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And when Graham Plattner said he didn't know, that is completely contradicted by girlfriends who said that he said my little totem cop when Tucker says allegedly , that's simply not true, Tucker , it's not allegedly. It was tied directly . That particular version of a death's head is tied particularly with SS groups that slaughtered people both in the Holocaust and prisoners of war Hello ladies and hello gentlemen and welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. We are recording on Sunday , june twenty first, twenty twenty six this ep,isode of the show will be up on Tuesday, june twenty third. It is Father's Day in America as we are speaking . So happy Father's Day late, those who are seeing this, but Happy Father's Day to also to my friend Victor Victor is the Martin and Ellie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College. 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We are back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. By the way, Victor also has Victor Davis Hansen in a few words also at the Daily Signal. Four times a week. Check that out, folks. You're going to truly enjoy it. So Victor, a few things . I'll just put up a few two comments that Donald Trump has said this morning. One is on truth social where he posted his account Ir,an must immediately stop their highly paid proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week only harder, triple exclamation point. And then this morning he was on Fox News Sunday or some Fox program , and President Pizzkian, I hope I'm saying it right. Although I really don't care, President of Iran sorry. I didn't know you were an anti intellectual and anti I devoted my entire life to philology and I pronounce words terribly. Well I've heard some of them so here's what my listeners have too. I mean think gosh think gosh mind me all the time . Oh yeah, I get it too. Why weren't you correct Victor when he says, I'm like, I'm not correcting Victor. That's not my that is not my job. I love your the Norm Crosby aspect of your personality, Victor. So anyway, here's here I'm looking at the Daily Mail. Wait a minute before you go on, I can plead a liability right here in a bike accident , I cut this lip all the way broke my nose it went all the way down and my wife said one side was hanging here and the other there . are Th allese fake teeth and I don't can't I can't feel anything from here on no idea . So put it this way, Jack, what I'm trying to say is I was never , as my professors they said, you know philology very well, Victory, but you cannot pronounce words very well. And then I had this bike accident , which I don't think had any effect on it, but it's been a convenient excuse ever since. Go with it. I'm going to share with it. If you show the picture and I've seen it, I think you might have shown it once on the show. It is completely destroyed. And the only thing that was a nice thing because there was a wonderful plastic surgeon. I won't mention his name, but he was really gifted. And when he came in to take all the stitches out , he said I had two big lines here because because of they stitched everything. I had one hundred and seventy five stitches in my face and asphalt. And then he said, Victor, this is the perfect time . We can take these lines out, we can tighten you and it's all legitimate. It's not I can do the best plastic work and take twenty years off your face and we saved it, but if you keep it, you're going to develop very tight lines because the person in the ER tightened, you know, the stitches and left two big creases . And I said, I think they're there anyway. But if I were to say that I had work done, I would never, ever live it off. So I can't do that. Probably I would defer to you and I think there are many, many women across America who very much like the face the way it is, Victor. So o , I'm looking at the Daily Mail from this morning and I'm quoting here Piz kin . What is certain is that we will never back down from the right to enrich uranium and the other uranium. And the other side is also forced to accept it, he allegedly said this morning to Iranian state media. Then during an interview with Fox News Sunday morning, Trump shot back and said that Poschin quote better watch his mouth end quote. He also told Iran they won't have a country if the Strait of Hormuz is closed. And he also criticized Israel. We're going to talk about that, Victor . Donald Trump said, Israel is saying the country, quote, can't do anything without blowing up buildings in its fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Okay, Victor, I'm going to shut up. It's your show. What do you have to say about all this? I was kind of confused because on the one hand, he said Iran stopped interfering in Lebanon , which is prima facia an admission that Hezbollah with Iran encouragement . This is Iran's only proxy that's viable right now and it's not even viable. It's been damaged. But with these new fiber optic drones that they've developed . They have an ability to kill Israelis . And Israel has simply adopted the policy that we've had. In other words when the Taliban sponsored bin Laden we hit them, disproport ionately . When Saddam didn't agree, we hit him disproportionately . When Milosevic didn't agree, we hit him disproportionately. That's what we do. Proportionality is a prescription for defeat. So what I'm getting at is Israel is not going to sit there and have a whole corridor of their country uninhabited because every once in a while the Hezbollah thugs say that we are going to send some rockets or we're going to send some drones and we're going to kill here and there not enough to start a war , not enough but to help our Iranian proxy, I mean our client our patrons . And we're the client, we have to do this, and they won't really do much because Trump will restrain them or this and they don't understand what Israel doing . Number two when JD Vance said we blow up buildings when a Hezbollah guy enters that's not accurate. I like JD Vance, but if you look at what they're doing, they're they're using low payload precision bombs to blow up a floor or an apartment . Many of the buildings you see them, they're not completely destroyed . But I asked JD , what are they supposed to do? So they're sitting there and they've said to Iran, don't send rockets. And why would Iran, I mean, through their proxy, Hezbollah? Why do they need one hundred sixty thousand rockets if not to coordinate with Hamas as they did on october seventh and they launched hundreds thousands of them. So what is Israel supposed to do? Are they supposed to say, You sent one rocket into us or we'll send one rocket? That's not going to work. Israel is a humane civilized society. They care about their citizens . Hezbollah does not care about the Lebanese government, the Lebanese citizens, it has no care for them . So all they can do is try to find Hezbollah. And you know, they just found an extensive tunnel network yesterday was a command headquarters . So they're making inroads, but they and then the other thing when JD Vance said that we're, you know, they should be very happy that we're providing two thirds and that's very generous of us. But if you look at the three point something billion dollars , seventy five percent of it is buying American weapons and they take the American weapons and they battle test the American weapons and then they get back on a daily basis. This is what the F thirty five can not do. This is what this particular Patriot battery can can andnot do. Here's how we in the actual field of battle have innovated. You might want to incorporate this. Oh, by the way , we