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From Victor Davis Hanson: Identity Politics Is Driving America BackwardJun 13, 2026

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If you like Jasmine Crockett and if you like half the Black Caucus cannot finish the sentence without saying white white white and the whole intention of the civil rights movement, according to Martin Luther King, the architect book later was to downplay race the content of our character, not the color of our skin , but it has been accentuated with DEI. She's also an abject racist . All she talks about is white, white, white, white people , white people, white people, white people. I said ignore s without being defamatory, but evidential , she doesn't understand the law. Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen. In his own words, you can find Victor on his website Victorhansen. com. The name of the website is the Billy Perseus, and you should come join us there for sixty five dollars a year or six dollars fifty dollars a month if you just want to give a few months a try Everything that Victor does is posted there, so all of his articles and podcasts and interviews. And so you can find just about everything there. Victor, so let's start with Iran and an update on Iran. I know that Donald Trump has started strikes and that Iran is interestingly belligerent in telling Israel that it had better stop bombing the Hezbollah and Southern Leban on Lebanon blah blah blah as I said last time on our show, there's something I don't understand. Apparently Donald Trump must have information that we, the public don't because otherwise sudden abbreviated abbreviation of the bombing campaign at thirty eight days followed by what sixty days in which we had sort of kind of maybe negotiations. And he got confident . And apparently what was happening was the so called moderate elected officials were assuring him that they were going to concede to giving up the nuclear enrichment to dismantle the missile with the vestigial missile fleet to stop funding the terrorists, the Arab terrorist s , and then to ensure the international control reversing to international waters in the Strait. And they either had no power or they were paying duplicitous good cop why the revolutionary guard was continuing to hit Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar , Saudi, Israel, and we were not responding forcefully. And there was a word that was used by the administration I was very worried about proportionate . I hope they meant it in the context is if they hit us then we proportionate in the sense that we reply, but it should be disproportionate. No war was ever won by portionality. It's disproportionality . So I hope they understand that we should have a ten times a magnitude of retaliation. So they send a missile at a U. S. carrier. Trump said, Well, they were tapping, tapping, but and then he said, but it didn't hurt anybody. It didn't that doesn't matter. That was their intent was to hurt people. It was our skill that prevented it, not their intent that stopped it. So we have to have a policy. And I hope he gives them just a sheet of paper and it says, each time you launch a missile, this power plant goes out , this bridge goes out, this highway goes out. That's just what it's going to be . And then he follows through and then they will negotiate . And the other thing we don't know is maybe the negotiations are that he feels that the more that they're losing four hundred million dollars if that's true in economic output , the weaker the revolutionary guard will be for prolonging and preventing the negotiations to come to a conclusion . I'm not confident about that exegesis. I think we're too close to the midterms now , and people have adjusted somewhat, but psychologically the economy is in worse shape than the data suggests. The stock market's good, jobs reports are good, GDP is probably good, foreign investment is great . The tax cuts and deregulation are kicking in . But when you have the gas that high and remember , it's not as high as it was during the Biden administration . But when you have that, that just sends a chill through the economy that's magnified much greater than the actual output loss of income because of paying a dollar fifty cents a gallon or something . he's got to address that. And the only way you can address it is to hit them very, very, very, very hard , and then they will not have the ability. They have the intent, but you want to ensure they don't have the ability to keep closing the straight and to keep wheeling out these launchers. We should have a continuous I think I don't know why we didn't allow the Israelis to join in. They have three hundred aircraft. We should tell the Gulf States you have six hundred . We have over, I think a thousand to fifteen hundred. We should have a continuous no fly zone over Iran. And the first time anybody sees a thing we'll blow it up and then get done with it. And everybody says, well, we can go home. Well, we can go home if you do enough damage , they can stew in their own jews. They've already bragged that they're waiting for Trump to leave and then they'll have another president that will let him off the hook. That's an insult really if you think about it to Joe Biden and Barack Obama , which they both of which they played . So it's time to draw to a close . And you can do that only by not by the threat of force, not by negoti ations, but the actual use of disproportionate . And if the left says, Oh, you're hitting a bridge, you're hitting just remind them that that's how Joe Bill Clinton brought an end to the seventy two bombing campaign , which if you go back and look at the record nineteen ninety eight, there was wide scale revolt among the Republicans and some Democrats that we had been bombing for fifty fifty days and Milosevic was defiant . And Russia was getting very angry and they said World War three and there's no authorization from Congress, no war powers act . And then all of a sudden he pivoted and he said, You know what ? We're going to hit all the bridges on the danube. You know what? We're going to hit all of their infrastructure, water, sewer, electrical plants, and they lost power for hours on end, day after day . And so and that stopped it . And so that's what Obama, he bombed for seven months and he did hit, he claimed he didn't hit dual use, but he did. He hit Port Fac ilities, he hit TV stations, he hit communications . So I don't know why. I know that we were waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for the resistance, but they had lost thirty to forty thousand people. They were not going to rise their biggest resistance . I hope right now that when he hits, it's time to arm the Kurds and then use smuggle arms into some of the resistance movements . You want to over you don't want to negotiate with a it would be in the final days of Germany, you know , they had no ability to resist us, but yet they kept fighting. But nobody said, let's negotiate with them . And the same thing with Japan, they had they had killed fifty thousand Americans , excuse me, fifty thousand casualties on Okinawa. They had sunk seventeen ships . Among the dead were twelve thousand toll, but five thousand seamen , and we had mined their harpers. We had burned down eighty five percent of the urban area of Japan with B twenty nine raids. We had bombed Korea . They had no ability to make war . Then we dropped a bomb on Hiroshim a , and then we dropped one on Nagasaki. And still , the army was threatened to stage a coup and forced the emperor to continue . And based on the casualties at Okinawa and then calculated for the seven million people who were under arms on the homeland versus two hundred thousand Japanese on Okinawa and given the casualties of fifty thousand the US Army and there were a lot of famous people working on that study to calculate casualties . I think there was a lot of it wasn't just scientists, it was corporate CEO Robert McNamara worked on it as a young man . And they came to the conclusions that if two hundred thousand had done that much damage and inflicted fifty thousand , what would thirty five times that amount be ? And that's where they got up to well over a million, and that was conservative. And we didn't know. And then they collapsed . We said, Okay , we're not going to negotiate. It's on conditional surrender and we're going to keep bombing. And the B twenty nine's had enough Napom to destroy every city in Japan . And we had the problem was with the atomic bombs we didn',t really have more than one or two for the next six months . But that's how we broke the back of them. But they were just like Iran. They were defiant. They said, We're not beaten, we're not beaten. We still have overseas territory in China ,. et cetera But you can't you can't reason with