going to hit them . That's all it matters . So if they say we're going to give up the uranium and we're not going to give money, they don't have money to give . And we're going to stop the missiles and we're not going to kill everybody . And if they start doing it, you can hit them. All you have to have is one carrier group and bases in the Middle East, which we have . So I don't quite understand when they say, well, this is horrible. Well, if you believe it's horrible, then they'll break it, right ? And the biggest issue is Obama remember gave them one point seven trillion billion. And what he did was now fifty years ago , but in twenty fifteen , which was about thirty nine years ago at that time , the Shaw ordered a bunch of equipment . We delivered, you know, F fourteen's we didn't deliver all of it. We gave part of it. They paid us four hundred million dollars, Shaw did. And then we suspend it because we didn't want to give the full order to them. And they said, You owe us that was true. We did, but we said you took hostages . And so we're not going to pay you . And in fact, at the time, there were people who said, give us the hostages back and we will give you the money back for any weapons that haven't been delivered . Of course, they wouldn't do that. But Obama not only gave them the four hundred million, but he gave them one point three billion in interest on it . And he delivered it in cash and mostly at night . So the point I'm making is no president has ever really enforced anything with them, none of the protes. So that's the only worry that I have because as sure as the sun rises, a week from now, two weeks from now, we're going to see somebody shoot a missile into Kuwait , or they'll find a PT boat out at three in the morning trying to drop a mine , or somebody will shoot something. And when that happens , we can't, as Trump did before, say , that's just a tap, a level No, you've got to hit disproportionately . And I mean, take out ten bridges for each time they do that. Take out the power plant of Tahran if you have to. That's the only reason that Milosevic ever stepped down was Bill Clinton bomb, bomb, bomb, much longer than Donald Trump, but about fifty or sixty days into it , he said it's not working. They lie, they just they don't want to negotiate. So then he started hitting the Danube bridges and the power grid. And lo and behold, in seventy two days, twenty days later, they gave up. And so that's all that matters. The other thing is Andy McCarthy whom I like at National Review and a lot of the other people I just mentioned said they lie, they lie, they lie, they yeah, they lied . Tojo lied, Hitler lied , Mao lied. Stalin never told the truth once . But we made agreements with all of them . And I don't quite get the point is we've done probably a half a trillion to a trillion dollars and ruined fifty years of rearmament . And they think , well , when we release sanctions, there's going to be all this Middle East money investment. There is probably three or four hundred million dollars . We're not going to be part of it. You might have to if they follow if they don,'t cheat for a while, we might release some money . But we can always reinstate the blockade and we can always hit them. But do you really think that you're going to have the Mor ugbeent planh of World War I two forran . Remember that? Henry Morgenthal said we're going to make it a pastoral country, Germany, and they're never going to industrialize because they did it in nineteen fourteen. They did it in nineteen thirty nine and they will do it again if they have the Rur Valley. So that was what and everybody said, That's ridiculous. You can't do that. You can't just and so Iran, whether we like it or not is a major power and it will re industrialize . So the better thing is you can't just for the rest it's not feasible because the left will just give it whatever it wants, but you can't expect just to keep it in isolation even if you did, like North Korea . North Korea is sanctioned, it's isolated. We don't give it anything and it's getting more powerful. In fact, it's getting more Chinese subsidies than ever. And it's exporting weapons. So all you can do is deter it . And deterrent means if you break the agreements that you sign, we're going to hit you very hard. And we're going to hit your air defenses again and again so you can't protect yourself. And that's and then the upside . So everybody says, well, what's the upside ? Well, the upside is unlike Obama we destroyed their military. Obama didn't when he was dealing with them, they were ascendant . Now they're in ruins. Number one, number two, they're completely isolated . All of the Arab countries , I don't know, there's what eighteen, thirty two, eighteen, depending on how you define the Middle East , maybe thirty, up to thirty in the wider Middle East . Maybe with the exception of Turkey and Lunatic Afghanistan, there's no allies of them. There's people who do business with them. Everybody hates them . So there's a new Middle East, China has been weakened, Russia has been weakened. I don't get all that. So Trump is not helping this situation when he says, you know, that these people are great, I'm talking to, and we don't know who he's talking to. But apparently there are people in the elected Cadre has officials, prime minister, foreign minister, speaker of the Assembly , who are afraid of the people , and they feel that something could happen and they want to get out of it. That's one theory. And so they're presenting a moderate veneer to Trump. The other theory is they're playing good cop and the military and the Republican or the Revolutionary Guard are running things or the the Theocrats. And it's just a scam. But either way it doesn't matter if we're willing to enforce it with force. So I was wondering if you had any thoughts on JD Vance out on the press route . I thought he if nothing else he demonstrated he's got a really nice soft touch with the left media . But also he's defending this already . That's what surprised me. Like the memorandum of understanding is not out and yet we already have Trump supporters out on the beat trying to defend it the population, which I think is good, but I'm just curious . Well, he demolished the view when he did the same thing with the view that he did to Tim Waltz. In other words, he smiles, he's nice, but he just completely out debates people. He's very bright . He's very articulate. I think it represents something internally in the Trump administration. Obviously, the two hawks are Rubio and Hexeth . So they're not out talking and they don't look very happy when they appear. The person who's happy is JD Van's, he represents not Tucker wing, but Tucker light that I guess you'd call it neo isolationist. So he is out and it's kind of a droid what Trump is doing . He's saying to Hexeth and Rubio, just stay here on ice, don't talk, but I'm going to need you when they break it. Because you guys are going to come in and play tough with them and I'm going to need you. But Vance right now is going to try to sell this that we don't want to get involved forever in the Middle East. The stock market is Trump was talking this morning about the stock market how wonderful it is and oil is down to seventy six dollars , and that represents the MAGA view of JD Vance . And so he's not only saying that it was necessary, but you know, why can't Iran be a normal? But he's going one step further than I would go . And that is did it change the world? If yeah, the weakening of Iran did. China got hurt with its clients, you know, Russians, China lost have lost Syria, they've lost Iran, they've lost Venezuela . They've got all sorts of internal problems. China's importing