have picked up an Iranian agent in Washington, DC. That's what they do all the time . And then you think to yourself , who took out if Israel hadn't taken out Saddam's reactor, I guess in nineteen eighty one, they would have had a nuclear weapon. hadn If' theyt taken out the Syrian reactor, the Assad dynasty would have had a nuclear weapon . They've done a lot of favors for the West . And so I don't get this idea that we want to be more critical of Israel than we do of Hezbollah or somebody . Then I was on Fox on Friday night with Rachel Duffy and I think maybe I don't know why I was on because they wanted me to defend the pact. And there's things about it that everybody whom I admire have made very legitimate criticisms. But to be honest They don't understand something . And what they don't understand is this . Number one , if Trump loses the midterms as thirty seven of the last forty one midterms have seen the president lose the end party majorities or at least seats . They're going to impeach him . And they're going to call in the entire Trump, Don Jr., Eric Trump, all these people are going to be in there. All these companies are going to be in under Congress. It's going to be a circus . They are going to try to shut down every single they're going to shut down the government. They're going to do everything . And yes, he probably, according to historical president, should lose the midterm, but it's not set in stone . The peace agreement, and it's not really a peace agreem ent. This memorandum was very popular. fifty six percent of the people said they favored it. Gas prices . I went down to what I call the local arena . It's a low cost big service station and it's packed with mostly poor people and it had been six dollars a gallon at one point. It was under five dollars. It was four hundred and eighty yesterday . So gas is going down. The stock market is going up, the jobs report are good . The tax cuts and the deregulation haven't fully rippled through the economy. They are going to produce more fossil fuel. Venezuela will do that. Russia is going to do that . So my point is they haven't lost the midterms yet. And then there is going to be five to ten seats that will be red majority because of the redistricting wars A and the Supreme Court racial germanding B . I would say they have a forty sixty chance of winning the midterms and therefore Trump wants oil to flow and he wants the he doesn't want a full scale war . Next after the midterms, whether he wins or loses , he doesn't care . And he can go full blast . The second thing is excuse me . Could you just clarify he doesn't care? He doesn't I don't mean he doesn't care he doesn't care he cares about inflation and they've misquoted him on that. They misquoted him on the price of gas. They misquoted him on the midterms. What I'm saying is he doesn't care what the Iranians say to him when they keep finagling and everybody's getting frustrated, well, they're lying to you. And then he keeps negotiating. He keeps negotiating because he does not want a recession and it's very unpopular to have gas and the American people do not want one dead American in the Middle East. And I don't blame them. They're sick of it. And yet he wants to get rid of this nuclear threat . The second thing is they have confused your military defeat with strategic defeat. We have militarily humiliated and defeated Iran . We have not strategically defeated them. To strategically defeat the regime and remove it , you've got to do what we did with Saddam and Taliban. We invaded Iraq and within thirty days Saddam was gone , and we bombed the blank out of the Taliban and they were gone in three weeks . And then we settled down and what happened . We were there in Iraq and Afghanistan for a combined thirty years and we lost fifty three thousand wounded, seven thousand dead and two trillion dollars. Yes, we had regime change and for a while we had governments that were conducive to our Western agendas , but they were not sustainable without a huge force. My point if you want to be a microw manager of Iran's destiny and you want to say to them you are not going to give one dime to these terrorists, okay? You are not going to have one missile, okay? You are not going to have any contact with anybody who's good. You're going to get rid of the nuclear enrichment. You can do some of that. Two things. You can keep the straight open and you can make sure that they don't have a bomb . But all of the other things that you want them to behave in a rational sense , you either have to do one or two things. You have to bomb them in Curtis Lamay style back to the Stone Age. We tried that in Libya and it still didn't work , or you have to invade . If he puts one ground troop in there, the Republican Party for practical purposes is doomed. And all these people who say, well, you know, you can't play politics. Well , no, in a democratic society you can't wage a war without popular support for very long . And yes, they ar hatven'ictul ated as well as they might have, but that is what he's concerned about. And so third , and I wrote some of these things down , this is not This is not the end . This memorandum. It's the beginning . And so what's happening is you are telling the Iranian people , your government has humiliated itself. It's completely militarily defeated . We are not going to go in and occupy your country and force a regime change , but as they brag that they're taking us on this memorandum, they're going to have to have the internet open sometime or their economy is going to collapse . And they're going to invite reporters, even Al Jazeera reporters or BBC , and they're going to show the actual damage, and there's going to be people who come out on the street . And they're going to look at this just like the people looked after the Berlin Wall in the Warsaw Pact in Russia . And they're going to say this regime is bankrupt. It's weak . And yes, they can kill us, but this isn't sustainable. They're not going to take money and take it away from repairing the country and give it to a bunch of Arab terrorists without our say. And we can arm them if we want. We've never done that before, but we can arm them. And as I said earlier , we haven't hit the bridges that you know, I looked at the Serbian war. I think I said that. Forty five days, Jack, it didn't do anything in nineteen ninety nine . Americans were giving big performance art lectures we' wellre, only hitting military targets. And this is, you know, we're not going to have a war in Europe. And they couldn't get Milosvich out of Kosovo. Day forty to forty five, Bill Clinton said, Well, I think we better hit the Danube bridges and they knocked them out . And then they started to see weakening. I think we better get some graphite bombs and bomb the grid. And then they started bombing almost like World War two chaff and it just short circuited . So every day they would fix it up and then we would take it out . And then Clinton said, I'm very sorry there's hospitals and schools that were inadvertently hit and I know operations. So he did his little therapeutic thing, right? And Obama did the same thing . But finally, on day seventy eight, Melissovic said, I quit. I can't take this. So my point is this , when Trump said that in this memorandum, if they break it, no we can't micromanage it. No we can't do, but we can ensure they don't have a nuclear weapon and we can ensure they keep the straits open. You know how we can do that? We can hit the nuclear sites every day, but we can take three or four days three or four days. It's not going to be a forever war and it's not going to be unpopular . And you can tell that regime and its president who's