the only reason that they were willing to negotiate, they were beaten and we didn't let out. Yeah, it seems to me that he should continue the your list as you called it , even for signing on to an agreement. Just if you're an accountant sign today, then we're taking this out. Get yourself together sign tomorrow and we're taking this out if you don't. I think that's the only way you're going to get a peace . Well, if they hit Israeli, the first we should never say to Israel, you can't do this and you can't do that. Not when they're being shelled and they have drones coming in from Lebanon . You always go for the head of the snake, the drones, the Hezbollah, they can't do anything without money and support from Iran . And Iran is afraid of losing that appendage, that leverage, so we should make sure that they don't. And Trump should say, you know what ? I'm dealing with you on Iran . I'm not dealing with you on Hezbollah. We don't want you to give anything to Hezbollah . But if you do, the Israelis are going to hit you and why welcome it. And that would change it. You don't want to I know that he thinks he's close to a deal , and I think he feels that the moderates are playing the role of the defectors from the Maduro regime in Venezuela. In other words, they have a caretaker government that was with Maduro, but they're going to flip hit them . And we took the oil and put it into a trust accounts for the Venezuelan people, and they're going to do the same thing. We're going to get a couple of people who we negotiated with the president, maybe the speaker or something, and then we're going to split them off and then, we're going to use to keep order, and then we're going to put their oil in bank accounts for the people. That's not going to happen . Not with this regime. No, not at all. Even if they wanted to, they would kill them. Even if there c'ivsil ian moderates that Trump says and they called it they called him the other day after the strike, they'll be killed off . Yes . So in addition to that this week news out of that region was that Netanyahu's spy service was eavesdropping on the United States. I have to say , you know, whether they were or weren't, I don't know for sure. That's what they accus ation is . But I would be surprised if they weren't listening to things. We do it to them, I'm sure. We do it to them all the time. Remember Obama got caught when he went Merkel, I think got, angry because we were spying on our ally Germany, their cell phone conversation . Obama was doing that . They all do it to each other, but it's not quite the same . Spying on an ally is trying to find out what they're going to say to you or what their opinion of you is when you meet them. It's not how to defeat you and kill you. And that's quite different . But you know, exactly the left and the ultra right went crazy about that. Yeah. And the last thing, the Apache helicopter that was shot down , the airmen were saved by drone boats and new technology. Did you have any thoughts on that? Yeah, I do . I mean my only worry is we're forecast to make three hundred thousand aerial drones. Ukraine's a little tiny country with a pathetic GDP. They're going to make a million So we need to have what I would like to see is get converted oil tankers that are huge oil tankers and then read put a short little I mean the whole top of it is a landing in that whole aerial carrier area. That's all full of drones . And maybe park each have them in a I know they're slow growing and just have them there with say ten thousand drones . We need to think out of the box because that's where things are going . And I think Hexeth is doing that. I don't think we want to make these twenty, thirty, forty million dollar drones anymore . I think General Atomics, Lyndon Blues, a very smart guy and his brother that run it, and I think they were doing , you know, the reaper and the Predator, but those are reconnaissance drones. And they have much more capability to strike. They have heavy missiles and things. But I think even they are augmenting that fleet now with cheap drones that are suicide drones, that they don't come back. They're cheap. One way drones . One way drones have all sorts of advantages as the Japanese taught us in World War two with kamikazees. Yeah. The Japanese said a zero can fly fifteen hundred miles to two thousand miles round trip lightened, but it hasn't limitless l anes if it's one way . You don't have to worry about the return trip. And it's a cruise missile with a pilot's brain substituting for a computer . And it was very effective. They didn't if they had started kamikaze operations at the Battle of Coral C, we would have been in trouble . And that's but they didn't think they had to . But once they did it at Leite Tegulf they introduced it and then they did it around Okinawa, especially it was deadly . And so we need to work on that to get a whole fleet of suicide drones one way bombs. Yeah. V Wellict,or Let's welcome back to our show. A sponsor Pure Health Research . If you want to drop extra pounds, boost energy levels, or reduce swelling in your legs and feet, then this message is for you. 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Head over to purehealthresearch. com that's pure health research . com and use coupon code Victor at the checkout . That's pure healthrearch . com with coupon code Victor to save thirty five percent on your order today . So Victor, let's turn again to the Carmelo Anthony case just for a minute. We did talk on Friday about it, but Jasmine Crockett, who probably doesn't deserve press, but since she kind of represents an extreme segment of the United States, we'll give her some attention here After the trial, verdict and sentencing, she got on a podcast and said that the knife was not really a weapon basically, that it was just too small and how could who consider it a weapon. I think she was trying to argue with the murder charge . I don't know. She didn't actually say that. She's a lawyer and she's such an ignoramus . She really is. She's a fan she reminds me of Graham Plattner. He was from the upper upper middle class, and then he plays Joe Working Man Oyster Man, why his dad's friend gives him an island to work on. His mom is his only customer and he went to prep school, right ? She's the same way. She grew up in an upper upper middle class family in the suburbs . And then she created, she didn't develop it naturally, this inner city ghetto accent and she uses that and gets sassy when then she turns it when she gives a serious interview she turns it off and then she's acting as if she's a professional . But she's also an abject racist. All she talks about is white, white, white, white people, white people, white people, white people. I said ignoreamus without being defamatory but evidential. She doesn't understand the law . What does it matter ? If I take a rock and hit some if you took a rock and club and smashed Metcalf's head, the rock is a murder weapon . It doesn't matter if there was a two by four in the tent and he charged him and hit him with a two by four and killed him, that's a murder weapon . The only distinction is if it's illegal to carry a knife of a particular, then that's an accessory felon , felony. But it doesn't matter because that's an accessory charge. The main charge is murder. And he did and using a murder weapon. It can be a rock, it can be a two by four, it can be a piece of steel, it can be a knife, it can be a gun . But she's all hung up on . And then she almost implied. She said, if somebody was beating me down and it was three hundred pounds, I wouldn't just rest rict myself to the fist . Everything about that was a lie. He doesn't weigh three hundred pounds. He weighed thirty five or forty pounds more than Camillo , and he was about the same size. And more importantly, he didn't beat him down and knock him down . He sat there about fifteen times. He said to everybody, I'm not leaving and what are you going to do about it? So then finally he said he didn't want to fight, but he gently tapped him back . That's not beating you down . So then she's suggesting that he beat him down, he weighed three hundred pounds, and then he had no choice to shoot to stab him through the bone into the heart and that she would do the same thing . That's what she was implied . And then the worst was when they unleashed those thugs that were outside the courtroom and the family came out and they said , We're going to ur inate on your son, your brother's grave. And people on social media said, Gold check is tombstone. I've already smeared feces on. It was horrible . Just pre civilizational and all these things. Now we hear that Decarlos Brown is going to sue the FBI who cut our poor Iranian immigrants throat and we had a young kid walking near his home in Philadelphia and what happened, two people came