eleven million barrels a day. Russia's lost a million people . That could go on. But when JD Vance says this could be the start of a new Middle East , well it can't be the start of the new Middle East unless that government is gone in Iran. And we don't know maybe they have ins ide knowledge that we and our listeners don't have that there's so many of the bad guys who were killed that there's now moderates , quote unquote, who are afraid of a revolt of the people and feel they want to get ahead of it and want to deal with us and they're not as worried. I kind of doubt that. I hope it's true . But whatever it is, you can't have a new Middle East as long as anybody from the old regime has influence because they are one of the worst nations in history, not in the amount of damage they did , but their desire to do such damage. Yeah., that's for sure Victor, let's welcome back a sponsor, Allegiance Scold. If you've studied enough history, you start to see a pattern. Nations don't lose their way overnight. They drift through debt and division until one day you realize the foundations you thought were permanent were never permanent at all. Today, America is spending at levels once reserved for wartime. We've normalized deficits that would have stunned ear lier generations, and policymakers now debate whether the only path forward is more intervention, more printing, more distortion. But here's the historical truth. Every society that pushes its currency beyond discipline eventually paid a price . The wise never waited for collapse. They prepared for the correction. 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I don't understand it either because we're dealing with Iran and Lebanon is a different country . Everybody in the world knows the Lebanese government, if it had its brothers, it'd want Hezbollah out . Even the Shia population is fragmented don't all support it. It's a bunch of terrorist murderers. They killed more Americans than any other terrorist group in the name of Iran. So they all want them out, but they don't have the power to get them out. So all of a sudden Iran is saying, well, you have to protect Hezbollah by not allowing Israel to retaliate. So what's going on right now is that Hezbollah lost its Iranian patron . So it is now and it's lost most of the hundred sixty thousand missiles. There's still missiles there , but they are in bas ements, in neighborhoods, in the cities of Lebanon, but particularly Beirut . So now they are sending people out to confront the IDF. The IDF thought if they made a sanitary corridor in ten or twelve miles inside Iran , then they could base themselves there and make sure there were no nothing base there and then they would have less so that the medium and short range rockets wouldn't be able to hit. So what's happened is they're using drones with fiber optic cables. It seems like a retrograde idea that they wouldn't be cordless free, but they're not dependent on the internet . So therefore, they can't be GPS, they can't be jammed . And they're killing , I don't know, two or three Israelis every week. And there's only one way Israel says that you can get back at them . They have such good intelligence. They know where they're being bought, whether they're being fabricated, put together , stored, and those are of course or in housing housing apartment buildings where in Beirut . So then they fly over after they kill two or three womb two or three Israelis kill they say stop it and then this is not a preemptive attack. This is reactive attack. They fly over to Beirut and all the CNN shows . And the American and European BBC media is a beautiful apartment building goes up in smoke in downtown Beirut . And then Trump looks at it and says, My gosh, I'm trying to deal with Iranians and you are blowing up stuff and you're attacking a country . And BB says , I'm attacking a country that doesn't exist . This is Hezbollah has taken over Lebanon and the Lebanese government can't stop it . And Iran is still supporting Hezbollah, and it's none of their business, but they're killing us. They kill us every day now. Just because we're adept, we have good intelligence, we can cut our losses to one or two week doesn't mean we want five hundred soldiers killed here over the year. So we're going to hit these places in Beirut until there's no more of them . And if Beirut if object to it, then maybe they'll make them stop , or maybe they'll get the people behind them. Or maybe if you're dealing with the Iranians, why don't I see why he doesn't just Trump say, do not give any money to Hezbollah. They're out of the picture . But today he talked repeatedly about the stock market and the price of oil and it's true. And I think the Democrats are paranoid because there's a lot of things that are going on right now that are lining up for a historic tie, maybe or maybe even the Republicans will pick up a seat or two and what I'm meaning that seems crazy because out of the last forty one midterms , thirty eight have seen the incumbent president's party lose seats , ninety five percent and above. But when you add into the mixture, redistricting with the Republicans have more state legislature , and they will pick up three or four seats and you stop the crazy racial racially , I think Chauvinistically, racially gerrymandering. You might lose three or four Democratic seats there . And then you look at what the democratic socialists are doing or in New York, probably a mayor in Washington , Quasi socialists in Portland, Minneapolis , Seattle , the squad , Bernie Sanders, all of them , they're saying crazy things. They're not just saying we want to give universal healthcare, revive Obamacare, we need to stop the wall. But they're talking about appropriating property if they determine that a property is not kept up. Of course, the government's the worst custodian of property. They're talking about billionaires taxes. They're talking about millionaire's taxes. So they're going from socialism to communism. And then you add the fact that four and a half months from now, what is the price of gas going to be? Who knows, but it's already down I filled up yesterday in California at kind of a cut rate place five dollars five cents . And it had been almost seven . So it's going down, down. And there's a panic, people who invested thought it would go up . They want to dump the oil and cut their losses. It'll go down further. And as I said earlier, it is now middle of June , April, May , March, middle of March. Does anybody remember what was going on in the middle of March? I don't. I looked at my calendar just to see if I did. I looked at all the things in the calendar and I can't even remember what I was doing . So four months from now , you know , middle of July, middle of August, middle of September, middle of October, then a little bit more. It's more than four months. Four and a half months. Do you think people are going to remember what's going on? I don't. No, not the answer. They're going to look at what's now. They're going to look at what are the crazy candidates saying the Democrats are going to be saying the same stuff, the trans stuff , you know, they're going to look at the major league baseball San Francisco Giants story comes out. They all have to have trans stuff and then people wrote the Bible and they said they were defacing the trans symbol. That kind of stuff Nobody wants it. And then the latest poll just came out that everyone, seventy percent want to deport criminals, but even Ice, all the sensational stories Joey Hernandez was in his house and all of a sudden Ice raided him and they yanked him out of a chair and then you find out that Joey Hernandez in two thousand five had a deportation order