boasting, you're not going to have every time you say something or you do something , we're taking out ten bridges and one power plant. And we'll tell the Iranian people we're sorry, but this regime is deadly. And you can do that. And we haven't done that yet. So we have all this option. Time is not on Iran's side because they have a rendezvous with the people. At some point , there's not going to be bombing and they're going to have to come out and try to run the country after eighty of their leaders are wiped out. There's all these factions fighting and the people are furious and they got the impression that the world wants them to step up and they may do that. Second thing is as we speak, the Gulf States are starting , I'm told by late summer , they are going to double the capacity of the Red Sea pipeline to solid. They are going to go out in the Arabian Sea on the other side of the strait and have more pipelines. They're talking about putting a huge pipeline to Turkey. They're talking even about a long pipeline into Israel . And so they will have ports on the Mediterranean, the Arabian and the Red Sea pipeline ports, liquid natural gas ports. So in other words , in two or three years, the strait will be a liability for Iran because what it will mean is if you close the straight , it's fine with us, we will make sure nobody can go in and we will have all the oil in the world and you won't be able to touch it . And so that means that time is on our side if they want and we're going to do that anyway. The world is we being in the world . So I don't think they're in a very good position. Geostrategically they're in a bad position. Russia is now deadlocked. Russia is broke. Russia is not going to give them any money. Russia has no Syrian client. They have no Middle East presence at all, even though John Kerry invited them in after a thirty year absence, they're now gone again . China has no more cheap oil in Venezuela or Iran. They're not going to have any . They're importing eleven eleven million barrels a day. They're importing thirty percent of their food . They have all these intrinsic problems . They're not going to be happy with Iran how it's turning out. It's going to be too unstable They're not going to go in and try to rebuild it. And the Gulf nations for all of their duplicities don't like the Chinese. They're going to say, you this was your client? A final thing. In the memorandum it says three hundred billion dollars are going to be used not by us by the Gulf States . Okay , I don't want to I want to be very careful what I say . I love Arab people . I have so many friends, but does anybody really believe that the Gulf States have ever really honored their word on anything ? I mean, did anybody really believe they had no idea about Bin Laden, what he was doing and what his relations were ? Does anybody really believe they just happened to evacuate a lot of people out of the bin Laden family right after nine eleven? Does anybody believe what the Saudis said about the journalist that was chopped up in the embassy? So there's a lot of things that we must maintain with the Gulf States, but here's my point . Once they agree to this and then they get together and they get a counsel and they said, well , how did you fare Kuwait? Well, we lost a lot of our airport, we lost our refinery , we lost four billion. Well, how did you do UA? Well, we were worse. We had eight hundred hits. We have about ten billion . How about you, Saudi? How about you, Oman? And then Gutter's going to say, well, how much are you all going to give for this three hundred million dollar fund ? And they're going to say, wait a minute, we have three hundred billion three hundred billion for this fund. We have three hundred billion dollars almost in damage. You think why would we give it to our enemy? Of course we said we're going to do it, but who's going to enforce it? The Americans, they don't care . And so I don't think they're ever going to give a dime . And I'm not trying to argue that we should be duplicit ous on that memorandum, but it's not going to work . And it's designed for one thing . It's designed to calm things down , get the straight open , get the price of oil down , and have a fighting chance for the next four months to this government to remain viable the Trump government. And for all those people who are paranoid about it, I would say and I'm talking about three or four people that I really admire if you lose the Congress . There's not just going to be impeachments and hearings and they're going to bring up everybody on every type of lawfare charge , but you're going to lose the ability to fund the completion of the wall, they'll try to they'll try to shut down everything with stopping the government . And it's going to stop much of the MAGA agenda. If you don't believe me, ask what happened Barack Obam a his last two years . The last year he was in office, what did he do? He did not that he did anything anyway, but twenty sixteen, his basic attitude was , I got down to forty percent approval, thirty nine . I have to be loved . Everybody hates Hillary and everybody hates Donald Trump. Let them fight it out and call each other names. I'll play golf and talk about Cahill Gabriin , Gabron, and I'll be loved by everybody and I'll cut my Netflix and I'll cut my book deals for seven. And that's what he did. But you had to know how the writing went down. He wasn't even there. Remember, he had no power. He did nothing . Then he said, Well, I got I got a phone and I got a pin and I can no you didn't. You didn't have any power. You lost one fourteen hundred state, local, and federal why you were president. And by the end of it, you were politically inert . And that could happen to Trump. So I would say yes , get a working agreement , they will break it. When they break it, hit them disproportionately disproportionately and try to do it very quickly and try to do something different . Try to you can go after the leadership, you can go after the missiles fine, but what's really going to shut them down if you hit a dual use target and the moment the left says anything , you just bring up all the dual use targets that Obama and Clinton hit, and neither one of them had congressional authority, and neither one of them bombed and limited it to forty days . Seven months Obama seventy eight days for Clinton. Well, Victor have a follow up on Israel , but first to our viewers and our listeners. America's big birthday is coming up soon in just a few days we'll celebrate our founders victory over tyranny and the birth of the Republic they founded to ensure and protect the individual rights of Americans . But do you know what's crazy? Victory, do you know what's crazy? 