up , African American young people and they stole his phone, he asked for it back and they shout him and killed him , killed him right in front of his house . This is all happening at once. And then you superimpose that on what's happening in Belfast or with the attempted beheading and blinding of a person just a walk . And people are starting to realize that there is a common thread. It transcends just illegal immigration. The thing is, if you create in the West this binary, which Obama started that it's not black white anymore. It's non white versus white . And class does not matter. The Sikh family can be a millionaire like Mandami's family who's Hindu the Sikh truck drivers can be driving for a multimillion dollar trucking firm, but they're victims. Therefore they don't have to have a license the way everybody else has had to get one. But if you start saying that these people have innate grievances that have to be conceded by the majority and you keep demonizing white, white, white, white, white, white, wh ite, and then you add to that, they can't do anything . And ha , I'm a Sikhai, and I just took out my quote unquote ceremonial sword that they let me have and which they don't let anybody else have , even though it was probably eight inches rather than five . And then you stab somebody and then you think ha . The fact that I had this weapon and I used it means they gave me preferential treatment . And the fact that all I have to do is hit the race button and they'll come out here and exonerate me as I kind of show them a superficial little thing on my eye. And then my family can hide the weapon and say he's a racist and they'll let him bleed to death . That's all predicated on the idea that I'm going I'm protected . And when you add the idea of immigration into it, that you come to a foreign country and the indigenous part and this is the Irish and British indigenous population . And you give them exemptions and entitlements and they reward that magnimity with ingratitude and anger, then it's time to call into it. And here in the United States , if you like Jasmine Crockett, and if you like half the Black Caucus cannot finish the sentence without saying white, white white, and the whole intention of the civil rights movement, according to Martin Luther King, the architect leader was to downplay race, content of our character, not the color of our skin . But it has been accentuated with DEI because it is a get out of jail ticket and it is a ticket on the fast track to employment, promotion, retention . All you have to do is play a minority person and you're going to give preferential treatment . And the final absurdity, as I said last time, when you have three generations of Americans , for that matter, Europeans that were born after the civil rights Mmentove pass civil rights legislation . And they grew up not with Jim Crow, not with institutionalized discrimination, not with Les Romadox , not with George Wallace , but affirmative action, affirmative action, DEI . And they went along with it as everybody did. And yet at the end of that three generational in twenty twenty six racial relations are a lot worse because the more that you claim that a particular tribal group, white people, owe you something for something that happened that they had no part in and especially to a group that doesn't even understand like the present Jasmine Crockett doesn't know what segregation was . She also made it and so it's not sustainable. So I think what's going to happen is nobody and then after the Camelo verdict , Anthony Verdick, they showed pictures of black people going up and hitting white people. One guy was on a bike. Did you see that? He just knocked him off and said, You're a jury, he wasn't. And he tried to go to a bus stop and attack a couple. That's not going to that's not going to be able that's not sustainable because what's going to finally happen the elite white who c reated this , the left wing elite white is going to find out that they're not exempt because the people who are racist who are attacking white people don't care about their politics. In fact, they have contempt for the elite white because they feel they're a lot easier prey. They do not do this . They don't go down to rural Alabama and do it. They don't come out here to Southern Southern Fresno County and attack the Hispanic population or the Oklahoma diaspora. They never do that. They go into big cities where they're in the plurality and then they attack tourists or other people, but they have no idea that America is not the faculty lounge at Stanford , white America. It is not John Carrey and Bernie Sanders. It isn't. It's the deplorables and they're not going to put up with it. And you can see what's happening in Britain. And it's tragic because when you have people like Jasmine Crockett and they're not being cross examined , then the entire black community suffers even though they've got brilliant people and so they have to speak out of it. Same thing about anti Semitism . And when she said another thing , didn't she say something about rep arations? Like, we're going to demand reparations and intentions. It's not going to come. It's not going to happen. They already have reparations. The Heritage Foundation years ago estimated that the reparatory great society program over fifty or sixty years had already transferred thirty trillion dollars in wealth to the Black community in terms of affirmative action, inside advantages on college admissions , direct housing, legal food support . Yeah . And when you add Jesse Jackson shaking down corporations to give money to his rainbow , all of that stuff, Al Sharp and all of that . So the other thing is surprising is I think Larry Elder mentioned that we haven't he ard a word out of the where's Jim Clyburn? Where is Hycom Jeffrey's? Where's Al Sharpton? Why don't they? I mean, they're usually demagoguing everything and they know the reason they're quiet is two reasons . Number one , they know the facts of the case and they know what would have happened if white person went over to the other side of the track meet and he went into a tent where there were black athletes, their families, friends, and he walked up to somebody and he said, I'm staying here . I'm not leaving. And then they said, Would you please leave? You're not welcome. You're on the other side team. Nope, I'm not gonna do it. And please, please fifteen times. Touch me and you're going to find out. And then some young black teener just put his hand on him and the white person pulled out a knife and plunged it. You know what happened? We'd have a George Floyd . So everybody knows that and it's not sustainable and they're not going to put up with it anymore . And especially when Jasmine Crockett says all these things and nobody in the black community questions her or cross examines her and she's just spreading hatred that's going to further polarize . Some people I guess they want to give topics to discuss . I get about five emails a week with little attachments about YouTube or TikTo . There is a whole gen re right now of young white provocative people going up to black people and saying the N word because they use it. And then when they get mad , they say, well you use it, so we're going to use it , which is kind of a bogus idea, but you can see what that represents . That's not a sustainable thing either. I think there's this guy called Chad Chad or Chad The Builder and he makes a career out of it. He's making a fortune and ads and he's goes vival and he just somebody just finally attacked him and he shot in self defense. I think he's in Tennessee on trial , but you can't you can't keep doing that and expect people like in Belfort not to react to that . And so the solution is if I hope Trump , the wall, by the way, is going to be finished. Now there's a big report on the progress. It's going to be all finished in two years before he leaves office. There be' somell places with those steep canyons that it's electronic, but basically from the Texas coast to San Diego , you're not going to be able to get across . And Joe Biden tried to subvert that. Remember, he took the materials that were paid for and let them rust and then sold them off. He was a very pernicious person , but my point is I hope there's people in the black community who stand up to Jasmine Crockett and said, What are you talking about ? Any weapon that kills somebody is a weapon, anything that's killed. What did it matter if he used a knife or a rock or a two by four? He tried to kill him and he succeeded . That was his intent to hurt him severely. And you know, she said one final thing. She said, and every black mom knows when their kid goes out that they're in danger from a white person . That if you look at Chicago , ninety three to ninety five percent of all those shootings on Saturday and