two thousand seven. He had a DUI two thousand eight. They never tell you all that. But the point is they don't need to because fifty six percent of the population poll that they still want that . So just to recap, all the these are sixty, forty, seventy, thirty issues that the Republic an have on their side. And the popularity in the generic party poll has gone from Democrats up fourteen , up ten, it's down to up five , up five . And that's soft . So they have they're getting more and more unpopular . Trump hit the Neder and he's going up a little bit. The war one way or the other will probably be over and the price of gas will be down and all the different gradations of redistricting will favor the Republican. So it's going to be close is what I'm trying to say. And the Democrats are paranoid about that because they are widely coyote and they every time they think they've got their hands around Trump road runner, he runs off the cliff suspended suspended somehow in mid air then they, jump after him and hit the ground . They sure do. Well, I hope you're right because Trump has given Iran sixty days this time, and I think that was far too many days. I wish they had done it shorter. You said on this show that we did far too much negotiation , far too much negotiation, unless he's trying to humiliate them and say, you know what ? You gotta there is one thing in his credit , it's not like nothing's happening. Every single day they are being blockaded , their bank accounts are being frozen, they find new bank accounts and they're sanctioned and they can't get any conser goods in and they can't get any oil out . And they're going broke. They're losing four hundred million dollars a day, half a billion dollars a day . So they're in bad trouble . Yeah, and they weren't in very good shape even before . Did you ever see those stories about drought and how there are seven dams outside of Tehran ? They have no water, they have no gas. How about those pictures where people are sminguggl out of there was a drone picture just I just saw it two days ago of a gas line and it was like three miles long and then there was their calorie intake is going down . I mean , Trump has one point there ninety three million people, probably seventy million people hate the government as much as we do . So there's going to be internal problems once this is over and people walk around and say we want gas, we want food, we don't want any more missiles. We do not want any more centrifuges because we're going to be bombed. All right, Victor, let's go ahead and take a quick break. I shouldn't have said cyclotrons. That's a primitive atomic device. All right, let's take a break and come back and talk a little bit about the Rupert Lowe rape gang report coming out of England. Stay with us and we'll be right back . Hey, I'm Bradley Devlin, and just like you, I'm a huge fan of Victor Davis Hansen. 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, might always leave an episode learning something new. I think they forgot the nineteen eighty two Falklands War. And in the age of clickbait and rage bait, that's a really good feeling, right? The media, thank you. You can leave now. 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So Victor, this is a very sad thing to read about or to I understand to read, but Rupert Low e did a report on the rape gangs that were taking young British girls and they tended to be white girls and basically enslaving them and raping them and other things . And the perpetrators tended to be Muslim . And he's finally gone through and looked at the whole thing and looked at it's just a very sad tale of young girls being raped sometimes multiple times , abused in all sorts of ways. And then even when the police , they were introduced to the police, they got put back into these situations. Their parents were , you know, they rested the custody from the parents . The report wrote it off to cultural differences that the young white girls in their culture were not protected like the young Pakistani girls were in their culture, and that's why it didn't happen to young Pakistani girls. That was one thing. And then they said that the labor government was in charge of many of these agencies . Labor Storm. Yeah, he was part of the part of the justice system. And they denied knowledge of it. Yeah, Stormmer had a big position in one . He was the one person was responsible for it. Yeah. I was surprised that they identified them ninety five percent of all these organized rapes in the UK are committed by Muslims and the report said Pakistanis . And then even the mayor of London just tried to hide it as well. He didn't do anything about it . And so there were ten points there. And I can't believe in the UK they actually said there is an organized effort effort by Pakistani Muslim men who feel either in a religious context or a political context or in an ethnically racist context that there will be no consequences because of DEI That's the one thing we keep talking about on this show that DEI destroys deterrence. It allows people to do things with exemptions that are antis ocial and illegal . So they thought that they were protected . There were no consequences. And they were going to pray in that famous picture of that poor little two girls and she had her ax trying to stop bagging. them They prosecut ed finally the people who were threatening , not but only after they were demonized as white trash The subtext of the whole thing , these were young girls from the industrial cities of Britain and the North, the poor areas. They weren't from Oxford, they weren't from London rich suburbs . And you get the impression the more you read stories about them that the British , it's not the aristocracy . They have kind of a Downington Abbey view of the poor . You know, nobleste oblige . It's the upper middle class , college educated, yuppy, left wing, neo socialist, green, radical, sort of like ours . Those are the people who branded the poor white people basically as people had no teeth or irredeemables or deplorables or garbage or clinger, those are the people that run Britain, the professional clout. They hate the cockney class, the poor white , I say class thing . And they have enlisted on their side all of these so called non white immigrants that they've imported . So that's that's their new alliance. A high professional class , very well compensated, very well educated, who then virtue signal and performance art for minorities to enlist their support who were mostly on public assistance . And then they point to an illiberal white working class. So similar to here. You know, it's kind of like the Pete Buttigs of Britain and the Elizabeth Warrens of Britain and the Bar ack Obamas telling people in East Palestine , Ohio that they're idilberal or white people or Joe Biden telling everybody that white supremacy is a big and then shielding minorities that were pretty well off are people like the Somalis in Minnesota or the fraud here and free scrutiny. Only in this case we're talking about rape, violence, even some death . And so Stormer is probably he's a lot worse than Boris Johnson. He's worse he's the worst prime minister in the fifty years that they've had in Britain. He's a complete joke . And he's ruined the British Navy, he's ruined the military. He's I think his popularity is eight or ten percent . He doesn't want to have an election even though he doesn't have to for a while , but he would lose soundly . He thinks he's going to rebound. He's been duplicitous with us . He wouldn't let us use particular bases, then he's schizophrenic. He's like Carney in UK they all stand up and make these soap box anti American speeches into the applause of everybody on