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And believe me, if you're an Arab citizen of Israel and you say , I'm tired of Islam. I want to be a Christian, you can do it. You can do whatever you want. If you say that in any other Arab country, you better be very careful because your life is in danger . And so it's a free liberal society. They don't hang gays , they don't subject women to secondary and third classes , et cetera, etc . And as I said earlier, they are the laboratory of American weapons . And that money we give them, they turn right back and they buy . We don't give them weapons. We give them the money because they pick and choose which particular weapons fit their particular needs. And then when they do, we have American advisors inside Israel and they're talking to the Israelis daily about this weapon system, how is it working? How is this working ? And right now I have no doubt there are Americans there and there are Israelis there and they're saying these Hezbollah operatives have now fiber aptic retrograde old technology and we don't have an anecdote and they're working together to find an anecdote because we may encounter that at some point . Exactly. That's what they do . And are the Israelis a proud people? Yes. Are they very successful? Yes . Do they suffer flu fools gladly? No , but they' are v ital part of the American strategic agenda . And more so. And we give a billion dollars to Egypt. And what do we get out of Egypt ? Well, they persecute Coptics . The government's a dictatorship. It's preferable to Marsi's Muslim Brotherhood prior government. But what do we get out of Jordan? They're a friendly country, but every once in a while they do crazy things . So we don't get a lot out of those countries . And are our strategic objectives identical, not always. Israel is on the front lines and it's small. We have six or seven thousand miles between us and the Middle East and we're big and powerful. So obviously we have to worry about other issues. Right now, the divide is, we're worried about the price of gas and a recession. We're worried about losing the entire counter revolution movement if Trump is stripped of power , and they're not. They're worried about one thing . We don't want Iran under any circumstances to get a bomb. We're worried about being rained upon by Hezbollah and Iran and the Houthis with missiles and we don't like our soldiers harvested by drones every week . And the only way that we can stop these fanatics is to hit them disproportionately where they're making the drones, where they're commanding the drones, etc . And that's where the difference lies . Ultimately, we can say all we want to Israel , but there is no alternative. You can the other thing I don't understand is they have become I don't maybe you can maybe our listeners can explain, but this is very strange D.id you see J ack Marco Rubio's expression when he was at the press conference when Trump was explaining the memorandum ? And I mean you would think that the Secretary of State would be the emissary of the memorandum. Right. But he looked stone faced . Yeah . And the point is I think he probably disagreed with it. And when you hear the people that are defending the memoranda, I'm not defending it. I'm just telling you why he did it and why it can be utilitarian and why in the long run, it will give us more options against Iran, which is going to lose big time as I said, time is not on side. But there are a lot of people who feel that it's a very good thing because they want to get out no matter what , forget about Iran, or they'd detest Israel and there was criticism implied in it with the Lebanese matter . But my point is JD then I think was given an unusual because he's already busy doing a great job with rooting out corruption, government corruption of welfare and Medicare and Medicaid, all that stuff. So now he's got this huge , he's got this huge portfolio and what was the purpose? I think the purpose is to win back did you see what Tucker said afterwards? He said that basically Trump has finally come to his senses and the alt alt right , the Bannon Wright, the Candice Wright, the Tucker Wright, the Megat, maybe they will be sympathetic. I don't know , maybe that was the purpose of it, but I don't think that he was authorized to say the things he did to such an extent. He kind of the more in that press conference he started to critic iz Isedrael the more that he got animated. You know, he said, there are people there and I want to warn you that two thirds of your defense comes from us and I want to warn you and I don't know if B said this or not , I'm sending a message. It you don't I don't know. Got to be very careful. Get the impression he assumes the role of punch punching back at the president's critic criticism or all vice presidents do that. Or non supplicants, you know, I don't see BB being a critic like you know, the Ukrainian president was a critic at the White House itself . So can I just I don't get it because it's in our interest to get rid of the bomb . Because once they destroy Israel , they're going to try to threaten us and Europe with eleven nuclear weapons because they have the missiles that can almost, you know, they can go halfway already and they'll be able to go all the way . And we would have never been able to bomb last June the nuclear facilities had there been air defenses. We would have had to spend a lot of time. There were no air . just had We to only problem bombing last June was we called up the IDF and said, Hey, could we come in here or the airspace? They were controlling it. They had destroyed the Chinese air system of defense . So did anybody ever do that to us? I can't remember anybody. Did the Europeans ever say this is a Western collective fear that they're going to get a bomb and we're going to do our part. We tell you what, you ask, you have the B two . You take out the facilities and we will take our three or four hundred fighters and we will get rid of the air defenses so you can arrive with these billion dollar bombers in safety, no, they never did that. In fact, they did the opposite . Maloney , Macron , Stirmer, and the Nut in Spain said you can't use our bases and they had to which is we can get off topic a little bit with Maloney. I'm kind of upset about that in the sense that she was a good friend of Trum and Tprum'sp was a good friend of her. It was kind of like a little version of Elon and Trump. You know what I mean? Yeah . They're on the same page . They're both very capable, strong personalities and they had a falling out . And I think they'll get back together because he was very fond of her. Remember at the prior summit, she was the spokeswoman kind of sitting next to him and she was the favorite , but aired if they're not going to let us use a NATO base in Sicily and rearm , I mean refuel to go into Iran and the purpose of that mission is not just a gratuitous attack but to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon of which Iran already can reach Italy and other capitals , and they themselves are saying they have an existential problem with Middle East Muslim immigrants of which they're shutting their borders and deporting them because of serial attack s , then you would think that she would say the following , hello, Don . Here's my problem. I've got seventy percent of people who don't like you . And I got about fifty four percent that I'm unpopular right now . And I can't announce that you're going to use this base because these people are fanatically against the mission. So here's what I want to do . I'm going to say that this is a NATO base and we're going to confer with NATO. And then you come in at two in the morning and land and take off. It's all you got to do. And Macron could have said , you know, you don't even want our base, just use our airspaces. Who knows what our airspace is? Maybe some journalists will say, we said, We don't really know. We just we're a NATO partner we let'd people come in. You could do that . It would have been very easy. The Spanish said, We have a big NATO base we share with you. You spend more money on it than we do . We understand that you've helped us a lot with our problems in North Africa , et cetera , and you've been more than fair about Gibraltar. You've listened to our complaints and go ahead but don't don't broadcast it, please. And Trump would have been fine with that. But they had to get on their podium and shout and scream that we stood up to the great Satan . At the very time they're basically saying we're three or four years away from preventing Putin from invading and we need you. And that was a dumb thing to do. I don't know