they're all by black teens. That's a complete fabrication . If you look at rare interracial crime, and this is important , most of the blue cities will not report promptly or at all to the F BI . So any statistics you get now has been politically warped during the Biden administration. But to the degree they do report it , only seven or eight percent of all violent crimes are interracial, but within that rubric it ranges from six to thirty to one . In other words, that black people are six times depending on the type of assault, rape, theft , mugg , killing, six to thirty times more likely to do that to a white person than a white person to do that to a black person. So when she says that , that is a demonstrable lie . Most women in Chicago in Oakland on a Saturday night and their child their male child says, I'm going out tonight at ten thirty at night. They don't think there's going to be a bunch of white people in Maga hats with bleach and a rope like Jesse Smallet said . That's not going to happen. It's going to be another black gangbanger or an innocent person caught in a crossfire between gangbanger. It's really important that people tell the truth and I feel really I don't want to get cliches. Some of my best friends are black, but I really feel bad for stereotype that's developing again because we had made so much progress and we're getting to the point before Obama that race was incidental not essential . But once people got this message that accentuate your race and you accentuate all your grievances and all your individual failures and all your disappointments in life can be attributed to your race and a collective prejudice , then you're going to have a racially segregated college and high school graduation ceremony. We're going to call it an affinity and you're going to have a racially separated theme dorm and we're going to call it a theme h ouse. And we're going to get a racially separate separated and segregated place just for you on campus and we're going to call it a safe space and we're going to give you two hundred points on the SAT and we're not going to look at the caliber of your high school for your Jeep. You do all of that and then you create I'll tell you something very controversial. I won't mention the circumstances. I won't mention the university that I was teaching at , but I was teaching as a guest and I had a seminar and I had two students. I won't mention their names , but they were Africanican Amer , and they said they had to have special tutoring . Excuse me, they didn't want to take the test because they had dyslexia or something to that effect. And there was an honor code. So they went into a special room . And yeah, they called that disability. They had some sort of disability . I had gone through this at Cal State Fresno, so I was prepared for it . No monitoring in a closed room. Well , they came back out and they on their term papers and prevent AI writing these papers , I don't give them, you know, go, tell me the date of the fall of Roman Empire or I give a very unique, eccentric question, you know what I mean? What is the what is the revolution in arms in the fourth century BC and something like that you can't get to AI. But on these papers , their was very it wasn't compet itive . On the exam, they were near perfect . Okay so I was doing this, I looked at it and I said these answers don't correlate with the paper or the class participation . So I asked my wife and she just said take the answers and google them . So I had defin itions, who was Pericles, who what was the fifth century Golden Age Pantheon, all this stuff . And as soon as you put it in, I didn't even have an AI spot or anything, right? It just came out Wikipedia, Wikipedia . And so all I could do is I mentioned it to people and said, Don't go there, don't go there. Do not make this accusation. I said it's dem onstrable . When I was at Cal State, that was an F . Do not go there . Okay . So in class, the only thing I could do is is there was a couple of ones that weren't in Wikipedia . So I said to one of the students, we're going to go with a test, we're all together . So I said you had some great answers . I don't know how you knew Pelopidus and a Paminonus, but I want to read your answers. So I read them out loud and they got I read excuse me, I read one of them out loud . This was two weeks later. So then I said , I was even more impressed with your paminondus . And I hadn't handed back the t est yet. I had the test . So I said, You know, your both of you just did wonderfully on your identification. These were the top identifications . I really liked your polyopidus and let me read it to you. And I read it all loud and everybody goes, wow , suspicious . And then I said, And your Apamenondus was so great. And it's not fair for me to read it. It was so wonderful. I'll do you justice . And this was by Zoom that day . I'll do it justice so you can tell everybody who a Paminondus is. Well, obviously she had written it on Wikipedia, but she forgot who he was in two weeks . So she puts a sign up on Zoom, can't hear dysfunction . And so the next time for that was for the midterm and the final I said I can't do this unless you have to leave your backpacks you have to take no backpacks I said to the Secretary, you have to monitor the But you can't make accusations and you can but the point I'm making is I asked myself why would that happen? And the only thing that I could make other students did that . And it had happened to me at least over twenty one years at Cal State five times. No other student had claimed disabilities so that they could get a separate room and extra time to do that. Not in those classes, no. And I had all sorts of people from India, from China, Mexican American, no, it was just two African American girls. And when I was at Cal State, this happened maybe five times where African American students would say that they had disabilities and they would go in at that time we only had the internet. We didn't have AI , but again , it was on the honor code and the quality of their exams when they took you had much more , you know, my exams were exam that you had to know it well to finish in an hour and a half, two hours through whatever . But you get unlimited time in their case. All the students would complain to me, why do they do it? And I said, Here's the Cal State Unit, if they say they have a but they said they don't, they don't. And they were very angry about it . But what created that environment where somebody can think that they could do that with impunity to a professor and the other people in the class . And the answer is that if you say racism, racism, racism, racism long enough and you make allegations that are not grounded in fact , then the people will be afraid of being called racist and they will create institutions that allow you to have exemptions that no one else has . And that ruins deterrence. Believe me, had those been two white m ales , I think I would have had a green light to give them an F . And I did that at Cal State Are you trying to imply given the ignorance Jasmine Crockett has of the law and that she has a law degree that maybe she did a few of those things herself. I don't see after listening to her, she was on TV the other night. I don't know how she ever passed the bar in any state. She doesn't she doesn't she seems to think that if you don't have an outlawed weapon and she if you asked Jasmine Crawfett, would you please tell me the rules about carrying a conceal ed knife or a knife openly in Texas she wouldn't know. Would you please tell me which weapons are not allowed in Texas? She wouldn't know . The swift it was kind of a variant of a swift knife. It was razor sharp. And it was five inches , maybe six . Does she know how close the heart is? I do because I just had open a lebe ctomy and the pulmonary artery was bleeding right next to my heart. And I can tell you, even though my heart an inch away , that pulmonary artery being bleeding , it gave me three liters , seven , six or seven pints of blood loss and I was close to, you know , so does she understand what that would you don't need as a sword. All you need is about four inches to break through. And the bone was on the knife . It went right through it . But even that, as I said earlier, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd used a rock. She used she doesn't understand that at all. She doesn't seem to know the law . Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about Joe Biden and George Washington. 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 Ward. And in the age of clickbait and ragebait, that's a really good feeling, right? The media, thank you. You can leave now. And if you agree, you might like my show, the Daily Signals long form interview podcast called The Signal Sit Down. 