the left . And then quietly they crawl back like a centipede to Trump and say I didn't really mean it or I'll see what the G seven or because then somebody taps them on the shoulder their economic minister and said, Hey, listen , you know , the United States is anchoring our economy and our military. Hey, Carney , before, you better cool the pro Chinese talk and the anti Americas. Trump's he's not like Biden or Obama. He takes it seriously. And we have no military, and we're under the Norad uc nlear umbrella of the United States . And we're welching on our NATO contributions and the United States is footing the bill, and we're running a fifty one billion, fifty three billion surplus with them. So just cool it now. So Carnegie goes, well, I want to make America great too. And that's what Stormer does. He's passive, aggressive, but it's really going to hurt them. And then when you look at the demonstr ations against not just the rape , but what we talked about earlier, Henry No ah and how they let him bleed to death and then the person Belfast that they blinded and it goes on. Now there's a whole when I went to look at those videos, I didn't realize there's a whole genre now on the internet, TikTok or YouTube of immigrants of color fighting with white immigrants. And usually it's it's very funny. If you see a video of a young woman walking and then an immigrant harassing her or trying to grab her or steal something . Spontaneously, all these white people jump out of their cars who don't know her and then they go after the guy. So they call that vigilanteism. But all the people are doing is trying to create deterrence that the government deliberately destroyed , although the government did it legally, then they're doing it illegally . And so the other thing is they are censoring expression than China or Russia or even Cuba. You can't say anything in Britain about this without you can't even retweet or put a like on anything that suggests that the immigration is a disaster . You can't even in some contexts, not all contexts, but fly the Red Cross White Flag of St. George . I guess the idea is that I was always brought up that St. George and the Dragon that he was a great saint of Britain, but you know, he was a Roman legionnaire who was put to death for being a Christian by Diocletian. So he became he was sainted by the early church and then during the crusades they got that red cross, a bloody red cloak in honor of him. And for some reason in the Third Crusade , when Richard the Lionhearted went over there , and the crusaders saw this , I think he was from I want to be careful. He was from one of those Italian city states, George. He wasn't British I take that back He was from Anatolia , a Roman citizen who had been in the fourth century. I think he was beheaded for not renouncing his faith. But in Italy , the city states of Italy made him a hero , St. George. And then when the Richard wrote over English, they latched on to the stories about him, and then they rehabilitate him and made him into a British saint. And by the time of King Edward , he was an it's the idea that when you fly the flag of St. George, we're talking about British nationalism , the Anglican and British church and the I like this term they're using that drives the left crazy indigenous people . I'm going to start doing that just did you know that Obam a I would say that Mandami is not an indigenous person. He is a settler colonial. His family landed in what was it? Uganda and then exploited the people and one percent of the colonial class has sixty five percent of the wealth . And the indigenous don't have any . And all of a sudden these indigenous people that Caesar wrote about with red hair and freckles in the Gallic Wars, all of a sudden these very wealthy people in many cases from Pakistan, the Middle East, they were colonial settlers. They came in and they're trying to take the land from the indigenous people . It's terrible and we got to stop that. Yeah, we got to stop all this anger at our indigenous president and okay Okay, Victor, so there was oh, yes, about this report . I noticed that they when they went into things result or some of what explains this as cultural differences . They blamed the white culture for not protecting their own white children, but they didn't say anything about the Pakistani Muslim culture putting restraints on men that would do things like this. And that really, really super bothers me because this report was trying to lay it all out, transparency, and it did a very good job. You can marry someone in many Islamic countries twelve years old and they don't believe that women should enjoy sexual intercourse in some Muslim countries so they have clitorectomies . That's, you know , they call it female circumcision. It's not. It's female mutilation. It's designed to destroy sexual pleasure among women . And the seventy two Virgins is very sexist. As if they're a commodity, you know, that they're instantly created , I don't guess there's a factory when you die. And then a factory turns out these assembly lines and they describe them with big bright eyes and a particular look . And then you have sex and you deflower virgin s. That goes all the way back to the beginning of Islam . That's discussed in the siege of Constantinople . Christians were shocked by it . So I don't know what you can say. I mean they have a different attitude toward women and they're trying to make a statement, aren't they? They're not making a statement that we 're not just making a statement. We're going to rape wom en that are not Muslims because they're prostitute type. That's what they think . They're making a statement to the white indigenous. They're saying to them, You can't protect your women . And we're going to do this again and again and again and again . You remember that remake of the movie The Jackal ? And Ruce Willis plays that psychopath and the he tells , you know, the guy always plays he was and I think he was in the famous movie with Jennifer Julia Roberts . Whatever his name was. He plays Decklin in this movie. Oh, Richard G ere Richard Gere and he starts tries to kill his partner or the Russian. And then he says , He can't protect your women. Then he goes after his former girlfriend. You can't protect your women. And the point of that is not just that he enjoys killing women, but he wants to make a point about his masculinity that he can't he's not strong enough to protect women from Bruce Willis, the Jackal. Well, that's what this is all . They want to tell the British working classes or white Britain . Notice that they don't do one thing . They don't go onto the Oxford campus and try to rape eight, seventeen year old entering Oxford women. They don't go to Cambridge . They don't go to Kensington or some of the nice areas of London. They go to they target the white working classes, the whose parents were coal miners or maids, you know ? Yeah, they don't have money for the defense. No, they have that's even that is the most sick thing , they, being they, the Pakistani rape gangs, have the sense that the British are more class prejudicial than they are racial . That they like the Pakistanis better than they like their own working class. So they prey on the working class and then they send a message to the indigenous people of the UK , you can't protect your women. What horrible people you are. They have contempt for them . And I think this concerns women even more so perhaps because if that goes on then women slowly it encroaches on the freedom of women. I mean, the West has brought a huge amount of freedom to women to be and do as they would like to do. But if you allow that kind of element to take advantage of the weak and innocent