that she grants standard. Maybe she did, and I just didn't the defense Misinter did, and then she backed him. Yeah . Well he did it , I'm not getting my Italian up, but he did really attack her personally. And I didn't I think she's a good ally is what I'm trying to say , and I hope they get a reconciliation very quickly. She's in a very different category than Stormer, who's Stormer, who's on his way out , or Markon, who will shortly be in a year or two on his way out or Mertz, who's a turn corpse. I couldn't believe Mertz. He's attacked Trump viciously and he was in the White House the other day. You remember did you see him? Yeah . Giving him a t shirt, a soccer shirt or something something . So and Germany's turning under his feet. And all of Europe I don't know if you discussed it with Sami and we should probably know we did not but to vote in the European Parliament to like get well we did that. Yeah, it's more ceremonial, but it's still very important and that's another thing that bothers them. What are they doing? They're looking at the United States right now and they're saying, can You close your borders . You can build a wall, you can defend it. You know what? You can even stop ten thousand people coming in a day. You know what? You can deport people. They're doing it. They've already deported over a million and five hundred thousand criminals and another million of self deported. And you know what ? You can I wish we did what the United States did. They're fracking. They've got all this oil and gas. We've got natural gas in France, we've got the North Sea oils that still have oil in Britain . We've got the Mediterranean, the Aegean. We can do this and we wouldn't be so vulnerable. And our power wouldn't be four times the cost of electricity in Germany than it is in the United . So they are emulating they are beginning to emulate the Trump paradigm and the opposition parties are right there . And so that I think, really bothers them that they're looking at the United States and it's starting to pull away economically, militarily , culturally . And you know, this is the first time really that we've had Europe ans from the middle classes that come over here in mass on charter flights. They're cheap to watch soccer matches, which is a fanatic obsession in Europe with the middle class and the working classes . And usually the Europe get all of their information from Le Man or the Guardian or some kind of , you know, yeah, there's no Fox News in and then they go to where they go to San Francisco and L. A. Seattle, Portland, or they go to Washington, New York, and they never go to these places in the south or the Midwest and then this middle class comes over here and there's now this weird phenomenon that wow you get to have your air conditioning on in your room. You don't have to put you don't have to put a little credit card you pull out or when you leave. You have ice cubes in your water? You get ice cubes? My gosh. Oh , and you get some bread that's warmed up. But the guy that went to I think it was outback steakhouse or one of the one of the steakhouse they can't believe the portions and everybody is comes up and nice to them and they don't have to write stories back that I walked one block in Washington and I was mugged or I went to San Francisco and stepped in defecation and wow, these cities are nice. Oklahoma City's nice. Texas is nice . So I don't know. It's not like California when I think didn't Mexico just play South Korea . And they did, but not really following all that much. I think they had all I saw thousands of Mexican flags from the fans, so I suppose it was basically I think California is the second or third largest city in the world of Mexican citizens. Mexico. Yeah . Not Mexican American, Mexican citizens. Mexican . Although I think the most popular radio station is the Spanish station of out LA, right? So you mentioned Tucker, we're going to talk about Tucker in a second, but first to our viewers and listeners , here's a question as we approach our two hundred fiftieth, is it possible for us to turn around our education and to restore civic leadership and to enjoy summer vacation with our family all at the same time . Well, Mount Titano Media says yes . And this is the book. I'm holding it up here. This is the book for our two fiftieth and for all ages finding our words words that made America . 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They don't like him because he's not sufficiently supportive of Israel. That's Tucker Carlson on Graham Platiner. So just thought I'd so let me get this straight . The Tottenkoff it just means in German death's head . Mill many militaries have it, but there is a particular way of portraying that death's head . And yes , in the eighteenth centur y Austrian and Hungarian hussers youngers with the light cavalry, they wore a skull . But this particular typolog y is popular in European right wing circles and in other white supremacist circles because it denotes the totunkoff , I think it's called the Verbond . That was the particular SS group that was responsible for the death camps, and they had it for a reason. They were there to kill people . And they that particular insignia was worn by them . And number two , there were waffen SS, that is military SS groups. And one of the most notorious the Third Panzer Division and they had totonkawk. By the way, when the American soldiers saw those people and that they were Waffen SS and they tore off their shirts and they found because they tattooed their blood types onto their arms . And that was the giveaway. And they tried to erase them when they were surrendering, but they did not treat them very well. They knew who they were. They knew they had murdered prisoners in Normandy. They knew all about how they had treated Americans. And they had that particular type of totem cop . When Graham Plattner said he didn't know, that is completely contradicted by girlfriends who said that he said my little toten cop he knew with people who went in there, he went there. Then when he asked why he did it, he said, First, I didn't know. And that exegesis did not work, then he said he had post traumatic stress syndrome and he was suffer ing from it when he did it. Then when that didn't work, he said he was a victim of toxic military masculinity culture that had imbibed him with it. In other words, he was lying because he knew what he had done because he liked the idea of wearing it. And that's why he told people about it and pulled off his shirt and took pictures of it . When Tucker says allegedly, that's simply not true, Tucker It's not allegedly it was tied directly. That particular version of a death's head is tied particularly with SS groups that slaughtered people both in the Holocaust and prisoners of war . And he knew that and he put it on there for a reason . And that reason is substantiated with all of his white supremacist stuff he was on. And it's not just that they're looking into his personal life , they're looking into his personal life because he keeps saying they're not going to find anything. And every time he says he didn't abuse women, some woman comes and says he jammed my arms behind my back. He pushed me. He locked me in a room all night . And then when he says, I'm just an oyster man , okay, this is politics. Let me see your oyster. Oh , you're a one person oyster man. Oh , you have one climate, your mother , you oh, you're working on an oyster island that your father's done. And then I have you know, I know it' whats like to buy a house. No, you don't. You got a two hundred thousand dollars loan from your daddy . So everything he says is not true . And the next thing is when Tucker is