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So Victor, you're anxious to hear your discussion, I guess, of George I mean, Joe Biden, but George Washington even more so have at it . George Washington George Floyd remembered he was really tarred and feathered because he married he married his wife who had children and she was a widow and he inherited the Mount Vernon property and a sizable property in Virginia . And then he had been a surveyor and he had been paid by the colonial government at the time, the British government was sizable tracks near the Ohio River . So at one point he probably owned thirty thousand acres and he probably had more slaves. I think that the most that Thomas Jefferson had was two hundred . He probably had it one point three or four hundred . But like Thomas Jefferson , he inherited this property, but he was cash poor like Jefferson . And so and because of the war and slavery was people had pointed out that slavery was not an economical . I mean, it's superficially economic, free labor, but when you enslave somebody, they don't have the incentive to work as hard as they would with wages . And then when you're responsible for their housing and food , you don't give them very nice housing or food. And it's a whole corrupt cycle. So he, like Jefferson, expressed a desire to manumit slaves, but he did it in his will and not completely because of his wife, Martha Washington . The thing about him is that he was known, and he a' bigs guy somewhere between six one and sixty three he was born in seventeen thirty two . So in his twenties, thirties, and forties, he was probably the best known colonial officer fighting for the British against the French in the French and Indian wars . And he raised and so he was very loyal subject to Britain . But in that process and by farming his widowed wife, previously widowed's wife's farm, he understood that tariffs and taxes and the mercantile system were so he became an adamant critic of the British government. So when the tea party came started to come out in seventeen seventy five before the Declaration, he was appointed the head of the Continental Army. It had no resources, no money , it never really fielded more than fifteen thousand people at one time. Ragtag bunch against the greatest Navy up until that time civilizational history. And the British Army, this is before the rise of the unified Germany, was probably one of the best armies per man in the world . And he was appointed And then you had the Declaration of Independence . So from seventeen seventy five to seventeen eighty two three , he kept that army going. He crossed the Delaware , he survived Valley Forge, lost two or three thousand disease and cold. He used smallpox vaccines. It was very innovative to save his army . And finally he was able to work with the French, he got a rambacheu, and Lafayette got along perfectly with them and then they won at Yorktown . So at that point , he had been very young. He had been forty five when the revolution started , but he was still born in, you know , eighteen thirty two , so he was about fifty seven in seventeen seventeen eighty nine . That's when he took office. He there wasn't mass elections yet. The electoral college of states voted. And they voted unanimously seventeen seventeen eighty nine and he served to seventeen ninety seven, eight years . So his legacy is, unlike Napoleon who followed from the Revolution, was given power both in the consulate the directory and the consulate . And then he became a dictator or an emperor . He had that ability, that magnetism, everybody liked him. During the Revolutionary War, there were setbacks. He lost battles, and there was there was rumors that Horatio Gates or people like that were better. But he always had his supporters. But the point I'm making is there's this new government and the Constitution is only a year old and it doesn't specify things. It's sort of like the New Testament I used to teach John Mark, Luke , Matthew in Greek . And the actual corpus of what Jesus said is not enough execus to form a sophisticated church. So you have to bring in acts and letters and then the Christian exees people like St. Augustine or later Thomas Aquinas . The Constitution doesn't really say how do you if you want to it tells you how to admit a state, it doesn't say how to get out . And it leaves basically all powers not here by the delineated go to the states. It doesn't say anything about slavery, whether it doesn't say how many justices the Supreme just says there's going to be a Supreme Court court and there's going to be a chief justice. That's it. It doesn't say anything about lower court. So he had and doesn't say how many terms , four year terms. So he was the one doesn't say what you call the president . So he basically, after talking to Madison, who was a good confidant of us, he was suspicious of Jefferson, but he made him secretary of state for a while . His whole point was everything that I do will be the model, institutionalized, and I have en anormous responsibility as a father of the country not to take bribes, to be absolutely transparent. And he came up with the idea, I'm not going to be called your Highness or your Excellency, but Mr President , he came up with the idea that you should only serve two terms and get out . And he came up with the idea that he took no pay as general , but you should not profit why you're in off . And he literally wore himself out after fighting from seventeen seventy five to seventeen eighty two and then being thinking he was going to go into retirement and then getting involved with the articles of the Confederation, which he deplored and how loose and how worried he was. He was a Hamilton guy. He really believed in federalism and a strong central power. He'd seen the problem during as a commander during the Revolutionary War. So then from seventeen eighty two, ' eighty three , all the way till when he took over seventeen eighty eight, eighty nine , he was trying to lobby the federalists to have a strong constitution. And then he was present for eight years . So when he left office , he only lived two and a half years . And it was sad when he died because he had, I guess what you would call today a strep throat . It was an inflammation of the back of the tongue epiglot itis and the throat was infected. But he had gone out inspected trees to be cut and it was wet . I know doctors kind of say that coldness can't give you a cold, but my grandparents grew up in the nineteenth century and every time it was raining they'd say don't go out and catch a cold or you're getting pneumonia. There was something to that , but he went out all day and was soaked and then he didn't change his clothes and went into a meeting and he got some kind of flu but he got infected and it was probably stretched but we don't know. And so what did they do ? They bled him . They took a pine out . And then I mean I mean , I can tell you one point would be bad, but they took four . Or maybe it was five Out of you or George Washington? George Washington. You really kept doing it. Yes. And he probably died of vascular hemato hematology killed him. He had too little blood volume. I don't know if he would have had the power William Decumse man had the same problem with they don't really describe in the literature they called inflammation of the throat and things, but it sounds like it's a bacterial infection like strep that get' intoll the heart and kill you very quickly. Had he not had those blood things ? I can tell you, I had leaders lost over a day and a half and that was little over two pints per liter , probably about seven pints , and I think you have about twelve pints or thirteen depending on your size . And then I had five blood transfusions and one platelet transfusion, but they don't catch up . You can't transfuse one to one because you ll get' you making blood and you'll get too much blood and the blood pressure will kill you, you know , the volume. But I can tell you when the first night they came in and they said, We got to get you up And I hadn't been up and I thought I was normal. I took one step and fell over . The next night they said, We got to get you up. During the I took up one step, and then everybody came in and said, You have no color at all. You're completely white . And I had almost the hemoglobin and the hemocrit were almost not zero, but they were there they were barely registering. So my point is to have that done to you without transfusions . I had the transfusions. He didn't. So they don't want to say they killed him because they didn't know, but they thought that toxic blood you could get it out and the body would make good new blood . And they do that has a philosophy for people who have hemochromatosis. That's an innate blood disease. You have too much iron and you can leach a person a pint every six