as it is, or , you wom knowen, in general, then that just encroaches on their freedom. You can't go places, you can't , you know, do things your . It's not just women. It's in this case it is women , but when you kill Henry ach and you send a message that you can get that the police will side with you because you use the magic word rac ism or you go down and you just stand you just sit in the middle of the street and start yelling blood curdling chants while you try to behead a white guy and no one initially comes you se,nd a message that you can get away with this . And it's the same thing to a lesser degree here when DiCarlos Brown cut Tushka's that the Iranian Oh, Irina's Yeah, Irina's throat and he was that chilling picture when he was looking at her over and just planning it. And then he did it and then he looked around and nobody stood up to help her . The other four or five African American, they tiptoed over her dying corpse. And then when she had that look on her face like, My gosh, I'm dying. I'm going to die, help me . And then he said something that the whole the whole left wing press tried to muzzle, but you can hear it on the video that I killed that white BITCH , that he was sending a signal that you people don't care. I can get away with this . And the same thing with Carmelo Anthony , we're now learning that there's a whole little subtext of his African American friends take pictures. I don't know if they're AI generated probably of urinating on Metcalf's grave . We found out that the Goldfund me was not just used for housing . They bought a beautiful home or at least leased it, but they were running a business with the money six hundred for andty and then he's now pleading that he's penniless . He didn't get equal justice under the law . He has no money for legal representation . And so it's hard to be sympathetic. I mean, if Cardi Cardi B says it's a whole what is just call up and pay for it? Yeah , exactly. But it's the same thing . He was trying to send a message. What made him do that? What made say a young teenager go? It reminds me something that a white teenager would do in the nineteen forties or fifties or twenties in the South, go into a black neighborhood and then deliberately and that's what he was doing. He was going deliberately into a tent where he knew there was the opposing team, the opposing school . Nobody knew who he was. It was probably mostly black. There were other blacks there, though, that testified against him . Yeah, because they were on the other team. Yes . They mostly white , but there were blacks there, and he goes and stands there and just the whole point was to be defiant. I'm just going to stay in your place, your space. And what are you going to do about it? And people asked him fourteen times to leave. And then he said, Anybody who touches me, watch out. And then that's what he was doing. But why did he do that? He did that because he knows that when he was disruptive at school, nobody did anything . When something went against his way, he said it was racism . He knew that the larger radical African American community would always support what he did. His parents knew they could raise money off it . And that's the problem with this racial chauvinism , whatever manifestation it takes that certain people think they are exempt . And that was the whole problem with Jim Crow in the South. You had white tufts that thought they would go out for a night of violence because they were exempt . And now we're mimicking the exact worst thing that took all those years to get rid of and now the victimized class in many in many scenarios is using the same techniques as the old white class. I mean that literally when you have the Southern Poverty Law Center paying for white supremacists to go out and cause trouble against people of color and they're supposed to be protecting people of color. Now we find out that the case officer was having an affair with the white supremacist that she was giving the funding for most corrupt. And then when the guy the head of it went and testified before Congress , he couldn't say anything, well, that was alleged. That was alleged, that was alleged . He didn't want to discuss any of it. And he was supposed to be the reform because Morris Deez, the guy who founded it was found to be corrupt and sexual harasser and kind of racist. He didn't have a lot of black people working for him. So then they had a lot of black people working for him and then they emulated the same type of leadership that he had. And the congressman had shared accounts between the Southern Poverty Law agent and the neo Nazi guy, et cetera, so it was looking pretty guilty. All right, Victor, so let's go ahead and welcome another sponsor . This is my Patriot supply . The world is getting crazier every day. Every time you check the news, there's another crisis conflict or catastrophe. You can't control what happens out there , but you can control how you prepare for it. You can make sure that no matter what happens, you have the basics covered in case one of these dis asters reaches your doorstep . You know, things have like sorry, you know, things like having enough food to eat when the shelves are empty. And when it comes to your family's food security , trust my patriot supply. They've helped millions of Americans get prepared and they have over ninety thousand five star reviews. Right now , you can get their best selling three month emergency food supply for one hundred dollars off. 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And the mayor , speaking of the mayor of London , Sadik , let me see sorry, what his name is Sadik Khan posted that he quote condemned selling lands in the West Bank of the Don't attacking people and breaking the law. It's perfectly legal to open a real estate office and tell people of your country that I have property to sell to sell all over the world , but they didn't condemn anywhere, but Israel. It's kind of ironic, isn't it? That people come into UK who are not indigenous people , and many of them come over illegally and squat in a country that's not theirs. And then that is many of the protesters if you look at the protest , were from the Middle East . So basically they say this, I'm from the Middle East and I don't like my host country . It's Jews who've been here and sometimes from time memorial in Britain given they probably came during the , you know, during this expulsions from the Spanish Inquisition when Jews were forced out of Spain and started to come into Northern Europe . But my point is we're illegal aliens or we were legal , but we are settlers in this indigenous country. Now we're going to tell the indigenous population we're going to go out and protest violently against Jews because they have no right to sell legally property to people to go over to a different country, but we have a right in many cases to come here illegally and stay in your country . It's just absurd . And you're going to see a lot more of it because there is now no deterrence for attacking Jews. Montumi , they rushed to childcare center. He didn't care . And nobody seems to stand up. And one of the things we do know if you are Nick Fuentes the most extreme example, but Candace Owens, if you are Candace Owens and you're suddenly making millions of dollars by accusing the Israelis of planning Charlie Kirk's murder or being involved in one of the Trump murders or any of that, which is demonstrabably false. Or if you're tucker, every single seventy percent of your shows are about Netanyahu, Israel , Jews, etc . That filters down . And when that's combined with this huge group on the left, like Graham Platiner that is going to maybe be the next senator from Minnesota