defending him , Tucker's a conservative. He still believes I think maybe I'm wrong, maybe he's gone full bill crystal, but I have been given things that he sends out . I think I'm still on a list that he and I look at it and he's very critical of open borders. He wants deportation. I assume he still wants energy development . Graham Prattlatner doesn't want any of that , nothing. So what I'm getting at, Jack is that the one issue he may differ with Graham Platner is Jews , I mean not differ are Jews and their influence in the United States and Israel . And then therefore, because that issue is the one issue that he's upset, but he's not upset. I don't hear Tucker saying I don't, like Trump because of his border policies. I don't like Trump because he deported people. I don't like Trump because he cracked down on crime. I don't like Trump because he's pumping too much oil. I don't want I like Trump. No, it's one issue. It's the Iran war and the Jews made us do it . And that issue then overrides all the other issues. All the other issues pale . I am a ninety percent conservative, but I hate Israel so much and the people who support it so much, I am willing to cancel out all the other issues and join this fanatic communist socialist . Makes no sense. Yeah . Well on tattoos, Victor, I don't have any tattoos. I will never have a tattoo . I assume though by the variety you see on the street and the number of tattoo paul is, there's probably several hundred thousand tattoos you could get if you wanted to get a tattoo and to pick that particular tattoo out you instead of having, you know, a tattoo of Kermit the Frog or some , you know, a heart with a love you mom it's it's kind of foolish for you know I, only alleged ly think I only considered at one time I was in, let me see now. I was duh like forty seven forty six and all my daught er's friends at college had these strategically placed tattoos, you know, they on their foot, you know, or in their back so they could show it if they wanted and they all had nose rings . And my daughter came home with a nose ring . And I said, Okay , I got both my daughters and my son together. And I said, if anybody gets a nose ring or gets a tattoo, here is what I'm going to do. I've always wanted a bob wire tattoo around my biceps , and I've always wanted to wear a wife beater t shirt . So here's what I'm going to do . Every single day that I pick you up at school or I'm with you, I'm going to have two bobb wire on each arm and I'm going to show them . And my son said something like Well, you don't have big biceps like I said, that'll be even more pathetic, won't it ? And then I said, If that doesn't work , I don't want to do it because I have sinus problems. I might have to get a nose ring And that was it. The nose ring came out and neither all three of 'em never had a tattoo. I told my daughters when they were little , no tattoos to the guys , the guys they might bring home. Sorry guys, if you have no tattoos, no ponytails, and no Democrats. Those were my rules. And so you know, I won't mention anything personal, but that made such an impression on my daughter that when she got married to a wonderful guy, I really like him. He's a high school principal, he's a wonderful guy, but in his salad days he put a tattoo on his back . And she got so angry at him that there was a program in Santa Cruz that if you were willing to wash the graves at the cemetery and take them up for so many hours for each hour you did that they would take an hour to remove and it took a lot of hours and he had it removed but he was out washing I thought that was wonderful of him. Oh, yeah. I don't know where that started that tattoo thing, but well what's his name? Theodore Dalrimple or Tony Daniel s has written about it powerfully in a city journal some years ago. And I think there's I think there's an instigation from Russian prisons. Yeah Russian prison. Maybe and it's but it's, you know, I have some friends whose children have had sleeves, you know, where it's all that ink. That can't be good for you. Of course, who should, you know , I was talking to somebody the other day who had lost a lot of weight and he was taking and he was telling me this. I said, That's not and I stopped and I said, Who are you to talk ? You didn't smoke or use drugs or drank, and you got lung cancer. So the world was a very mysterious place and don't lecture people on bad habits because you don't know what is going to happen to any body. It'd be nice to have good habits, but good habits are no insurance that you won't . And as yeah, as one family member said, you flying , you know on,ce a week for twenty years across the country is a much worse than me smoking, you know what I mean? Oh, for and what you've pulled on into your lungs Yeah and your jetlag insomnia all that and they had a point so just because it does it seems more civilizational doesn't mean that some of us have habits that will come back to Hondas. Well Victor we're going to take a quick break and come back with one last topic and that's Gavin Newsom in trouble and we'll do that right after these important messages . 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No, he's going to get rid of no, no, no , but he's off somewhere with his Abercombe Fitch little vest and he's , you know, he's either picking up trash by a railroad or he's doing these photo ops . And latest was he went to the Obama Library and he was crying, he said. He said he fought the tears but he was crying . And Michelle said that we all owe Baroque for his dazzling brilliance. And then he said, she listed what he did. I thought , what is going to be in that museum? And there's nothing in there Yeah, photos of him. But yeah, she said three things. Well, she said the three things that stood out were he got the Nobel Prize. And I thought you shouldn't have mentioned that, Michelle. Right. Because that is a running joke. Even he knew it was a joke. Yes . And he mocked them for giving it to him . It was an award for being first African American. It was kind of a racist thing because the Stockholm people who gave it to him would have where they were really basically echoing Harry Reid and Joe Biden and he was the first black president who didn't speak like the black portois and I think Joe Biden racially racially prejudiced manner said he's the first articulate or he said clean and hairy where he'd said articulate maybe . So they were trying to say, you know, he's one of us, but he's black. Then the second thing was Obamacare. I think Obamacare is down to seventeen percent of the population . All I know maybe some of you listening is before Obamacare , I had a blue cross plan and I don't know what thing was. It was three hundred a month . My contribution after it went to nine hundred and all of a sudden they were saying not covered, not covered, not covered . And then when I would go to a specialist, a urologist for kidney stone or something , there had been eight or nine people in the waiting room and there were forty . That's all I can tell you . And then the third was that he brought I guess it was something about diversity and DI and I thought no, racial relations had he not been president would have been secondary right now. People were getting along finally and he took the scab off that wound and he really developed it deeper . And so he was a bad guy , bad guy Well, and he and he , well, I can't say he, but the company assigned to build this eight hundred fifty million dollars monstrosity has been stiffing the subcontractors who wrote me about that was involved in it. And apparently a lot of Obama, the people who are representing Obama, this it gets even worse that a lot of the cement work and foundational work was didn't meet code and had to be redone . So they fired that contractor who had subcontracted because Obama remembered bragged that he would have DEI contractors . And then another contractor came in and rectified it and was not as DEI orientated . And some of the people didn't get paid on allegations and I have no idea whether they're true or not. Allegations, I want to emphasize that the work wasn't done to court . So either way didn't get paid for the work and some, you know, that's and he's not wor ried about that because he's not worried because it cost eight hundred fifty million bucks. And he said he was going to have a four hundred million dollar endowment . It was very funny to see Balerie Jarrett there making four hundred fifty thousand to do nothing really to run this thing . And then they had all these politicians there . And then Obama himself spoke , I wrote a little ex about it and he said he just didn't want he said the problem is everybody's after celebrity , money , influence, and that's not who we are. We just don't do that. So spoke the person with four mansions. I said three mansions and somebody wrote me an email and said Victor that Chicago quote un,quote house is worth one point seven million. It's a mansion . It's four , although it doesn't rate with Kalama, Washington or Martha's Vineyard or the new home in Hawaii , and then he's worth seventy to one hundred million depending on, who you read. And then he's on private jet at four hundred dollars four hundred thousand dollars a lecture . And he's lecturing people. And he does this because every time he starts to look in the mirror and says, you know, I'm a fraud , I'm a hypocrite. I went to be president, to be worshiped. I tried to cash in as much as I can. I go around and give these platitudes as if somebody I said he was Kahil Gabran and somebody said no Victor it's Maya Angelo he's quoting . But anyway he's really fallen down in it. That thing is a German flak tower I was. wr Wheniting the book in World War two I wrote something about air defenses in Germany and I went to the Hoover Archives and looked at those flack towers . They were huge cement monoliths and they were indestructible with rebar , six feet of concrete. And I swear the color and the shape is just like that though. Those submarine pens . Those are at La Hag if you can see 'em. I've been there that you can see them there . And St. Naazarine, they're still there. And so it's, you know, I wouldn't say I wouldn't say it was ugly because it was Obama. Not at all . I have no problem. I don't particular ly think that Bill Clinton's thing looks so great in Little Rock, but it's not like Obama's , you know ? Well, Victor , it is there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice. I know you know that as a theologian. And one of them is stealing the wages of fair wages of a laborer. So it's maddening that they have done this to these subcontractors it is, especially when they're so wealthy all these people. And yet and yet when they rail against millionaires and billionaires, Bernie Sanders was out there , you know, he does like this all the time. Yeah. And he's finally come in to his moment and he thinks that everybody finally agrees with him at eighty four and he's got all these social socialist acolites, but they never say what they're going to do . They just say all the billionaires and millionaires, and then you find out, you know, that millionaires and billionaires have been giving them all money . And when they do leak out what they really feel like Mandami is saying he wants to confiscate landlord's property or here in California, you want to take money from billionaires and you want to not a wealth tax that assesses not their income but their estimated wealth then you get what they're really about and that's going to help Trump in the if they have enough money to run ads and they can just run run, run, these ad s . Half tax dollars seem to be going for fraud or not half, but still a massive amount. Hey, Victor, let's let's get your thoughts here on Newsom. So Gavin Newsom and his family are being investigated by the Justice Department for their finances. And I'm going to read from the New York Post an editorial. The New York Post now has a California edition of the California post. So it's sensitive, increasingly sensitive about California matters. Here's what it writes . And while Newsen claims the investigation is politically motivated . He knows it is serious. That's why he and his inner circle are reportedly starting to worry. Newsram knows the investigations go back to the Biden administration. His former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, pled guilty last month in federal court in Sacramento to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud and among other misdeeds, she and her co conspirators stole money from the dormant state campaign account Xavier Vicera, the left wing Democrat is now favored to succeed Newsom as governor. Machera has denied any knowledge of the crime, indeed he claims he's a victim. But part of the alleged scheme involved using Machera's how he says his name, campaign money to supplement the salary of his own chief of staff when he was Biden's secretary of HHS . How could these shenanigans go on under Newsom's? They couldn't. The amount of money is staggering. It was six hundred million dollars to these charities . And his wife was directly involved in two of them, one of which she got paid little amount immense dollars in pay given the amount of money they had. And she said, why didn't get paid for the other one? But you were directing you were using basically what was happening was the state of California was handing over six almost over a half a billion dollars to so called charities or NGO, whatever term you want to use . Nonprofits , they were all hard left wing and they all in various ways helped support political candidates on the left in general, but in particular Gavin Newsom. And his wife was really the ringleader on his end and was compensated from the money that he approved to go to her charity , even if it was indirectly. And so he is saying he's a victim of lawfare , but But he's a beneficiary of lawfare because all of this was known to the Biden administration and they completely sealed it, squashed it, kept it under wraps . And now it's open . And I think it's really going to hur t him. I really do. Not that he's a very poor candidate. Everybody says, well, he's good looking, he's dynamic. You know, he's not he's not a good candidate . And Camelo was in the polls. She was, you know, substantially head, but the last two occasions she's gone into her metaphysical mode were about time and beating and essence word salad encore, yeah. If somebody asks her a question, you know , how many illegal aliens came under came through the border when you were borders are or to what degree when you were our space ex or a space and NASA overseer did you work with Elon , time is something that we talk confused sometime with being and we are becoming that's what she's still doing. And then when she looks around the audience , her eyes go sort of like a corkscrew. And then she looks at the audience and it's kind of like the audience when they were listening to Hank Johnson. Remember him, the representative and tipping. Yeah. Yeah, I locked that general. I really liked him. I forgot his name, but he was there and Hank Johnson goes, what are you going to do when we have these typhoons and things when everybody goes to one side of Guam to look at the ocean and it flips over and he says and then his eyes went and he goes yes . We will look into that and he's thinking, man, this man isn't this man is utterly insane . And so when she when she talks like that, you can watch everybody's eyes are going , Oh my gosh. And then she knows then she looks at their eyes and she gets hypnotized because they're spinning and then she does she thinks, oh my gosh, I went , I have no knowledge, I have no detail, I have nothing to say . So I went into my profit mode . And now everybody knows it and it's going to be in Things. So I'm going to go to my last resort, my last Xanax or Adavan tablet, and it's called the chuckle and she goes and she starts that saved by the it's not the bell that saves a box to the of the cackle the cat . The cackle yeah, I didn't use cackle because I had reserved that previously for Hillary . Oh, okay. But whatever it was , chuckle or cackle , that is what saves her from the bell. And then she looks around and everybody's going, it's not funny, it's sad . Yeah . So I don't think either one of them are going to make it. I really don't. And Josh Shapiro, I'm not a big fan of his, but I don't think they're going to nominate him because he's Jewish and they're anti Semites . So it'll be somebody else . Young, maybe it'll be Platner, huh? A Plattner AOC ticket. Platinner Carlson, you never know. So people are talking about Tucker . Oh God , help us. I don't know. I've never seen anybody completely either reveal himself or change so quickly, so abruptly and so radically. Yeah. Well, it's so different that we talked across about , you know, Bill Crystal who seems like you 're calculated a year or something. No, no, yeah, the arc, but he's always calculating about everything, but this seems a Tucker seems of a different nature . Yeah. He's got an obsession . Yeah . Well, when you obsess , you lose perspective. You're obsessed about one thing, you lose perspective about everything else. Maybe some person who's a Jewish American bumped into his car in the parking lot or something. I don't know. That's how it all began. All right, Victor , I'm glad to see behind you on both sides of your shoulders. You've got your galleys of your forthcoming book. So it's real folks. Then you can go to Amazon. Actually go to Victor's website and you find the link there and you can order the book. It comes out in September . And okay, we're at the end of the show where I'm going to read a couple of comments from folks who put these up on YouTube. Michigan Moose sixty nine writes on seventy one and I believe that Victor is the goat historian the greatest of all time. D Mark, seven hundred nine writes, it never ceases to amaze me how quickly he draws upon his knowledge that covers decades of history without hesitation. The knowledge stored in his head is astonishing. I too agree. He is the epitome of history. Braka Schivensky, I think that's how it goes. fifty eight ninety six. Thank you very much Victor, and Sammy . Your podcast deserves to grow much faster. All of us following have to share it. Victor is not just a genius, he is a great human being. And Sammy is amazing. I love her gentle but stern conducting of the podcast. Then two more folks. Teresa, good all . VDH's personal stories are so interesting and humorous. Please consider writing an autobiography. That's what you want to do, Victor you want to write ? I'm going to write the life of a madcap classicist. Okay . And that should be a big seller madcap classicist. Isn't that a fascinating topic?ig I think it might be just finally W in and C, one, two, three . Is there a picture of a young victory David Hanson? Davis Hanson in his dad's leisure suit . to G seeot it, please. Okay. Yeah, I know. If I find it, I'll put it there. You know , I'll finish with the word classicist. I was given I really liked Brian Lamb, you know? Oh, yeah, very much so. And he was interviewing me about Mexophonia in two thousand , maybe . So after I went to that interview, I was supposed to have an annual pizza thing for the Democratic staff Republican staffers . So I went in there and there were all the Senate staffers . And there was a young Hispanic guy who snuck in and he was Nancy Pelosi's intern staffer . So I was answering questions and he got up and said I'm not listening to anything, you blank blank and it was kind of an outburst , you know, like they trying to disrupt a lecture. And I said, I don't understand what you're saying. Everything you said is incoherent. Just tell me where the data is I'm wrong. It was about immigration that was , you know, a qu itar waster century ago and I predicted basically where we're going to be now . And then he said, Well, you admitted that you don't like poor people. I said, I said no such thing. He said it's on your book. You're a classicist . And I said, Oh , would you explain that to the crowd? And he said, Well, you don't even know what it means . It means that you believe in class oppression. So you're a classicist. I said, You better stop right there because you're embarrassing how yourself. And if you were quiet, we wouldn't know how stupid you were. But every time you talk , you make the case for the book. And so he got really angry. And so this is funny. So at that moment, that was the last question. So they came in and they delivered . And you should have seen these Republican staffers. A lot of them were they were like football players. They were like six and they brought in it must have been a stack of pizzas tin high . So as he went out went out, the door was there. He had ten feet of the door and grab hebed two to steal . Big mistake. And this guy came and tackled him and flattened him . And then took the pizzas away and go, get out of here, you Pelosi thief . That was funny. That was just one of the stories you would hear in the Zaney was really Zane Classicist . Yeah, he was from a guy from Georgia or somewhere. He was a really good guy. If he's listening, I really admire you. I went and thanked him too because he set that guy straight . And he tightailed it out of there. But think of that. Classicists is a and I tried to explain to him , it's a person who studies classical studies. Classical studies rightly or wrongly are identified with Greco Roman culture . That's kind of like Hank Johnson thinking islands will tip over, you know, just the idiocy is on full display. It's a funny word. Class comes from the Roman, the Latin word that means a fleet or but it came to mean something exceptional like the class fleet classis. And so they took that word in the Renaissance and for all of Greek and Roman culture they began to call it classics , a Latin derivative of a term that was a nautical term. And because everybody's kind of I had some empathy for him because class, you know, class struggle, class assessment. He'd been nursed on baby marks, you know, something but by the way, I was very he did say he was I mentioned, I think he did mention Marx , which is kind of weird, you know, everybody's mentioning Marx right now . Marks in letters to Ingel and he was the worst anti Semite. He was Jewish, but he hated Jews . He hated blacks . He wasn't he hated Southern Europe. He wasn't he was an absolute racist . And so to see this new Socialist Party mouthing Marxist idea, they're really, it would be like somebody talking about David Duke as far as race goes. And then at the same time they,'ve welded themselves to Islamicism. Maybe this is a subject for one of your next American great necessities, Victor. I think that would be that would be good to do. Yeah. Well, I want to thank I've gotten a few emails this past week from folks who get civil thoughts. That's the free weekly email newsletter I write for the Center for Civil Society. Folks are enjoying it. 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