months and lower the iron content . But that's not his problem . So he kind of died tragically at sixty seven and legacy was John Adams was the vice president and he became president based on Washington's success . And you kind of had the Virginia and the New England aristocracy. And then you had Jefferson . When you get to Jefferson, he's a very complicated person because what he said sounds so radical if you quote him up to the age of forty and but he lived into his eighties, but everything after that , slowed down , let's not get volatile . So then we go very quickly to Joe Biden . I have mixed emotions about that . I'm not prejudiced. Jimmy Carter was a moral man, ethical man, and he was a weak president and did a lot of damage . Bill Clinton was a complete rogue . You couldn't trust him as far as you could throw him. He was a serial philander. He probably used drugs . But he was a wonderful rhetoric ian, and he believed in making deals like Trump. And whether you liked him or not, he left office with the first time and we've never done it since four consecutive . And the Republicans will say we couldn't have done that without New Ginridge, who made he made the cuts. He asked what Bill Clinton got Generich to go ahead with some tax increases , not big ones either . And he 've been I keep quoting I've been I always read the ninety two and ninety six Democratic platforms at their convention. I think it was written by Mark Penn and Doug Schoan . And my gosh, you should read them . closed borders, no illegal immigration, a hundred not defund the police, but one hundred extra cops paid for by the federal one hundred thousand extra cops. And violent criminals seventeen shelby tried as adult s . And we are deportation and we're going to protect the American worker. That was Clinton . Then Obama, well we'll talk about him, but Biden wasn't really a president because he was noncompos entes from the twenty twenty election election . He wasn't winning. He was in twenty twenty, he was so debilitated. He didn't win New Hampshire. He didn't win Iowa . There was Bernie, there was Elizabeth Warren, there was Pete Buttig , there were one of the Castro brothers, there was Spartacus . There was a whole array of hard leftists and they did internal polling and they said these guys are going to lose and we're going to get Donald Trump again . And we've done all this work to change the voting laws and we're going to have mail in ballots and we can win with this but we, got to have a working class. We don't have Talorego yet. We don't have phony Graham Platinum. We need a phony working guy. So they resurrected this relic, Joe Biden , who had drain damage, I think, from two serious brain operations . And they sold him as good old Joe Biden from Scranton. He sat in the basement. Remember that thing? He was speaking to cars and they h onked like an outdoor movie theater . It's COVID, I can't go anywhere and so they let the media and surrogates campaign and he stayed there, and once he got there they essentially said to him , Well, you picked Camela Harris, that was good. You promised to pick a black woman . But the deal was when we used you as a veneer, you were going to turn over the real government to Obama . And so what he did was he outsourced all of his major policy and appointments to the Obama crowd. So we've never had no border. He destroyed the border. He absolutely destroyed it. They in twel lveay thousand some days . There was ten to twelve million, five hundred thousand criminals . They're talking about all of these, I was just reading about certain types of diseases that have come in affect animals, cattle, but also people, and they've vectored very high because there was no audit about anybody who came in from Central America, South America, Haiti, Caribbean, anywhere , no help. This is a time when they were telling us if you didn't wear a mask and you didn't get a vaccination , you could lose your job , but not an illegal alien . And then he tried to destroy the fossil fuel industry with all these green subsidies . And then they came to him in twenty twenty two and said, You're going to lose the midterm . And you've got to now lie and pivot. So now you're you say you're green, but let us pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, and let's drain that petroleum reserve. And by the way, let's legalize marijuana and forgive student lo an and we'll win the midterm. That's what they did. And they did. And then foreign policy , the skeadal from Afghanistan was the worst military humiliation since nineteen seventy five when we were flying helicopters off the embassy roof in Saigon and we were pushing fighter jets off carriers to make room for the evacuation helicopter s. That scene of those big C five s and C seventeen s and people are clinging on the wheels . And then we have these left wing spokesman for the Air Force saying we're going to guarantee that when they arrive in the United States they will be given suitable Mediterranean Afghan food. And I'm thinking, do you know who they are? Because we just had the one that shot the two officers Afghan . They didn't even audit them. And then they left contractors and loyal Afghan translators behind. We lost thirteen marines and then we don't know how much , but the ranges are eight to fifty billion depending on maintenance and civilian vehicles . We left all those beautiful trucks, cars , planes, helicopters, and then all the weaponry and that that became the source for Afghanistan to supply the world's terrorists, M four S, M sixteen's , grenades , mortars, artillery. You name it, they left it all there. I don't know why they did that. When they had Bagram Air Force Base , we'd put three hundred million dollars in it. They could have made it a citadel. It was defensible. It had an air strip. All they had to do was say , We're turning it over to the Afgh ans and we're going to Bagram, which was completely defensible. And we were going to keep this base . And then if people wanted to leave, they could drive out there and they would have had complete air contportrol. They would have been no city around, they could have done what they wanted . But Joe wanted, why did he do it? He wanted to have a parade to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of nine hundred eleven he was going to say on nine eleven we were attacked because of the Republican locked oxidity and I got us out of Afghanistan that year the twenty year nightmare is over. That's what I did. And that's why he did it so quickly. Then, you know, the Ukraine war, and I'll finish with this Ukraine war, he said , Well, Mr. President, what would you do if he's mounting on the border. He's massing troops to invade . Now the reason he was doing that was because when Joe Biden came in on like Trump, he said, I'm not going to okay offensive weapons like Obama said . And he said, well, it depends on whether it's a minor invasion or not. That was like candy to Putin. And then he said , well , they're they're hacking all of our institutions, Russian hackers. So Putin, would you lay off that and tell, if you're going to do it, don't do hospitals . Can you imagine that? And then, of course , he put daylight between us and Israel. So he started attacking Israel. He gave into the new Islam , a democratic bar. And as soon as Hamas heard that, we'll go in and kill a bunch of Jews and the United States will start lecturing Netanyahu not to over Ira.q That was true because he had been begging Iran, please, please let me get back in the Iran deal and give you more money . I can't think of one good thing he did . And then when he gave those phantom of the Opera speeches with the black background and the red like he was , you know, he was in a Vincent Price movie or something. And then he just all he could say is somebody had it all of my media was data, his white suburbs. It was all lies . So I don't have anything good to say. And then when Jill Biden basically confessed when they had the coup to get rid of him , and she was angry and said he was fit as a fiddle and he got all the data to answer any questions. Now she says, I was afraid he had a stroke. No, you weren't, because if you thought he had a stroke , you would have pulled him out of the race right then or you wouldn't have you would have taken him to the emergency room and said you had a big after campaign party reception and you told the world that he did great . So now you get the whole looking back, you can see what it was all about. He had married this younger woman who was a complete narcissist and megalomaniac, who had she had an EDD . I don't think I've ever allowed anybody to call me doctor. I mean, in an academic, you don't want to make a big deal. But if I'm somewhere and somebody says Dr. Hansen, I don't want to embarrass him, but I don't feel like that's the proper title for PhD . I know you have a PhD . I don't hear you saying Dr. Sam my . But the point I'm making is she took that ED and then corrected everybody . And then she wanted to be in the center of attention. And she wanted to be the conduit . If you wanted Joe to autopin , then you went to her. And who were the people who went to her? They were all the Obama crowd . And he tipped it off when they asked him, would you like a third term? Only, if I could well, how could, you know, call it in. You know, I don't have to wear a tie. I just phone it in. I well, that's what he did . And he made some of the worst appointments on judges, all DI radical judges , especially at the lower district courts . And of course , he engineered law fair . I'll just finish, I promise with this one observation . On one day onvember no fifteenth , twenty twenty two, as I've said before, three days after Donald Trump announced that he was going to run for president , guess what happened? Joe Biden had been complaining that they weren't going after Trump enough. And everybody on the left who's listening, remember, you all make this charge that there's Donald Trump's DOJ. No, he nobody was taking orders like Merrick Garland . And Joe Biden was complaining. And so on that three days later, they got together and they said, We're going to go after this SOB and really pin him to the wall. So he did one thing. He appointed Jack Smith on that day to be fed a prosecutor to go after the Mart Lago and charge him with insurrection for january sixth. That all blew up . You know , what was it? ninety eight out of fourteen thousand documents were supposedly classified . They had to mess up the floor and put fake labels da da da. And then Fanny Willis her b soyentfriend Nathan Wade, he spent six hours in the White House. When has the White House ever had a local county attorney prosecutor who wasn't even a prosecutor, it was the first time he'd been a prosecutor, really. She appointed her boyfriend to run the thing about the prosecution of Trump. And then he was being schooled by the White House counsel. The same day Litita James, who had just penned him to the wall. She was in the White House. We don't know why. And the same day Michael Cole Anglo, Angelo , who had just been working with Latita James on the real estate that had fined Trump at one point five hundred million dollars that was a phony thing . Then he quit he left that thing and got the choices for reward by Biden. Oh, you got helped . You scold crazy Latina James, you were the brain behind it , and you won with a biased judge and Goron and you got five hundred million bucks . We're going to make you the third top person in the fit. And so he's third, but that day, that same day that I've been talking about , what happened? He quit and where did he go to Alvin Bragg's thing to repeat the performance. So there you have it. You have a connection with Fanny Willis, you have Lutita James, you have Michael Cole Angel o with Alvin Bragg, and you have Jack Smith You have real law fare, which is there were no, there was no crime there. They were just looking for something on Donald Trump. The crime was you, according to them, if you're a losing candidate and you call up as they all do, they're registered and say, Hey, wait a minute . It's a close election. I know there's some there's votes there. You got to find them if they're there. That's buddy what he did. He didn't say go create them. He said, go find those votes, my votes . He blew off steam. They tried to put him in jail for that. And then he disputed like Joe Biden. But the difference between him and Joe Biden on the classified documents were, he had a much smaller percentage of the total documents that were classified. Number two, he had them in a very secure place with a guard tower outside , not Hunter's garage and three different places. And number four, he had the right to declassify them as president. Joe Biden did not as vice president when he took him out. Number four, they had only been out for about a year and a half and they were there was back and forth. Joe's had been out for thirty years . So the biggest lie that Joe Biden said was , well, I just was looking at my and I just thought I'd follow along and tell him I had classified it. No you told me I had classified documents because you just appointed a special counsel to go after classified documents and you knew that you were going to be a hypocrite . So you tried to preempt that. But you didn't tell us that your ghost writer was had access thanks to you to classify documents , which is a felony. Then he destroyed the tapes and then Robert Hur was kind of a joke. They thought he was too tough . He was a pathetic weakling prosecutor. He was very he could have slapped that guy with destruction of subpoenaed evidence. He could have said Joe Biden took them to unsecured places. He had no right to declassify them and it took him thirty years to tell us. Yeah, so nothing else. I correct that. He was guilty of no crime that anybody had ever actually been charged with because they were so minor. Remember what they were? Yeah. So but my comparison is today the DOJ is for , example, JD Vance has referred to our DOJ for investigation, Tim Wals and Keith Ellison for the fraud and the guy there is a crime there and they really need to know what , you know, what role Ellison and Waltz played in that crime. He kills me when I hear somebody call him a felon, you know , when Alvin Bragg took a federal law that the federal prosecutors said was not worth it. It wasn't, you know, about campaign . So they said that shut crazy stormy Daniels up. He did a nondisclosure, but he didn't report that as a campaign expense when it was just to protect his reputation . And then I like the Latita James thing. It would be as if Victor has this house I'm speaking in and I want to build an addition or I want to build one . So I'm going to take a loan at my house and I'm going to say it's worth, I don't know, I'll just take an arbitrary figure four hundred thousand dollars . And Bank of America gives me a loan for four hundred thousand , and this is the security , and I build my house with a four hundred and then I pay it ahead of time and with interest and somebody comes along and says , I think your house was only worth two hundred thousand , I said, and I say you think you know better than the bank who has the liability, not you? We're going to prosecute you for false representation of your assets. They said at Marlago was only worth seventeen million dollars. It's worth a billion dollars. Anybody drives by it, especially in this market . And then I would say to them, well, go ask Bank of America. And they go into Bank of America. No, we li thek guedy . He took a loan out, we assessed the property. It's our business . And he paid the loan back early with interest. We want to loan him again . And they processed and that they said, Sorry, Victor, you owe the federal government five hundred million dollars plus interest at nine percent. Absolutely insane. Well, Victor, we got to take a break and then come back and we'll talk a little bit more about the Democratic Party's eccentricities with Mandami , Mikey Cheryl the Seattle police. I think her name is Katie or something, but name is well, stay with us. We'll be right back . If you enjoy Victor Davis Hansen, you might enjoy the Daily Signal Flagship show, Tony Knitt Cast, the same common sense perspectives you love weekdays at seven PM Eastern. And unlike some of the other evening shows, we work up until Shtime to bring you the latest breaking news, analysis, and good old American Sarcast . Tom Tillis, I'm pretty sure might have been useful at one time as a doorstop. Find the Tony Kinnett cast on YouTube, X, radio, TV, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. Victor Davis Hansen in his own words , we are a subsidiary of the Daily Signal. We both had signal hats on today . Thank you to Rob Bluey, who provided us with them and runs the daily signal. He's doing an excellent job . So what is ringing in my head is Graham Plattner standing up in front of working class people and telling them that the Democratic Party is not going to be the spending party to cut into their checks more when we have Mandami now this week. He has an outreach office that he calls the Office of Mass Engage ment that is going to be spending fifty million dollars to as the New York Post said propagandize Madami's things. We have a Seattle Mayor that has created kind of an encampment for the homeless , which is probably going to just become a din of drugs and prostitution. And it's going to be an LA style, go to register them the same day , get the closest cross street is their address. They have no ID. So you give them an ID number and then once you have them sign their mark, maybe a happy face, then you witness it, and then you give them a ballot and you tell them because maybe they're illiterate or something, who to vote for, then you get the bundle and go in and do it. Yeah. Which is reminding me that California is also under investigation for defrauding the federal government for It's so weird how they all say that there are estimates that there was two hundred fifty billion dollars in fraud . And a lot of outside auditors think there is a trillion dollars in fraud that could be there per year and the left always says you're cutting this and you're doing this and you're throwing them out in the street, you're gonna, but they never talk about all this money that was stolen . They don't talk about it because that money is recycled to them by these NGO s and these handlers that take federal money at the state level and then they disperse it and make a big cut and they give all of their protection money to Democrats . And that's why the head of Act Blue, the biggest fundraising source of democratic money and is allegedly, allegedly, allegedly taking huge sums from overseas interest . She goes before Congress . I respectfully plead the Fifth Amendment. Yeah, she says, I have been advised to counsel It wasn't my idea . I mean, I would tell you the truth that I'm a crook, but my counsel won't let me. And then they wanted to kind of make a character It's your name da da da da da. And she says, I respectfully can't even say your name, that would be incriminating . If a person does that, what's the purpose of the Congressional hearing? Can't you hold a person in contempt? I don't know, but James Comey basically did the same thing when he said two hundred forty five don't know. Can't recollect, not in my purview . Anyway, Democrats have a problem though, because when they were in with Joe Biden, they kept saying, We need immigration reform to solve the border problem. And then Trump comes in and it's solved. And Trump's in and we've got this big effort to stop fraud to save those programs for people who really do need the social security. I would advise all of you who are followers of Tucker , Candice Owen, Meghan Kelly , Marjorie Taylor Green , to take a deep breath and ask yourself why you Why you disagree on the Epstein files and you disagree on the Iran , what do you think the border will look like if you vote for Gavin Newsom or Camela Harris because go look at Belfast, go look at what's happening in Paris today with riots , go look at the attempted beheading , and then look at all the stuff that's happened under Biden from illegal immigration. And then ask yourself, there is no illegal immigration. It wasn't we need comprehensive immigration. We just need a new president and the wall will be finished. It's already been announced. The guys , the people working on it say we're going to get done early and under budget . That enough is to vote for the Republicans in the midterm . That single issue because that is one of the most dangerous things to a Constitutional Republic is to have an open border and a left wing that's openly recruiting people to come into this country illegally with no ID , no English fluency, no skills , and criminal backgrounds in the case of five hundred thousand of them , and then call everybody racist or restrictist or protectionist or nativist if you even utter a peep . All right, Victor, we're at the end of our show and I have comments this time and we're not on such a hard break. So let's go ahead and it's the comments on yours and Ray Abraham's the interviewer I'd like to hear them . Yes. So one comment by Charles Burkart eight hundred . Great interview with Raymond Abraham. We need the history behind the Islamic ideology. Thank you both. I don't miss either of you on YouTube. So he watches Ray Ray's very courageous. He gets a lot of existential threats. Yes . He does. Ten times more than I do. Yeah . And he's out more than I am now. Yeah He another person said in this echoes many, many things, many people saying free swimming says the West needs more Raymonds. There were lots of people that just said, Oh, this is a great interview. Evelyn Santiago eighty eight seventy says this is an excellent interview. People should listen and understand that England, Germany, Italy, Canada, etc are being invaded by the ideology. Watch Congress and mayors like New York City , states like Michigan, Virginia, etc , who are trying to destroy our Constitution and ways of life, then you will see how much influence they have over our government Linda Stanley for seven fifteen . I wish somehow that President Trump could hear this interview. Very informative. I like that one . And happy puppies seven, seven, seven, seven seventy seven . Wonderful to watch. I see the kindness and respect between these two men show each other and realize how beautiful our civilization can be. I suspect a genuinely good education and a disciplined mind contribute immensely to yours and Ray's kind of I think you should all look at Raymond Ibraham's the bin Lauden reader. He was working the Library of Congress and on his own found a manuscript written by Bin Laden, but probably that was ghost written by Dr. Zahwa Hiri, the evil brain of Al Qaeda . And in that , it's funny. I mean, it's chilling, but it's funny. They accuse us of carbon emissions , all sort s of stuff they picked up from the left . But more importantly, they have a plan. They say it in there that they want massive immigration to the West and they want to create enclaves of Islamic communities within the West that will not assimilate, acculturate , or integrate. And then at the opportune time when they reach a particular thing, then they want their people to go run for office and then from the inside out take over. They say that . And when you look at what's happening , the Islamic population is almost as large as the Jewish population. It's supposed to pass it by twenty thirty . And when you look at Ilina Olmar and Rashida Talib , they don't have any gratitude for coming here. Everything that comes out of their mouth is how bad this country is. In the case of Illian Omar , she's an she committed like immigration flawed. She said the country was trashy. She said it was a dictatorship . She said it's a Benjamin's baby and anti Semitic thing about Netanyahu . And she's probably got some financial problems. I don't know if any congressperson on one year says they're worth thirty million and the next says they basically have no net worth . Which is it? And then just one more thing with Omar , she introduced the feeding our futures bill into the Congress that this program sister ran one of those programs . And the Republicans are trying to pass a bill that they can deport recently granted citizenship to people if they engage in fraud against the government . That's very popular. Just a poll came out yesterday saying, most Americans forget about the Ice Demonstration. They want not closed borders alone. They want deportations of everybody who came in illegally . And I think people should realize that 's a winning issue . And I think people and you know everybody says the Hispanic community is lost . I don't think so because I pick up the Fresno B or local papers every single day there is a DUI incident with an illegal alien who leaves the scene of the accident . And I just say that anytime you see an accident in Fresno County and it says driver leaves the scene of the accident . That's likely to be an illegal alien because he doesn't want to be there without the ID, etc . Even though he can get a driver's license. But I would say nine times out of ten the dead are Mexican American citizens . Yeah, so they have a lot of they take the brunt of illegal aliens Illegals who either don't know the laws or how to drive the left doesn't understand. They're so fixated on race. If you said right now that we have eleven million Scandinavians coming here and we have an eastern white and they're all white and they're going to settle here . And they're not going to acculturate, they're not going to integrate, and they're going to swarm social services. They're all poor , they're going to drink and they're going to feel exempted, they can do anything. You think I wouldn't be upset? Would I say, Oh, well, they're sweetish or they're white. No, no, no, no, I would say send them back . And with that facetious image, let's go ahead and in this podcast. We'd like to thank our audience for joining us on this weekend. And thank you Victor for everyone. Thank you for listening and watching, everyone. We'll see you next time. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hansen, and we're signing . Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. Also check out my own website at Victorhansen. com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition

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