that had a Nazi tattoo on it and bragged about my totem cop showed his girlfriend . Then you've lowered the bar so much that people in the West and Europe , the United States are going it's going to be open season on Jews. And it already is . And there's nobody talking much about it. Yeah. It's just as bad as the gang rapes in London and it's in here. You know what amazes me about all of this is that given that women since I don't usually talk this line, but just since women are generally weaker than men on the average , it also affects people that are physically or even mentally disabled or children who are generally weaker than men. They're the ones who benefit from law and order. And yet what we see on the left is an anti law. We're going to defund the police position . So what amazes me is how they have so much of those populations that benefit from a law and order society on their side. I just I can't imagine why a woman would support the left in general. So I think that needs to be said . But let's turn then to the drone and sniper planning at for the Freedom two hundred and fifty event that the FBI stopped that they were plotting not just the assassination of Trump, but also other major political figures. And I was wondering if you had any thoughts. That's the big news this week. Well, I mean Deterio in Latin means to terrify somebody from something , to use you're terrified of it. That's what deterrence is. So we've talked about the loss of deterrence with DEI. We've talked about the loss of deterrence with Islam and the results of that loss of deterrence . But the same thing is true about Donald Trump, isn't it? The more that you the more that you say that you want to kill him, the more you want to behead him. Robert De Niro was out speaking the other day . And we know that he said he wanted to hit him in the face. He wanted to physically assault him. Now he said he doesn't like America if Donald Trump is in line. He's completely lost his mind . He's become a very evil person. He really has. He's spreading hate and he's lowering the bar. And we've already had, I don't know how a major Hollywood person can say all that after you've had three serious assassination attempts where the Secret Service had to fire in all three cases upon a potential assassin that got that close. And here you have De Niro again saying that he hates America . We had that actress that was in Alf . She died and her families listed all and they wanted to assure everything she hated Donald Trump. I saw that. I didn't know the actress or the things she was in either. So I didn't Now we hear about how many were involved in the Antifa murder the murder plot. I don't know if it was Antifa. They've arrested five as of this recording. The scary thing about this group that the FBI is, did you see the wanted pictures of them ? The scary thing is unlike these solitary people, they had a plan that was pretty chill ing. In other words, they were going to they were going to send drones into the mixed martial arts , four or five thousand people there and start, I guess, suicide drones and then create havoc and then they were going to channel them out and then they were going to have snipers and pick them off including I guess officials and Trump . And where did they get these ideas? Where do they get them at? Who gives them this idea you should kill somebody , kill Trump who doesn't say not to kill Trump? I mean that literally I don't know Go Z ald, I want to push him over a cliff . That famous chef Bourdin that died. I want to poison him . Madonna, I want to blow up the White House . You name it. They're snoop dog. I want to shoot him . Cut off his head. I want to yeah , where they enact miss Griffith, what was her name? Griffith? Cathy Griffith? Kathy Griffith. Yeah, I want to cut off his head. She's dou downb onled that , by the way . We had the late Peter Fondas saying wanted to put Melania and Ivanka in a cage and have people torture them. And there was an assassination attempt plotted for Ivanka. Wasn't that just two weeks ago? Yeah . So they've lowered it. And then the idea that Antifa or these white left wing . They all talk about white supremacy, but they have to keep genning it up. I mean, Charlotteville, now we learn Charlottesville was staged by the Southern Proverbly Law Center. They hired the guy to go get people to come. It was all cooked up . And we learning about january sixth was not an insurrection. I mean, my gosh, it was a buffoonish demonstration or riot , but they always do that. And then they have these people in their midst that are absolute revolutionaries and they wanted to kill people and destroy and they're okay . So that's you know, that's we're going to see more of it is what I'm trying to say is you have you're going to see more organized efforts to kill Trump . Especially as his administration wound down. This morning he said, you know, that the whole key to the defanging of Iran started and only started when he touched the mad. He called him the mad genius Solomani, Solomani . And that's true. Nobody wanted he was the guy who was planning all of their overseas terror campaigns based in Syria and Iraq . And he was off limits . And Trump said, Why is he off limits? So he was bragging today that he killed him said, I killed him . Well , the Iranians have tried to kill Trump . We know that. There's people on Trump. In fact, he's praising the Pakistani president, but some of them are Pakistani too. There is a strong tie between Pakistan and Iran . And so I would imagine given that he has been in office less than two years , and we've had three major attempts that got very close to killing him. And in each thing , whether it was Crooks Rut Ruth , or the young guy who stormed the White House correspondence dinner, young African American guy . All of them had one thing in common . They got very close . They were fired so close that the Secret Service fired upon them fatally in Cook's things, but the other two they missed . And the reaction of the social media, there was a strong reaction of I wish they had of killed him. I wish they had killed him. And that sent the message to all of them and to other future would be assassins that if I kill Trump , I will be in the pantheon of Leftist heroes forever . I will be there John Wilkes booth . That's what they want to be . And that's what's so sick about the left. They know that and yet they keep doing it. They keep lowering the bar . And then I just go back to the one clown at the Missouri State Fair War on Obama Mask. He wore a mask of all the presidents . The left went so angry that they forced the Minnesota , the Missouri State Fair Board to ban him from being a clown for life for wearing a mask . There was zero tolerance and that's why Obama was safe . And yet the same people that insisted that he was a saint and as a saint he was divine and could not be. You couldn't say a word against him. They are the people that are either overlooking what's going on or contributing to it. All right, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and we'll come back to California. Stay with us and we'll be right back . Since the founding of America two hundred and fifty years ago , many things have changed , but some things never do . The commitment of husband and wife , the importance of passing along our values to our children , the faithfulness of God . Some wonder how we can ensure America will continue to thrive. As long as we keep first first , we've only just begun . America, the beautiful . Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. We're a subsidiary, as I said in the beginning of the Daily Signal, please go to the Daily Signal and check out all of their articles and these podcasts and the shorts that Victor does for them . There's a lot there, great conservative material. So Victor Newsom is out again , this time, he is worried that he's been targeted by the DOJ and he said Donald Trump has done it. This is under the direction of Donald Trump. So it is a political and law f asare he',s trying to suggest, I have my doubts about that. What are yours ? Well, it can be both . He can be he has done things that I think he and his wife are patently illegal , but he's right that under Biden it was he was exempt and under Trump he's not. The reason he's not exempt under Trump is Trump doesn't like him . the And reason that he was exempt under Biden is Biden found him useful and liked him. So yes, he's right that there's a political motive too. I wish they would be there wasn't, but the question is , did he or did he not channel what was it? six hundred million dollars to different LGBQ and all these different aggrieved groups to non government organizations, charities, so to speak . And was his wife or not in directing two of them, one of which she got a salary for ? And if so , that is complete conflict of interest that he via his wife was benefiting from the very funds that he was administering . And why did he not stop that? And then there was some question the transferance of money to her . I think they purchased a home that was almost seven to nine million dollars . So then where did they get that type of money ? And how do you transfer that money from someone? It must have come from her parents or somewhere because they don't have that money. One thing there was an analysis of his salary private and public, it's about million and a half dollars. And then the accountant online went through all the things they spent prep school for one hundred and fifty for their kids, power, taxes, mortgages, and it's very hard to see how you could live on that salary unless somebody was giving you money and somebody giving you money , you can do it I think just it's seventeen or eighteen thousand dollars a year tax reef. So if somebody's giving them money , if you're a politician, you have to identify that who that is, and then that person has to pay gift tax. We don't know if that's happening, but he's living beyond his means is what I'm saying , or he wouldn't take such stupid risk to direct California's money . And by the way, why are we spending six hundred thousand dollars , six hundred million dollars grants for all these groups when we're forecasting a seventeen billion dollar deficit . We don't have the money . And then you look at high speed rails in shamels, you look at Pacific Palisades, it's in shambles. You look at the California Water Project, it's left unfinished . Everything is in shambles. And he is doling out money that his crazy wife is directing and we don't know what else she's doing because she's the first lady of California. She's not just saying, What I don't understand is if she's very left like he is and they're dolling out money to left wing nonprofits billions of dollars , then why doesn't she just be a little circumspect ? Why does she say, you know , Gavin, we can't give it to this group because I run it. And they said, Well, she didn't take a salary. Well, she had a lot of perks from that group and it enhanced her name that had got money from the state . And once they gave it to her, people came to her and said, You can get us money because your husband gave to you . And then she was also getting she had two boards. She was getting money from another one that was getting money from the state . So it's pretty crooked. I think he has a lot of legal exposure. I really do. And he's right that Donald Trump doesn't like him and decided to act, but he didn't fill in the blanks is that Joe Biden did not act because he was a fellow traveler on the left and knew about that. And then also Joe Biden had a lot of legal exposure himself. You know, what amazes me about the left is that they don't like a real estate mogul being their president . They act as though they're against wealth, but they're just fine with that greasy haired, wealthy Nepo baby as governor and now winer. I don't understand that they're all they can't finish the sentence without billionaire, billionaire, billionaire, billionaire, billionaire. And I'm thinking, George Sorrels is funding these. He's a he's worth twenty or thirty billion dollars . Getty is a billionaire that is funding Gavin Newsom always has that billionaire up in Montana from Switzerland who funds all of your stuff . And Mark Zuckerberg gave four hundred eighteen million dollars in two hundred and twenty twenty to help change voting laws and take over the work of state registrars . And Molly Ball talked about that. Billionaires, billionaires, billionai res have been on the left . It's so weird. It's saying like we want all the we want nice new tents and we want porter bodies at our demonstrations and we want big endowments at our Middle East Studies program, but we hate billionaires. If you hate billionaires so much, why don't you just tell Gutter? Don't give us fifty million dollars, you know, for Middle East Study. We don't want billionaires from the Middle E , but they don't. They love I can remember in twenty twelve I think it was like twenty ten or nine I first saw or knew of Elon. He didn't have I mean, he was so leveraged and I thought he was really courageous, but I remember the left loved him because his Tesla, I remember talking to people at Stanford, you got to get a Tesla man. This guy's going to change everything. He's a genius . And he's going to NASA, he's saving NASA. They loved him. And then as soon as he in twenty twenty four, for the first time said he might vote for Trump, then he was demonized. They love billionaires. They love billionaires. The thing is billionaires thought that they that they liked them . No, they hate billionaires , but what you guys that are billionaires don't understand is whereas people on the right say as long as it was legal that you made your money, it's a free country. Some of you maybe were just stock manipulated. A lot of you made your money that helped a lot of people . Jeff Bezos, I use this product every week. I'm so happy for Amazon. I could wish him make more, Jeff I have a Tesla. I think it's great . So yeah, I'm a walking ad for Elon and his exactly. But the left is different . They hate the idea of billionaires, but then they like individual billionaires that give money to them. It's kind of like the Bolsheviks in nineteen seventeen. They went they were everybody goes, well, why were they so strong because nineteen sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, they went and they quartered the Russian aristocracy. And they said to the Russian aristocracy, we hate the aristocracy. And we're going to dethrone it, but you and you and you can work for us. It's kind of like Napoleon with the marshals of France. He said, The French Revolution, you know, we're going to well, I'm going to embody the spirit of the revolution, the Jacobin . But Marshal France, if I can get the aristocracies, and you went to military academy and you went graduated at St. Cyr , you are going to be a marshal of France. He cut deals with them. That's what the left always does. Yeah, and the left , I noticed that a lot of commentators in the last few days are talking about those socialist mayors like Mamdami and the one they may get in DC. And they're noticing that they don't just talk about billionaires anymore . They're talking about millionaires and taxing them. And if things go as they always do, they'll go, oh, and anybody who makes over two hundred thousand we want to tax more. So they're going to go down the line and those people are crazy if they don't think that the left is after them they really are. Well, the left , I mean , look at the left all of a sudden, who's the biggest poster, two biggest three biggest poster in politics for the left for socialism is Illian Omar , Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren AOC too. And AOC . So Elizabeth Warren wrote a book on how to flip houses and make a quick buck, not how to build a beautiful home and refurbish it for somebody, but how to get it rich? And she lives in a really tony area of Boston . And she came from Oklahoma and she was a law professor and her only goal was to get into Harvard. And I want to be at the top. I want that prestige. I want to get close to politics. I want to have nice stuff. And the only way I can do it using is to lie and say that I'm Native American. Otherwise I would never make it. And then you have Illian Omar. One day we wake up, I'm worth thirty million bucks. My husband , who I was funneling campaign funds for why we were quote unquote dating, even though I was married to someone else . He has a winery, he has investments, and then everybody said, Oh, what a hypocrite? Oh, I made a I made a little technical error. I put the decimal in the wrong place. He's not worth a million . And then we had Bernie Sanders . And he's got a nice home on the lake . He's got a nice condo in Washington. He's got a nice home, I guess in Burlington. And his wife was the president of a bankrupt college. She bankrupted it basically small and it declared bankruptcy and she walked away with a nice big pension and severance pay. No socialism there. AOC she wanted to wear what was it a five thousand dollars Either Rich dress? I think it was thirty five thousand dollars. That she ever reported as income? I don't think so . And she's had some campaign inquiries about where her money has been coming from and going to. So all of them are that way. All of 'em . Yes. Well, Victoria Rattle. Clatt, he ates millionaires and billionaires, but not his mother who owns a Tony restaurant is his only client for his oysters , which her husband, a corporate lawyer , who's very wealthy, got his wealthy friend to let him use his wealthy island and then gave him the money to have a wealthy little one man oyster farmer con with one client and then he who has post traumatic stress syndrome and apparently we're going to have a senator who the government feels is unable to work because he has flashbacks and gets his pension. That was really his only income and he's going to be our senator from Maine. I guess will he give up his Are he still going to be traumatized? Or is he going to give up his money? And then we learn that he took a small loan out from his dad, two hundred grand. And they and he's a socialist communist . And then Mondomy , everybody he can, Victor. Look at Mondomick. Did he ever really have a job until he was thirty five? Maybe one term in the state legislature. He was a rap singer for a while . Spoiler little guy, his dad was an endowed professor at Columbia . And then his mother was a subsidized filmmaker with millions of dollars and grants and stuff . So none of these people are poor, they're not victims of capitalism. They're all people who feel that their own ideology will be very destructive to other people but will not ever touch themselves . No . Well, Victor, we are at the end of the show and we went I went to your website this time for comments. You wrote a really fine article on whether California has reached the boiling point , I think . And they had really some great comments on here. Then again, Victor was talking about the different various problems in California. So this is what all of these people are referring to. The first one says James Carlisle. Great analysis and synthesis as usual. This reads like the epitath to my beloved home state where I was born, raised and educated as fifth generation California . I have never found a comfortable way to earn a living and feel comfortable with the lifestyle in the state after graduating universities so have lived and worked in forty six different countries . I am naturally an optimist, but this state of affairs makes me truly sad . Another state, ooh, I left the name out here. California is a reflection of what Democrats want for all of the states. Maine is next on the agenda . And then following up on that, Jerry T. Rath says the left destroys everything it touched. That's true. Prime example. California as VDH summarizes item after item. Millions of people in California now know what voters in Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, and China feel like , utterly frustrated . Worse yet, just like cancer, it is metastasizing across the country . Some of the US some in the U. S. feel as though this is a California problem. Let them stew in their lefty sewage. This is not true . And then to bring this all , George Hibberd says very shortly, my neighbor had a dog like this once. It just loved to roll in its own dung. Yeah, I had that column didn't make real clear politics, but the New York Post cut it down the size because it was very long and then ran it . And then I noticed that Mike Lee, the senator the actor James Woods, Bill Ackman, and Elon Musk retreated it and it went kind of viral . And it's very sad we had paradise here and then we have purgatory or worse , all because the Left took over control and tried to destroy everything . What I don't like about the Left the most is they're so full of ingratitude and they trash the people and the generations before them as racist, chauvinists, homophobes , nativists, horrible things they say about them , but then when you look at what they left us, they're all dead now . They can't even maintain the California Water Project We have railroads. They can't build one railroad . They put out fires very quickly . They can't put out a fire. Los Angeles was created by a lot of brilliant people that got water and power and everything and they ruined it. So they're so arrogant and full of ingratitude and they use everything that the dead left us and then they don't give any acknowledgement which would be bad enough, but it's worse. They make fun of them and they ridicule them. That's what I don't like about them. They're full of ingratitude . Yeah. Well, Victor, I would like to let everybody know that our Saturday episode is coming up. We'll continue with news, but we also have a segment that we're doing on past US presidents for this two hundred and fiftieth year of our country. And you're going to do what this Saturday. I'm going to talk about John At cranky John Adams and I can't say cranky Joe Biden . I'm working forward and backward . We did Joe Biden, so yes, we did Joe Biden. Excuse me, we're going to do we can't do Trump's first term . So we're going to do my favorite target , shouldn't use that word target. My person who I think did the most damage is Barack Obama of recent. We talked about Barack Obama and John Adam . And be sure to look at counter revolution , the fall and rise of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement and the MAGA movement is available september eighth, and you can order now. September eighth, and it is also linked on the website. So if you're trying to find it you'll find a link to Amazon on the website with the book. So please come see what's on Victor's website at Victorhansen dot com . Thank you everyone for joining us this Friday for the Friday News Roundup. Thank you, Victor for . Thank you for watching and listening . Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal . Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at Victorhansen dot com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition